Discussions read in 2012

514 Hacker News discussions posted in 2012 that the Atlas has read in full and summarised, each naming the model and the comments it saw.

All years

Bingo Card Creator (and other stuff) Year in Review 2012 · 278 points · 129 comments · 29 Dec
Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2012 · 270 points · 122 comments · 29 Dec
Show HN: CSS3 animation · 271 points · 95 comments · 28 Dec
Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011) · 708 points · 331 comments · 26 Dec
Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922) · 650 points · 162 comments · 26 Dec
Page Weight Matters · 717 points · 164 comments · 23 Dec
Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? · 271 points · 142 comments · 18 Dec
Wil Wheaton on Instagram's new ad policy · 288 points · 133 comments · 18 Dec
The Gift · 669 points · 173 comments · 17 Dec
Why 256 bit keys are large enough · 281 points · 133 comments · 17 Dec
What You Really Need Is A Market, Not An Idea · 280 points · 54 comments · 16 Dec
I am depressed and I need someone to talk to · 281 points · 147 comments · 16 Dec
Massive New Surveillance Program Uncovered by Wall Street Journal · 283 points · 198 comments · 16 Dec
Thinking the unthinkable · 963 points · 442 comments · 16 Dec
Brython - Python to Javascript translator · 270 points · 68 comments · 14 Dec
The Web We Lost · 636 points · 153 comments · 13 Dec
I love you, dad · 1104 points · 209 comments · 13 Dec
Google Maps for iOS · 827 points · 447 comments · 13 Dec
Any page loaded in IE can track your mouse movements anywhere · 292 points · 161 comments · 12 Dec
You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company. · 710 points · 231 comments · 11 Dec
Lorem Pixel · 282 points · 51 comments · 11 Dec
Welcome to a New Gist · 287 points · 90 comments · 11 Dec
Everything is my fault · 291 points · 103 comments · 09 Dec
How would I get started? · 561 points · 141 comments · 09 Dec
I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit · 279 points · 172 comments · 09 Dec
Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum · 586 points · 207 comments · 07 Dec
Google Apps stops accepting free sign-ups · 626 points · 455 comments · 07 Dec
Great HN parody · 642 points · 163 comments · 06 Dec
Dave Brubeck, Who Helped Put Jazz Back in Vogue, Dies at 91 · 291 points · 81 comments · 05 Dec
Thinking of Selling on eBay using Paypal? Think Again · 989 points · 388 comments · 03 Dec
Apple - Think Twice · 714 points · 395 comments · 03 Dec
Don't read TechCrunch · 291 points · 120 comments · 03 Dec
Notch trying jsFiddle · 659 points · 134 comments · 02 Dec
Understanding The Fourier Transform · 272 points · 44 comments · 02 Dec
Android Performance Case Study · 269 points · 31 comments · 02 Dec
Show HN: Interactive SICP · 280 points · 51 comments · 02 Dec
Skrillex Quest · 592 points · 197 comments · 30 Nov
B&N Decides That Purchased Ebooks Are Only Yours Until Your Credit Card Expires · 288 points · 131 comments · 29 Nov
The EC2 firewall is broken · 286 points · 53 comments · 28 Nov
Amazon Announces new Data Warehousing Product · 286 points · 93 comments · 28 Nov
The Worst · 770 points · 207 comments · 27 Nov
Leaping Brain's "Virtually Uncrackable" DRM is just an XOR with "RANDOM_STRING" · 720 points · 254 comments · 26 Nov
An ABC proof too tough even for mathematicians · 282 points · 142 comments · 25 Nov
Hacking my Vagina · 952 points · 253 comments · 24 Nov
Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design · 821 points · 98 comments · 23 Nov
"Your criticisms are completely wrong": Stallman on software patents · 274 points · 198 comments · 21 Nov
TL;DR — Faster News · 287 points · 138 comments · 21 Nov
You are committing a crime right now · 709 points · 192 comments · 21 Nov
Pickadate.js · 278 points · 125 comments · 20 Nov
How to Get Startup Ideas · 914 points · 231 comments · 19 Nov
How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting · 1034 points · 261 comments · 19 Nov
The Quiet Ones · 807 points · 382 comments · 18 Nov
A breakdown of how I was talked out of $100 · 282 points · 173 comments · 16 Nov
WordPress.com accepts Bitcoin · 287 points · 117 comments · 15 Nov
Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game · 287 points · 141 comments · 15 Nov
100,000 stars · 746 points · 109 comments · 14 Nov
Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700 Mbps · 282 points · 146 comments · 14 Nov
Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts · 277 points · 124 comments · 13 Nov
Motor Trend Car of the Year: Tesla Model S · 291 points · 106 comments · 13 Nov
My favorite regex of all time · 272 points · 111 comments · 12 Nov
RethinkDB: An open-source distributed database built with love over three years · 739 points · 237 comments · 09 Nov
Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice · 583 points · 121 comments · 08 Nov
Great design from Apple on an interaction with Siri · 288 points · 109 comments · 07 Nov
Inside the Secret World of the Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win · 285 points · 133 comments · 07 Nov
