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The Best Hacker News Posts of January 2011

We track 425 stories from January 2011, averaging 181 points each. techcrunch.com was the most linked source, with 12 stories. Together they drew 32,137 comments.

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Google algorithm change launched Matt_Cutts · 28 Jan 2011
688 pts 183 comments
2
My winter break project — Silk weavesilk.com · yurivish · 10 Jan 2011
687 pts 88 comments
3
Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO googleblog.blogspot.com · andre3k1 · 20 Jan 2011
679 pts 150 comments
4
Carnegie Mellon CS Professor challenges Sony by mirroring Geohot's PS3 hacks cs.cmu.edu · elliottcarlson · 12 Jan 2011
620 pts 81 comments
5
Google tracks you. We don't. An illustrated guide donttrack.us · adityakothadiya · 3 Jan 2011
588 pts 168 comments
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Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android zdnet.com · sigzero · 21 Jan 2011
584 pts 57 comments
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Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome blog.chromium.org · spaetzel · 11 Jan 2011
579 pts 349 comments
8
Trouble In the House of Google codinghorror.com · ZeroMinx · 3 Jan 2011
461 pts 162 comments
9
Steve's story - Google employee #13 googler13.blogspot.com · paul · 9 Jan 2011
440 pts 89 comments
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Dear Google: please let me ban sites from results nervechannel · 6 Jan 2011
438 pts 208 comments
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Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service aws.amazon.com · Yrlec · 25 Jan 2011
438 pts 168 comments
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Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer Every New Y Combinator Startup $150k techcrunch.com · ssclafani · 29 Jan 2011
425 pts 189 comments
13
Delegate or die: the self-employed trap sivers.org · razin · 23 Jan 2011
423 pts 72 comments
14
For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? superuser.com · fakelvis · 12 Jan 2011
415 pts 271 comments
15
Why 3D doesn't work and never will. blogs.suntimes.com · princeverma · 24 Jan 2011
411 pts 198 comments
16
So Long and Thanks for all the Bits jacquesmattheij.com · jacquesm · 31 Jan 2011
404 pts 103 comments
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JavaScript ( (__ = $ + $)[+$] + ({} + $)[_/_] +({} + $)[_/_] ) adamcecc.blogspot.com · there · 22 Jan 2011
403 pts 46 comments
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Dating Denial of Service attack reddit.com · mcantelon · 4 Jan 2011
390 pts 123 comments
19
How (not) to write Factorial in Java chaosinmotion.com · smanek · 26 Jan 2011
387 pts 199 comments
20
NYT Review of ‘The 4-Hour Body’ nytimes.com · tysone · 6 Jan 2011
383 pts 203 comments
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MIT OpenCourseWare introduces courses designed for independent learners web.mit.edu · ashwinl · 14 Jan 2011
383 pts 38 comments
22
OAuth Will Murder Your Children zachholman.com · holman · 25 Jan 2011
380 pts 99 comments
23
Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard googleblog.blogspot.com · ssclafani · 31 Jan 2011
373 pts 101 comments
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RIP Bill Zeller metatalk.metafilter.com · joshfraser · 6 Jan 2011
370 pts 138 comments
25
W3C HTML5 Logo Unveiled w3.org · hakim · 18 Jan 2011
370 pts 106 comments
26
Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers. thetyee.ca · nirav · 30 Jan 2011
359 pts 268 comments
27
Watch a swarm of flying robotic drones construct a tiny building botjunkie.com · coffee · 16 Jan 2011
357 pts 78 comments
28
How Facebook Ships Code framethink.wordpress.com · atularora · 17 Jan 2011
344 pts 108 comments
29
Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated? roxstar · 19 Jan 2011
341 pts 114 comments
30
Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions, 2010 edition jpf.github.com · jf · 7 Jan 2011
339 pts 164 comments
31
DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard in San Francisco) wired.com · woodrow · 20 Jan 2011
334 pts 213 comments
32
Tell HN: There is a Scammer Amongst Us lrm242 · 31 Jan 2011
333 pts 75 comments
33
Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search marco.org · ihodes · 6 Jan 2011
327 pts 178 comments
34
Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich online.wsj.com · georgecmu · 29 Jan 2011
325 pts 343 comments
35
Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes donothingfor2minutes.com · christophe971 · 20 Jan 2011
320 pts 205 comments
36
New cave found in Vietnam: "A skyscraper could fit" ngm.nationalgeographic.com · cwan · 2 Jan 2011
318 pts 47 comments
37
Steve Jobs To Take ‘Medical Leave Of Absence’, Stays On As CEO techcrunch.com · transburgh · 17 Jan 2011
311 pts 201 comments
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Google's dropping H.264 in Chrome is not a step backward for openness. my.opera.com · martythemaniak · 13 Jan 2011
306 pts 123 comments
39
Would-Be Suicide Bomber Killed by Unexpected SMS From Mobile Carrier wired.com · shashashasha · 28 Jan 2011
302 pts 89 comments
40
Learning Advanced JavaScript ejohn.org · shawndumas · 10 Jan 2011
302 pts 31 comments
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Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising tpdsaa.tumblr.com · Byliner · 14 Jan 2011
300 pts 57 comments
42
Always pay your web developers utilitybidder.co.uk · twapi · 23 Jan 2011
299 pts 105 comments
43
Easing into SICP thinkingeric · 18 Jan 2011
299 pts 46 comments
44
Visualization of stock market performance over time, adjusted for inflation nytimes.com · noahlt · 3 Jan 2011
295 pts 83 comments
45
Egypt has shut off the Internet (update: not everywhere) arabist.net · steveklabnik · 27 Jan 2011
290 pts 139 comments
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How To Use Amazon EC2 as Your Desktop blog.restbackup.com · mleonhard · 20 Jan 2011
286 pts 88 comments
47
Free Wordpress themes coming with a price wpmu.org · fwdbureau · 22 Jan 2011
285 pts 141 comments
48
How to Make Trillions of Dollars raptitude.com · froggy · 27 Jan 2011
284 pts 135 comments
49
Why U.S. Galaxy S Phones run Android 2.1 forum.xda-developers.com · spidaman · 18 Jan 2011
284 pts 94 comments
50
Game Preview: Voxatron - voxel-based, destructible environment, 8bit soundtrack lexaloffle.com · dstein · 5 Jan 2011
279 pts 65 comments
51
RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried camendesign.com · sant0sk1 · 2 Jan 2011
278 pts 188 comments
52
The NYC subway system as a string instrument mta.me · clofresh · 31 Jan 2011
276 pts 38 comments
53
There is no place for just shitting all over other people's work 37signals.com · phsr · 11 Jan 2011
273 pts 130 comments
54
The polynomial algorithm for 3-SAT problem (or P=NP) romvf.wordpress.com · caustic · 19 Jan 2011
269 pts 142 comments
55
JQuery 1.5 Released code.jquery.com · digitalclubb · 31 Jan 2011
269 pts 29 comments
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Mythbusting: Why Firefox 4 won’t score 100 on Acid3 limi.net · ssclafani · 25 Jan 2011
269 pts 27 comments
57
A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You search.cpan.org · gspyrou · 12 Jan 2011
266 pts 67 comments
58
How to build an 8x8x8 LED cube daid.mine.nu · bvi · 4 Jan 2011
266 pts 37 comments
59
An USB plug that goes both ways yankodesign.com · hernan7 · 25 Jan 2011
265 pts 132 comments
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Why Chinese Mothers are Not Superior (from a female Chinese engineer) jeanhsu.com · cristinacordova · 11 Jan 2011
262 pts 201 comments

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