The Best Hacker News Posts of December 2012
We track 568 stories from December 2012, averaging 206 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 20 stories. Together they drew 51,127 comments, 90 per story on average.
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Thinking of Selling on eBay using Paypal? Think Again
codenerdz.com · codenerdz · 3 Dec 2012
989 pts
388 comments
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Thinking the unthinkable
anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com · aaronbrethorst · 16 Dec 2012
963 pts
442 comments
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Google Maps for iOS
itunes.apple.com · zacharytamas · 13 Dec 2012
827 pts
447 comments
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Page Weight Matters
blog.chriszacharias.com · zacman85 · 23 Dec 2012
717 pts
164 comments
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You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
42floors.com · theinfonaut · 11 Dec 2012
710 pts
231 comments
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Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)
archive.mensjournal.com · dave1619 · 26 Dec 2012
708 pts
331 comments
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Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)
mikecanex.wordpress.com · mikecane · 26 Dec 2012
650 pts
162 comments
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Google Apps stops accepting free sign-ups
googleenterprise.blogspot.com · antichaos · 7 Dec 2012
626 pts
455 comments
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Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum
techcrunch.com · dko · 7 Dec 2012
586 pts
207 comments
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How would I get started?
hackertourism.com · peteforde · 9 Dec 2012
561 pts
141 comments
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Lego Finds Discontinued Set For Boy Who Saved Up For 2 Years
consumerist.com · wyclif · 4 Dec 2012
557 pts
194 comments
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Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)
s3.amazonaws.com · matthodan · 19 Dec 2012
549 pts
165 comments
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Cards Against Humanity: Results of "pay what you want"
cardsagainsthumanity.com · thaumaturgy · 17 Dec 2012
549 pts
162 comments
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How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
docs.google.com · Yoni1 · 24 Dec 2012
542 pts
285 comments
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Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek
nytimes.com · tysone · 20 Dec 2012
525 pts
137 comments
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How to Make Your Site Look Half-Decent in Half an Hour
24ways.org · tagawa · 16 Dec 2012
514 pts
140 comments
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Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos
news.cnet.com · ValentineC · 18 Dec 2012
502 pts
201 comments
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Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email
allgov.com · mtgx · 25 Dec 2012
501 pts
196 comments
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The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
static.pinboard.in · adulau · 14 Dec 2012
486 pts
171 comments
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If you’re trying to hack/deface a website, don’t submit a pull request
github.com · jwhelton · 12 Dec 2012
484 pts
107 comments
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Two-for-one: Amazon.com’s Socially Engineered Replacement Order Scam
htmlist.com · disillusioned · 18 Dec 2012
478 pts
143 comments
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What one book could give me a new, useful superpower?
ask.metafilter.com · kareemm · 28 Dec 2012
475 pts
295 comments
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What does randomness look like?
empiricalzeal.com · cyrusradfar · 21 Dec 2012
474 pts
117 comments
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Expedia: Bad for the Traveler, Bad for the Hotel
playazone.wordpress.com · ValentineC · 25 Dec 2012
467 pts
175 comments
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Why First Round Capital funded a lawsuit
redeye.firstround.com · jkopelman · 5 Dec 2012
449 pts
140 comments
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Apple will invest $100 million to bring Mac production back to the US next year
thenextweb.com · alinzainescu · 6 Dec 2012
448 pts
184 comments
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Stop Generalizing About Europe
jonasbentzen.com · jonascopenhagen · 27 Dec 2012
441 pts
347 comments
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The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death (1997)
outsideonline.com · BlackJack · 28 Dec 2012
437 pts
184 comments
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Google Maps becomes the App Store’s most popular free app in 7 hours
thenextweb.com · petrel · 13 Dec 2012
434 pts
297 comments
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Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk
lostechies.com · derickbailey · 14 Dec 2012
418 pts
180 comments
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One Year After Quitting My Job
nathanbarry.com · nathanbarry · 29 Dec 2012
407 pts
159 comments
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GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
article.gmane.org · bonzini · 22 Dec 2012
399 pts
122 comments
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Search, Mad Men style: A complete IBM 362 Google interface in the browser
masswerk.at · brunooo · 10 Dec 2012
395 pts
73 comments
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Try R — A new online course, for free
oreilly.com · allennoren · 5 Dec 2012
391 pts
125 comments
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How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account
wired.com · mtgx · 18 Dec 2012
389 pts
146 comments
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Requests, Python HTTP for Humans, reached v1.0
kennethreitz.org · jorde · 17 Dec 2012
386 pts
86 comments
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'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistleblower
rt.com · nhebb · 5 Dec 2012
378 pts
202 comments
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Facebook's legal team bans developer of F.B. Purity from Facebook
fbpurity.com · bane · 19 Dec 2012
375 pts
193 comments
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An FBI Hostage Negotiator Buys A Car [audio]
npr.org · kungfudoi · 30 Dec 2012
373 pts
147 comments
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JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only
jetbrains.com · rdemmer · 20 Dec 2012
367 pts
380 comments
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What happens when you are the doctor on the airplane?
cockeyed.com · JacobAldridge · 27 Dec 2012
363 pts
195 comments
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Police concerned with Apple iOS 6 mapping system
vicpolicenews.com.au · bmmayer1 · 10 Dec 2012
361 pts
220 comments
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Julian Assange: Cryptographic Call to Arms
cryptome.org · gbrindisi · 2 Dec 2012
355 pts
261 comments
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Building my Own Laptop
bunniestudios.com · beambot · 15 Dec 2012
354 pts
89 comments
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Tesla Was Cash Flow Positive Last Week, CEO Musk Says
bloomberg.com · apaprocki · 5 Dec 2012
353 pts
234 comments
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When I first heard the name "Safari"
donmelton.com · ryannielsen · 20 Dec 2012
350 pts
177 comments
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Something really scary is going on in Germany
martinweigert.com · gorm · 6 Dec 2012
338 pts
152 comments
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IPython gets $1.15M funding
mail.scipy.org · kkuduk · 12 Dec 2012
335 pts
93 comments
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