Nate Silver correctly called 50 out of 50 states · 667 points · 269 comments · 07 Nov
Steam for Linux Beta Now Available · 275 points · 87 comments · 06 Nov
Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes · 1072 points · 637 comments · 06 Nov
Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works · 676 points · 154 comments · 06 Nov
The Fight · 734 points · 133 comments · 04 Nov
Ask HN: Help, HN'er in trouble, we need a laywer in Delhi immediately · 591 points · 108 comments · 04 Nov
A Slower Speed of Light · 284 points · 105 comments · 02 Nov
Fine, eBay. Here’s your $2. I hope you choke on it. · 292 points · 122 comments · 01 Nov
Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution · 633 points · 327 comments · 31 Oct
Joey Hess' minimal approach · 269 points · 120 comments · 31 Oct
The Horrible Future of Social · 285 points · 149 comments · 30 Oct
Introducing the new compose in Gmail · 288 points · 191 comments · 30 Oct
Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes · 603 points · 456 comments · 29 Oct
Web Design Trends · 271 points · 42 comments · 28 Oct
Tell HN: Let's Be Civil · 671 points · 138 comments · 27 Oct
Is it better to turn up the volume in the software or on the speakers? · 276 points · 95 comments · 26 Oct
Mastering Linear Algebra in 10 Days: Astounding Experiments in Ultra-Learning · 280 points · 76 comments · 26 Oct
The Future of Markdown · 877 points · 328 comments · 25 Oct
Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5" · 277 points · 95 comments · 25 Oct
Startup School 2012 Videos · 284 points · 59 comments · 25 Oct
Facebook, I want my friends back · 279 points · 186 comments · 24 Oct
Under the hood of Windows 8, or why desktop users should upgrade from Windows 7 · 274 points · 179 comments · 23 Oct
If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down · 289 points · 164 comments · 23 Oct
Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others · 602 points · 295 comments · 22 Oct
Outlawed by Amazon DRM · 1445 points · 479 comments · 22 Oct
Billion laughs · 276 points · 63 comments · 20 Oct
Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota · 291 points · 150 comments · 19 Oct
Meteor releases authentication, accounts system, and new screencast · 269 points · 65 comments · 17 Oct
Google throws open doors to its top-secret data center · 270 points · 96 comments · 17 Oct
The Pirate Bay in the cloud · 279 points · 68 comments · 17 Oct
Sol — a sunny little homemade virtual machine · 277 points · 54 comments · 15 Oct
Raspberry Pi now with 512MB RAM · 272 points · 112 comments · 15 Oct
Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech · 279 points · 274 comments · 15 Oct
Surviving in-flight breakup of an SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3.18 · 270 points · 27 comments · 14 Oct
Surprisingly undervalued books · 285 points · 95 comments · 14 Oct
Building websites in Python with Flask · 276 points · 56 comments · 11 Oct
Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers · 688 points · 96 comments · 11 Oct
Why is processing a sorted array faster than an unsorted array? · 590 points · 119 comments · 10 Oct
What can I do for Mozilla? · 290 points · 82 comments · 10 Oct
Stripe Button (beta) · 289 points · 159 comments · 09 Oct
Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket · 569 points · 286 comments · 09 Oct
US Air Force’s 1950s supersonic flying saucer declassified · 291 points · 83 comments · 08 Oct
RIP Hans Camenzind, Inventor Of The 555 Timer · 280 points · 64 comments · 08 Oct
HN Spoof · 681 points · 82 comments · 06 Oct
Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on. · 588 points · 194 comments · 05 Oct
The Most Revealing Job Interview Question · 578 points · 235 comments · 04 Oct
Software architecture cheat sheet · 287 points · 35 comments · 04 Oct
Xkcd style graphs · 585 points · 51 comments · 01 Oct
Why was a scam company able to raise $76 Million Series B? · 660 points · 174 comments · 30 Sep
Fog of World · 274 points · 157 comments · 29 Sep
A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps · 620 points · 486 comments · 28 Sep
California passes groundbreaking open textbook legislation · 283 points · 73 comments · 28 Sep
A Conversation With Randall Munroe, the Creator of XKCD · 288 points · 20 comments · 26 Sep
Bret Victor: Learnable Programming · 1080 points · 183 comments · 26 Sep
Meeting A Troll · 673 points · 201 comments · 24 Sep
Websockets 101 · 289 points · 50 comments · 24 Sep
The Pendulum Swings, Again · 284 points · 122 comments · 24 Sep
Startup = Growth · 586 points · 206 comments · 22 Sep
IFTTT forced to remove Twitter triggers to comply with new API policies · 277 points · 85 comments · 20 Sep
Abusing Emoji in iOS and Your Mac · 271 points · 58 comments · 20 Sep
The Amazing iOS 6 Maps · 837 points · 371 comments · 20 Sep
iOS 6 Breaks the App Store · 272 points · 123 comments · 20 Sep
John Carmack on Static Code Analysis · 286 points · 122 comments · 19 Sep
Xkcd "Click and Drag" in a "map" interface · 844 points · 86 comments · 19 Sep
The Apple Reaper · 288 points · 104 comments · 18 Sep
Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982) · 279 points · 225 comments · 18 Sep
