Discussions read in 2011

403 Hacker News discussions posted in 2011 that the Atlas has read in full and summarised, each naming the model and the comments it saw.

All years

• The lost Van Jacobson paper that could save the Internet · 280 points · 48 comments · 30 Dec
• Ron Paul speaks against SOPA · 288 points · 304 comments · 30 Dec
• Bullshit · 651 points · 225 comments · 29 Dec
• Namecheap to Donate $1 to EFF for Every Domain Transfer on December 29th · 568 points · 94 comments · 27 Dec
• Avenger controller company pisses off gaming community with bad customer support · 271 points · 90 comments · 27 Dec
• GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA · 705 points · 38 comments · 26 Dec
• Time to end the war on drugs · 905 points · 208 comments · 26 Dec
• Why (and how) we've switched away from Google Maps · 277 points · 98 comments · 26 Dec
• Death to .DS_Store · 287 points · 122 comments · 25 Dec
• We and Mozilla are working together to make the web awesome · 278 points · 85 comments · 24 Dec
• GoDaddy has not withdrawn its official congressional support for SOPA · 825 points · 59 comments · 24 Dec
• While we are focusing on SOPA, we are being distracted from the Protect IP Act · 277 points · 47 comments · 24 Dec
• Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA · 645 points · 226 comments · 23 Dec
• StackOverflow also planning to switch from GoDaddy due to SOPA concerns. · 598 points · 78 comments · 23 Dec
• Official list of SOPA supporters · 292 points · 30 comments · 22 Dec
• Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day · 1742 points · 272 comments · 22 Dec
• A Step By Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy · 1086 points · 103 comments · 22 Dec
• GoDaddy's SOPA Support Sparks Calls for Boycotts and Domain Transfers · 631 points · 45 comments · 22 Dec
• GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes "Move your Domain Day" · 1121 points · 244 comments · 22 Dec
• Backbone.js Fundamentals · 287 points · 39 comments · 22 Dec
• Dropping a Magnet Through a Copper Pipe · 569 points · 106 comments · 20 Dec
• ISO C is increasingly moronic · 283 points · 167 comments · 20 Dec
• Show HN: I Created the Inverse of Angry Birds · 625 points · 123 comments · 20 Dec
• The Secret History of Kim Jung Il -- written by one of his high school teachers · 631 points · 154 comments · 20 Dec
• An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry · 705 points · 145 comments · 19 Dec
• Dear Internet: It's no Longer OK Not to Know How Congress Works · 681 points · 157 comments · 19 Dec
• SOPA Hearings Delayed, 140,000 Americans watched the hearings · 269 points · 57 comments · 16 Dec
• In case SOPA passes: IP addresses of popular websites · 270 points · 133 comments · 16 Dec
• In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011 · 669 points · 220 comments · 16 Dec
• Design is Horseshit · 283 points · 141 comments · 16 Dec
• An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress · 276 points · 44 comments · 16 Dec
• The nightmarish SOPA hearings · 592 points · 166 comments · 15 Dec
• Microsoft decides to automatically update Internet Explorer for everyone · 626 points · 171 comments · 15 Dec
• Louis C.K. experiment results: over $500,000 in 4 days · 868 points · 279 comments · 14 Dec
• From zero to Go: launching on the Google homepage in 24 hours · 274 points · 73 comments · 14 Dec
• A Case Against Using CoffeeScript · 286 points · 141 comments · 13 Dec
• Suicide · 880 points · 275 comments · 13 Dec
• Why apps are not the future · 269 points · 131 comments · 13 Dec
• Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence of vote fraud · 291 points · 57 comments · 12 Dec
• Louis CK self-produces, self-publishes content on his webpage · 592 points · 160 comments · 10 Dec
• HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source · 751 points · 194 comments · 09 Dec
• We've invented waterfall · 285 points · 168 comments · 09 Dec
• Feds Mistakenly Shut Down Popular Blog For Over A Year · 560 points · 121 comments · 08 Dec
• What really happened aboard Air France 447 · 858 points · 365 comments · 08 Dec
• Mint.com turns 404 ad page into date ad for developer · 672 points · 149 comments · 07 Dec
• Don't Be A Free User · 793 points · 170 comments · 06 Dec
