The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2012
We track 619 stories from February 2012, averaging 215 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 13 stories. Together they drew 46,963 comments, 76 per story on average.
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Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool
realdanlyons.com · smacktoward · 13 Feb 2012
1.3k pts
195 comments
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Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive
metafilter.com · blatherard · 18 Feb 2012
928 pts
315 comments
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4
Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers
mclov.in · iamclovin · 7 Feb 2012
834 pts
267 comments
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14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.
shwood.squarespace.com · Sukotto · 15 Feb 2012
797 pts
63 comments
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6
Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter
twitter.github.com · uptown · 1 Feb 2012
773 pts
158 comments
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Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours
edweissman.com · joshuacc · 3 Feb 2012
699 pts
157 comments
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9
ASCII interactive fluid animation
nkwiatek.com · wlll · 8 Feb 2012
663 pts
66 comments
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10
Handwriting to LaTeX maths
webdemo.visionobjects.com · yannis · 2 Feb 2012
652 pts
88 comments
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12
Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew
kennethreitz.com · craigkerstiens · 16 Feb 2012
646 pts
103 comments
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14
I have a bad feeling about this
raganwald.posterous.com · llambda · 9 Feb 2012
629 pts
179 comments
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15
The myth of the eight-hour sleep
bbc.co.uk · gps408 · 22 Feb 2012
607 pts
161 comments
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16
Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated content
jotform.net · Maxious · 16 Feb 2012
605 pts
236 comments
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17
Teller Reveals His Secrets
smithsonianmag.com · stevengg · 25 Feb 2012
602 pts
36 comments
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18
Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)
dywypi.org · akheron · 13 Feb 2012
593 pts
321 comments
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Game Developer Gives 7-Year-Old Best Birthday Present Ever
martinkool.com · mrtnkl · 14 Feb 2012
593 pts
45 comments
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21
What I've Learned About Smart People.
tmac721.tumblr.com · tmacwilliam · 12 Feb 2012
552 pts
172 comments
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22
Raspberri PI Release Announcement
raspberrypi.org · aespinoza · 29 Feb 2012
543 pts
255 comments
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23
"It's A Brick" - Tesla Motors' Devastating Design Problem
theunderstatement.com · degusta · 22 Feb 2012
542 pts
268 comments
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24
Online Python Tutor
people.csail.mit.edu · llambda · 19 Feb 2012
538 pts
45 comments
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Show HN: Hackershelf. Community curated collection of legally free books
hackershelf.com · okal · 14 Feb 2012
532 pts
121 comments
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US Appeals Court: Forced Decryption Is Self-Incrimination
volokh.com · zach · 24 Feb 2012
518 pts
113 comments
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30
The Julia Programming Language
julialang.org · jemeshsu · 18 Feb 2012
499 pts
203 comments
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31
Dear Github, please fix the Watch-Button
paulasmuth.com · paulasmuth · 27 Feb 2012
477 pts
116 comments
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32
Introducing Chrome for Android
googleblog.blogspot.com · cleverjake · 7 Feb 2012
476 pts
233 comments
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33
Introducing Collusion: Discover who’s tracking you online
mozilla.org · tbassetto · 28 Feb 2012
474 pts
126 comments
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34
How Not To Sell Software in 2012
al3x.net · nreece · 29 Feb 2012
466 pts
139 comments
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Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
apple.com · cstuder · 16 Feb 2012
465 pts
357 comments
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36
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
forbes.com · antoncohen · 17 Feb 2012
465 pts
156 comments
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37
Tumblr Architecture - 15B Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter
highscalability.com · there · 13 Feb 2012
457 pts
99 comments
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38
EFF Wins Protection for Time Zone Database
eff.org · taylorbuley · 22 Feb 2012
457 pts
36 comments
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Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site
groups.google.com · potomak · 16 Feb 2012
456 pts
118 comments
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“What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen?”
javlaskitsystem.se · wilhelm · 24 Feb 2012
452 pts
89 comments
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42
The WorldWideWeb application is now available as an alpha release (1991)
groups.google.com · implmentor · 23 Feb 2012
438 pts
125 comments
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43
All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately
technologyreview.com · rberger · 16 Feb 2012
435 pts
123 comments
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44
Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers
charliepark.org · charliepark · 1 Feb 2012
431 pts
62 comments
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45
How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI
37signals.com · pors · 17 Feb 2012
428 pts
128 comments
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47
Startup dudes: Cut the sexist crap
danshapiro.com · gurgeous · 9 Feb 2012
424 pts
254 comments
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48
How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90%
mailinator.blogspot.com · zinxq · 21 Feb 2012
424 pts
69 comments
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49
Mountain Lion: John Gruber's personal briefing
daringfireball.net · MaxGabriel · 16 Feb 2012
419 pts
302 comments
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51
MusicForProgramming();
musicforprogramming.net · seanplaice · 3 Feb 2012
411 pts
180 comments
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52
Show HN: Github for Designers
pixelapse.com · lominming · 9 Feb 2012
409 pts
83 comments
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53
Why I Don't Do Unpaid Overtime and Neither Should You
thecodist.com · qw · 28 Feb 2012
407 pts
254 comments
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54
Show HN: Bootswatch, free swatches for your Bootstrap site
bootswatch.com · parkov · 15 Feb 2012
407 pts
53 comments
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55
WikiLeaks begins publishing 5 million emails from Stratfor
pastebin.com · rdp · 27 Feb 2012
405 pts
128 comments
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56
The Tesla Valve: One Way Flow With No Moving Parts
blog.makezine.com · iamwil · 4 Feb 2012
405 pts
68 comments
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57
Show HN: Fed up with WebEx, so we built a way to screen share in under 20 sec.
screenleap.com · ttruong · 1 Feb 2012
402 pts
130 comments
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58
Remove Google Search History Before New Privacy Policy Takes Effect
eff.org · bootload · 22 Feb 2012
399 pts
150 comments
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59
Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol
Sara70 · 10 Feb 2012
399 pts
146 comments
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Balsamiq integrates with UX.StackExchange.com
blogs.balsamiq.com · asder1 · 27 Feb 2012
395 pts
28 comments
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