top 50% 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

Introducing filer.js

http://ericbidelman.tumblr.com/post/14866798359/introducing-filer-js

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 12 comments

The Facebook Platform Is A Trainwreck

http://blorn.com/post/14840036960/the-facebook-platform-is-a-trainwreck-example-871

15 years ago

112 upvotes – 36 comments

Setting up Django + NGinx + Green Unicorn in an Ubuntu EC2 instance

http://adrian.org.ar/python/django-nginx-green-unicorn-in-an-ubuntu-11-10-ec2-instance

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 37 comments

What I Did in 2011

http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/what_i_did_in/

15 years ago

101 upvotes – 15 comments

Avoid downtime: Currently using GoDaddy's DNS? Switch DNS before transferring

http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/582/83/how-to-transfer-a-domain-into-namecheap-without-a-huge-downtime

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 23 comments

GoDaddy no longer on SOPA supporter list.

http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_item_id=380&isc=buyxxxb

15 years ago

84 upvotes – 57 comments

TCP/IP over Lego model train

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/110603-tcpip-over-lego-model-train

15 years ago

82 upvotes – 12 comments

NameCheap Did Reach Out Prior To The Blog

http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/12/26/godaddy-transfer-update/#comment-1709

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: is it possible to earn a living US wage at oDesk?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396585

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 42 comments

Site that lets you record and automatically phone-blast SOPA supporters for you

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/reverse-robocall-campaign-lets-citizens-phone-blast-sopa-supporters.ars

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 26 comments

How Facebook Mobile Was Designed to Write Once, Run Everywhere

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/redux_how_facebook_mobile_was_designed_to_write_once_run.php

15 years ago

75 upvotes – 29 comments

Ask HN: What is the best developer conference talk you saw in 2011?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396786

15 years ago

73 upvotes – 29 comments

Are You Stuck in a Girls' Club?

http://blogs.hbr.org/johnson/2011/12/are-you-stuck-in-a-girls-club.html

15 years ago

71 upvotes – 12 comments

Untethered Jailbreak For (Most) iOS 5 Devices Now Available

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/untethered_jailbreak_ios_5_iphone_ipad_ipod.php#.TvnXuCZ9FjA.hackernews

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 34 comments

Should Wikipedia run ads that ask for money, or ads that make money?

http://www.aaronklein.com/2011/12/wikipedia-begging-for-handouts-and-building-schools-in-africa/

15 years ago

60 upvotes – 79 comments

It might be legal to gamble online soon

http://news.yahoo.com/gambling-gets-boost-obama-administration-113418228--spt.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments

Log for Machines

http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2011/12/26/log-for-machines-in-json/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 28 comments

While we have GoDaddy's attention

http://scripting.com/stories/2011/12/27/whileWeveGotGodaddysAttent.html

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 36 comments

Apple Fined $1.2m by Italian Antitrust Authority

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/12/27/apple-fined-1-2m-by-italian-antitrust-authority-over-misleading-product-warranties/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 24 comments

While Drafting SOPA, the U.S. House Harbors BitTorrent

http://torrentfreak.com/while-drafting-sopa-us-house-harbors-bittorrent-pirates-111226/

15 years ago

55 upvotes – 11 comments

Ways To Go Viral

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/26/eight-ways-go-viral/

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 9 comments

Why it's important to respect your customers

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2011/12/27/just-wow1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pa-mainsite+%28Penny+Arcade%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 4 comments

Suster: Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/12/27/should-startups-focus-on-profitability-or-not/?awesm=bothsid.es_GkX&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=bothsid.es-twitter&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=awesm-publisher

15 years ago

52 upvotes – 24 comments
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