top 20 hacker news stories for 2011-12-27

Namecheap to Donate $1 to EFF for Every Domain Transfer on December 29th

https://www.namecheap.com/moveyourdomainday.aspx

15 years ago

568 upvotes – 94 comments

My uncle's factorization algorithms

https://github.com/daoudclarke/wartonlegacy

15 years ago

★ 152 Fortran GPL-3.0
420 upvotes – 51 comments

Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3395061

15 years ago

336 upvotes – 307 comments

What future space combat would really look like

http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=131056

15 years ago

330 upvotes – 231 comments

Avenger controller company pisses off gaming community with bad customer support

http://penny-arcade.com/2011/12/26/just-wow1

15 years ago

271 upvotes – 90 comments

Adventures in Aeron Chair Arbitrage

http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/14876257862/adventures-in-aeron-chair-arbitrage

15 years ago

249 upvotes – 107 comments

I Think You're Fat (2007)

http://www.esquire.com/features/honesty0707

15 years ago

219 upvotes – 111 comments

After 7.5 years, Firefox finally adds line numbers to view-source:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246620

15 years ago

207 upvotes – 82 comments

Practical Garbage Collection - Part 1: Introduction

http://worldmodscode.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/practical-garbage-collection-part-1-introduction/

15 years ago

181 upvotes – 38 comments

'TSA Arrests Me for Using the Fourth Amendment as a Weapon'

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/18/1027775/-TSA-Arrests-Me-for-Using-the-Fourth-Amendment-as-a-Weapon-(Tales-from-the-Edge-of-a-Revolution-2)

15 years ago

164 upvotes – 107 comments

End artificial scarcities to increase productivity

http://matt.might.net/articles/artificial-scarcity/

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 84 comments

Facebook deleted their Python SDK repository without warning

http://techhouse.org/~lincoln/blosxom.cgi/coding/facebook-python.html

15 years ago

150 upvotes – 45 comments

The coming retail apocalypse: some axioms

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/12/the-coming-retail-apocalypse-s.html

15 years ago

138 upvotes – 69 comments

Specialforces.com Site Hacked

http://pastebin.com/vuMypejL

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 58 comments

Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

https://plus.google.com/117388252776312694644/posts/ZcPA5ztMZaj

15 years ago

134 upvotes – 107 comments

"Small-claims flash mob" - Car owner takes legal fight away from lawyers

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-autos-honda-smallclaims-20111227,0,959031.story

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 51 comments

Launching the Kindle Fire was a mistake

https://plus.google.com/100838276097451809262/posts/EvstFnKynKf

15 years ago

128 upvotes – 92 comments

Elon Musk is pushing the human race forward

http://murtza.org/2011/12/27/elon-musk-pushing-human-race-forward/

15 years ago

127 upvotes – 56 comments

Voyager 1 Speeds Toward The Brink Of Interstellar Space

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/12/26/143676838/voyager-1-speeds-toward-the-brink-of-interstellar-space

15 years ago

124 upvotes – 51 comments

Would Obama Veto SOPA? Extremely Doubtful

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111226/23082117192/would-obama-veto-sopa-extremely-doubtful.shtml?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

15 years ago

121 upvotes – 55 comments
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