Everything's broken and nobody's upset · 658 points · 401 comments · 17 Sep
Things I've quit doing at my desk · 277 points · 96 comments · 16 Sep
Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js) · 280 points · 195 comments · 14 Sep
Elon Musk: "I would like to die on Mars" · 283 points · 139 comments · 14 Sep
Realtime Web Messaging over Animated Gifs · 576 points · 106 comments · 14 Sep
Dropbox dives into CoffeeScript · 290 points · 193 comments · 13 Sep
The World's Lightest Electric Vehicle · 279 points · 164 comments · 11 Sep
The XX shared their new album with only 1 fan to see how it goes viral. · 274 points · 80 comments · 11 Sep
I feel I am building a new Google Wave · 270 points · 98 comments · 10 Sep
How I Learned to Defrag My Brain · 271 points · 83 comments · 10 Sep
PostgreSQL 9.2 released · 271 points · 77 comments · 10 Sep
Black Swan Farming · 703 points · 303 comments · 09 Sep
Stanford announces 16 free online courses for fall quarter · 277 points · 62 comments · 09 Sep
PayPal CEO writes personal response · 619 points · 159 comments · 08 Sep
How Google Builds Its Maps · 281 points · 109 comments · 06 Sep
Good riddance, PayPal · 713 points · 261 comments · 06 Sep
The Linux Graphics Stack · 284 points · 38 comments · 06 Sep
Pirate Bay Founder Arrest Followed By $59m Swedish Aid Package For Cambodia · 270 points · 79 comments · 05 Sep
AntiSec leaks 1,000,001 Apple UDIDs, Device Names/Types · 648 points · 268 comments · 04 Sep
Just Scroll · 277 points · 102 comments · 31 Aug
New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster · 291 points · 67 comments · 30 Aug
PonyDebugger: Chrome Developer Tools for Native iOS Apps · 278 points · 44 comments · 30 Aug
Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes · 273 points · 221 comments · 30 Aug
What it’s like to work for Stripe · 285 points · 57 comments · 28 Aug
The coming civil war over general purpose computing · 279 points · 98 comments · 26 Aug
Neil Armstrong has died at 82 Today · 980 points · 92 comments · 25 Aug
Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine · 283 points · 143 comments · 24 Aug
How Hacker News Completely Changed My Life · 290 points · 91 comments · 23 Aug
A Faster Facebook for iOS · 273 points · 177 comments · 23 Aug
John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering · 271 points · 71 comments · 23 Aug
Amazon Glacier · 906 points · 378 comments · 21 Aug
Sleepbox · 279 points · 142 comments · 18 Aug
Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News.. · 871 points · 431 comments · 17 Aug
This is how Visa works · 931 points · 97 comments · 17 Aug
I Have 50 Dollars · 647 points · 196 comments · 17 Aug
Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts · 283 points · 269 comments · 16 Aug
The first Django site to run on Python 3 · 283 points · 53 comments · 15 Aug
What I Hate About Working At Facebook · 273 points · 183 comments · 15 Aug
This is a bit f'd, Quora · 827 points · 226 comments · 13 Aug
White House Deletes TSA Petition · 281 points · 103 comments · 11 Aug
How you eat corn on the cob predicts whether you're an analyst or algebraist · 290 points · 99 comments · 10 Aug
New York Underground · 283 points · 83 comments · 10 Aug
Write any javascript code with just these characters: ()[]{}+ · 289 points · 51 comments · 10 Aug
Google Keeps Paying Deceased Employees' Families for a Decade · 289 points · 124 comments · 09 Aug
Textmate2 Goes Open Source · 780 points · 300 comments · 09 Aug
Soviet Venus Images · 284 points · 51 comments · 09 Aug
Nokia sells Qt to Digia · 272 points · 66 comments · 09 Aug
Design Tip: Never Use Black · 761 points · 210 comments · 08 Aug
Google's Autonomous cars complete 300,000 miles without an accident · 288 points · 263 comments · 07 Aug
ToS;DR — TL;DR for Terms of Service and Privacy Policy · 629 points · 128 comments · 07 Aug
Mars Curiosity's first images · 592 points · 168 comments · 06 Aug
An Unexpected Ass Kicking · 746 points · 196 comments · 05 Aug
OS X Mountain Lion: Data Loss via 'Save As' · 286 points · 146 comments · 04 Aug
SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor · 564 points · 180 comments · 03 Aug
Thanks to Quora, now you can’t read anonymously · 290 points · 178 comments · 03 Aug
Valve Source Engine Running Faster on Linux than Windows · 611 points · 238 comments · 02 Aug
Dear Mark Zuckerberg · 743 points · 261 comments · 01 Aug
Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (August 2012) · 276 points · 291 comments · 01 Aug
How I made $10k in one day with Facebook Ads · 273 points · 113 comments · 31 Jul
Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots · 1347 points · 356 comments · 30 Jul
Sal Khan responds to critic · 292 points · 154 comments · 27 Jul
Gnome: Staring into the abyss · 292 points · 180 comments · 27 Jul
Apparently Yelp has a no-fly list · 269 points · 114 comments · 26 Jul
Google Fiber Plans & Pricing · 1139 points · 466 comments · 26 Jul
Why Do Startups Do This? · 276 points · 74 comments · 26 Jul
Open-Source High-quality PDF of SICP · 277 points · 67 comments · 26 Jul
Those budget 27" IPS displays from Korea are for real · 289 points · 155 comments · 25 Jul
