The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2011

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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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GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day" reddit.com · duiker101 · 22 Dec 2011

1.1k pts 244 comments

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A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy blog.jeffepstein.me · jeffepp · 22 Dec 2011

1.1k pts 103 comments

4

Time to end the war on drugs virgin.com · DanielRibeiro · 26 Dec 2011

905 pts 208 comments

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Suicide raganwald.posterous.com · llambda · 13 Dec 2011

880 pts 275 comments

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More Paypal nonsense regretsy.com · bradleyjoyce · 6 Dec 2011

870 pts 246 comments

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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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What really happened aboard Air France 447 popularmechanics.com · fr0sty · 8 Dec 2011

858 pts 365 comments

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GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA reddit.com · ParkerK · 24 Dec 2011

825 pts 59 comments

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Don't Be A Free User blog.pinboard.in · stilist · 6 Dec 2011

793 pts 170 comments

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HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source hp.com · mikecane · 9 Dec 2011

751 pts 194 comments

12

An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry fastcoexist.com · wallflower · 19 Dec 2011

705 pts 145 comments

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GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA david.weebly.com · drusenko · 26 Dec 2011

705 pts 38 comments

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Dear Internet: It's no Longer OK Not to Know How Congress Works informationdiet.com · cjoh · 19 Dec 2011

681 pts 157 comments

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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In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011 vanityfair.com · tieistoowhite · 16 Dec 2011

669 pts 220 comments

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How Doctors Die zocalopublicsquare.org · thomasgerbe · 5 Dec 2011

663 pts 177 comments

18

Fuck passwords me.veekun.com · vetler · 5 Dec 2011

655 pts 240 comments

19

Bullshit marco.org · brianwillis · 29 Dec 2011

651 pts 225 comments

20

Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA godaddy.com · johnnytee · 23 Dec 2011

645 pts 226 comments

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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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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Microsoft decides to automatically update Internet Explorer for everyone geek.com · ukdm · 15 Dec 2011

626 pts 171 comments

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Show HN: I Created the Inverse of Angry Birds itunes.apple.com · ghempton · 20 Dec 2011

625 pts 123 comments

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StackOverflow also planning to switch from GoDaddy due to SOPA concerns. meta.stackoverflow.com · xatax · 23 Dec 2011

598 pts 78 comments

26

The nightmarish SOPA hearings washingtonpost.com · elliottcarlson · 15 Dec 2011

592 pts 166 comments

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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Dropping a Magnet Through a Copper Pipe blog.makezine.com · jashmenn · 20 Dec 2011

569 pts 106 comments

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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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Feds Mistakenly Shut Down Popular Blog For Over A Year techdirt.com · taylorbuley · 8 Dec 2011

560 pts 121 comments

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RFC: Blanking all Wikipedia as SOPA protest en.wikipedia.org · lelf · 12 Dec 2011

546 pts 163 comments

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Namecheap.com: We say no to SOPA community.namecheap.com · mannymanifesto · 23 Dec 2011

525 pts 85 comments

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I'll tell you why movie revenue is dropping... rogerebert.com · benjaminfox · 29 Dec 2011

521 pts 278 comments

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STFU About What Women Want usersknow.blogspot.com · mikeleeorg · 12 Dec 2011

510 pts 214 comments

35

Whitehouse.gov petition to veto SOPA wwws.whitehouse.gov · orbenn · 18 Dec 2011

497 pts 81 comments

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Mythbusters experiment goes awry, sends cannonball through two houses losangeles.cbslocal.com · viggity · 7 Dec 2011

496 pts 298 comments

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Stop whining and start hiring remote workers 37signals.com · jodosha · 31 Dec 2011

481 pts 234 comments

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The Bomb That Changed My Life swombat.com · shadowsun7 · 19 Dec 2011

460 pts 83 comments

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Trillion-frame-per-second video web.mit.edu · xtacy · 13 Dec 2011

458 pts 61 comments

40

GoDaddy is scrambling to do damage control plus.google.com · cheald · 23 Dec 2011

445 pts 71 comments

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Reddit admin: "If SOPA passes it would almost certainly mean the end of reddit" reddit.com · gasull · 18 Dec 2011

427 pts 150 comments

42

Cheezburger Dumping GoDaddy over SOPA techcrunch.com · edomain · 22 Dec 2011

426 pts 39 comments

43

The Unintended Effects of Driverless Cars plus.google.com · mbrubeck · 8 Dec 2011

420 pts 333 comments

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My uncle's factorization algorithms github.com · daoudc · 27 Dec 2011

420 pts 51 comments

45

Apple using patents to undermine open standards again my.opera.com · Wilya · 9 Dec 2011

415 pts 60 comments

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You've Probably Read Enough bennesvig.com · bennesvig · 7 Dec 2011

410 pts 72 comments

47

Where's Waldo? stackoverflow.com · bkaid · 18 Dec 2011

409 pts 30 comments

48

John Carmack on the importance of Static Code Analysis altdevblogaday.com · plinkplonk · 24 Dec 2011

408 pts 124 comments

49

GoDaddy is default registrar for Google Apps Domains support.google.com · jwildeboer · 23 Dec 2011

402 pts 70 comments

50

Google can be used as a graphic calculator google.com · bpierre · 5 Dec 2011

400 pts 75 comments

51

I'm starting to think LEGO is evil sinker.tumblr.com · Sukotto · 15 Dec 2011

398 pts 283 comments

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Update on GoDaddy Transfer Issues community.namecheap.com · PStamatiou · 26 Dec 2011

396 pts 74 comments

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Google: Let it snow google.com · jakozaur · 17 Dec 2011

393 pts 93 comments

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Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry. plus.google.com · zdw · 11 Dec 2011

391 pts 193 comments

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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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

57

Wikipedia will be leaving GoDaddy en.wikipedia.org · shahed · 24 Dec 2011

385 pts 46 comments

58

Why we ditched PayPal for Stripe gc-taylor.com · gtaylor · 8 Dec 2011

382 pts 119 comments

59

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda's Resume. Anyone interested? cmdrtaco.net · cmdrtaco · 2 Dec 2011

376 pts 154 comments

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The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value forbes.com · DanielRibeiro · 26 Dec 2011

376 pts 135 comments