• Instant CSS, JS, HTML or DOM documentation · 287 points · 48 comments · 06 Dec
• More Paypal nonsense · 870 points · 246 comments · 06 Dec
• The Rise of Developeronomics · 282 points · 118 comments · 06 Dec
• Fuck passwords · 655 points · 240 comments · 05 Dec
• How Doctors Die · 663 points · 177 comments · 05 Dec
• [Django] Python 3 port - all tests now pass on 2.7.2 and 3.2.2 · 282 points · 53 comments · 02 Dec
• Ask HN: How many of you built a profitable startup while having a day job? · 287 points · 188 comments · 02 Dec
• Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (December 2011) · 290 points · 251 comments · 01 Dec
• Ivo – a reimagined Unix terminal system · 284 points · 151 comments · 01 Dec
• Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance. · 652 points · 234 comments · 30 Nov
• Secret app on millions of phones logs key taps · 700 points · 189 comments · 30 Nov
• I regularly hire women for 65% to 75% of what males make · 601 points · 277 comments · 29 Nov
• Watch a VC use my name to sell a con · 2376 points · 292 comments · 29 Nov
• I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this · 820 points · 141 comments · 28 Nov
• Equations True Computer Science Geeks Should (at Least Pretend to) Know · 288 points · 96 comments · 28 Nov
• Design for Developers · 270 points · 39 comments · 27 Nov
• Man-made super flu could kill half of humanity · 272 points · 148 comments · 26 Nov
• Twine: Listen to your world, talk to the Internet · 276 points · 42 comments · 25 Nov
• For Thanksgiving, give your parents a treat: upgrade their browser · 275 points · 105 comments · 24 Nov
• "Invisible Electrostatic Wall" at 3M adhesive tape plant (1996) · 271 points · 46 comments · 24 Nov
• Please let this not be the future of reading on the web · 274 points · 119 comments · 23 Nov
• Doom 3 source released · 630 points · 101 comments · 22 Nov
• Forth Inventor Chuck Moore's $20 144 core CPU now in full production · 271 points · 93 comments · 22 Nov
• Traveling, Writing and Programming · 284 points · 116 comments · 22 Nov
• Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. · 276 points · 89 comments · 21 Nov
• Progress against SOPA · 279 points · 61 comments · 21 Nov
• How automatic transmission almost made sperm whales extinct · 269 points · 96 comments · 21 Nov
• The Sugru story · 644 points · 86 comments · 21 Nov
• 90% Good parts of jQuery - at only 13% of the size · 280 points · 94 comments · 19 Nov
• Show HN: When is good time to submit a story on HN? · 269 points · 46 comments · 18 Nov
• Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT · 687 points · 111 comments · 16 Nov
• Mozilla urges its users to raise their voice against SOPA · 699 points · 41 comments · 16 Nov
• A shuffled deck of cards is unique in all human history · 272 points · 66 comments · 16 Nov
• Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter · 594 points · 93 comments · 15 Nov
• Spark · 568 points · 95 comments · 15 Nov
• Stop SOPA, save the Internet · 883 points · 131 comments · 14 Nov
• Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21 · 764 points · 230 comments · 13 Nov
• How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime · 270 points · 102 comments · 12 Nov
• In defense of the Google chef · 994 points · 188 comments · 11 Nov
• Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired · 1120 points · 370 comments · 10 Nov
• Watch Me Make Mistakes · 603 points · 116 comments · 09 Nov
• Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5 · 597 points · 154 comments · 09 Nov
• A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design · 830 points · 150 comments · 08 Nov
• Nimbus.io: Open-source alternative to Amazon S3 · 271 points · 94 comments · 08 Nov
• Take a short break in a quiet place · 286 points · 77 comments · 08 Nov
• Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse · 589 points · 175 comments · 07 Nov
• Don't use MongoDB · 706 points · 293 comments · 06 Nov
• Online graduate-level machine learning course from CMU's Tom Mitchell · 273 points · 31 comments · 05 Nov
• About Userlook · 289 points · 69 comments · 03 Nov
• I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode · 634 points · 338 comments · 02 Nov
• Introducing GitHub Enterprise · 284 points · 101 comments · 01 Nov
