top 20 hacker news stories for 2010-12-20

Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server

http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/using-flat-files-so-elections-dont-break-your-server/?src=tptw

16 years ago

253 upvotes – 49 comments

Title Junk

http://daringfireball.net/2010/12/title_junk

16 years ago

229 upvotes – 84 comments

You don't really want a million dollars

http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/12/you-dont-really-want-a-million-dollars/

16 years ago

221 upvotes – 169 comments

Kevin Smith’s Secrets To A Successful Life

http://connectedcomedy.com/kevin-smiths-secrets-to-a-successful-life/

16 years ago

211 upvotes – 49 comments

Impact HTML5 Game Engine released

http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2010/12/brace-for-impact

16 years ago

204 upvotes – 73 comments

How an Engineer Does Pizza

http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm

16 years ago

201 upvotes – 88 comments

Writing clean, testable, high quality code in Python

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-cleancode/

16 years ago

175 upvotes – 21 comments

Conceding Defeat - The Internet is Stronger Than I Am

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/?p=432

16 years ago

169 upvotes – 55 comments

Android Developers Blog: It’s not “rooting”, it’s openness

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/12/its-not-rooting-its-openness.html

16 years ago

156 upvotes – 50 comments

Pandora, Angry Birds, other apps selling private info to advertisers

http://lifehacker.com/5715188/these-apps-are-rampantly-stealing-your-info-without-permission

16 years ago

148 upvotes – 72 comments

Realtime encoding - over 150x faster

http://transloadit.com/blog/2010/12/realtime-encoding-over-150x-faster

16 years ago

128 upvotes – 70 comments

Flirting Social Network Likealittle Hits 20M Pageviews In 6 Weeks

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/19/likealittle/

16 years ago

120 upvotes – 62 comments

iAd Producer from Apple

http://developer.apple.com/iad/iadproducer/

16 years ago

113 upvotes – 44 comments

The puzzle that started complexity theory.

http://cs.nyu.edu/shasha/outofmind/mccarthypuzzle.html

16 years ago

113 upvotes – 39 comments

AOL Acquires Personal Profile Startup About.Me

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/20/aol-acquires-personal-profile-startup-about-me/

16 years ago

111 upvotes – 85 comments

A 'Thank You' from Google

http://www.google.com/landing/thankyou/2010/

16 years ago

101 upvotes – 70 comments

Why Facebook never happened in the UK. The case of FitFinder.

http://oonwoye.com/2010/12/20/why-facebook-never-happened-in-the-uk-the-case-of-fitfinder/

16 years ago

91 upvotes – 48 comments

Ask HN: Fastest route to $2000/mo. cashflow, worry free and conscience clear

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2026080

16 years ago

90 upvotes – 84 comments

An Open Letter to JavaScript Leaders Regarding Semicolons

http://blog.izs.me/post/2353458699/an-open-letter-to-javascript-leaders-regarding

16 years ago

84 upvotes – 77 comments

Microsoft quietly shuts down Office Genuine Advantage program

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsoft-quietly-shuts-down-office-genuine-advantage-program/2798

16 years ago

78 upvotes – 52 comments
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