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Top of Year 2012

1. Show HN: This up votes itself
   (23 Mar 2012 | 3531 points | Comments)

2. Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.
   (20 Jan 2012 | 2060 points | Comments)

3. $1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog
   (6 Mar 2012 | 1637 points | Comments)

4. Light Table - a new IDE concept
   (13 Apr 2012 | 1592 points | Comments)

5. Outlawed by Amazon DRM
   (22 Oct 2012 | 1445 points | Comments)

6. Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework
   (10 Apr 2012 | 1386 points | Comments)

7. "Lighten up"
   (21 Mar 2012 | 1371 points | Comments)

8. Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots
   (30 Jul 2012 | 1347 points | Comments)

9. Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool
   (13 Feb 2012 | 1319 points | Comments)

10. Farewell Stack Exchange
    (6 Feb 2012 | 1233 points | Comments)

11. Plagiarism
    (14 May 2012 | 1230 points | Comments)

12. DuckDuckGo is blowing up
    (29 Mar 2012 | 1221 points | Comments)

13. The Next Microsoft
    (3 Jul 2012 | 1183 points | Comments)

14. Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor
    (18 Jan 2012 | 1179 points | Comments)

15. I hereby resign
    (2 Apr 2012 | 1175 points | Comments)

16. Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
    (1 Mar 2012 | 1154 points | Comments)

17. Hunting Down My Son's Killer
    (29 May 2012 | 1139 points | Comments)

18. Google Fiber Plans & Pricing
    (26 Jul 2012 | 1139 points | Comments)

19. I love you, dad
    (13 Dec 2012 | 1104 points | Comments)

20. Bret Victor: Learnable Programming
    (26 Sep 2012 | 1080 points | Comments)

21. Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
    (6 Nov 2012 | 1072 points | Comments)

22. Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
    (16 Jul 2012 | 1056 points | Comments)

23. "That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends."
    (24 Apr 2012 | 1041 points | Comments)

24. How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting
    (19 Nov 2012 | 1034 points | Comments)

25. Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
    (10 Mar 2012 | 1032 points | Comments)

26. Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief
    (16 Jul 2012 | 1016 points | Comments)

27. 20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time
    (29 May 2012 | 989 points | Comments)

28. Thinking of Selling on eBay using Paypal? Think Again
    (3 Dec 2012 | 989 points | Comments)

29. PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique violin in dispute
    (3 Jan 2012 | 988 points | Comments)

30. Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today
    (25 Aug 2012 | 980 points | Comments)

31. Thinking the unthinkable
    (16 Dec 2012 | 963 points | Comments)

32. Hacking my Vagina
    (24 Nov 2012 | 952 points | Comments)

33. Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA
    (16 Jan 2012 | 951 points | Comments)

34. Why I Left Google
    (13 Mar 2012 | 947 points | Comments)

35. I am very real
    (30 Mar 2012 | 943 points | Comments)

36. This is how Visa works
    (17 Aug 2012 | 931 points | Comments)

37. Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive
    (18 Feb 2012 | 928 points | Comments)

38. Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA
    (10 Jan 2012 | 922 points | Comments)

39. How to Get Startup Ideas
    (19 Nov 2012 | 914 points | Comments)

40. Wind Map
    (28 Mar 2012 | 909 points | Comments)

41. Amazon Glacier
    (21 Aug 2012 | 906 points | Comments)

42. Mosh: SSH for 2012
    (9 Apr 2012 | 900 points | Comments)

43. Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
    (14 Mar 2012 | 896 points | Comments)

44. Codename: Obtvse
    (23 Mar 2012 | 889 points | Comments)

45. The Future of Markdown
    (25 Oct 2012 | 877 points | Comments)

46. It all began with a strange email
    (15 Jun 2012 | 874 points | Comments)

47. Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..
    (17 Aug 2012 | 871 points | Comments)

48. Why I'm a Pirate
    (18 Jan 2012 | 857 points | Comments)

49. Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split
    (27 Jan 2012 | 857 points | Comments)

50. Xkcd "Click and Drag" in a "map" interface
    (19 Sep 2012 | 844 points | Comments)

51. Facebook acquires Instagram
    (9 Apr 2012 | 837 points | Comments)

52. The Amazing iOS 6 Maps
    (20 Sep 2012 | 837 points | Comments)

53. Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers
    (7 Feb 2012 | 834 points | Comments)