• A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs · 1736 points · 121 comments · 30 Oct
• Don't Call Yourself a Programmer · 1021 points · 267 comments · 29 Oct
• My dad taught me cashflow with a soda machine · 1060 points · 101 comments · 28 Oct
• RSS Rant · 278 points · 101 comments · 27 Oct
• How I've Made $200k in the iOS Education Market · 291 points · 70 comments · 26 Oct
• Valve: Piracy Is More About Convenience Than Price · 277 points · 131 comments · 25 Oct
• John McCarthy Has Died · 1619 points · 218 comments · 24 Oct
• Amit Gupta needs you · 886 points · 143 comments · 24 Oct
• 2D Game Art for Programmers · 282 points · 38 comments · 20 Oct
• Google AI Challenge 2011 · 275 points · 68 comments · 19 Oct
• We now have an effective vaccine for Malaria · 622 points · 138 comments · 19 Oct
• Programming Language Development: The Past 5 Years · 284 points · 53 comments · 19 Oct
• 24 year old student lights match: Europe versus Facebook · 579 points · 214 comments · 18 Oct
• So you think you know C: the Ksplice Pointer Challenge · 285 points · 99 comments · 18 Oct
• Video: Quantum Levitation · 572 points · 95 comments · 18 Oct
• Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily? · 716 points · 116 comments · 17 Oct
• Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal · 285 points · 86 comments · 17 Oct
• There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe · 276 points · 63 comments · 16 Oct
• Who killed videogames? · 281 points · 119 comments · 15 Oct
• It takes three years to build a business · 291 points · 72 comments · 14 Oct
• IOS 5's "Cleaning" Behavior · 568 points · 195 comments · 13 Oct
• Lights · 567 points · 91 comments · 13 Oct
• Forced Exercise's Effects on the Brain · 278 points · 57 comments · 13 Oct
• RIP, dmr · 565 points · 21 comments · 13 Oct
• Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died · 1958 points · 196 comments · 13 Oct
• I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea. · 745 points · 325 comments · 12 Oct
• Steve's Google Platform rant · 1196 points · 393 comments · 12 Oct
• Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction · 733 points · 72 comments · 11 Oct
• Photoshop 'unblur' leaves MAX audience gasping for air · 564 points · 123 comments · 11 Oct
• "Hello World" in Dart, compiled to JavaScript · 272 points · 148 comments · 11 Oct
• Panic of the Plutocrats · 275 points · 129 comments · 10 Oct
• Subtle Patterns: Free textures for your next web project · 801 points · 64 comments · 10 Oct
• "He offered the Apple II to Atari... we said no. No thank you." · 269 points · 55 comments · 08 Oct
• A man died yesterday. He had a huge impact on our lives. Fred Shuttlesworth. · 270 points · 16 comments · 06 Oct
• Daring Fireball: Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot · 749 points · 135 comments · 06 Oct
• Apple RIP Logo design · 812 points · 45 comments · 06 Oct
• The Steve Jobs I Knew · 571 points · 11 comments · 06 Oct
• Steve Jobs At Home In 1982 · 292 points · 21 comments · 06 Oct
• Steve Jobs has passed away. · 4338 points · 363 comments · 05 Oct
• Steve Jobs has died · 901 points · 69 comments · 05 Oct
• Why Startup Hubs Work · 274 points · 90 comments · 05 Oct
• Wikipedia shuts down Italian site because of Berlusconi's "Wiretapping Act" · 271 points · 59 comments · 04 Oct
• Bitbucket now rocks Git · 726 points · 173 comments · 03 Oct
• An open letter to Stripe: please come to Europe · 292 points · 94 comments · 03 Oct
• Stripe: instant payment processing for developers · 1249 points · 348 comments · 29 Sep
• Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] is the new IE6 · 274 points · 87 comments · 27 Sep
• A better introduction to Objective-C · 274 points · 46 comments · 27 Sep
• Show HN: Write a sort, watch it go · 292 points · 80 comments · 26 Sep
• This is what happens when one guy practices art every day for nine years · 664 points · 99 comments · 23 Sep
• I was once a Facebook fool · 1390 points · 163 comments · 23 Sep
• Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC · 938 points · 239 comments · 22 Sep
• Bring a stick man to life. · 862 points · 64 comments · 22 Sep
• Windows 8 OEM specs may block Linux booting · 275 points · 139 comments · 21 Sep
