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Stories from December 25, 2011
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1.Christmas tree made out of form elements (webkit) (hakim.se)
298 points by hakim on Dec 25, 2011 | 33 comments
2.Death to .DS_Store (aorensoftware.com)
287 points by snielsen on Dec 25, 2011 | 122 comments
No
284 points | parent
4.GoDaddy loses 72,354 domains this week alone (dailychanges.com)
224 points by justinmares on Dec 25, 2011 | 32 comments
5.Decades later, a Cold War secret revealed (sfgate.com)
185 points by olegious on Dec 25, 2011 | 38 comments
no
153 points | parent
7.Institutional memory and reverse smuggling (wrttn.in)
150 points by adulau on Dec 25, 2011 | 36 comments
8.Ask PG: 2012 Startup ideas you'd like to fund?
144 points by AznHisoka on Dec 25, 2011 | 32 comments
9.Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders (500.co)
131 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 25, 2011 | 45 comments
10.The momentum of Steve Jobs (craigmod.com)
130 points by ibrahimcesar on Dec 25, 2011 | 11 comments
yes
127 points | parent
12.Revisiting 2011 in 365 HN stories (rrrewind.com)
126 points by earlyriser on Dec 25, 2011 | 28 comments
13.A Perl Regular Expression That Matches Prime Numbers (catonmat.net)
123 points by pkrumins on Dec 25, 2011 | 27 comments
14.ISO updates C Standard (Now we have C11) (h-online.com)
116 points by kzrdude on Dec 25, 2011 | 35 comments
15.Donald Knuth on how he became good at math (webofstories.com)
102 points by grot on Dec 25, 2011 | 31 comments
16.Siege, a DBMS written in Haskell (haskell.org)
98 points by DanWaterworth on Dec 25, 2011 | 20 comments

I may write an updated version, but not today. (It's Christmas.)
18.Why Rackspace oppose SOPA (rackspace.com)
78 points by samuel1604 on Dec 25, 2011 | 16 comments
19.802.11 Packets in Packets: A Standard-Compliant Exploit of Layer 1 (ccc.de)
79 points by sp332 on Dec 25, 2011 | 3 comments
20.Poll: Did you start company in 2011?
69 points by ya3r on Dec 25, 2011 | 81 comments
21.Bulletproof your blog – survive the Hacker News effect (maxmasnick.com)
67 points by masnick on Dec 25, 2011 | 46 comments
22.A Textbook Buffer Overflow: A Look at the FreeBSD telnetd Code (thexploit.com)
64 points by thexploit on Dec 25, 2011 | 23 comments
23.Donald Knuth's advice to young people (webofstories.com)
64 points by antichaos on Dec 25, 2011 | 16 comments
24.Poll: Did you shutter a startup in 2011?
60 points by stevewilhelm on Dec 25, 2011 | 34 comments
25.How much of an iPhone is made by Samsung? (economist.com)
56 points by friism on Dec 25, 2011 | 23 comments
26.E-Books from NASA (nasa.gov)
56 points by yarapavan on Dec 25, 2011 | 2 comments
27.Tests Cast Doubts on iPad and Kindle Restrictions (nytimes.com)
52 points by jeffreymcmanus on Dec 25, 2011 | 12 comments
28.Show HN: multicasting video chat site I built over xmas break (chat.io)
47 points by chenosaurus on Dec 25, 2011 | 20 comments
29.Could The Rebellion Against Traditional Publishing Actually Work? (sebastianmarshall.com)
47 points by sachitgupta on Dec 25, 2011 | 46 comments
30.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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