The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2012

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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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Farewell Stack Exchange codinghorror.com · dko · 6 Feb 2012

1.2k pts 213 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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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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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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Ubuntu for Android ubuntu.com · dave1010uk · 21 Feb 2012

698 pts 171 comments

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ASCII interactive fluid animation nkwiatek.com · wlll · 8 Feb 2012

663 pts 66 comments

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Handwriting to LaTeX maths webdemo.visionobjects.com · yannis · 2 Feb 2012

652 pts 88 comments

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Producer vs. Consumer reddit.com · stevenkovar · 5 Feb 2012

647 pts 64 comments

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Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew kennethreitz.com · craigkerstiens · 16 Feb 2012

646 pts 103 comments

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TV is broken minimalmac.com · rkudeshi · 24 Feb 2012

635 pts 258 comments

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I have a bad feeling about this raganwald.posterous.com · llambda · 9 Feb 2012

629 pts 179 comments

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The myth of the eight-hour sleep bbc.co.uk · gps408 · 22 Feb 2012

607 pts 161 comments

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Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated content jotform.net · Maxious · 16 Feb 2012

605 pts 236 comments

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Teller Reveals His Secrets smithsonianmag.com · stevengg · 25 Feb 2012

602 pts 36 comments

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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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Right versus pragmatic marco.org · zdw · 25 Feb 2012

568 pts 162 comments

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What I've Learned About Smart People. tmac721.tumblr.com · tmacwilliam · 12 Feb 2012

552 pts 172 comments

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Raspberri PI Release Announcement raspberrypi.org · aespinoza · 29 Feb 2012

543 pts 255 comments

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"It's A Brick" - Tesla Motors' Devastating Design Problem theunderstatement.com · degusta · 22 Feb 2012

542 pts 268 comments

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Online Python Tutor people.csail.mit.edu · llambda · 19 Feb 2012

538 pts 45 comments

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We are sorry blog.path.com · revorad · 8 Feb 2012

533 pts 211 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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Did You Hear We Got Osama? roshfu.com · choxi · 17 Feb 2012

524 pts 204 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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Hacking Hacker News joelgrus.com · hexis · 17 Feb 2012

503 pts 82 comments

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The Julia Programming Language julialang.org · jemeshsu · 18 Feb 2012

499 pts 203 comments

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Dear Github, please fix the Watch-Button paulasmuth.com · paulasmuth · 27 Feb 2012

477 pts 116 comments

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Introducing Chrome for Android googleblog.blogspot.com · cleverjake · 7 Feb 2012

476 pts 233 comments

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Introducing Collusion: Discover who’s tracking you online mozilla.org · tbassetto · 28 Feb 2012

474 pts 126 comments

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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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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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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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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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TSA: Fail gmancasefile.blogspot.in · vamsee · 29 Feb 2012

452 pts 116 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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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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All Web Developers Should Stop Doing This Immediately technologyreview.com · rberger · 16 Feb 2012

435 pts 123 comments

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Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers charliepark.org · charliepark · 1 Feb 2012

431 pts 62 comments

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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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SSH tricks matt.might.net · joeyespo · 2 Feb 2012

425 pts 68 comments

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Startup dudes: Cut the sexist crap danshapiro.com · gurgeous · 9 Feb 2012

424 pts 254 comments

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How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90% mailinator.blogspot.com · zinxq · 21 Feb 2012

424 pts 69 comments

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Mountain Lion: John Gruber's personal briefing daringfireball.net · MaxGabriel · 16 Feb 2012

419 pts 302 comments

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Facebook's S-1 Filing sec.gov · hornokplease · 1 Feb 2012

413 pts 204 comments

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MusicForProgramming(); musicforprogramming.net · seanplaice · 3 Feb 2012

411 pts 180 comments

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Show HN: Github for Designers pixelapse.com · lominming · 9 Feb 2012

409 pts 83 comments

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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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Show HN: Bootswatch, free swatches for your Bootstrap site bootswatch.com · parkov · 15 Feb 2012

407 pts 53 comments

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WikiLeaks begins publishing 5 million emails from Stratfor pastebin.com · rdp · 27 Feb 2012

405 pts 128 comments

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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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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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Remove Google Search History Before New Privacy Policy Takes Effect eff.org · bootload · 22 Feb 2012

399 pts 150 comments

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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