The Best Hacker News Posts of November 2012

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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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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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Hacking my Vagina scanlime.org · kogir · 24 Nov 2012

952 pts 253 comments

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How to Get Startup Ideas paulgraham.com · relation · 19 Nov 2012

914 pts 231 comments

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Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design adamwhitcroft.com · pajju · 23 Nov 2012

821 pts 98 comments

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The Quiet Ones nytimes.com · wallflower · 18 Nov 2012

807 pts 382 comments

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The Worst thoughtcrime.org · ldayley · 27 Nov 2012

770 pts 207 comments

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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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The Fight dcurt.is · relation · 4 Nov 2012

734 pts 133 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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You are committing a crime right now erratasec.blogspot.com · ssclafani · 21 Nov 2012

709 pts 192 comments

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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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Nate Silver correctly called 50 out of 50 states plus.google.com · btilly · 7 Nov 2012

667 pts 269 comments

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Skrillex Quest skrillexquest.com · Wraecca · 30 Nov 2012

592 pts 197 comments

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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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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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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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Low-cost Solution to Clearing Afghan Landmines m.good.is · Brajeshwar · 20 Nov 2012

548 pts 171 comments

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You can do it alone ryancarson.com · ryancarson · 17 Nov 2012

534 pts 170 comments

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Dell releases powerful, well-supported Linux Ultrabook arstechnica.com · iProject · 29 Nov 2012

520 pts 349 comments

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"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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What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit marco.org · DaNmarner · 16 Nov 2012

511 pts 179 comments

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Ghost — rethinking WordPress john.onolan.org · saltcod · 5 Nov 2012

502 pts 224 comments

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Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars wired.com · sravfeyn · 2 Nov 2012

497 pts 148 comments

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Tor exit node operator raided in Austria lowendtalk.com · Nyr · 29 Nov 2012

495 pts 310 comments

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Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5 soundslice.com · adrianh · 15 Nov 2012

492 pts 124 comments

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Python Libraries you should know about doda.co · trueduke · 12 Nov 2012

483 pts 69 comments

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Ask HN: Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving? MediaSquirrel · 22 Nov 2012

475 pts 94 comments

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Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl torrentfreak.com · Sami_Lehtinen · 22 Nov 2012

472 pts 159 comments

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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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Colorado measure legalizing marijuana passes coloradodaily.com · neverm0re · 7 Nov 2012

461 pts 182 comments

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2013 Automobile of the Year: Tesla Model S automobilemag.com · chanux · 1 Nov 2012

447 pts 280 comments

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Show HN: Non-Confusing, Visually Correct Slider Toggle UI chrisnorstrom.com · ChrisNorstrom · 5 Nov 2012

441 pts 79 comments

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Don't re-elect SOPA supporters on Tuesday blog.nahurst.com · nathanh · 5 Nov 2012

435 pts 172 comments

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How Syria Turned Off the Internet blog.cloudflare.com · dknecht · 29 Nov 2012

435 pts 82 comments

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Alone Together, Again al3x.net · michaelfairley · 12 Nov 2012

433 pts 126 comments

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Algorithms [pdf] cs.berkeley.edu · sonabinu · 14 Nov 2012

429 pts 92 comments

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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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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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Show HN: Instant Google Street View qsview.com · kirchhoff · 16 Nov 2012

412 pts 101 comments

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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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The YC VC Program ycombinator.com · pg · 26 Nov 2012

404 pts 165 comments

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Washington voters approve legalized marijuana mynorthwest.com · llambda · 7 Nov 2012

404 pts 133 comments

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The Best dcurt.is · jordanbrown · 7 Nov 2012

403 pts 295 comments

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Why aren't we all using Japanese toilets? priceonomics.com · rohin · 14 Nov 2012

402 pts 371 comments

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Show HN: An IDE for poets tranquillpoet.com · bilalq · 13 Nov 2012

398 pts 113 comments

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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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My IQ blog.tanyakhovanova.com · tokenadult · 4 Nov 2012

392 pts 276 comments

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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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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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CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org cyanogenmod.org · saket123 · 14 Nov 2012

381 pts 102 comments

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Entrepreneurshit bothsidesofthetable.com · ndemoor · 18 Nov 2012

381 pts 68 comments

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List of Twitter Bootstrap Resources bootstraphero.com · michaelbuckbee · 28 Nov 2012

372 pts 102 comments

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Thank You HN: From 30 people whose lives you saved chaseadam17 · 21 Nov 2012

372 pts 56 comments

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Why it is Awesome to be a Girl in Tech nerdess.net · nerdess · 2 Nov 2012

369 pts 248 comments

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512 Paths to the White House nytimes.com · jashkenas · 3 Nov 2012

365 pts 170 comments

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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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Meet the new Light Table chris-granger.com · bergie · 6 Nov 2012

362 pts 101 comments

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A Better Twitter Bootstrap Modal github.com · dkroy · 21 Nov 2012

358 pts 71 comments