54. This is a bit f'd, Quora
    (13 Aug 2012 | 827 points | Comments)

55. Google Maps for iOS
    (13 Dec 2012 | 827 points | Comments)

56. R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles
    (6 Jun 2012 | 821 points | Comments)

57. Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design
    (23 Nov 2012 | 821 points | Comments)

58. Sublime Text 2.0 Released
    (26 Jun 2012 | 813 points | Comments)

59. The Quiet Ones
    (18 Nov 2012 | 807 points | Comments)

60. 14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.
    (15 Feb 2012 | 797 points | Comments)

61. A VC-funded startup called WhosHere is trying to steal my social network
    (1 Jun 2012 | 787 points | Comments)

62. The Silencing of Maya
    (12 Jun 2012 | 785 points | Comments)

63. Textmate2 Goes Open Source
    (9 Aug 2012 | 780 points | Comments)

64. How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
    (25 Apr 2012 | 775 points | Comments)

65. Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter
    (1 Feb 2012 | 773 points | Comments)

66. The Worst
    (27 Nov 2012 | 770 points | Comments)

67. PHP: A fractal of bad design
    (10 Apr 2012 | 765 points | Comments)

68. Design Tip: Never Use Black
    (8 Aug 2012 | 761 points | Comments)

69. Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result
    (26 Jan 2012 | 754 points | Comments)

70. Google, what were you thinking?
    (13 Jan 2012 | 751 points | Comments)

71. How Not To Sort By Average Rating
    (3 Apr 2012 | 750 points | Comments)

72. The Five Stages of Hosting
    (30 Jan 2012 | 747 points | Comments)

73. Please don't learn to code
    (15 May 2012 | 746 points | Comments)

74. An Unexpected Ass Kicking
    (5 Aug 2012 | 746 points | Comments)

75. 100,000 stars
    (14 Nov 2012 | 746 points | Comments)

76. TSA Pressures Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story
    (8 Mar 2012 | 745 points | Comments)

77. Dear Mark Zuckerberg
    (1 Aug 2012 | 743 points | Comments)

78. RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love over three years
    (9 Nov 2012 | 739 points | Comments)

79. Oracle v. Google - Judge Alsup Rules APIs Not Protected By Copyright
    (31 May 2012 | 735 points | Comments)

80. The Fight
    (4 Nov 2012 | 734 points | Comments)

81. There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format.
    (5 Mar 2012 | 732 points | Comments)

82. Richard Stallman Was Right All Along
    (2 Jan 2012 | 731 points | Comments)

83. Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox
    (1 May 2012 | 723 points | Comments)

84. Verdict for Google in Oracle's patent infringement case
    (23 May 2012 | 723 points | Comments)

85. Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XOR with "RANDOM_STRING"
    (26 Nov 2012 | 720 points | Comments)

86. No New Accounts Today
    (18 Jan 2012 | 718 points | Comments)

87. Page Weight Matters
    (23 Dec 2012 | 717 points | Comments)

88. A Woman’s Story
    (29 Mar 2012 | 716 points | Comments)

89. Apple - Think Twice
    (3 Dec 2012 | 714 points | Comments)

90. Good riddance, PayPal
    (6 Sep 2012 | 713 points | Comments)

91. Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
    (6 Mar 2012 | 711 points | Comments)

92. Don’t Be Evil: How Google Screwed a Startup
    (5 Apr 2012 | 710 points | Comments)

93. You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
    (11 Dec 2012 | 710 points | Comments)

94. Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I'll shut up
    (21 Jan 2012 | 709 points | Comments)

95. You are committing a crime right now
    (21 Nov 2012 | 709 points | Comments)

96. Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011)
    (26 Dec 2012 | 708 points | Comments)

97. Black Swan Farming
    (9 Sep 2012 | 703 points | Comments)

98. Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours
    (3 Feb 2012 | 699 points | Comments)

99. There's no speed limit (2009)
    (27 Mar 2012 | 699 points | Comments)

100. Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy
     (19 Jan 2012 | 698 points | Comments)