The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion · 641 points · 118 comments · 25 Jul
Microsoft reports first quarterly loss ever · 272 points · 116 comments · 19 Jul
15-Year-Old Maker Astronomically Improves Pancreatic Cancer Test · 285 points · 84 comments · 19 Jul
Lightning captured at 7,207 images per second · 274 points · 29 comments · 19 Jul
Show HN: gist.io, blogless writing for hackers · 286 points · 51 comments · 18 Jul
Varnish author criticizing HTTP/2.0 proposals · 277 points · 136 comments · 17 Jul
Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass · 1056 points · 446 comments · 16 Jul
Google’s Marissa Mayer Tapped as Yahoo’s Chief · 1016 points · 343 comments · 16 Jul
The Challenge of Making Friends as an Adult · 697 points · 304 comments · 15 Jul
The Silent Majority of Experts · 274 points · 115 comments · 14 Jul
Show HN: BrainTripping - language model comedy · 283 points · 41 comments · 13 Jul
HN: Please replace grayarrow.gif with Unicode character ▲ · 830 points · 168 comments · 13 Jul
Re-Designing the classic email client · 284 points · 208 comments · 10 Jul
DC "Uber Amendment" would force sedans to charge 5x more than taxis · 292 points · 200 comments · 10 Jul
MPAA/RIAA lose big as US backs copyright "limitations" · 276 points · 40 comments · 08 Jul
A Dust Over India · 633 points · 304 comments · 08 Jul
Late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope) · 604 points · 191 comments · 08 Jul
ACLU launches phone app to help motorists secretly record police stops · 275 points · 93 comments · 05 Jul
Show HN: Iorad - the tutorial builder · 276 points · 99 comments · 05 Jul
Live CERN Higgs Announcement in 20 Mins · 278 points · 211 comments · 04 Jul
Charles Carreon Drops Bogus Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal Creator · 269 points · 61 comments · 04 Jul
The Next Microsoft · 1183 points · 329 comments · 03 Jul
Higgs Boson Explained by Cartoon · 646 points · 127 comments · 03 Jul
The Ph.D Grind: A Ph.D Student Memoir · 285 points · 80 comments · 30 Jun
Coinbase (YC S12) seeks to bring Bitcoin to the masses · 291 points · 161 comments · 29 Jun
Coding Horror: The PHP Singularity · 274 points · 327 comments · 29 Jun
Dotcom search warrants declared illegal · 288 points · 68 comments · 28 Jun
Valve Releases Source Filmmaker Beta · 292 points · 23 comments · 27 Jun
Kid Automates Work, Is Fired, Hired Back, Automates Business · 566 points · 198 comments · 27 Jun
A day in the life of a startup founder · 633 points · 126 comments · 27 Jun
The Recruiter Honeypot · 655 points · 156 comments · 26 Jun
Sublime Text 2.0 Released · 813 points · 352 comments · 26 Jun
EU Commissioner Will Simply Ignore Any Rejection Of ACTA By EU Parliament · 282 points · 121 comments · 26 Jun
Node.js v0.8.0 [stable] is out · 286 points · 56 comments · 25 Jun
Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself · 280 points · 157 comments · 24 Jun
Bye Bye Craigslist · 586 points · 297 comments · 22 Jun
Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning · 279 points · 183 comments · 22 Jun
I Just Gave Up $4000 Per Month to Keep My Freedom of Speech · 271 points · 128 comments · 21 Jun
Exploiting Silicon Valley For Profit (and Maybe Fun) · 283 points · 117 comments · 21 Jun
Mihai Pătraşcu 1982–2012 · 599 points · 29 comments · 21 Jun
Why go out? · 273 points · 107 comments · 20 Jun
The Little C Function From Hell · 273 points · 113 comments · 19 Jun
Backbone UI · 270 points · 65 comments · 19 Jun
Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet · 611 points · 660 comments · 18 Jun
List of Unexplained Sounds · 280 points · 75 comments · 17 Jun
How I Store My 1's and 0′s: ZFS + Bargain HP Microserver = Joy · 274 points · 113 comments · 17 Jun
Youtube claims I don't own my own film · 281 points · 77 comments · 17 Jun
The Oatmeal's lawyer responds to FunnyJunk · 275 points · 97 comments · 15 Jun
It all began with a strange email · 874 points · 124 comments · 15 Jun
DragonBox: Algebra beats Angry birds · 289 points · 63 comments · 13 Jun
The Silencing of Maya · 785 points · 321 comments · 12 Jun
Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles · 572 points · 46 comments · 12 Jun
Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user installed Linux · 271 points · 159 comments · 12 Jun
Mac Pro gets half-assed “update” · 273 points · 308 comments · 11 Jun
Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system “dysfunctional” · 601 points · 121 comments · 08 Jun
Show HN: Script Excel with Python · 280 points · 61 comments · 08 Jun
Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists · 286 points · 121 comments · 07 Jun
Dear Heroku: Quit blaming all of us when you fail. Do this instead… · 271 points · 125 comments · 07 Jun
Why Django Sucks · 271 points · 194 comments · 07 Jun
R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles · 821 points · 95 comments · 06 Jun
6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked · 561 points · 511 comments · 06 Jun
Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies · 645 points · 185 comments · 05 Jun
