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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.

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Watch a VC use my name to sell a con jwz.org · jwwest · 29 Nov 2011
2.4k pts 292 comments
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
3
In defense of the Google chef rondam.blogspot.com · lisper · 11 Nov 2011
994 pts 188 comments
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Stop SOPA, save the Internet boingboing.net · CodeMage · 14 Nov 2011
883 pts 131 comments
5
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design worrydream.com · tbassetto · 8 Nov 2011
830 pts 150 comments
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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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Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21 techcrunch.com · brackin · 13 Nov 2011
764 pts 230 comments
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Don't use MongoDB pastebin.com · nmongo · 6 Nov 2011
706 pts 293 comments
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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Mozilla urges its users to raise their voice against SOPA mozilla.org · Indyan · 16 Nov 2011
699 pts 41 comments
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Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT boingboing.net · andrewdumont · 16 Nov 2011
687 pts 111 comments
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
13
The Sugru story sugru.com · aqrashik · 21 Nov 2011
644 pts 86 comments
14
I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode yieldthought.com · moconnor · 2 Nov 2011
634 pts 338 comments
15
Doom 3 source released github.com · padenot · 22 Nov 2011
630 pts 101 comments
16
Watch Me Make Mistakes paulgraham.com · llambda · 9 Nov 2011
603 pts 116 comments
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I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make reddit.com · amirmc · 29 Nov 2011
601 pts 277 comments
18
Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5 zdnet.com · latch · 9 Nov 2011
597 pts 154 comments
19
Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter sendwrite.com · colevscode · 15 Nov 2011
594 pts 93 comments
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Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse teamtreehouse.com · jseifer · 7 Nov 2011
589 pts 175 comments
21
Spark github.com · lrvick · 15 Nov 2011
568 pts 95 comments
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Sergey Brin gives $500,000 to help Wikipedia venturebeat.com · recusancy · 18 Nov 2011
545 pts 196 comments
23
Cracking Siri applidium.com · nolanbrown23 · 14 Nov 2011
526 pts 103 comments
24
Missing Person - Tracy Williams, Technorati Employee technorati.com · sbisker · 6 Nov 2011
525 pts 56 comments
25
What's the one Linux command you wish you knew years ago? reddit.com · roadnottaken · 20 Nov 2011
524 pts 212 comments
26
Back to the Future Photo Project (NSFW) irinawerning.com · DanielRibeiro · 18 Nov 2011
506 pts 110 comments
27
The Government's $200,000 Useless Android Application gun.io · Mizza · 22 Nov 2011
504 pts 158 comments
28
Python Ecosystem - An Introduction mirnazim.org · mnazim · 28 Nov 2011
499 pts 75 comments
29
How I Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning to Code nathanbarry.com · nathanbarry · 15 Nov 2011
498 pts 137 comments
30
Stanford to host more online classes cs101-class.org · ivoflipse · 17 Nov 2011
493 pts 116 comments
31
Microsoft, Apple and 27 other tech companies backing SOPA indirectly thenextweb.com · bradmccarty · 17 Nov 2011
492 pts 118 comments
32
Google.pl's crazy doodle google.pl · atmb4u · 23 Nov 2011
492 pts 69 comments
33
Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X. plus.google.com · antidaily · 12 Nov 2011
491 pts 445 comments
34
Do a barrel roll - Google Search google.com · ot · 3 Nov 2011
486 pts 104 comments
35
SOPA Hearing is Streaming Live judiciary.house.gov · bproper · 16 Nov 2011
485 pts 253 comments
36
Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces alexmaccaw.co.uk · maccman · 16 Nov 2011
485 pts 148 comments
37
Google releases full Android 4.0.1 source code, includes Honeycomb too groups.google.com · patrickaljord · 14 Nov 2011
481 pts 114 comments
38
Welcome to the new web. lists.whatwg.org · dkulchenko · 22 Nov 2011
481 pts 110 comments
39
Stop motion video shot over 2 years with 288,000 jelly beans petapixel.com · swombat · 3 Nov 2011
477 pts 97 comments
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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Nancy Pelosi, Ron Paul join SOPA opposition arstechnica.com · ajaymehta · 18 Nov 2011
461 pts 76 comments
42
InstaCSS: the CSS docs you always wish you had instacss.com · idan · 14 Nov 2011
449 pts 91 comments
43
Open Source (Almost) Everything tom.preston-werner.com · mojombo · 22 Nov 2011
445 pts 83 comments
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Tumblr's anti-censorship message generated 87,834 phone calls to representatives staff.tumblr.com · nextparadigms · 18 Nov 2011
443 pts 64 comments
45
Show HN: Entire concerts algorithmically "reconstructed" from YouTube videos switchcam.com · brettwelch · 30 Nov 2011
435 pts 129 comments
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US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook arstechnica.com · gigawatt · 29 Nov 2011
434 pts 216 comments
47
The Social Graph is Neither blog.pinboard.in · conesus · 9 Nov 2011
434 pts 60 comments
48
US Bill Creating the Great Firewall of America theagilepanda.com · stupandaus · 15 Nov 2011
429 pts 73 comments
49
The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia daggle.com · InfinityX0 · 24 Nov 2011
427 pts 330 comments
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
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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Airport full-body X-ray scanners banned across Europe as unsafe geek.com · ukdm · 16 Nov 2011
422 pts 122 comments
53
Steve Jobs's Real Genius newyorker.com · iamclovin · 7 Nov 2011
414 pts 145 comments
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
55
Don't Give Your Users Shit Work zachholman.com · vijaydev · 2 Nov 2011
410 pts 112 comments
56
SEO tricks from Patio11 melmiranda.com · dikbrouwer · 9 Nov 2011
409 pts 118 comments
57
My offer to Google Reader fury.com · aaronbrethorst · 3 Nov 2011
408 pts 97 comments
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
59
Stop the E-Parasite Act wwws.whitehouse.gov · rprime · 1 Nov 2011
407 pts 82 comments
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Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up) jacquesmattheij.com · llambda · 6 Nov 2011
406 pts 265 comments

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