The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2012
We track 541 stories from November 2012, averaging 211 points each. thenextweb.com was the most linked source, with 13 stories. Together they drew 50,355 comments, 93 per story on average.
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Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
thenextweb.com · jipumarino · 6 Nov 2012
1.1k pts
637 comments
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2
How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting
training.kalzumeus.com · atomical · 19 Nov 2012
1k pts
261 comments
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4
How to Get Startup Ideas
paulgraham.com · relation · 19 Nov 2012
914 pts
231 comments
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5
Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design
adamwhitcroft.com · pajju · 23 Nov 2012
821 pts
98 comments
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8
100,000 stars
workshop.chromeexperiments.com · davex · 14 Nov 2012
746 pts
109 comments
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RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love over three years
rethinkdb.com · coffeemug · 9 Nov 2012
739 pts
237 comments
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Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XOR with "RANDOM_STRING"
plus.google.com · asherlangton · 26 Nov 2012
720 pts
254 comments
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12
You are committing a crime right now
erratasec.blogspot.com · ssclafani · 21 Nov 2012
709 pts
192 comments
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13
Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works
blog.cloudflare.com · ColinWright · 6 Nov 2012
676 pts
154 comments
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14
Nate Silver correctly called 50 out of 50 states
plus.google.com · btilly · 7 Nov 2012
667 pts
269 comments
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16
Ask HN: Help, HN'er in trouble, we need a laywer in Delhi immediately
jacquesm · 4 Nov 2012
591 pts
108 comments
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17
Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice
thenextweb.com · evo_9 · 8 Nov 2012
583 pts
121 comments
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18
How I made $500k with machine learning and high frequency trading
jspauld.com · jspaulding · 6 Nov 2012
551 pts
308 comments
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19
Low-cost Solution to Clearing Afghan Landmines
m.good.is · Brajeshwar · 20 Nov 2012
548 pts
171 comments
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21
Dell releases powerful, well-supported Linux Ultrabook
arstechnica.com · iProject · 29 Nov 2012
520 pts
349 comments
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22
"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting style"
jwz.livejournal.com · ahalan · 6 Nov 2012
516 pts
88 comments
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23
What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
marco.org · DaNmarner · 16 Nov 2012
511 pts
179 comments
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24
Ghost — rethinking WordPress
john.onolan.org · saltcod · 5 Nov 2012
502 pts
224 comments
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26
Tor exit node operator raided in Austria
lowendtalk.com · Nyr · 29 Nov 2012
495 pts
310 comments
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27
Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5
soundslice.com · adrianh · 15 Nov 2012
492 pts
124 comments
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28
Python Libraries you should know about
doda.co · trueduke · 12 Nov 2012
483 pts
69 comments
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29
Ask HN: Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?
MediaSquirrel · 22 Nov 2012
475 pts
94 comments
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30
Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl
torrentfreak.com · Sami_Lehtinen · 22 Nov 2012
472 pts
159 comments
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31
Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
npr.org · weinzierl · 8 Nov 2012
461 pts
301 comments
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32
Colorado measure legalizing marijuana passes
coloradodaily.com · neverm0re · 7 Nov 2012
461 pts
182 comments
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33
2013 Automobile of the Year: Tesla Model S
automobilemag.com · chanux · 1 Nov 2012
447 pts
280 comments
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34
Show HN: Non-Confusing, Visually Correct Slider Toggle UI
chrisnorstrom.com · ChrisNorstrom · 5 Nov 2012
441 pts
79 comments
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35
Don't re-elect SOPA supporters on Tuesday
blog.nahurst.com · nathanh · 5 Nov 2012
435 pts
172 comments
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36
How Syria Turned Off the Internet
blog.cloudflare.com · dknecht · 29 Nov 2012
435 pts
82 comments
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39
They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside
wired.com · pstadler · 17 Nov 2012
427 pts
36 comments
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40
The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
blog.jgc.org · jgrahamc · 27 Nov 2012
426 pts
173 comments
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41
Show HN: Instant Google Street View
qsview.com · kirchhoff · 16 Nov 2012
412 pts
101 comments
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42
The amount of crap Windows users have to put up with is incredible
dendory.net · dendory · 10 Nov 2012
408 pts
322 comments
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44
Washington voters approve legalized marijuana
mynorthwest.com · llambda · 7 Nov 2012
404 pts
133 comments
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46
Why aren't we all using Japanese toilets?
priceonomics.com · rohin · 14 Nov 2012
402 pts
371 comments
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47
Show HN: An IDE for poets
tranquillpoet.com · bilalq · 13 Nov 2012
398 pts
113 comments
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48
Ratchet: Prototyping iPhone apps in simple HTML, CSS, and JS
maker.github.com · uggedal · 5 Nov 2012
394 pts
83 comments
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50
Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
itunes.apple.com · Omicron3141 · 2 Nov 2012
386 pts
175 comments
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51
Apple's Module proposal to replace headers for C-based languages [pdf]
llvm.org · _djo_ · 26 Nov 2012
385 pts
177 comments
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52
CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org
cyanogenmod.org · saket123 · 14 Nov 2012
381 pts
102 comments
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53
Entrepreneurshit
bothsidesofthetable.com · ndemoor · 18 Nov 2012
381 pts
68 comments
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54
List of Twitter Bootstrap Resources
bootstraphero.com · michaelbuckbee · 28 Nov 2012
372 pts
102 comments
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55
Thank You HN: From 30 people whose lives you saved
chaseadam17 · 21 Nov 2012
372 pts
56 comments
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56
Why it is Awesome to be a Girl in Tech
nerdess.net · nerdess · 2 Nov 2012
369 pts
248 comments
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57
512 Paths to the White House
nytimes.com · jashkenas · 3 Nov 2012
365 pts
170 comments
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58
Skype vulnerability allowing hijacking of an account if you know just the email
pixus-ru.blogspot.ru · jtraub · 14 Nov 2012
362 pts
119 comments
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59
Meet the new Light Table
chris-granger.com · bergie · 6 Nov 2012
362 pts
101 comments
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60
A Better Twitter Bootstrap Modal
github.com · dkroy · 21 Nov 2012
358 pts
71 comments
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