• Help, I’m on the IRS hit list · 284 points · 219 comments · 20 Sep
• Why 80 Percent of Web Projects Are Total Bullshit: A Freelancer’s Rant · 280 points · 123 comments · 19 Sep
• SSL broken. (TLS 1.0 cryptographic attack that works. Not just fake certs.) · 281 points · 84 comments · 19 Sep
• Cracking OSX Lion passwords · 281 points · 79 comments · 18 Sep
• The Document Which Was Formerly Called The MIT Guide to Lockpicking · 275 points · 53 comments · 17 Sep
• Sony to ban gamers from PSN unless they waive right sue over security breaches. · 288 points · 102 comments · 16 Sep
• Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together · 595 points · 269 comments · 13 Sep
• PostgreSQL 9.1 released · 284 points · 45 comments · 12 Sep
• Fucking Sue Me · 695 points · 148 comments · 11 Sep
• Introducing a new data structure, streams, in Javascript · 273 points · 82 comments · 11 Sep
• ~/.osx — a collection of sensible defaults for OS X Lion · 291 points · 87 comments · 08 Sep
• Ask HN: How do you promote your web apps? · 292 points · 77 comments · 08 Sep
• If this then that · 673 points · 149 comments · 07 Sep
• Git Is Simpler Than You Think · 609 points · 118 comments · 07 Sep
• Realistic Skin Rendering in WebGL · 270 points · 54 comments · 07 Sep
• Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Interim CEO · 291 points · 144 comments · 06 Sep
• We open-sourced 90 node.js modules at Browserling · 277 points · 32 comments · 05 Sep
• Game theory article from a professional Starcraft player/caster. · 269 points · 82 comments · 05 Sep
• Linux is now hosted on GitHub · 568 points · 93 comments · 05 Sep
• The Patent Pledge · 618 points · 194 comments · 31 Aug
• 87% of the U.S. Population are uniquely identified by {DOB, gender, zip} · 281 points · 95 comments · 30 Aug
• Microsoft UI has officially entered the realm of self-parody · 742 points · 326 comments · 29 Aug
• Applications Open for Winter 2012 YC Funding · 279 points · 119 comments · 29 Aug
• Learn Vim Progressively · 605 points · 113 comments · 29 Aug
• H-P's One-Year Plan · 279 points · 88 comments · 29 Aug
• Show HN: Like Button for Hacker News · 568 points · 65 comments · 28 Aug
• Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine · 291 points · 141 comments · 28 Aug
• iPhone vs Android app sales: numbers from an indie developer · 292 points · 91 comments · 26 Aug
• New gaming laptop with innovative UI by Razer · 292 points · 180 comments · 26 Aug
• How we found the file that was used to Hack RSA · 277 points · 78 comments · 26 Aug
• Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · 784 points · 143 comments · 25 Aug
• Icon Ambulance · 622 points · 87 comments · 25 Aug
• Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Official Letter) · 641 points · 65 comments · 24 Aug
• Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple · 1667 points · 305 comments · 24 Aug
• Facebook Partners with Stack Overflow · 278 points · 50 comments · 24 Aug
• When Not To Quit: Man Revived After 96 Minutes · 276 points · 61 comments · 24 Aug
• Mac OS X Lion accepts any password when authenticating via LDAP · 279 points · 82 comments · 24 Aug
• If Software Is Eating The World, Why Don't Coders Get Any Respect? · 618 points · 265 comments · 24 Aug
• Samsung cites Kubrick's "2001" as Prior Art in Patent Case Against Apple · 283 points · 110 comments · 23 Aug
• Your Code is My Hell · 287 points · 79 comments · 22 Aug
• Do all first links on Wikipedia lead to philosophy? · 289 points · 48 comments · 21 Aug
• Solar-panel "trees" really are inferior · 650 points · 98 comments · 20 Aug
• Twitter Bootstrap · 1047 points · 108 comments · 19 Aug
• 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence · 649 points · 142 comments · 19 Aug
• Show HN: Codecademy.com, the easiest way to learn to code · 787 points · 232 comments · 18 Aug
• Who Does Facebook Think You Are Searching For? · 269 points · 108 comments · 18 Aug
• How Browsers Work · 633 points · 36 comments · 17 Aug
• Joyent Open Sources SmartOS: Zones, ZFS, DTrace and KVM · 279 points · 82 comments · 15 Aug
• Google to acquire Motorola · 274 points · 10 comments · 15 Aug
• Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion · 1214 points · 369 comments · 15 Aug
• Dear procrastinator · 560 points · 139 comments · 15 Aug
