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Top of Month - Nov 2012
  1. Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
    (6 Nov 2012 | 1072 points | Comments)

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

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

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

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

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

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

  8. 100,000 stars
    (14 Nov 2012 | 746 points | Comments)

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

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

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

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

  13. Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works
    (6 Nov 2012 | 676 points | Comments)

  14. Nate Silver correctly called 50 out of 50 states
    (7 Nov 2012 | 667 points | Comments)

  15. Skrillex Quest
    (30 Nov 2012 | 592 points | Comments)

  16. Ask HN: Help, HN'er in trouble, we need a laywer in Delhi immediately
    (4 Nov 2012 | 591 points | Comments)

  17. Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice
    (8 Nov 2012 | 583 points | Comments)

  18. How I made $500k with machine learning and high frequency trading
    (6 Nov 2012 | 551 points | Comments)

  19. Low-cost Solution to Clearing Afghan Landmines
    (20 Nov 2012 | 548 points | Comments)

  20. You can do it alone
    (17 Nov 2012 | 534 points | Comments)

  21. Dell releases powerful, well-supported Linux Ultrabook
    (29 Nov 2012 | 520 points | Comments)

  22. "I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting style"
    (6 Nov 2012 | 516 points | Comments)

  23. What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
    (16 Nov 2012 | 511 points | Comments)

  24. Ghost — rethinking WordPress
    (5 Nov 2012 | 502 points | Comments)

  25. Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars
    (2 Nov 2012 | 497 points | Comments)

  26. Tor exit node operator raided in Austria
    (29 Nov 2012 | 495 points | Comments)

  27. Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5
    (15 Nov 2012 | 492 points | Comments)

  28. Python Libraries you should know about
    (12 Nov 2012 | 483 points | Comments)

  29. Ask HN: Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?
    (22 Nov 2012 | 475 points | Comments)

  30. Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl
    (22 Nov 2012 | 472 points | Comments)

  31. Colorado measure legalizing marijuana passes
    (7 Nov 2012 | 461 points | Comments)

  32. Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
    (8 Nov 2012 | 461 points | Comments)

  33. 2013 Automobile of the Year: Tesla Model S
    (1 Nov 2012 | 447 points | Comments)

  34. Show HN: Non-Confusing, Visually Correct Slider Toggle UI
    (5 Nov 2012 | 441 points | Comments)

  35. Don't re-elect SOPA supporters on Tuesday
    (5 Nov 2012 | 435 points | Comments)

  36. How Syria Turned Off the Internet
    (29 Nov 2012 | 435 points | Comments)

  37. Alone Together, Again
    (12 Nov 2012 | 433 points | Comments)

  38. Algorithms [pdf]
    (14 Nov 2012 | 429 points | Comments)

  39. They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside
    (17 Nov 2012 | 427 points | Comments)

  40. The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
    (27 Nov 2012 | 426 points | Comments)

  41. Show HN: Instant Google Street View
    (16 Nov 2012 | 412 points | Comments)

  42. The amount of crap Windows users have to put up with is incredible
    (10 Nov 2012 | 408 points | Comments)

  43. Washington voters approve legalized marijuana
    (7 Nov 2012 | 404 points | Comments)

  44. The YC VC Program
    (26 Nov 2012 | 404 points | Comments)

  45. The Best
    (7 Nov 2012 | 403 points | Comments)

  46. Why aren't we all using Japanese toilets?
    (14 Nov 2012 | 402 points | Comments)

  47. Show HN: An IDE for poets
    (13 Nov 2012 | 398 points | Comments)

  48. Ratchet: Prototyping iPhone apps in simple HTML, CSS, and JS
    (5 Nov 2012 | 394 points | Comments)

  49. My IQ
    (4 Nov 2012 | 392 points | Comments)

  50. Show HN: I'm 14, I learned Objective-C, and this is my first iPhone game
    (2 Nov 2012 | 386 points | Comments)

  51. Apple's Module proposal to replace headers for C-based languages [pdf]
    (26 Nov 2012 | 385 points | Comments)

  52. CyanogenMod.com hijacked. Transition to CyanogenMod.org
    (14 Nov 2012 | 381 points | Comments)

  53. Entrepreneurshit
    (18 Nov 2012 | 381 points | Comments)

  54. Thank You HN: From 30 people whose lives you saved
    (21 Nov 2012 | 372 points | Comments)

  55. List of Twitter Bootstrap Resources
    (28 Nov 2012 | 372 points | Comments)

  56. Why it is Awesome to be a Girl in Tech
    (2 Nov 2012 | 369 points | Comments)

  57. 512 Paths to the White House
    (3 Nov 2012 | 365 points | Comments)