What programming languages were used by the Soviet Union's space program? · 271 points · 41 comments · 04 Jun
Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in the World · 566 points · 129 comments · 04 Jun
Oh, the Places You'll Go · 289 points · 54 comments · 03 Jun
Why three prongs? · 581 points · 146 comments · 02 Jun
Gmaps.js the easiest way to use Google Maps · 276 points · 40 comments · 02 Jun
A VC-funded startup called WhosHere is trying to steal my social network · 787 points · 219 comments · 01 Jun
I Up Vote Every 'Show HN' Post and You Should Too · 282 points · 83 comments · 01 Jun
US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it · 650 points · 310 comments · 01 Jun
Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran · 287 points · 131 comments · 01 Jun
Oracle v. Google - Judge Alsup Rules APIs Not Protected By Copyright · 735 points · 141 comments · 31 May
Parse launches JavaScript SDK: Parse for Websites · 290 points · 104 comments · 30 May
Seriously? Ads? · 283 points · 212 comments · 30 May
Dutch parliament rejects ACTA, prohibits government to sign or ratify. · 270 points · 49 comments · 30 May
20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time · 989 points · 147 comments · 29 May
Hunting Down My Son's Killer · 1139 points · 318 comments · 29 May
Germany sets new solar-power record · 269 points · 219 comments · 26 May
Rick Santorum's Fake Donation Meter · 270 points · 93 comments · 25 May
Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship · 585 points · 166 comments · 25 May
Most popular browser missing (Chrome)... · 277 points · 115 comments · 24 May
Maddox on Link-Baiting Aggregation Sites · 271 points · 100 comments · 23 May
Verdict for Google in Oracle's patent infringement case · 723 points · 165 comments · 23 May
Mark Zuckerberg sells 30.2 million shares of $FB common stock at $37.58 · 279 points · 169 comments · 23 May
Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes · 271 points · 133 comments · 22 May
WebGL: 80,000 particles · 275 points · 82 comments · 22 May
Petition Obama adminstration to require free access to publicly funded research · 292 points · 55 comments · 21 May
Being deaf · 676 points · 153 comments · 21 May
Show HN: Habit List - my first iOS app · 282 points · 131 comments · 20 May
Mark Zuckerberg married · 290 points · 204 comments · 20 May
A few things to remember while coding in Python · 270 points · 142 comments · 19 May
Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in an tiny expensive package · 275 points · 167 comments · 19 May
Things Not Strings -- Google Launches Knowledge Graph · 284 points · 139 comments · 16 May
Wil Wheaton: Yo Hollywood, Let Me Download Ubuntu · 288 points · 163 comments · 15 May
Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer · 670 points · 218 comments · 15 May
Please Learn to Code · 654 points · 146 comments · 15 May
Please don't learn to code · 746 points · 266 comments · 15 May
Plagiarism · 1230 points · 311 comments · 14 May
NCombinator · 271 points · 91 comments · 10 May
Richard Stallman Collapses At Barcelona Conference · 275 points · 230 comments · 10 May
Recursive Drawing · 694 points · 83 comments · 10 May
Pixel-fitting – how antialiasing can ruin your logos and icons · 291 points · 75 comments · 09 May
HTML9 Responsive Boilerstrap JS · 274 points · 48 comments · 09 May
Jury rules Google violated copyright law, Google moves for mistrial · 286 points · 124 comments · 07 May
Yahoo CEO might have lied about having CS degree · 282 points · 205 comments · 03 May
Judge: An IP-Address Doesn’t Identify a Person (or BitTorrent Pirate) · 285 points · 100 comments · 03 May
The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget · 688 points · 188 comments · 02 May
Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox · 723 points · 348 comments · 01 May
Why Use Postgres · 269 points · 144 comments · 30 Apr
Django is now (officially) on GitHub · 276 points · 64 comments · 28 Apr
Incredibox - Background music for programming. · 688 points · 167 comments · 27 Apr
Show HN: iPG - YC Interview Simulator · 290 points · 77 comments · 27 Apr
The House passes CISPA with a vote of 248 to 168 · 275 points · 117 comments · 26 Apr
"Gangbang Interviews" and "Bikini Shots": Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem · 278 points · 362 comments · 26 Apr
A High Frequency Trader's Apology, Pt 2 · 274 points · 230 comments · 26 Apr
How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill · 775 points · 142 comments · 25 Apr
Google Drive · 275 points · 132 comments · 24 Apr
Introducing Google Drive... yes, really · 663 points · 492 comments · 24 Apr
"That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends." · 1041 points · 195 comments · 24 Apr
One-line Tree In Python · 277 points · 36 comments · 23 Apr
Modern Web Development · 605 points · 85 comments · 23 Apr
How to cope with the Gmail redesign · 273 points · 167 comments · 21 Apr
The Top Of My Todo List · 683 points · 185 comments · 21 Apr
Valve Employee Handbook · 569 points · 160 comments · 21 Apr
Redesign: Users: Thrilled. Conversion Rates: Up. Sales: Unchanged. · 273 points · 107 comments · 19 Apr
