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Top of Month - Dec 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. The Gift
   (17 Dec 2012 | 669 points | Comments)

10. Notch trying jsFiddle
    (2 Dec 2012 | 659 points | Comments)

11. Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)
    (26 Dec 2012 | 650 points | Comments)

12. Great HN parody
    (6 Dec 2012 | 642 points | Comments)

13. The Web We Lost
    (13 Dec 2012 | 636 points | Comments)

14. Google Apps stops accepting free sign-ups
    (7 Dec 2012 | 626 points | Comments)

15. Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum
    (7 Dec 2012 | 586 points | Comments)

16. How would I get started?
    (9 Dec 2012 | 561 points | Comments)

17. Lego Finds Discontinued Set For Boy Who Saved Up For 2 Years
    (4 Dec 2012 | 557 points | Comments)

18. Cards Against Humanity: Results of "pay what you want"
    (17 Dec 2012 | 549 points | Comments)

19. Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)
    (19 Dec 2012 | 549 points | Comments)

20. How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795
    (24 Dec 2012 | 542 points | Comments)

21. A Pickpocket's Tale
    (31 Dec 2012 | 528 points | Comments)

22. Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek
    (20 Dec 2012 | 525 points | Comments)

23. How to Make Your Site Look Half-Decent in Half an Hour
    (16 Dec 2012 | 514 points | Comments)

24. Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos
    (18 Dec 2012 | 502 points | Comments)

25. Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email
    (25 Dec 2012 | 501 points | Comments)

26. The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
    (14 Dec 2012 | 486 points | Comments)

27. The Basement
    (20 Dec 2012 | 486 points | Comments)

28. If you’re trying to hack/deface a website, don’t submit a pull request
    (12 Dec 2012 | 484 points | Comments)

29. Two-for-one: Amazon.com’s Socially Engineered Replacement Order Scam
    (18 Dec 2012 | 478 points | Comments)

30. What one book could give me a new, useful superpower?
    (28 Dec 2012 | 475 points | Comments)

31. What does randomness look like?
    (21 Dec 2012 | 474 points | Comments)

32. Expedia: Bad for the Traveler, Bad for the Hotel
    (25 Dec 2012 | 467 points | Comments)

33. Why First Round Capital funded a lawsuit
    (5 Dec 2012 | 449 points | Comments)

34. Apple will invest $100 million to bring Mac production back to the US next year
    (6 Dec 2012 | 448 points | Comments)

35. Stop Generalizing About Europe
    (27 Dec 2012 | 441 points | Comments)

36. The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death (1997)
    (28 Dec 2012 | 437 points | Comments)

37. Google Maps becomes the App Store’s most popular free app in 7 hours
    (13 Dec 2012 | 434 points | Comments)

38. Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk
    (14 Dec 2012 | 418 points | Comments)

39. One Year After Quitting My Job
    (29 Dec 2012 | 407 points | Comments)

40. GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
    (22 Dec 2012 | 399 points | Comments)

41. Search, Mad Men style: A complete IBM 362 Google interface in the browser
    (10 Dec 2012 | 395 points | Comments)

42. Try R — A new online course, for free
    (5 Dec 2012 | 391 points | Comments)

43. How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account
    (18 Dec 2012 | 389 points | Comments)

44. Requests, Python HTTP for Humans, reached v1.0
    (17 Dec 2012 | 386 points | Comments)

45. 'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistleblower
    (5 Dec 2012 | 378 points | Comments)

46. Facebook's legal team bans developer of F.B. Purity from Facebook
    (19 Dec 2012 | 375 points | Comments)

47. An FBI Hostage Negotiator Buys A Car [audio]
    (30 Dec 2012 | 373 points | Comments)

48. JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only
    (20 Dec 2012 | 367 points | Comments)

49. What happens when you are the doctor on the airplane?
    (27 Dec 2012 | 363 points | Comments)

50. Police concerned with Apple iOS 6 mapping system
    (10 Dec 2012 | 361 points | Comments)

51. Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012
    (25 Dec 2012 | 359 points | Comments)

