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Top of Year 2011

1. Steve Jobs has passed away.
   (5 Oct 2011 | 4338 points | Comments)

2. Watch a VC use my name to sell a con
   (29 Nov 2011 | 2376 points | Comments)

3. Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died
   (13 Oct 2011 | 1958 points | Comments)

4. Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.
   (17 May 2011 | 1820 points | Comments)

5. Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day
   (22 Dec 2011 | 1742 points | Comments)

6. A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
   (30 Oct 2011 | 1736 points | Comments)

7. Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
   (24 Aug 2011 | 1667 points | Comments)

8. John McCarthy Has Died
   (24 Oct 2011 | 1619 points | Comments)

9. I was once a Facebook fool
   (23 Sep 2011 | 1390 points | Comments)

10. Stripe: instant payment processing for developers
    (29 Sep 2011 | 1249 points | Comments)

11. Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion
    (15 Aug 2011 | 1214 points | Comments)

12. Steve's Google Platform rant
    (12 Oct 2011 | 1196 points | Comments)

13. I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvote count
    (28 Apr 2011 | 1136 points | Comments)

14. Ooops.
    (16 Jun 2011 | 1123 points | Comments)

15. GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day"
    (22 Dec 2011 | 1121 points | Comments)

16. Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired
    (10 Nov 2011 | 1120 points | Comments)

17. A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy
    (22 Dec 2011 | 1086 points | Comments)

18. Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN
    (26 Apr 2011 | 1074 points | Comments)

19. My dad taught me cashflow with a soda machine
    (28 Oct 2011 | 1060 points | Comments)

20. TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
    (18 May 2011 | 1056 points | Comments)

21. Twitter Bootstrap
    (19 Aug 2011 | 1047 points | Comments)

22. Enough Is Enough
    (1 Jun 2011 | 1032 points | Comments)

23. Don't Call Yourself a Programmer
    (29 Oct 2011 | 1021 points | Comments)

24. Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight
    (29 Jul 2011 | 1017 points | Comments)

25. In defense of the Google chef
    (11 Nov 2011 | 994 points | Comments)

26. Using prime numbers to make better backgrounds
    (7 Apr 2011 | 975 points | Comments)

27. Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned
    (27 Jul 2011 | 952 points | Comments)

28. Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC
    (22 Sep 2011 | 938 points | Comments)

29. Osama bin Laden Is Dead
    (2 May 2011 | 924 points | Comments)

30. Chosen: A javascript plug-in that makes long select boxes user-friendly.
    (22 Jul 2011 | 923 points | Comments)

31. Time to end the war on drugs
    (26 Dec 2011 | 905 points | Comments)

32. Steve Jobs has died
    (5 Oct 2011 | 901 points | Comments)

33. Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project
    (25 Apr 2011 | 886 points | Comments)

34. Amit Gupta needs you
    (24 Oct 2011 | 886 points | Comments)

35. Stop SOPA, save the Internet
    (14 Nov 2011 | 883 points | Comments)

36. FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names
    (15 Apr 2011 | 880 points | Comments)

37. Suicide
    (13 Dec 2011 | 880 points | Comments)

38. More Paypal nonsense
    (6 Dec 2011 | 870 points | Comments)

39. Louis C.K. experiment results: over $500,000 in 4 days
    (14 Dec 2011 | 868 points | Comments)

40. Bring a stick man to life.
    (22 Sep 2011 | 862 points | Comments)

41. What really happened aboard Air France 447
    (8 Dec 2011 | 858 points | Comments)

42. Bored People Quit
    (12 Jul 2011 | 840 points | Comments)

43. 33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto
    (21 Jul 2011 | 840 points | Comments)

44. A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
    (8 Nov 2011 | 830 points | Comments)

45. GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA
    (24 Dec 2011 | 825 points | Comments)

46. A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects
    (13 Jul 2011 | 821 points | Comments)

47. I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this
    (28 Nov 2011 | 820 points | Comments)

48. Apple RIP Logo design
    (6 Oct 2011 | 812 points | Comments)

49. Showoff
    (20 Apr 2011 | 805 points | Comments)

50. Subtle Patterns: Free textures for your next web project
    (10 Oct 2011 | 801 points | Comments)

51. Don't Be A Free User
    (6 Dec 2011 | 793 points | Comments)

52. Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code
    (18 Aug 2011 | 787 points | Comments)

53. Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot
    (25 Aug 2011 | 784 points | Comments)

54. Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google
    (12 May 2011 | 779 points | Comments)

55. United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P
    (6 Aug 2011 | 769 points | Comments)

56. Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21
    (13 Nov 2011 | 764 points | Comments)

57. HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source
    (9 Dec 2011 | 751 points | Comments)

58. Daring Fireball: Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot
    (6 Oct 2011 | 749 points | Comments)

59. I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.
    (12 Oct 2011 | 745 points | Comments)

60. Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody
    (29 Aug 2011 | 742 points | Comments)

61. This Guy Has My MacBook
    (31 May 2011 | 741 points | Comments)

62. Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
    (11 Oct 2011 | 733 points | Comments)

63. Jonathan's Card
    (7 Aug 2011 | 726 points | Comments)

64. Bitbucket now rocks Git
    (3 Oct 2011 | 726 points | Comments)

65. An iOS Developer Takes on Android
    (1 Aug 2011 | 720 points | Comments)

66. Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?
    (17 Oct 2011 | 716 points | Comments)

67. Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
    (23 Apr 2011 | 711 points | Comments)

68. Don't use MongoDB
    (6 Nov 2011 | 706 points | Comments)

69. An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry
    (19 Dec 2011 | 705 points | Comments)

70. GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA
    (26 Dec 2011 | 705 points | Comments)

71. Mea Culpa: GitHub works well, my mistake made them look bad
    (1 Feb 2011 | 704 points | Comments)

72. Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps
    (30 Nov 2011 | 700 points | Comments)

73. Patio11 says Hello Ladies
    (26 Mar 2011 | 699 points | Comments)

74. Mozilla urges its users to raise their voice against SOPA
    (16 Nov 2011 | 699 points | Comments)

75. My fellow geeks, we need to have a talk.
    (14 Mar 2011 | 697 points | Comments)

76. You are not running out of time
    (18 Jul 2011 | 696 points | Comments)

77. Fucking Sue Me
    (11 Sep 2011 | 695 points | Comments)

78. Why I will never pursue cheating again
    (17 Jul 2011 | 691 points | Comments)

79. Workers Leaving the Googleplex
    (30 Apr 2011 | 690 points | Comments)

80. Google algorithm change launched
    (28 Jan 2011 | 688 points | Comments)

81. My winter break project — Silk
    (10 Jan 2011 | 687 points | Comments)

82. Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT
    (16 Nov 2011 | 687 points | Comments)

83. Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results
    (1 Feb 2011 | 684 points | Comments)

84. I took "abusing the HTML5 History" to the next level.
    (8 Mar 2011 | 681 points | Comments)

85. Dear Internet: It's no Longer OK Not to Know How Congress Works
    (19 Dec 2011 | 681 points | Comments)

86. GitHub for Mac
    (22 Jun 2011 | 680 points | Comments)

87. Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO
    (20 Jan 2011 | 679 points | Comments)

88. 8.9 earthquake hits Japan
    (11 Mar 2011 | 678 points | Comments)

89. Patio11's perspective on the Japan Earthquake
    (13 Mar 2011 | 673 points | Comments)

90. If this then that
    (7 Sep 2011 | 673 points | Comments)

91. Mint.com turns 404 ad page into date ad for developer
    (7 Dec 2011 | 672 points | Comments)

92. Firefox 4 is here
    (22 Mar 2011 | 670 points | Comments)

93. In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011
    (16 Dec 2011 | 669 points | Comments)

94. Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress
    (13 May 2011 | 667 points | Comments)

95. I'm the guy who bought 259684 Bitcoins for under $3000 yesterday
    (20 Jun 2011 | 664 points | Comments)

96. This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years
    (23 Sep 2011 | 664 points | Comments)

97. How Doctors Die
    (5 Dec 2011 | 663 points | Comments)

98. Fuck passwords
    (5 Dec 2011 | 655 points | Comments)

99. How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company
    (31 May 2011 | 654 points | Comments)

100. Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.
     (30 Nov 2011 | 652 points | Comments)