Free beautiful UI elements for developers · 286 points · 44 comments · 19 Apr
Light Table Is On Kickstarter · 619 points · 215 comments · 17 Apr
Semicolon: A language of semicolons · 286 points · 101 comments · 17 Apr
Farbrausch (demoscene group) releases their tools and engine · 270 points · 66 comments · 15 Apr
Crockford on Bootstrap's semicolon omission: “insanely stupid code” · 279 points · 192 comments · 15 Apr
CSS3 Scroll Effects · 271 points · 49 comments · 14 Apr
How I lost access to my Google account today · 272 points · 172 comments · 14 Apr
Abrash on Valve: How I Got Here, What It's Like, and What I'm Doing · 288 points · 86 comments · 13 Apr
Google BBS Terminal – What Google would have looked like in the 80s · 281 points · 77 comments · 13 Apr
Light Table - a new IDE concept · 1592 points · 291 comments · 13 Apr
Geocoder.ca sued by Canada Post for their open database of postal codes · 288 points · 84 comments · 11 Apr
9 year old's DIY Cardboard Arcade gets Flash mobbed: Video · 603 points · 131 comments · 11 Apr
Google+ gets a redesign · 285 points · 177 comments · 11 Apr
Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework · 1386 points · 322 comments · 10 Apr
PHP: A fractal of bad design · 765 points · 495 comments · 10 Apr
Mosh: SSH for 2012 · 900 points · 193 comments · 09 Apr
Facebook acquires Instagram · 837 points · 374 comments · 09 Apr
Keeping Instagram up with over a million new users in twelve hours · 279 points · 53 comments · 05 Apr
Don’t Be Evil: How Google Screwed a Startup · 710 points · 246 comments · 05 Apr
The Beer Game -or- Why Apple Can’t Build iPads in the US · 562 points · 246 comments · 05 Apr
Show HN: Clutch.io helps you build iOS apps fast and update them instantly · 290 points · 88 comments · 04 Apr
Google Announces Project Glass · 272 points · 102 comments · 04 Apr
How Not To Sort By Average Rating · 750 points · 153 comments · 03 Apr
I hereby resign · 1175 points · 366 comments · 02 Apr
MIT scientist captures 90,000 hours of video of his son's first words, graphs it · 286 points · 30 comments · 01 Apr
All April Fools' Day Jokes on the Web Are Here (so they don't clutter HN) · 292 points · 57 comments · 01 Apr
Sqrt(x*x+y*y)+3*cos(sqrt(x*x+y*y))+5 from -20 to 20 · 692 points · 135 comments · 30 Mar
I am very real · 943 points · 150 comments · 30 Mar
The Best Birth Control In The World Is For Men · 629 points · 196 comments · 29 Mar
A Woman’s Story · 716 points · 194 comments · 29 Mar
DuckDuckGo is blowing up · 1221 points · 203 comments · 29 Mar
Jeff Bezos Finds Apollo 11 Rockets · 284 points · 81 comments · 28 Mar
Wind Map · 909 points · 79 comments · 28 Mar
Go version 1 is released · 582 points · 148 comments · 28 Mar
Please do not take down the Sality botnet · 575 points · 142 comments · 28 Mar
Patents Threaten To Silence A Little Girl, Literally · 278 points · 77 comments · 28 Mar
There's no speed limit (2009) · 699 points · 194 comments · 27 Mar
Schneier removed from TSA oversight meeting at TSA request · 630 points · 96 comments · 26 Mar
Always a starter, never a finisher. · 269 points · 93 comments · 25 Mar
Codename: Obtvse · 889 points · 355 comments · 23 Mar
Show HN: This up votes itself · 3531 points · 82 comments · 23 Mar
Codename: Svbtle by Dustin Curtis · 274 points · 156 comments · 22 Mar
"Lighten up" · 1371 points · 794 comments · 21 Mar
Mailcheck.js - How we decreased sign up confirmation email bounces by 50% · 561 points · 100 comments · 20 Mar
Open-plan offices must die · 290 points · 179 comments · 20 Mar
All of Einstein's writings are now online · 290 points · 23 comments · 20 Mar
Why is the DOS path character "\"? · 269 points · 66 comments · 19 Mar
Go is amazing, period. · 271 points · 231 comments · 19 Mar
About those vector icons · 284 points · 40 comments · 18 Mar
Ambient bus arrival monitor from hacked Linksys WRT54GL · 273 points · 48 comments · 17 Mar
An entire Mobile OS built using HTML, CSS and JS - by Mozilla · 289 points · 112 comments · 17 Mar
This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory" · 564 points · 225 comments · 16 Mar
88% there: "Don't Mess With The Internet" billboard in Lamar Smith's district · 274 points · 57 comments · 14 Mar
Man finds his way home using Google Earth - after 25 years · 275 points · 67 comments · 14 Mar
Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs · 896 points · 249 comments · 14 Mar
New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea · 687 points · 292 comments · 13 Mar
Why I Left Google · 947 points · 306 comments · 13 Mar
I Hope Yahoo Crushes Facebook · 275 points · 90 comments · 13 Mar
Arm unveils 1mm x 1mm 32bit chip: "years of battery life" · 281 points · 102 comments · 13 Mar
Intro to Social Hacking: How we lowered our cancellation rate by 90% · 277 points · 42 comments · 12 Mar
Posterous acquired by Twitter · 612 points · 160 comments · 12 Mar
The freedom to drink coffee · 282 points · 190 comments · 12 Mar
The Caging of America · 279 points · 219 comments · 11 Mar
PSN automatically "roots" your Facebook, no permission granted. · 283 points · 33 comments · 11 Mar