• Warren Buffett: Stop coddling the super rich · 605 points · 336 comments · 15 Aug
• Ask HN: How can I do something meaningful? · 278 points · 152 comments · 14 Aug
• Why you don't steal from a hacker. · 272 points · 152 comments · 12 Aug
• 2011 Startup School · 282 points · 82 comments · 11 Aug
• New leukemia treatment "exceeded our wildest expectations" · 289 points · 106 comments · 11 Aug
• Detroit in Ruins · 269 points · 165 comments · 10 Aug
• Jonathan's Card · 726 points · 219 comments · 07 Aug
• United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P · 769 points · 497 comments · 06 Aug
• We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future · 275 points · 263 comments · 05 Aug
• Hacker puts a video cam on an RC truck and saves the lives of 6 soldiers · 272 points · 96 comments · 05 Aug
• “Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power · 272 points · 187 comments · 04 Aug
• SICP is Under Attack · 570 points · 196 comments · 03 Aug
• That truck driver you flipped off? Let me tell you his story. · 616 points · 286 comments · 03 Aug
• An iOS Developer Takes on Android · 720 points · 116 comments · 01 Aug
• Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011) · 282 points · 306 comments · 01 Aug
• Why my Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone · 291 points · 196 comments · 29 Jul
• Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight · 1017 points · 482 comments · 29 Jul
• Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’ · 279 points · 234 comments · 28 Jul
• Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned · 952 points · 380 comments · 27 Jul
• What happened to all the female developers? · 279 points · 272 comments · 26 Jul
• What everyone should know about the human eye · 274 points · 47 comments · 22 Jul
• Chosen: A javascript plug-in that makes long select boxes user-friendly. · 923 points · 76 comments · 22 Jul
• 33GB of public domain JSTOR articles, and a manifesto · 840 points · 179 comments · 21 Jul
• Google Labs Winding Down · 283 points · 73 comments · 20 Jul
• OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store · 271 points · 272 comments · 20 Jul
• Fake apple stores · 291 points · 56 comments · 20 Jul
• Aaronsw indicted for hacking MIT network to download millions of JSTOR docs · 603 points · 313 comments · 19 Jul
• Google+ for iOS is out · 275 points · 113 comments · 19 Jul
• You are not running out of time · 696 points · 125 comments · 18 Jul
• Why I will never pursue cheating again · 691 points · 482 comments · 17 Jul
• Skeleton: A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development · 271 points · 32 comments · 17 Jul
• Comcast cuts off customer for going over 250GB of legitimate use · 274 points · 279 comments · 13 Jul
• Nginx doesn't suck at SSL after all · 288 points · 107 comments · 13 Jul
• A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects · 821 points · 103 comments · 13 Jul
• Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku · 578 points · 75 comments · 12 Jul
• Bored People Quit · 840 points · 151 comments · 12 Jul
• Unannounced Facebook feature uncovered · 289 points · 53 comments · 07 Jul
• Google made my son cry · 583 points · 265 comments · 04 Jul
• Robert Morris, Pioneer in Computer Security, Dies at 78 · 588 points · 45 comments · 30 Jun
• AWS drops bandwidth pricing · 271 points · 93 comments · 30 Jun
• Google+ Demo · 279 points · 76 comments · 28 Jun
• Google+ Project: It’s Social, It’s Bold, It’s Fun, And It Looks Good · 291 points · 78 comments · 28 Jun
• How to take advantage of Redis just adding it to your stack · 270 points · 53 comments · 28 Jun
• The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid · 581 points · 250 comments · 23 Jun
• Kind of Screwed · 611 points · 237 comments · 23 Jun
• GitHub for Mac · 680 points · 206 comments · 22 Jun
• I'm the guy who bought 259684 Bitcoins for under $3000 yesterday · 664 points · 312 comments · 20 Jun
• New security issue at Dropbox · 270 points · 109 comments · 20 Jun
• 500k Bitcoins traded in 1h, Mt.Gox market hacked + crash · 276 points · 245 comments · 19 Jun
• Y Combinator's Graham Says Startups Must Improve Lives · 272 points · 80 comments · 17 Jun
