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Top of Month - Jan 2011

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

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

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

4. Carnegie Mellon CS Professor challenges Sony by mirroring Geohot's PS3 hacks
   (12 Jan 2011 | 620 points | Comments)

5. Google tracks you. We don't. An illustrated guide
   (3 Jan 2011 | 588 points | Comments)

6. Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android
   (21 Jan 2011 | 584 points | Comments)

7. Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome
   (11 Jan 2011 | 579 points | Comments)

8. Trouble In the House of Google
   (3 Jan 2011 | 461 points | Comments)

9. Steve's story - Google employee #13
   (9 Jan 2011 | 440 points | Comments)

10. Dear Google: please let me ban sites from results
    (6 Jan 2011 | 438 points | Comments)

11. Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service
    (25 Jan 2011 | 438 points | Comments)

12. Yuri Milner, SV Angel Offer Every New Y Combinator Startup $150k
    (29 Jan 2011 | 425 points | Comments)

13. Delegate or die: the self-employed trap
    (23 Jan 2011 | 423 points | Comments)

14. For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?
    (12 Jan 2011 | 415 points | Comments)

15. Why 3D doesn't work and never will.
    (24 Jan 2011 | 411 points | Comments)

16. So Long and Thanks for all the Bits
    (31 Jan 2011 | 404 points | Comments)

17. JavaScript ( (__ = $ + $)[+$] + ({} + $)[_/_] +({} + $)[_/_] )
    (22 Jan 2011 | 403 points | Comments)

18. Dating Denial of Service attack
    (4 Jan 2011 | 390 points | Comments)

19. How (not) to write Factorial in Java
    (26 Jan 2011 | 387 points | Comments)

20. NYT Review of ‘The 4-Hour Body’
    (6 Jan 2011 | 383 points | Comments)

21. MIT OpenCourseWare introduces courses designed for independent learners
    (14 Jan 2011 | 383 points | Comments)

22. OAuth Will Murder Your Children
    (25 Jan 2011 | 380 points | Comments)

23. Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard
    (31 Jan 2011 | 373 points | Comments)

24. RIP Bill Zeller
    (6 Jan 2011 | 370 points | Comments)

25. W3C HTML5 Logo Unveiled
    (18 Jan 2011 | 370 points | Comments)

26. Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers.
    (30 Jan 2011 | 359 points | Comments)

27. Watch a swarm of flying robotic drones construct a tiny building
    (16 Jan 2011 | 357 points | Comments)

28. How Facebook Ships Code
    (17 Jan 2011 | 344 points | Comments)

29. Ask HN/PG: Why are comments being paginated?
    (19 Jan 2011 | 341 points | Comments)

30. Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions, 2010 edition
    (7 Jan 2011 | 339 points | Comments)

31. DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard in San Francisco)
    (20 Jan 2011 | 334 points | Comments)

32. Tell HN: There is a Scammer Amongst Us
    (31 Jan 2011 | 333 points | Comments)

33. Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search
    (6 Jan 2011 | 327 points | Comments)

34. Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich
    (29 Jan 2011 | 325 points | Comments)

35. Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
    (20 Jan 2011 | 320 points | Comments)

36. New cave found in Vietnam: "A skyscraper could fit"
    (2 Jan 2011 | 318 points | Comments)

37. Steve Jobs To Take ‘Medical Leave Of Absence’, Stays On As CEO
    (17 Jan 2011 | 311 points | Comments)

38. Google's dropping H.264 in Chrome is not a step backward for openness.
    (13 Jan 2011 | 306 points | Comments)

39. Learning Advanced JavaScript
    (10 Jan 2011 | 302 points | Comments)

40. Would-Be Suicide Bomber Killed by Unexpected SMS From Mobile Carrier
    (28 Jan 2011 | 302 points | Comments)

41. Things Real People Don't Say About Advertising
    (14 Jan 2011 | 300 points | Comments)

42. Easing into SICP
    (18 Jan 2011 | 299 points | Comments)

43. Always pay your web developers
    (23 Jan 2011 | 299 points | Comments)

44. Visualization of stock market performance over time, adjusted for inflation
    (3 Jan 2011 | 295 points | Comments)

45. Egypt has shut off the Internet (update: not everywhere)
    (27 Jan 2011 | 290 points | Comments)

46. How To Use Amazon EC2 as Your Desktop
    (20 Jan 2011 | 286 points | Comments)

47. Free Wordpress themes coming with a price
    (22 Jan 2011 | 285 points | Comments)

48. Why U.S. Galaxy S Phones run Android 2.1
    (18 Jan 2011 | 284 points | Comments)

49. How to Make Trillions of Dollars
    (27 Jan 2011 | 284 points | Comments)

50. Game Preview: Voxatron - voxel-based, destructible environment, 8bit soundtrack
    (5 Jan 2011 | 279 points | Comments)

51. RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried
    (2 Jan 2011 | 278 points | Comments)

52. The NYC subway system as a string instrument
    (31 Jan 2011 | 276 points | Comments)

53. There is no place for just shitting all over other people's work
    (11 Jan 2011 | 273 points | Comments)

54. The polynomial algorithm for 3-SAT problem (or P=NP)
    (19 Jan 2011 | 269 points | Comments)

55. Mythbusting: Why Firefox 4 won’t score 100 on Acid3
    (25 Jan 2011 | 269 points | Comments)

56. JQuery 1.5 Released
    (31 Jan 2011 | 269 points | Comments)

57. How to build an 8x8x8 LED cube
    (4 Jan 2011 | 266 points | Comments)

58. A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You
    (12 Jan 2011 | 266 points | Comments)

59. An USB plug that goes both ways
    (25 Jan 2011 | 265 points | Comments)

60. Why Chinese Mothers are Not Superior (from a female Chinese engineer)
    (11 Jan 2011 | 262 points | Comments)

61. Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it
    (19 Jan 2011 | 257 points | Comments)

62. What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2011?
    (2 Jan 2011 | 253 points | Comments)

63. Farewell
    (31 Jan 2011 | 253 points | Comments)

64. I Can Crack Your App With Just A Shell (And How To Stop Me)
    (17 Jan 2011 | 250 points | Comments)

65. Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything
    (13 Jan 2011 | 249 points | Comments)

66. How to write a simple operating system
    (13 Jan 2011 | 247 points | Comments)

67. Git Immersion
    (14 Jan 2011 | 247 points | Comments)

68. SOAP: The 'S' stands for simple (not really)
    (7 Jan 2011 | 246 points | Comments)

69. My Experiences as a Female Software Engineer
    (17 Jan 2011 | 244 points | Comments)

70. Egypt shuts down Al Jazeera bureau
    (30 Jan 2011 | 244 points | Comments)

71. Hard Core: What Porn's Ubiquity Says About Men and Women
    (6 Jan 2011 | 242 points | Comments)

72. On Not Hiring
    (12 Jan 2011 | 241 points | Comments)

73. Obama administration moves forward with unique Internet ID for all Americans
    (9 Jan 2011 | 239 points | Comments)

74. Google search and search engine spam
    (21 Jan 2011 | 239 points | Comments)

75. Why can't all "tech" journalism be like this?
    (21 Jan 2011 | 239 points | Comments)

76. Engineering management at Facebook
    (7 Jan 2011 | 238 points | Comments)

77. Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released
    (28 Jan 2011 | 238 points | Comments)

78. Rent vs. Buy Visualization of Top 50 Cities
    (24 Jan 2011 | 235 points | Comments)

79. US Patent system so dysfunctional you can patent a stick from a tree
    (14 Jan 2011 | 234 points | Comments)

80. Princeton Grad Student And 'Brilliant' Programmer, Dies In Apparent Suicide
    (7 Jan 2011 | 233 points | Comments)

81. Inequality in Equalland
    (10 Jan 2011 | 233 points | Comments)

82. Goodbye Facebook
    (18 Jan 2011 | 233 points | Comments)

83. ACM considered harmful
    (24 Jan 2011 | 233 points | Comments)

84. Tarsnap critical security bug
    (18 Jan 2011 | 231 points | Comments)

85. Eek, A Male
    (18 Jan 2011 | 229 points | Comments)

86. Paul Buchheit: Angel investing, my first three years
    (4 Jan 2011 | 227 points | Comments)

87. 37Signals to retire OpenID for logins on May 1
    (25 Jan 2011 | 227 points | Comments)

88. Why can't people in US watch Al Jazeera?
    (29 Jan 2011 | 225 points | Comments)

89. My biggest frustration with Google AdWords
    (27 Jan 2011 | 224 points | Comments)

90. “OK, but there are two rules…”
    (13 Jan 2011 | 223 points | Comments)

91. Oxford announces new degree in Computer Science and Philosophy
    (27 Jan 2011 | 223 points | Comments)

92. Why We Desperately Need a New (and Better) Google
    (1 Jan 2011 | 222 points | Comments)

93. How I Screwed Yasser Arafat out of $2mm (and lost $100mm in the process)
    (24 Jan 2011 | 220 points | Comments)

94. Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (February 2011 Edition)
    (31 Jan 2011 | 218 points | Comments)

95. Startup Suicide -- Rewriting the Code
    (25 Jan 2011 | 217 points | Comments)

96. Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More
    (26 Jan 2011 | 217 points | Comments)

97. Rich Hickey stops Clojure funding appeal from 2011 onwards
    (4 Jan 2011 | 216 points | Comments)

98. The Dubai Job
    (5 Jan 2011 | 215 points | Comments)

99. Electronic Frontier Foundation Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations
    (30 Jan 2011 | 213 points | Comments)

100. VLC for iOS Pulled from the App Store
     (8 Jan 2011 | 209 points | Comments)