The Best Hacker News Posts of 2012
We track 7,375 stories from 2012, averaging 209 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 171 stories. Together they drew 635,934 comments, 86 per story on average.
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Show HN: This up votes itself
news.ycombinator.com · olalonde · 23 Mar 2012
3.5k pts
82 comments
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Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.
ycombinator.com · dzlobin · 20 Jan 2012
2.1k pts
665 comments
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3
$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog
tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com · zotz · 6 Mar 2012
1.6k pts
330 comments
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4
Light Table - a new IDE concept
chris-granger.com · ibdknox · 13 Apr 2012
1.6k pts
291 comments
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5
Outlawed by Amazon DRM
bekkelund.net · paulsilver · 22 Oct 2012
1.4k pts
479 comments
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Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework
meteor.com · geoffschmidt · 10 Apr 2012
1.4k pts
322 comments
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Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots
facebook.com · petercooper · 30 Jul 2012
1.3k pts
356 comments
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9
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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DuckDuckGo is blowing up
duckduckgo.com · MatthewPhillips · 29 Mar 2012
1.2k pts
203 comments
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14
Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor
tumblr.amitgupta.com · nwest · 18 Jan 2012
1.2k pts
100 comments
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15
I hereby resign
raganwald.posterous.com · llambda · 2 Apr 2012
1.2k pts
366 comments
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16
Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
npr.org · MaysonL · 1 Mar 2012
1.2k pts
172 comments
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17
Google Fiber Plans & Pricing
fiber.google.com · stevewilhelm · 26 Jul 2012
1.1k pts
466 comments
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18
Hunting Down My Son's Killer
matt.might.net · synacksynack · 29 May 2012
1.1k pts
318 comments
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20
Bret Victor: Learnable Programming
worrydream.com · siavosh · 26 Sep 2012
1.1k pts
183 comments
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21
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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22
Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
eyetap.org · balnaphone · 16 Jul 2012
1.1k pts
446 comments
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23
"That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends."
joethepeacock.blogspot.co.uk · kilian · 24 Apr 2012
1k pts
195 comments
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24
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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25
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
paulgraham.com · anateus · 10 Mar 2012
1k pts
430 comments
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26
Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief
dealbook.nytimes.com · sahillavingia · 16 Jul 2012
1k pts
343 comments
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27
Thinking of Selling on eBay using Paypal? Think Again
codenerdz.com · codenerdz · 3 Dec 2012
989 pts
388 comments
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28
20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time
stevehanov.ca · spiffytech · 29 May 2012
989 pts
147 comments
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29
PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique violin in dispute
regretsy.com · tfe · 3 Jan 2012
988 pts
289 comments
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30
Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today
heraldsun.com.au · Grovara123 · 25 Aug 2012
980 pts
92 comments
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31
Thinking the unthinkable
anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com · aaronbrethorst · 16 Dec 2012
963 pts
442 comments
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Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA
thenextweb.com · minecraftman · 16 Jan 2012
951 pts
192 comments
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36
This is how Visa works
eduardo.intermeta.com.br · eduardordm · 17 Aug 2012
931 pts
97 comments
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37
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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Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA
blog.reddit.com · lindowe · 10 Jan 2012
922 pts
150 comments
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39
How to Get Startup Ideas
paulgraham.com · relation · 19 Nov 2012
914 pts
231 comments
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43
Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
nytimes.com · roam · 14 Mar 2012
896 pts
249 comments
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46
It all began with a strange email
blogs.valvesoftware.com · julioc · 15 Jun 2012
874 pts
124 comments
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47
Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..
sw007 · 17 Aug 2012
871 pts
431 comments
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49
Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split
lists.busybox.net · sciurus · 27 Jan 2012
857 pts
151 comments
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50
Xkcd "Click and Drag" in a "map" interface
xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de · martius · 19 Sep 2012
844 pts
86 comments
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51
Facebook acquires Instagram
facebook.com · hunterowens · 9 Apr 2012
837 pts
374 comments
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52
The Amazing iOS 6 Maps
theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com · Maakuth · 20 Sep 2012
837 pts
371 comments
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53
Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers
mclov.in · iamclovin · 7 Feb 2012
834 pts
267 comments
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54
Google Maps for iOS
itunes.apple.com · zacharytamas · 13 Dec 2012
827 pts
447 comments
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55
This is a bit f'd, Quora
giantrobotlasers.com · webwright · 13 Aug 2012
827 pts
226 comments
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56
Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design
adamwhitcroft.com · pajju · 23 Nov 2012
821 pts
98 comments
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57
R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles
io9.com · danso · 6 Jun 2012
821 pts
95 comments
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58
Sublime Text 2.0 Released
sublimetext.com · dave1010uk · 26 Jun 2012
813 pts
352 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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