top 50% hacker news stories for 2010-10-25

Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox

http://codebutler.com/firesheep

16 years ago

714 upvotes – 341 comments

A Google Suggest Venn Diagram Generator

http://www.technomancy.org/google-suggest-venn

16 years ago

310 upvotes – 87 comments

Icon search engine

http://www.iconfinder.com

16 years ago

304 upvotes – 94 comments

Compared to you, most people seem dumb

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2010/10/25/compared-to-you-most-people-seem-dumb/

16 years ago

209 upvotes – 138 comments

Nordstrom's 75-word employee handbook

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordstrom#Employee_handbook

16 years ago

200 upvotes – 68 comments

"Calling oneself a C Programmer is like saying you're a Hammer Carpenter"

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=147321#p147321

16 years ago

180 upvotes – 200 comments

Digg To Lay Off 37% Of Staff, Product Refocus Imminent

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/25/digg-to-lay-off-37-percentof-staff/

16 years ago

176 upvotes – 75 comments

12 Months with MongoDB

http://blog.wordnik.com/12-months-with-mongodb

16 years ago

145 upvotes – 73 comments

Holla - An open source Campfire

http://alexmaccaw.co.uk/posts/2010/10/24/holla.html

16 years ago

141 upvotes – 57 comments

How To Use SSL To Secure Your Rails App Against e.g. FireSheep

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/10/25/how-to-use-ssl-to-secure-your-rails-app-against-firesheep-and-other-evils/

16 years ago

115 upvotes – 43 comments

You can help it get better

http://www.pattonoswalt.com/index.cfm?page=spew&id=150

16 years ago

112 upvotes – 9 comments

Apple and the future of Java

http://www.subfurther.com/blog/?p=1305

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 44 comments

Search for PHP

http://www.searchforphp.com/

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 58 comments

Why I call myself a Javascript Programmer

http://raganwald.posterous.com/why-i-call-myself-a-javascript-programmer

16 years ago

105 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: How do you tune your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829124

16 years ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

Khan Academy + Instant Search = Khan Instant

http://www.khaninstant.com/

16 years ago

98 upvotes – 24 comments

This is how you write a reverse job application

http://www.thejohnnybrown.com/?p=21

16 years ago

96 upvotes – 36 comments

How Long Does a Flash Drive Last?

http://www.bress.net/blog/archives/114-How-Long-Does-a-Flash-Drive-Last.html

16 years ago

95 upvotes – 18 comments

EA open sources their internal version of STL

http://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL

16 years ago

★ 506 C++
89 upvotes – 36 comments

Ask HN: How do you secure yourself on public WiFi?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829774

16 years ago

86 upvotes – 71 comments

Cracking the code

http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/st_RAPLEAF_20101018.html

16 years ago

82 upvotes – 22 comments

Wall Street Journal Investigation Into MySpace Was Quietly Killed

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/22/wall-street-journal-investigation-into-myspace-was-quietly-killed/

16 years ago

81 upvotes – 18 comments

Tweet is cheap

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/10/tweet-is-cheap.html

16 years ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

Mark Shuttleworth announces Ubuntu 11.04 will use desktop version Unity

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/10/ubuntu-11-04-unity-default-desktop/

16 years ago

74 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: Do CS students enjoy C anymore?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1830929

16 years ago

72 upvotes – 98 comments

Startup Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

http://davidcancel.com/3-startup-lessons-i-learned-the-hard-way/

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 12 comments

Is HN only about saying nice things about everything?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1832191

16 years ago

69 upvotes – 119 comments

Review my Startup: jMockups - A Better Way to Web Design

http://www.jmockups.com

16 years ago

68 upvotes – 75 comments

The difficulties of providing 110-volt power to your airline seat

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/nerds-only-about-ac-power-on-an-airplane/65033/

16 years ago

66 upvotes – 69 comments

Dawn of a New Day

http://ozzie.net/docs/dawn-of-a-new-day/

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 17 comments

Offer HN: free design work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1831960

16 years ago

65 upvotes – 60 comments

Two examples of bad user experience caused by HTTP prefix being hidden in Chrome

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=60528

16 years ago

64 upvotes – 47 comments

Reputation isn't as powerful as you imagine

http://blog.asmartbear.com/reputation.html

16 years ago

61 upvotes – 28 comments

Need a study break to refresh? Maybe not, say Stanford researchers

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/october/willpower-resource-study-101410.html

16 years ago

60 upvotes – 29 comments

Mark Cuban offers to pay SEC lawyers to speed up the investigation against him

http://abovethelaw.com/2010/10/mark-cuban-wants-to-pay-government-attorneys-to-get-off-their-ass/

16 years ago

59 upvotes – 43 comments

Facebook Fails at https

http://musiform.tumblr.com/post/1399511094/facebook-fail

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 31 comments

Changing the world via Twitter? Yeah, you should get out more

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/24/the-times-they-arent-a-changin/

16 years ago

57 upvotes – 26 comments

$1,000 to fix open source bugs

https://www.hiremarshal.com/blog/hiremarshal/1000-to-fix-open-source-bugs-launching-hire-marshal/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 39 comments

An inside look at Yandex.ru's offices

http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/10/23/an-incredible-dream-office/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 23 comments

Change your color temperature to fix your sleep patterns

http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/

16 years ago

56 upvotes – 22 comments

Invisible Bike Helmet Inflates Before Impact

http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/invisible_bike_helmet_inflates_before_impact__17690.asp

16 years ago

54 upvotes – 51 comments

How To Protect Your Login Information From Firesheep

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/25/firesheep/

16 years ago

50 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: Buying domains for side projects

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1830444

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 57 comments

Henceforth, All Job Applicants Must Hack Into Our Backend (Dev Challenge)

http://seatgeek.com/blog/hiring/henceforth-all-job-applicants-must-hack-into-our-backend

16 years ago

49 upvotes – 37 comments

Ask HN: Rails or Django?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1830063

16 years ago

48 upvotes – 56 comments
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