52. Julian Assange: Cryptographic Call to Arms
    (2 Dec 2012 | 355 points | Comments)

53. Building my Own Laptop
    (15 Dec 2012 | 354 points | Comments)

54. Tesla Was Cash Flow Positive Last Week, CEO Musk Says
    (5 Dec 2012 | 353 points | Comments)

55. When I first heard the name "Safari"
    (20 Dec 2012 | 350 points | Comments)

56. Welcome Guido
    (7 Dec 2012 | 347 points | Comments)

57. Thorium
    (12 Dec 2012 | 345 points | Comments)

58. Something really scary is going on in Germany
    (6 Dec 2012 | 338 points | Comments)

59. I Don't Understand
    (16 Dec 2012 | 336 points | Comments)

60. You can now create files on GitHub
    (5 Dec 2012 | 335 points | Comments)

61. IPython gets $1.15M funding
    (12 Dec 2012 | 335 points | Comments)

62. Instagram's official response
    (18 Dec 2012 | 334 points | Comments)

63. xkcd: Instagram
    (21 Dec 2012 | 332 points | Comments)

64. "Office Space" creator Mike Judge shooting new HBO parody of Silicon Valley
    (8 Dec 2012 | 329 points | Comments)

65. DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator
    (6 Dec 2012 | 326 points | Comments)

66. Show HN: Analytics.js – The analytics API you've always wanted
    (12 Dec 2012 | 326 points | Comments)

67. Why I Love Being A Programmer in Louisville
    (17 Dec 2012 | 326 points | Comments)

68. Ole Roemer and the Speed of Light
    (14 Dec 2012 | 322 points | Comments)

69. Want to learn to code? Don't copy and paste, type out other people's code
    (14 Dec 2012 | 322 points | Comments)

70. I don't want to download your app
    (30 Dec 2012 | 316 points | Comments)

71. Pokemon Yellow hack recodes the game from within
    (8 Dec 2012 | 315 points | Comments)

72. Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using HTML5
    (17 Dec 2012 | 313 points | Comments)

73. Ray Kurzweil joins Google
    (14 Dec 2012 | 312 points | Comments)

74. YC W13 Will Be Smaller
    (2 Dec 2012 | 311 points | Comments)

75. MIT discovers a new state of matter, a new kind of magnetism
    (20 Dec 2012 | 309 points | Comments)

76. Gmail.com was down
    (10 Dec 2012 | 307 points | Comments)

77. You Are Naturally Short Housing
    (11 Dec 2012 | 307 points | Comments)

78. 23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M genotyped customers
    (11 Dec 2012 | 305 points | Comments)

79. Fixing the computer guy posture [pdf]
    (31 Dec 2012 | 300 points | Comments)

80. Interactive Guide to Blog Typography
    (19 Dec 2012 | 299 points | Comments)

81. Show HN: Scratchpad.io - a real-time HTML and CSS editor
    (17 Dec 2012 | 298 points | Comments)

82. PlainSite Exposes 2,000 Intellectual Ventures Shell Companies
    (20 Dec 2012 | 298 points | Comments)

83. Doing Game Gravity Right
    (17 Dec 2012 | 296 points | Comments)

84. Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment
    (20 Dec 2012 | 296 points | Comments)

85. Ask HN: What unknown technical blogs or sites do you read?
    (16 Dec 2012 | 294 points | Comments)

86. Tenth Grade Tech Trends
    (29 Dec 2012 | 294 points | Comments)

87. Staffer axed by Republican group over retracted copyright reform memo
    (6 Dec 2012 | 293 points | Comments)

88. The Mathematical Hacker
    (13 Dec 2012 | 293 points | Comments)

89. Any page loaded in IE can track your mouse movements anywhere
    (12 Dec 2012 | 292 points | Comments)

90. Don't read TechCrunch
    (3 Dec 2012 | 291 points | Comments)

91. Dave Brubeck, Who Helped Put Jazz Back in Vogue, Dies at 91
    (5 Dec 2012 | 291 points | Comments)

92. Everything is my fault
    (9 Dec 2012 | 291 points | Comments)

93. Wil Wheaton on Instagram's new ad policy
    (18 Dec 2012 | 288 points | Comments)

94. Welcome to a New Gist
    (11 Dec 2012 | 287 points | Comments)

95. Massive New Surveillance Program Uncovered by Wall Street Journal
    (16 Dec 2012 | 283 points | Comments)

96. Lorem Pixel
    (11 Dec 2012 | 282 points | Comments)

97. I am depressed and I need someone to talk to
    (16 Dec 2012 | 281 points | Comments)

98. Why 256 bit keys are large enough
    (17 Dec 2012 | 281 points | Comments)

99. Show HN: Interactive SICP
    (2 Dec 2012 | 280 points | Comments)

100. What You Really Need Is A Market, Not An Idea
     (16 Dec 2012 | 280 points | Comments)