Go to Trial - Crash the Justice System · 291 points · 109 comments · 11 Mar
Time.is · 661 points · 107 comments · 11 Mar
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas · 1032 points · 430 comments · 10 Mar
Eight years today · 639 points · 60 comments · 10 Mar
The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now with Twitter's Bootstrap · 271 points · 55 comments · 09 Mar
TSA Pressures Mainstream Media Not To Cover Story · 745 points · 149 comments · 08 Mar
Apple releases Ipad 3 · 290 points · 327 comments · 07 Mar
SSH Key Audit on Github (required) · 292 points · 105 comments · 07 Mar
Why Bootstrap might be very important · 269 points · 83 comments · 07 Mar
How I helped destroy Star Wars Galaxies · 650 points · 119 comments · 07 Mar
$1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog · 1637 points · 330 comments · 06 Mar
Cursor:none abuse (trick users into clicking Facebook 'like') · 273 points · 65 comments · 06 Mar
Font Awesome, the pictographic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap · 711 points · 91 comments · 06 Mar
There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format. · 732 points · 316 comments · 05 Mar
Induction: A Polyglot Database Client For Mac OS X · 283 points · 82 comments · 05 Mar
GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down. · 590 points · 185 comments · 04 Mar
Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub · 655 points · 225 comments · 04 Mar
Google’s Web Search Quality. A picture is worth a 1000 words · 281 points · 94 comments · 03 Mar
How to contribute to an open source project: look for TODOs in code · 277 points · 47 comments · 03 Mar
A violently true depiction of what war really is · 627 points · 254 comments · 02 Mar
Notch gives his $3,000,000 Minecraft dividend to his employees · 694 points · 209 comments · 01 Mar
Give it five minutes · 620 points · 71 comments · 01 Mar
Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012) · 269 points · 294 comments · 01 Mar
Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years · 1154 points · 172 comments · 01 Mar
Save My House From Apple · 270 points · 111 comments · 01 Mar
The Forgotten Founder: A Silicon Valley Tale of Humiliation and Revenge · 271 points · 103 comments · 28 Feb
Thinking different. - A look into the mental illness of a hacker · 276 points · 28 Feb
Linus Torvalds on C++ · 288 points · 181 comments · 28 Feb
Gigabit Internet for $80 · 275 points · 87 comments · 27 Feb
YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · 289 points · 79 comments · 26 Feb
If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source · 282 points · 68 comments · 26 Feb
Right versus pragmatic · 568 points · 162 comments · 25 Feb
Israel to destroy Palestinians' solar panels · 284 points · 171 comments · 25 Feb
Teller Reveals His Secrets · 602 points · 36 comments · 25 Feb
Best of Vim Tips · 273 points · 26 comments · 25 Feb
TV is broken · 635 points · 258 comments · 24 Feb
The Internet Made Me Sad Today · 274 points · 178 comments · 23 Feb
The myth of the eight-hour sleep · 607 points · 161 comments · 22 Feb
How Exercise Fuels the Brain · 287 points · 18 comments · 22 Feb
Sublime Text 2 Build 2181 · 275 points · 111 comments · 22 Feb
Google to Sell Heads-Up Display Glasses by Year’s End · 280 points · 132 comments · 21 Feb
Ubuntu for Android · 698 points · 171 comments · 21 Feb
Do Things, Tell People. · 274 points · 45 comments · 21 Feb
Every day at my job I helped people just barely survive · 928 points · 315 comments · 18 Feb
Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew · 646 points · 103 comments · 16 Feb
Iranian Web Programmer’s Death Sentence to Be Carried Out Any Moment · 273 points · 120 comments · 16 Feb
Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated content · 605 points · 236 comments · 16 Feb
14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic. · 797 points · 63 comments · 15 Feb
Game Developer Gives 7-Year-Old Best Birthday Present Ever · 593 points · 45 comments · 14 Feb
How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers · 282 points · 41 comments · 14 Feb
Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool · 1319 points · 195 comments · 13 Feb
Build a house for less than $5000 · 280 points · 103 comments · 13 Feb
Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X) · 593 points · 321 comments · 13 Feb
The Fifty is awake again · 273 points · 85 comments · 13 Feb
Germany refuses to sign ACTA (for now) · 271 points · 32 comments · 10 Feb
I am a great programmer, but horrible algorithmist · 291 points · 178 comments · 10 Feb
I have a bad feeling about this · 629 points · 179 comments · 09 Feb
ASCII interactive fluid animation · 663 points · 66 comments · 08 Feb
Vim University - Screencasts and Articles for Serious Vim Students · 270 points · 34 comments · 08 Feb
Hipster (like Path) uploads your address book emails to its servers · 291 points · 77 comments · 08 Feb
Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers · 834 points · 267 comments · 07 Feb
Show HN: Favicon alert bubbles · 271 points · 63 comments · 07 Feb
Farewell Stack Exchange · 1233 points · 213 comments · 06 Feb