• Advice From An Old Programmer · 649 points · 220 comments · 16 Jun
• Ooops. · 1123 points · 238 comments · 16 Jun
• ORM is an anti-pattern · 286 points · 191 comments · 15 Jun
• Tell HN: Our experience with Groupon · 562 points · 105 comments · 14 Jun
• ResizeMyBrowser · 291 points · 54 comments · 14 Jun
• Duke Nukem Forever: barely playable, not funny, rampantly offensive · 285 points · 74 comments · 14 Jun
• ASCII diagram creator · 269 points · 39 comments · 14 Jun
• Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a smelter first. · 278 points · 132 comments · 12 Jun
• The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop · 270 points · 310 comments · 11 Jun
• My Email Canary · 581 points · 118 comments · 09 Jun
• Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday · 281 points · 104 comments · 09 Jun
• Git Tutorials for Beginners · 286 points · 28 comments · 08 Jun
• Enough Is Enough · 1032 points · 185 comments · 01 Jun
• This Guy Has My MacBook · 741 points · 411 comments · 31 May
• How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company · 654 points · 186 comments · 31 May
• The Revolutionary Birth Control Method for Men · 280 points · 157 comments · 31 May
• Zed Shaw: Github's Favorite Joke · 286 points · 136 comments · 31 May
• Pixar: Getting over embarrassment · 273 points · 26 comments · 30 May
• Office Hours With Paul Graham At TC Disrupt · 278 points · 109 comments · 25 May
• C++ at Google: Here Be Dragons · 271 points · 88 comments · 23 May
• Full text: Apple Legal's letter to Lodsys · 270 points · 91 comments · 23 May
• Do not let your domain expire with Google Apps · 281 points · 63 comments · 18 May
• TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement · 1056 points · 200 comments · 18 May
• Being Frugal Makes You A Loser · 269 points · 206 comments · 18 May
• Intuitive explication of Fourier Transformation · 280 points · 33 comments · 17 May
• Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. · 1820 points · 239 comments · 17 May
• Everyone sucks at interviewing. Everyone. · 292 points · 125 comments · 16 May
• Creator of "Dirty Jobs" Mike Rowe testifies to Congress · 667 points · 207 comments · 13 May
• Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google · 779 points · 142 comments · 12 May
• Apple's 30% vig for ebooks just killed the iFlow Reader app · 281 points · 160 comments · 11 May
• Google Code University · 292 points · 39 comments · 10 May
• Joe Hewitt : I'm an indie developer now. · 284 points · 54 comments · 07 May
• Getting Users For Your New Startup · 286 points · 59 comments · 06 May
• Apple not providing LGPL webkit source code for latest iOS 4.3.x · 274 points · 112 comments · 06 May
• The author of Nginx on why V8 is not suitable for web servers · 274 points · 70 comments · 06 May
• Hacking Hacker News Headlines · 275 points · 34 comments · 05 May
• Mysterious US Helicopter Used in Bin Laden Raid · 282 points · 128 comments · 05 May
• The Last Post · 604 points · 61 comments · 04 May
• John Resig joins the Khan Academy · 585 points · 73 comments · 03 May
• After botched child porn raid, judge sees the light on IP addresses · 271 points · 72 comments · 02 May
• Google's Backdoor Access System into Gmail Accounts · 289 points · 89 comments · 02 May
• Guy unknowingly live tweets the Osama raid in Abbottabad · 638 points · 101 comments · 02 May
• Osama bin Laden Is Dead · 924 points · 430 comments · 02 May
• A Rough Guide to Social Skills for Awkward Smart People · 273 points · 126 comments · 30 Apr
• Workers Leaving the Googleplex · 690 points · 391 comments · 30 Apr
• I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvote count · 1136 points · 228 comments · 28 Apr
• Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation · 283 points · 112 comments · 28 Apr
• YouTube Founders Acquire Delicious From Yahoo · 573 points · 118 comments · 27 Apr
• Sony: All personal data stolen from PSN · 1074 points · 279 comments · 26 Apr
• Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity · 285 points · 187 comments · 26 Apr
• Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project · 886 points · 292 comments · 25 Apr
• Russia's Crime of the Century · 291 points · 93 comments · 24 Apr
• Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies · 711 points · 140 comments · 23 Apr
