The Best Hacker News Posts of 2012

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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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$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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Light Table - a new IDE concept chris-granger.com · ibdknox · 13 Apr 2012

1.6k pts 291 comments

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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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"Lighten up" therealkatie.net · jnoller · 21 Mar 2012

1.4k pts 794 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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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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Plagiarism notes.unwieldy.net · endtwist · 14 May 2012

1.2k pts 311 comments

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DuckDuckGo is blowing up duckduckgo.com · MatthewPhillips · 29 Mar 2012

1.2k pts 203 comments

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The Next Microsoft minimallyminimal.com · exogen · 3 Jul 2012

1.2k pts 329 comments

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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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I hereby resign raganwald.posterous.com · llambda · 2 Apr 2012

1.2k pts 366 comments

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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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Google Fiber Plans & Pricing fiber.google.com · stevewilhelm · 26 Jul 2012

1.1k pts 466 comments

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Hunting Down My Son's Killer matt.might.net · synacksynack · 29 May 2012

1.1k pts 318 comments

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I love you, dad notch.tumblr.com · kjackson2012 · 13 Dec 2012

1.1k pts 209 comments

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Bret Victor: Learnable Programming worrydream.com · siavosh · 26 Sep 2012

1.1k pts 183 comments

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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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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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"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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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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Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas paulgraham.com · anateus · 10 Mar 2012

1k pts 430 comments

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Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief dealbook.nytimes.com · sahillavingia · 16 Jul 2012

1k pts 343 comments

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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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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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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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Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today heraldsun.com.au · Grovara123 · 25 Aug 2012

980 pts 92 comments

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Thinking the unthinkable anarchistsoccermom.blogspot.com · aaronbrethorst · 16 Dec 2012

963 pts 442 comments

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

952 pts 253 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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Why I Left Google blogs.msdn.com · cangencer · 13 Mar 2012

947 pts 306 comments

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I am very real lettersofnote.com · etrain · 30 Mar 2012

943 pts 150 comments

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This is how Visa works eduardo.intermeta.com.br · eduardordm · 17 Aug 2012

931 pts 97 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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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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How to Get Startup Ideas paulgraham.com · relation · 19 Nov 2012

914 pts 231 comments

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Wind Map hint.fm · taylorbuley · 28 Mar 2012

909 pts 79 comments

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Amazon Glacier aws.amazon.com · sqnguyen · 21 Aug 2012

906 pts 378 comments

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Mosh: SSH for 2012 mosh.mit.edu · pc · 9 Apr 2012

900 pts 193 comments

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Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs nytimes.com · roam · 14 Mar 2012

896 pts 249 comments

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Codename: Obtvse natewienert.com · nwienert · 23 Mar 2012

889 pts 355 comments

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The Future of Markdown codinghorror.com · dko · 25 Oct 2012

877 pts 328 comments

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It all began with a strange email blogs.valvesoftware.com · julioc · 15 Jun 2012

874 pts 124 comments

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Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News.. sw007 · 17 Aug 2012

871 pts 431 comments

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Why I'm a Pirate ploum.net · tbassetto · 18 Jan 2012

857 pts 514 comments

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Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split lists.busybox.net · sciurus · 27 Jan 2012

857 pts 151 comments

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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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Facebook acquires Instagram facebook.com · hunterowens · 9 Apr 2012

837 pts 374 comments

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The Amazing iOS 6 Maps theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com · Maakuth · 20 Sep 2012

837 pts 371 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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Google Maps for iOS itunes.apple.com · zacharytamas · 13 Dec 2012

827 pts 447 comments

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This is a bit f'd, Quora giantrobotlasers.com · webwright · 13 Aug 2012

827 pts 226 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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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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Sublime Text 2.0 Released sublimetext.com · dave1010uk · 26 Jun 2012

813 pts 352 comments

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

807 pts 382 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