| 1. | | Apple design chief Jonathan Ive awarded knighthood (appleinsider.com) |
| 225 points by smoody on Dec 31, 2011 | 111 comments |
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| 2. | | Doctorow: The coming war on general-purpose computation (lwn.net) |
| 198 points by ableal on Dec 31, 2011 | 53 comments |
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| 3. | | Happy New Year! |
| 151 points by RuchitGarg on Dec 31, 2011 | 49 comments |
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| 4. | | Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers (cnet.com) |
| 146 points by FluidDjango on Dec 31, 2011 | 30 comments |
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| 5. | | Sony, Nintendo, EA hide behind PR move. Still support SOPA (destructoid.com) |
| 138 points by nextparadigms on Dec 31, 2011 | 23 comments |
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| 6. | | The best things and stuff of 2011 by Fogus (fogus.me) |
| 131 points by liebke on Dec 31, 2011 | 20 comments |
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| 7. | | Full color laser TV (hackaday.com) |
| 124 points by DanBC on Dec 31, 2011 | 23 comments |
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| 8. | | Why Don’t We Value Spatial Intelligence? (gettingsmart.com) |
| 124 points by tokenadult on Dec 31, 2011 | 56 comments |
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| 9. | | Atari abuses copyright to kick competitors out of the iOS app store (kickstarter.com) |
| 112 points by extension on Dec 31, 2011 | 40 comments |
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| 10. | | Let's update the HN circle on Google Plus (the proper way) (axxim.net) |
| 99 points by clone1018 on Dec 31, 2011 | 66 comments |
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| 11. | | Ask HN: Fundamental texts for serious web engineers? |
| 95 points by BadassFractal on Dec 31, 2011 | 36 comments |
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| 12. | | Living in the Cloud - My New Year's Resolution from 2011 (leahculver.com) |
| 89 points by leahculver on Dec 31, 2011 | 30 comments |
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| 13. | | Maciej Fijalkowski's view on PyPy's future (lostinjit.blogspot.com) |
| 86 points by pieceofpeace on Dec 31, 2011 | 21 comments |
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| 14. | | MongoDB's Write Lock (pythonisito.com) |
| 75 points by rick446 on Dec 31, 2011 | 73 comments |
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| 15. | | Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990) (graduationwisdom.com) |
| 72 points by mrbogle on Dec 31, 2011 | 14 comments |
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| 16. | | $87 M. News Corp. Backed Startup Shuts Down Before Launch (betabeat.com) |
| 72 points by ccarella on Dec 31, 2011 | 26 comments |
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| 17. | | Booting an Intel Architecture System, Part I (drdobbs.com) |
| 66 points by termie on Dec 31, 2011 | 3 comments |
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| 18. | | Complete Google App Engine + Backbone.js + Require.js Todo list Web App Example (github.com/ronreiter) |
| 66 points by ronreiter on Dec 31, 2011 | 10 comments |
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| 19. | | Perl 6 in 2011 - A Retrospection (perlgeek.de) |
| 67 points by perlgeek on Dec 31, 2011 | 26 comments |
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| 20. | | Retailers Are Losing the Software Talent Wars (businessweek.com) |
| 64 points by jongraehl on Dec 31, 2011 | 88 comments |
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| 21. | | Reverse engineering uC firmware from audio signals (gravitronic.blogspot.com) |
| 63 points by anigbrowl on Dec 31, 2011 | 6 comments |
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| 22. | | K-Means Clustering and Art (0xfe.blogspot.com) |
| 60 points by mdwrigh2 on Dec 31, 2011 | 12 comments |
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| 23. | | Driving has lost its cool for young Americans (grist.org) |
| 59 points by robg on Dec 31, 2011 | 118 comments |
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| 24. | | 'Reputational' Media—Where Yelp Has an Edge Over AirBnB, VRBO, etc. (theatlantic.com) |
| 57 points by TWAndrews on Dec 31, 2011 | 19 comments |
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| 25. | | IBNIZ - A hardcore audiovisual VM (countercomplex.blogspot.com) |
| 55 points by paufernandez on Dec 31, 2011 | 10 comments |
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| 26. | | Xcode 4 ships a buggy compiler (phusion.nl) |
| 52 points by FooBarWidget on Dec 31, 2011 | 65 comments |
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| 27. | | Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel (uci.edu) |
| 50 points by MaysonL on Dec 31, 2011 | 8 comments |
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| 28. | | To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (dkeenan.com) |
| 48 points by llambda on Dec 31, 2011 | 7 comments |
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| 29. | | WebGL Meincraft (pocoo.org) |
| 46 points by llambda on Dec 31, 2011 | 20 comments |
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| 30. | | Obama Discreetly Signs NDAA on New Year's Eve (nytimes.com) |
| 43 points by joshuahedlund on Dec 31, 2011 | 12 comments |
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