• Linus Torvalds on Garbage Collection (2002) · 279 points · 204 comments · 22 Apr
• Amazon Web Services are down · 560 points · 332 comments · 21 Apr
• 2-D Glasses · 281 points · 67 comments · 21 Apr
• Showoff · 805 points · 214 comments · 20 Apr
• The Node Beginner Book · 283 points · 48 comments · 19 Apr
• Oracle gives up on OpenOffice after community forks the project · 287 points · 74 comments · 18 Apr
• JQuery Events: Stop (Mis)Using Return False · 277 points · 19 comments · 17 Apr
• Online Cash Bitcoin could Challenge Governments, Banks · 279 points · 214 comments · 16 Apr
• FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names · 880 points · 384 comments · 15 Apr
• Living in the zone · 289 points · 83 comments · 15 Apr
• Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo · 278 points · 147 comments · 13 Apr
• IPad 2 gets glasses-free 3D display using front-facing camera for head tracking · 275 points · 50 comments · 11 Apr
• ReCAPTCHA Founder's New Startup: Killing Two Birds With One Stone · 273 points · 51 comments · 11 Apr
• Modern Microprocessors: A 90 Minute Guide · 283 points · 30 comments · 09 Apr
• Scott Adams on How to Get a Real Education · 269 points · 46 comments · 09 Apr
• If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email address in your profile · 275 points · 35 comments · 07 Apr
• Using prime numbers to make better backgrounds · 975 points · 52 comments · 07 Apr
• Writing Clear, Concise, Sentences · 272 points · 71 comments · 05 Apr
• Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done · 286 points · 125 comments · 05 Apr
• Success, and Farming vs. Mining · 271 points · 41 comments · 02 Apr
• Top Gear responds to Tesla · 271 points · 118 comments · 02 Apr
• Why TechCrunch is over · 285 points · 62 comments · 02 Apr
• The most difficult CEO skill: managing your own psychology · 286 points · 67 comments · 01 Apr
• Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011) · 285 points · 295 comments · 01 Apr
• Angry Nerds · 572 points · 41 comments · 31 Mar
• How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy · 619 points · 320 comments · 31 Mar
• At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by Node [SFW] · 581 points · 97 comments · 31 Mar
• Skype 5 for Mac · 271 points · 110 comments · 30 Mar
• Hotz fires a powerful blast back at Sony's California jurisdictional claims · 269 points · 66 comments · 28 Mar
• Patio11 says Hello Ladies · 699 points · 114 comments · 26 Mar
• Mark Bao tracks down his stolen laptop and has the last laugh · 269 points · 186 comments · 23 Mar
• Story 2355427 · 884 points · 22 Mar
• Firefox 4 is here · 670 points · 345 comments · 22 Mar
• GitHub now has view modes for image diffs. · 570 points · 58 comments · 21 Mar
• From 0 to 100k users in 72 hours: the full story behind Breakup Notifier · 280 points · 43 comments · 21 Mar
• Cω · 286 points · 74 comments · 21 Mar
• Sony offers hacker a job. Hacker turns them down because of geoHot · 280 points · 61 comments · 20 Mar
• "Amazon's EBSs are a barrel of laughs in terms of performance and reliability" · 270 points · 152 comments · 18 Mar
• Entreporn, The Fallacy That Wastes Your Life · 607 points · 227 comments · 17 Mar
• Subject: Airbnb · 614 points · 134 comments · 17 Mar
• Your Username Will Now Serve as Your Password and Your Password as Your Username · 278 points · 93 comments · 15 Mar
• Stack Overflow: Printing 1 to 1000 in C · 284 points · 97 comments · 14 Mar
• My fellow geeks, we need to have a talk. · 697 points · 238 comments · 14 Mar
• Patio11's perspective on the Japan Earthquake · 673 points · 108 comments · 13 Mar
• New Startup Now Pulling In Over $100k in Monthly Revenues · 282 points · 81 comments · 13 Mar
• Turn any page into Katamari Damacy · 271 points · 33 comments · 13 Mar
• 8.9 earthquake hits Japan · 678 points · 254 comments · 11 Mar
• “We don’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 per day.” · 291 points · 151 comments · 10 Mar
• I took "abusing the HTML5 History" to the next level. · 681 points · 62 comments · 08 Mar
• Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie · 592 points · 353 comments · 04 Mar
• The Chair · 272 points · 180 comments · 04 Mar
