| 1. | | Death to .DS_Store (aorensoftware.com) |
| 287 points by snielsen on Dec 25, 2011 | 122 comments |
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| 2. | | GoDaddy loses 72,354 domains this week alone (dailychanges.com) |
| 224 points by justinmares on Dec 25, 2011 | 32 comments |
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| 3. | | Decades later, a Cold War secret revealed (sfgate.com) |
| 185 points by olegious on Dec 25, 2011 | 38 comments |
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| 4. | | Institutional memory and reverse smuggling (wrttn.in) |
| 150 points by adulau on Dec 25, 2011 | 36 comments |
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| 5. | | Ask PG: 2012 Startup ideas you'd like to fund? |
| 144 points by AznHisoka on Dec 25, 2011 | 32 comments |
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| 6. | | Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders (500.co) |
| 131 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 25, 2011 | 45 comments |
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| 7. | | The momentum of Steve Jobs (craigmod.com) |
| 130 points by ibrahimcesar on Dec 25, 2011 | 11 comments |
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| 8. | | Revisiting 2011 in 365 HN stories (rrrewind.com) |
| 126 points by earlyriser on Dec 25, 2011 | 28 comments |
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| 9. | | A Perl Regular Expression That Matches Prime Numbers (catonmat.net) |
| 123 points by pkrumins on Dec 25, 2011 | 27 comments |
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| 10. | | ISO updates C Standard (Now we have C11) (h-online.com) |
| 116 points by kzrdude on Dec 25, 2011 | 35 comments |
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| 11. | | Donald Knuth on how he became good at math (webofstories.com) |
| 102 points by grot on Dec 25, 2011 | 31 comments |
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| 12. | | Siege, a DBMS written in Haskell (haskell.org) |
| 98 points by DanWaterworth on Dec 25, 2011 | 20 comments |
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| 13. | | Why Rackspace oppose SOPA (rackspace.com) |
| 78 points by samuel1604 on Dec 25, 2011 | 16 comments |
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| 14. | | 802.11 Packets in Packets: A Standard-Compliant Exploit of Layer 1 (ccc.de) |
| 79 points by sp332 on Dec 25, 2011 | 3 comments |
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| 15. | | Poll: Did you start company in 2011? |
| 69 points by ya3r on Dec 25, 2011 | 81 comments |
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| 16. | | Bulletproof your blog – survive the Hacker News effect (maxmasnick.com) |
| 67 points by masnick on Dec 25, 2011 | 46 comments |
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| 17. | | A Textbook Buffer Overflow: A Look at the FreeBSD telnetd Code (thexploit.com) |
| 64 points by thexploit on Dec 25, 2011 | 23 comments |
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| 18. | | Donald Knuth's advice to young people (webofstories.com) |
| 64 points by antichaos on Dec 25, 2011 | 16 comments |
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| 19. | | Poll: Did you shutter a startup in 2011? |
| 60 points by stevewilhelm on Dec 25, 2011 | 34 comments |
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| 20. | | How much of an iPhone is made by Samsung? (economist.com) |
| 56 points by friism on Dec 25, 2011 | 23 comments |
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| 21. | | E-Books from NASA (nasa.gov) |
| 56 points by yarapavan on Dec 25, 2011 | 2 comments |
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| 22. | | Tests Cast Doubts on iPad and Kindle Restrictions (nytimes.com) |
| 52 points by jeffreymcmanus on Dec 25, 2011 | 12 comments |
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| 23. | | Could The Rebellion Against Traditional Publishing Actually Work? (sebastianmarshall.com) |
| 47 points by sachitgupta on Dec 25, 2011 | 46 comments |
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| 24. | | Show HN: multicasting video chat site I built over xmas break (chat.io) |
| 47 points by chenosaurus on Dec 25, 2011 | 20 comments |
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| 25. | | DefendTheInter.net: An illustrated guide on why the Internet needs saving. (defendtheinter.net) |
| 46 points by halfwayglad on Dec 25, 2011 | 14 comments |
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| 26. | | Before Recruiting in Ivy League, Applying Some Math (nytimes.com) |
| 45 points by dget on Dec 25, 2011 | 4 comments |
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| 27. | | Could Revolution Come to Putin's Russia? (theatlantic.com) |
| 43 points by tokenadult on Dec 25, 2011 | 6 comments |
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| 28. | | The Perl 6 Coding Contest (reddit.com) |
| 40 points by perlgeek on Dec 25, 2011 | 2 comments |
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| 29. | | Publishers vs. Libraries: An E-Book Tug of War (nytimes.com) |
| 38 points by danso on Dec 25, 2011 | 9 comments |
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| 30. | | Berkeley Explains Why Google Trumps Microsoft (wired.com) |
| 38 points by nextparadigms on Dec 25, 2011 | 5 comments |
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