The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2011
We track 604 stories from November 2011, averaging 213 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 13 stories. Together they drew 46,329 comments, 77 per story on average.
1
Watch a VC use my name to sell a con
jwz.org · jwwest · 29 Nov 2011
2.4k pts
292 comments
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2
Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired
news.cnet.com · rbanffy · 10 Nov 2011
1.1k pts
370 comments
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3
In defense of the Google chef
rondam.blogspot.com · lisper · 11 Nov 2011
994 pts
188 comments
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4
Stop SOPA, save the Internet
boingboing.net · CodeMage · 14 Nov 2011
883 pts
131 comments
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5
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
worrydream.com · tbassetto · 8 Nov 2011
830 pts
150 comments
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6
I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this
github.com · chadrs · 28 Nov 2011
820 pts
141 comments
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7
Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21
techcrunch.com · brackin · 13 Nov 2011
764 pts
230 comments
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9
Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps
theregister.co.uk · thomasjoulin · 30 Nov 2011
700 pts
189 comments
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10
Mozilla urges its users to raise their voice against SOPA
mozilla.org · Indyan · 16 Nov 2011
699 pts
41 comments
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11
Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT
boingboing.net · andrewdumont · 16 Nov 2011
687 pts
111 comments
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12
Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.
amitguptaneedsyou.com · ryanwhitney · 30 Nov 2011
652 pts
234 comments
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14
I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode
yieldthought.com · moconnor · 2 Nov 2011
634 pts
338 comments
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17
I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make
reddit.com · amirmc · 29 Nov 2011
601 pts
277 comments
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18
Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5
zdnet.com · latch · 9 Nov 2011
597 pts
154 comments
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19
Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter
sendwrite.com · colevscode · 15 Nov 2011
594 pts
93 comments
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20
Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse
teamtreehouse.com · jseifer · 7 Nov 2011
589 pts
175 comments
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22
Sergey Brin gives $500,000 to help Wikipedia
venturebeat.com · recusancy · 18 Nov 2011
545 pts
196 comments
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24
Missing Person - Tracy Williams, Technorati Employee
technorati.com · sbisker · 6 Nov 2011
525 pts
56 comments
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25
What's the one Linux command you wish you knew years ago?
reddit.com · roadnottaken · 20 Nov 2011
524 pts
212 comments
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26
Back to the Future Photo Project (NSFW)
irinawerning.com · DanielRibeiro · 18 Nov 2011
506 pts
110 comments
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27
The Government's $200,000 Useless Android Application
gun.io · Mizza · 22 Nov 2011
504 pts
158 comments
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28
Python Ecosystem - An Introduction
mirnazim.org · mnazim · 28 Nov 2011
499 pts
75 comments
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29
How I Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning to Code
nathanbarry.com · nathanbarry · 15 Nov 2011
498 pts
137 comments
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30
Stanford to host more online classes
cs101-class.org · ivoflipse · 17 Nov 2011
493 pts
116 comments
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31
Microsoft, Apple and 27 other tech companies backing SOPA indirectly
thenextweb.com · bradmccarty · 17 Nov 2011
492 pts
118 comments
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33
Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.
plus.google.com · antidaily · 12 Nov 2011
491 pts
445 comments
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35
SOPA Hearing is Streaming Live
judiciary.house.gov · bproper · 16 Nov 2011
485 pts
253 comments
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36
Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces
alexmaccaw.co.uk · maccman · 16 Nov 2011
485 pts
148 comments
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37
Google releases full Android 4.0.1 source code, includes Honeycomb too
groups.google.com · patrickaljord · 14 Nov 2011
481 pts
114 comments
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38
Welcome to the new web.
lists.whatwg.org · dkulchenko · 22 Nov 2011
481 pts
110 comments
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39
Stop motion video shot over 2 years with 288,000 jelly beans
petapixel.com · swombat · 3 Nov 2011
477 pts
97 comments
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40
An Introduction to Stock & Options for the Tech Entrepreneur or Startup Employee
ospflor63.stanford.edu · ekm2 · 18 Nov 2011
475 pts
43 comments
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41
Nancy Pelosi, Ron Paul join SOPA opposition
arstechnica.com · ajaymehta · 18 Nov 2011
461 pts
76 comments
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42
InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had
instacss.com · idan · 14 Nov 2011
449 pts
91 comments
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43
Open Source (Almost) Everything
tom.preston-werner.com · mojombo · 22 Nov 2011
445 pts
83 comments
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44
Tumblr's anti-censorship message generated 87,834 phone calls to representatives
staff.tumblr.com · nextparadigms · 18 Nov 2011
443 pts
64 comments
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45
Show HN: Entire concerts algorithmically "reconstructed" from YouTube videos
switchcam.com · brettwelch · 30 Nov 2011
435 pts
129 comments
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46
US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook
arstechnica.com · gigawatt · 29 Nov 2011
434 pts
216 comments
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47
The Social Graph is Neither
blog.pinboard.in · conesus · 9 Nov 2011
434 pts
60 comments
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48
US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America
theagilepanda.com · stupandaus · 15 Nov 2011
429 pts
73 comments
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49
The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia
daggle.com · InfinityX0 · 24 Nov 2011
427 pts
330 comments
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50
This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years
sfgate.com · olegious · 15 Nov 2011
427 pts
257 comments
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51
Suddenly, Hacker News is not the first result for 'Hacker News'
google.com · AretNCarlsen · 25 Nov 2011
427 pts
199 comments
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52
Airport full-body X-ray scanners banned across Europe as unsafe
geek.com · ukdm · 16 Nov 2011
422 pts
122 comments
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53
Steve Jobs's Real Genius
newyorker.com · iamclovin · 7 Nov 2011
414 pts
145 comments
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54
I Saw An Extremely Subtle Bug Today And I Just Have To Tell Someone
kalzumeus.com · joshuacc · 17 Nov 2011
413 pts
78 comments
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55
Don't Give Your Users Shit Work
zachholman.com · vijaydev · 2 Nov 2011
410 pts
112 comments
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56
SEO tricks from Patio11
melmiranda.com · dikbrouwer · 9 Nov 2011
409 pts
118 comments
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57
My offer to Google Reader
fury.com · aaronbrethorst · 3 Nov 2011
408 pts
97 comments
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58
USB Stick Contains Dual-Core Computer, Turns Any Screen Into an Android Station
blog.laptopmag.com · tilt · 18 Nov 2011
408 pts
74 comments
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59
Stop the E-Parasite Act
wwws.whitehouse.gov · rprime · 1 Nov 2011
407 pts
82 comments
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60
Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up)
jacquesmattheij.com · llambda · 6 Nov 2011
406 pts
265 comments
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