• Microsoft and Google jointly sue a patent troll who has sued 397 companies · 275 points · 67 comments · 03 Mar
• Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1% (2005) · 286 points · 106 comments · 03 Mar
• The mother of all Android malware has arrived · 279 points · 128 comments · 02 Mar
• Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code · 569 points · 116 comments · 28 Feb
• RStudio,a new IDE for R · 271 points · 33 comments · 28 Feb
• Working at Microsoft – Day to Day Coding · 288 points · 164 comments · 28 Feb
• Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open source projects? · 272 points · 233 comments · 27 Feb
• Why didn't the Romans have hot air balloons? · 280 points · 130 comments · 26 Feb
• Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret · 283 points · 88 comments · 25 Feb
• The Colour Clock · 271 points · 86 comments · 25 Feb
• New MacBook Pro series · 276 points · 347 comments · 24 Feb
• Amount of profanity in git commit messages per programming language · 285 points · 184 comments · 22 Feb
• Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance · 596 points · 423 comments · 21 Feb
• Goodbye to academic research · 270 points · 92 comments · 18 Feb
• How to become Batman · 286 points · 77 comments · 18 Feb
• Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music subs for the iPhone · 271 points · 206 comments · 17 Feb
• Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings Q&A about IBM Watson · 274 points · 84 comments · 16 Feb
• Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. · 288 points · 64 comments · 15 Feb
• The Secret to a Happy Marriage: Do the Dishes, Put Out, Don’t Talk So Much · 275 points · 162 comments · 14 Feb
• Standalone sandboxed IE6, IE7, IE8 executables (Recovered after a takedown) · 281 points · 70 comments · 12 Feb
• How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $1.5m for My Startup · 589 points · 112 comments · 11 Feb
• Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0 · 278 points · 155 comments · 11 Feb
• HN now serving a million page views on weekdays · 279 points · 80 comments · 09 Feb
• Web based Textmate like editor that saves to Dropbox · 288 points · 91 comments · 09 Feb
• Breaking the web with hash-bangs · 287 points · 94 comments · 09 Feb
• How Much Money I Made From Side Projects In 2010 · 276 points · 49 comments · 08 Feb
• Free, Public Data Sets · 273 points · 51 comments · 01 Feb
• Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results · 684 points · 272 comments · 01 Feb
• Mea Culpa: GitHub works well, my mistake made them look bad · 704 points · 45 comments · 01 Feb
• The NYC subway system as a string instrument · 276 points · 38 comments · 31 Jan
• JQuery 1.5 Released · 269 points · 29 comments · 31 Jan
• Google algorithm change launched · 688 points · 183 comments · 28 Jan
• Egypt has shut off the Internet (update: not everywhere) · 290 points · 139 comments · 27 Jan
• How to Make Trillions of Dollars · 284 points · 135 comments · 27 Jan
• Mythbusting: Why Firefox 4 won’t score 100 on Acid3 · 269 points · 27 comments · 25 Jan
• Free Wordpress themes coming with a price · 285 points · 141 comments · 22 Jan
• Oops: No copied Java code or weapons of mass destruction found in Android · 584 points · 57 comments · 21 Jan
• Eric Schmidt: On April 4th I Will Step Down, Larry Page to be CEO · 679 points · 150 comments · 20 Jan
• How To Use Amazon EC2 as Your Desktop · 286 points · 88 comments · 20 Jan
• The polynomial algorithm for 3-SAT problem (or P=NP) · 269 points · 142 comments · 19 Jan
• Why U.S. Galaxy S Phones run Android 2.1 · 284 points · 94 comments · 18 Jan
• Carnegie Mellon CS Professor challenges Sony by mirroring Geohot's PS3 hacks · 620 points · 81 comments · 12 Jan
• Google Removing H.264 Support in Chrome · 579 points · 349 comments · 11 Jan
• There is no place for just shitting all over other people's work · 273 points · 130 comments · 11 Jan
• My winter break project — Silk · 687 points · 88 comments · 10 Jan
• Game Preview: Voxatron - voxel-based, destructible environment, 8bit soundtrack · 279 points · 65 comments · 05 Jan
• Google tracks you. We don't. An illustrated guide · 588 points · 168 comments · 03 Jan
• RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried · 278 points · 188 comments · 02 Jan