Honeywell Files Patent Lawsuit Against Smart Thermostat Developer Nest · 292 points · 108 comments · 06 Feb
1k Rose - How a 3D Rose was made in under 1K of javascript · 290 points · 38 comments · 06 Feb
Producer vs. Consumer · 647 points · 64 comments · 05 Feb
Khan Academy: It’s Different This Time · 274 points · 179 comments · 05 Feb
"They're Made out of Meat?" Short first contact sci-fi story · 278 points · 62 comments · 03 Feb
Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours · 699 points · 157 comments · 03 Feb
Yale Discovers a Fungus That Eats Plastic · 284 points · 80 comments · 03 Feb
Handwriting to LaTeX maths · 652 points · 88 comments · 02 Feb
Inside Stripe · 281 points · 75 comments · 01 Feb
Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (February 2012) · 270 points · 230 comments · 01 Feb
Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter · 773 points · 158 comments · 01 Feb
Hacking the Used Car Purchase · 289 points · 123 comments · 31 Jan
Fixing the Python subprocess interface · 291 points · 61 comments · 30 Jan
The Five Stages of Hosting · 747 points · 179 comments · 30 Jan
What if Hollywood had to use tech like we have to watch movies? · 663 points · 112 comments · 29 Jan
IcedCoffeeScript · 288 points · 58 comments · 28 Jan
Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split · 857 points · 151 comments · 27 Jan
Facebook to File for IPO Next Week · 282 points · 135 comments · 27 Jan
How to Make It on Craigslist · 269 points · 172 comments · 26 Jan
Fun with math: Dividing one by 998001 yields a surprising result · 754 points · 90 comments · 26 Jan
Google is FUBAR · 282 points · 268 comments · 25 Jan
Apple Reports First Quarter Results: $13.06 Billion Net Profit · 287 points · 261 comments · 24 Jan
Welcome Garry and Aaron · 281 points · 34 comments · 23 Jan
Let's make TCP faster · 287 points · 36 comments · 23 Jan
Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued · 596 points · 193 comments · 23 Jan
Command and Conquer – Programming an RTS game in HTML5 and Javascript · 271 points · 63 comments · 23 Jan
The Noun Project: Icons for everything · 285 points · 67 comments · 23 Jan
Waking up at 5am to code · 594 points · 198 comments · 23 Jan
Google's "free food" is not free · 291 points · 173 comments · 22 Jan
Two things about SOPA/PIPA and then I'll shut up · 709 points · 172 comments · 21 Jan
Fields medalist Tim Gowers: Elsevier — my part in its downfall · 287 points · 43 comments · 21 Jan
Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood. · 2060 points · 665 comments · 20 Jan
Vim ported to iOS · 288 points · 127 comments · 19 Jan
The Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA · 281 points · 136 comments · 19 Jan
Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy · 698 points · 337 comments · 19 Jan
How Google Code Search Worked · 287 points · 45 comments · 19 Jan
Playing chicken with cat.jpg · 288 points · 104 comments · 19 Jan
Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it · 271 points · 317 comments · 19 Jan
Maddox - I hope SOPA passes · 569 points · 198 comments · 19 Jan
Amit Gupta has found a 10/10 matched donor · 1179 points · 100 comments · 18 Jan
Congressman blacks out his official .gov website · 587 points · 38 comments · 18 Jan
No New Accounts Today · 718 points · 94 comments · 18 Jan
Stop SOAP · 598 points · 67 comments · 18 Jan
Why I'm a Pirate · 857 points · 514 comments · 18 Jan
Copyright King: Why the "I Have a Dream" Speech Still Isn't Free · 281 points · 117 comments · 17 Jan
Wikipedia to Shut Down on Wednesday to Protest SOPA · 951 points · 192 comments · 16 Jan
Schlep Blindness · 604 points · 181 comments · 14 Jan
The White House's Response to SOPA · 290 points · 148 comments · 14 Jan
Bill Gates Gives Away More Money Than The Entire US Foreign Aid Budget · 288 points · 103 comments · 13 Jan
Google, what were you thinking? · 751 points · 143 comments · 13 Jan
Circumventing the No-Fly list in thirty seconds · 289 points · 154 comments · 13 Jan
Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA · 922 points · 150 comments · 10 Jan
How to nap · 647 points · 133 comments · 10 Jan
Alexis Ohanian and Dan Kaminsky will address Congress on Jan 18th · 270 points · 82 comments · 09 Jan
A simple guide for getting started with git · 665 points · 129 comments · 09 Jan
Hacked memo leaked: Apple, Nokia, RIM supply backdoors for government? · 286 points · 53 comments · 09 Jan
This is why I don't give you a job · 588 points · 529 comments · 07 Jan
Visitor.js · 280 points · 92 comments · 06 Jan
Why 37signals Doesn't Hire Programmers Based on Brainteasers · 605 points · 423 comments · 05 Jan
Nokia Maps 3D (WebGL) · 271 points · 90 comments · 05 Jan
Why do we pay sales commissions? · 269 points · 113 comments · 04 Jan
PayPal forces buyer to destroy $2500 pre-WWII antique violin in dispute · 988 points · 289 comments · 03 Jan
Richard Stallman Was Right All Along · 731 points · 226 comments · 02 Jan
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success · 278 points · 186 comments · 02 Jan
Impress.js - a Prezi like implementation using CSS3 3D transformations · 594 points · 65 comments · 01 Jan