  58. Meet the new Light Table
    (6 Nov 2012 | 362 points | Comments)

  59. Skype vulnerability allowing hijacking of an account if you know just the email
    (14 Nov 2012 | 362 points | Comments)

  60. A Better Twitter Bootstrap Modal
    (21 Nov 2012 | 358 points | Comments)

  61. Steven Sinofsky to Leave Microsoft
    (13 Nov 2012 | 357 points | Comments)

  62. Richard Stallman: Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents
    (1 Nov 2012 | 355 points | Comments)

  63. MongoDB Gotchas and How To Avoid Them
    (5 Nov 2012 | 353 points | Comments)

  64. Raymond Chen patches MS Money executable to fix bug
    (14 Nov 2012 | 347 points | Comments)

  65. How to set up a safe and secure Web server
    (28 Nov 2012 | 345 points | Comments)

  66. I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Ecosystem
    (23 Nov 2012 | 344 points | Comments)

  67. Thank HN: Our friend is Safe and Sound
    (18 Nov 2012 | 341 points | Comments)

  68. Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users
    (19 Nov 2012 | 340 points | Comments)

  69. Uses for cURL
    (9 Nov 2012 | 339 points | Comments)

  70. The definitive guide to forms based website authentication
    (7 Nov 2012 | 338 points | Comments)

  71. Meet the Obama campaign's $250 million fundraising platform
    (28 Nov 2012 | 335 points | Comments)

  72. Redis crashes - a small rant about software reliability
    (27 Nov 2012 | 332 points | Comments)

  73. US patent chief to software patent critics: "Give it a rest already"
    (20 Nov 2012 | 330 points | Comments)

  74. Engineers suck at finding the right jobs
    (15 Nov 2012 | 329 points | Comments)

  75. Free VMs of Windows to test older versions of IE
    (15 Nov 2012 | 328 points | Comments)

  76. Not one Microsoft product on Kaspersky’s top 10 vulnerabilities list
    (2 Nov 2012 | 326 points | Comments)

  77. Animated Factorisation Diagrams
    (15 Nov 2012 | 325 points | Comments)

  78. InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonPainter
    (11 Nov 2012 | 323 points | Comments)

  79. The last day
    (20 Nov 2012 | 320 points | Comments)

  80. Why Coke Cost A Nickel For 70 Years
    (15 Nov 2012 | 319 points | Comments)

  81. Facebook Pages: Why I don’t like Nest thermostat or anything else anymore
    (15 Nov 2012 | 318 points | Comments)

  82. Linus Torvalds: Is Engadget really that stupid? Just corrupt? Trolling us all?
    (4 Nov 2012 | 316 points | Comments)

  83. Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For All Developers
    (12 Nov 2012 | 316 points | Comments)

  84. Staples Announces In-Store 3D Printing Service
    (29 Nov 2012 | 315 points | Comments)

  85. Twitter is Pivoting
    (16 Nov 2012 | 313 points | Comments)

  86. Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker
    (22 Nov 2012 | 311 points | Comments)

  87. Show HN: Responsive Email Templates
    (30 Nov 2012 | 310 points | Comments)

  88. "Why don't you sell Triple Town for 99 cents and make tons of money?"
    (15 Nov 2012 | 309 points | Comments)

  89. Prototyping iPhone apps on paper with POP
    (15 Nov 2012 | 309 points | Comments)

  90. Apple told to rewrite "Samsung didn't copy", post on front page until Dec 14th
    (1 Nov 2012 | 308 points | Comments)

  91. Bring Back the 40-hour work week (March 2012)
    (13 Nov 2012 | 304 points | Comments)

  92. Leaving Microsoft
    (22 Nov 2012 | 304 points | Comments)

  93. JPL director: Curiosity may have found organic, not biological molecules
    (28 Nov 2012 | 302 points | Comments)

  94. Syrian Internet Is Off The Air
    (29 Nov 2012 | 301 points | Comments)

  95. Alertify.js
    (28 Nov 2012 | 300 points | Comments)

  96. Sergey Brin Calls On Politicians To Abandon Political Parties
    (6 Nov 2012 | 299 points | Comments)

  97. I’m writing my own OS
    (26 Nov 2012 | 299 points | Comments)

  98. Stolen Money on Gittip, Part 1
    (5 Nov 2012 | 296 points | Comments)

  99. Google acquires BufferBox (YC S12)
    (30 Nov 2012 | 295 points | Comments)

  100. Fine, eBay. Here’s your $2. I hope you choke on it.
    (1 Nov 2012 | 292 points | Comments)