top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-12-13

Gawker Website source, databases & passwords now on BitTorrent

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6034669/Gawkmedia_source_code___database_release_

16 years ago

The Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page

http://www.formstack.com/the-anatomy-of-a-perfect-landing-page

16 years ago

FreeBSD/EC2 lives

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-12-13-FreeBSD-on-EC2.html

16 years ago

Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees

http://www.fastcompany.com/1708896/wiki-bee-leaks-epa-document-reveals-agency-knowingly-allowed-use-of-bee-toxic-pesticide

16 years ago

Author Slams eBook Piracy, Son Outs Her As a Music Pirate

http://torrentfreak.com/author-slams-ebook-piracy-son-outs-her-as-a-music-pirate-101213/

16 years ago

HN: We're starting a "Move to Silicon Valley" wiki. We could use some help.

http://svstartup.com/~svstartu/index.php?title=Main_Page

16 years ago

The War on Cameras

http://reason.com/archives/2010/12/07/the-war-on-cameras/print

16 years ago

Check if your email is amongst those compromised in Gawker break-in

http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=350662

16 years ago

Database development mistakes made by application developers

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/621884/database-development-mistakes-made-by-application-developers/

16 years ago

What if we tested laws before passing them?

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/12/12/law_lab/?page=full

16 years ago

Lettering.js - A jQuery plugin for radical web typography.

http://letteringjs.com/

16 years ago

Everything you never wanted to know about file locking

http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201012#13

16 years ago

Engineers: Build businesses not apps

http://emphaticsolutions.com/2010/12/10/build-businesses-not-apps.html

16 years ago

A pink $16 pocket spectrum analyzer

http://ossmann.blogspot.com/2010/03/16-pocket-spectrum-analyzer.html

16 years ago

Facebook Chat Architecture (Erlang)

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:o0g6ONeGemcJ:www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/31/EugeneLetuchy-ErlangatFacebook.pdf+architecture+of+facebook&hl=en&gl=sg&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiw63ZXSvf3kF4c-tTuKgPrHYucnpVY2FNqzV3vwY12fTxebQwEQMhf9PLmeEVVWioJiFDnY2aiaAnQaqL4E65nkHUleUIuZj2Ythq34IDRx5gVhajUSKjOUmLUVxkV_3GFC7M2&sig=AHIEtbThewthIAMefblxc9U9NWkD6yYY6g&pli=1

16 years ago

Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript

http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2009/11/12/google-closure-how-not-to-write-javascript/

16 years ago

Why I Switched to Duck Duck Go Permanently

http://www.bookflavor.com/blog/2010/12/duck-duck-go-has-added-bookflavor-bang-syntax/

16 years ago

Plead HN: Please be careful with your information

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2000627

16 years ago

Yacc is dead: An update

http://matt.might.net/articles/parsing-with-derivatives/

16 years ago

Heroku Gets Sweet Logging

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/12/13/logging/

16 years ago