The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2011
We track 587 stories from December 2011, averaging 222 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 16 stories. Together they drew 44,338 comments, 76 per story on average.
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Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day
techcrunch.com · ericflo · 22 Dec 2011
1.7k pts
272 comments
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2
GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
reddit.com · duiker101 · 22 Dec 2011
1.1k pts
244 comments
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3
A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy
blog.jeffepstein.me · jeffepp · 22 Dec 2011
1.1k pts
103 comments
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4
Time to end the war on drugs
virgin.com · DanielRibeiro · 26 Dec 2011
905 pts
208 comments
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7
Louis C.K. experiment results: over $500,000 in 4 days
buy.louisck.net · basiliskus · 14 Dec 2011
868 pts
279 comments
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8
What really happened aboard Air France 447
popularmechanics.com · fr0sty · 8 Dec 2011
858 pts
365 comments
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9
GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
reddit.com · ParkerK · 24 Dec 2011
825 pts
59 comments
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11
HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source
hp.com · mikecane · 9 Dec 2011
751 pts
194 comments
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12
An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry
fastcoexist.com · wallflower · 19 Dec 2011
705 pts
145 comments
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13
GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA
david.weebly.com · drusenko · 26 Dec 2011
705 pts
38 comments
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14
Dear Internet: It's no Longer OK Not to Know How Congress Works
informationdiet.com · cjoh · 19 Dec 2011
681 pts
157 comments
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15
Mint.com turns 404 ad page into date ad for developer
mint.com · punkrobby · 7 Dec 2011
672 pts
149 comments
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16
In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011
vanityfair.com · tieistoowhite · 16 Dec 2011
669 pts
220 comments
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17
How Doctors Die
zocalopublicsquare.org · thomasgerbe · 5 Dec 2011
663 pts
177 comments
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20
Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA
godaddy.com · johnnytee · 23 Dec 2011
645 pts
226 comments
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21
The Secret History of Kim Jung Il -- written by one of his high school teachers
foreignpolicy.com · cynest · 20 Dec 2011
631 pts
154 comments
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22
GoDaddy's SOPA Support Sparks Calls for Boycotts and Domain Transfers
readwriteweb.com · johnpaultitlow · 22 Dec 2011
631 pts
45 comments
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23
Microsoft decides to automatically update Internet Explorer for everyone
geek.com · ukdm · 15 Dec 2011
626 pts
171 comments
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24
Show HN: I Created the Inverse of Angry Birds
itunes.apple.com · ghempton · 20 Dec 2011
625 pts
123 comments
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25
StackOverflow also planning to switch from GoDaddy due to SOPA concerns.
meta.stackoverflow.com · xatax · 23 Dec 2011
598 pts
78 comments
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26
The nightmarish SOPA hearings
washingtonpost.com · elliottcarlson · 15 Dec 2011
592 pts
166 comments
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27
Louis CK self-produces, self-publishes content on his webpage
buy.louisck.net · rb2k_ · 10 Dec 2011
592 pts
160 comments
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28
Dropping a Magnet Through a Copper Pipe
blog.makezine.com · jashmenn · 20 Dec 2011
569 pts
106 comments
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29
Namecheap to Donate $1 to EFF for Every Domain Transfer on December 29th
namecheap.com · flueedo · 27 Dec 2011
568 pts
94 comments
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30
Feds Mistakenly Shut Down Popular Blog For Over A Year
techdirt.com · taylorbuley · 8 Dec 2011
560 pts
121 comments
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31
RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest
en.wikipedia.org · lelf · 12 Dec 2011
546 pts
163 comments
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32
Namecheap.com: We say no to SOPA
community.namecheap.com · mannymanifesto · 23 Dec 2011
525 pts
85 comments
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33
I'll tell you why movie revenue is dropping...
rogerebert.com · benjaminfox · 29 Dec 2011
521 pts
278 comments
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34
STFU About What Women Want
usersknow.blogspot.com · mikeleeorg · 12 Dec 2011
510 pts
214 comments
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35
Whitehouse.gov petition to veto SOPA
wwws.whitehouse.gov · orbenn · 18 Dec 2011
497 pts
81 comments
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36
Mythbusters experiment goes awry, sends cannonball through two houses
losangeles.cbslocal.com · viggity · 7 Dec 2011
496 pts
298 comments
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37
Stop whining and start hiring remote workers
37signals.com · jodosha · 31 Dec 2011
481 pts
234 comments
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38
The Bomb That Changed My Life
swombat.com · shadowsun7 · 19 Dec 2011
460 pts
83 comments
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39
Trillion-frame-per-second video
web.mit.edu · xtacy · 13 Dec 2011
458 pts
61 comments
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40
GoDaddy is scrambling to do damage control
plus.google.com · cheald · 23 Dec 2011
445 pts
71 comments
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41
Reddit admin: "If SOPA passes it would almost certainly mean the end of reddit"
reddit.com · gasull · 18 Dec 2011
427 pts
150 comments
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42
Cheezburger Dumping GoDaddy over SOPA
techcrunch.com · edomain · 22 Dec 2011
426 pts
39 comments
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43
The Unintended Effects of Driverless Cars
plus.google.com · mbrubeck · 8 Dec 2011
420 pts
333 comments
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44
My uncle's factorization algorithms
github.com · daoudc · 27 Dec 2011
420 pts
51 comments
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45
Apple using patents to undermine open standards again
my.opera.com · Wilya · 9 Dec 2011
415 pts
60 comments
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46
You've Probably Read Enough
bennesvig.com · bennesvig · 7 Dec 2011
410 pts
72 comments
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48
John Carmack on the importance of Static Code Analysis
altdevblogaday.com · plinkplonk · 24 Dec 2011
408 pts
124 comments
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49
GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains
support.google.com · jwildeboer · 23 Dec 2011
402 pts
70 comments
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50
Google can be used as a graphic calculator
google.com · bpierre · 5 Dec 2011
400 pts
75 comments
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51
I'm starting to think LEGO is evil
sinker.tumblr.com · Sukotto · 15 Dec 2011
398 pts
283 comments
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52
Update on GoDaddy Transfer Issues
community.namecheap.com · PStamatiou · 26 Dec 2011
396 pts
74 comments
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54
Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry.
plus.google.com · zdw · 11 Dec 2011
391 pts
193 comments
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55
Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal
torrentfreak.com · Uncle_Sam · 2 Dec 2011
389 pts
212 comments
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56
Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works
motherboard.vice.com · nextparadigms · 16 Dec 2011
389 pts
77 comments
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57
Wikipedia will be leaving GoDaddy
en.wikipedia.org · shahed · 24 Dec 2011
385 pts
46 comments
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58
Why we ditched PayPal for Stripe
gc-taylor.com · gtaylor · 8 Dec 2011
382 pts
119 comments
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59
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda's Resume. Anyone interested?
cmdrtaco.net · cmdrtaco · 2 Dec 2011
376 pts
154 comments
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60
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value
forbes.com · DanielRibeiro · 26 Dec 2011
376 pts
135 comments
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