| 1. | | Show HN: Responsive Email Templates (zurb.com) |
| 310 points by forrestkoba on Nov 30, 2012 | 93 comments |
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| 2. | | Google acquires BufferBox (YC S12) (financialpost.com) |
| 295 points by mmccauley on Nov 30, 2012 | 156 comments |
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| 3. | | 2D Game Art for Programmers (2dgameartforprogrammers.blogspot.in) |
| 257 points by selvan on Nov 30, 2012 | 83 comments |
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| 4. | | Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College (chronicle.com) |
| 225 points by ilamont on Nov 30, 2012 | 91 comments |
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| 5. | | Love Your Terminal (andrewhays.net) |
| 192 points by Dru89 on Nov 30, 2012 | 136 comments |
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| 6. | | How to directly upload files to Amazon S3 from your client side web app (codeartists.com) |
| 194 points by tadruj on Nov 30, 2012 | 36 comments |
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| 7. | | Why I Sold My Startup Instead Of Taking VC Money (builtinchicago.org) |
| 189 points by tallross on Nov 30, 2012 | 54 comments |
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| 8. | | Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten (play-dune.com) |
| 185 points by experiment0 on Nov 30, 2012 | 64 comments |
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| 9. | | Canadian scientists create a functioning, virtual brain (canada.com) |
| 172 points by georgeorwell on Nov 30, 2012 | 102 comments |
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| 10. | | The Useless Web (theuselessweb.com) |
| 155 points by dutchbrit on Nov 30, 2012 | 58 comments |
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| 11. | | 24 Pull Requests - Giving little gifts of code for Christmas (24pullrequests.com) |
| 152 points by andrewnez on Nov 30, 2012 | 38 comments |
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| 12. | | A Warning for Airbnb Hosts (nytimes.com) |
| 142 points by trauco on Nov 30, 2012 | 176 comments |
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| 13. | | Cuddle Mattress (indiegogo.com) |
| 139 points by sasanrose on Nov 30, 2012 | 75 comments |
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| 14. | | BufferBox: We're Joining Google (bufferbox.com) |
| 128 points by paulgb on Nov 30, 2012 | 45 comments |
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| 15. | | Chinese Architecture, Old and New (theatlantic.com) |
| 114 points by thingummywut on Nov 30, 2012 | 26 comments |
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| 16. | | How four Microsoft engineers proved that the “darknet” would defeat DRM (arstechnica.com) |
| 107 points by th0ma5 on Nov 30, 2012 | 133 comments |
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| 17. | | A non-programmer’s solution to “Fizz Buzz” (nixonmcinnes.co.uk) |
| 101 points by wintron on Nov 30, 2012 | 54 comments |
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| 18. | | Wordpress site running on Raspberry Pi (vo3.net) |
| 99 points by jstalin on Nov 30, 2012 | 36 comments |
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| 19. | | Getting Plan 9 Running on the Raspberry Pi (bendyworks.com) |
| 96 points by listrophy on Nov 30, 2012 | 34 comments |
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| 20. | | BlackBerry 10: Awesome (theregister.co.uk) |
| 90 points by taylorbuley on Nov 30, 2012 | 64 comments |
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| 21. | | The Case for Drinking as Much Coffee as You Like (theatlantic.com) |
| 88 points by alexpopescu on Nov 30, 2012 | 92 comments |
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| 22. | | My GitHub Game Off 2012 Roguelike (ondras.github.com) |
| 86 points by ondras on Nov 30, 2012 | 20 comments |
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| 23. | | The future of GPS (opensignal.com) |
| 89 points by sinak on Nov 30, 2012 | 45 comments |
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| 24. | | How I Gamified the Google Interview (livingforimprovement.com) |
| 84 points by nireyal on Nov 30, 2012 | 60 comments |
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| 25. | | I was wrong (appcubby.com) |
| 82 points by superchink on Nov 30, 2012 | 28 comments |
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| 26. | | Show HN: My HTML5 Game for Github Game Off (khele.in) |
| 82 points by binarydreams on Nov 30, 2012 | 24 comments |
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| 27. | | Learning Python the pragmatic way (jmoz.co.uk) |
| 77 points by jwmoz on Nov 30, 2012 | 28 comments |
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| 28. | | tabIndent.js - A JavaScript Library For Tab-Enabled TextAreas (julianlam.github.com) |
| 76 points by Hirvesh on Nov 30, 2012 | 33 comments |
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| 29. | | The Obama Start-ups (economist.com) |
| 73 points by sethbannon on Nov 30, 2012 | 2 comments |
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1. To protect hotel owners and operators.
2. To protect consumers. They are guaranteed that the hotel has proper insurance, for example.
3. To protect neighbours. You can't open up a hotel in the house next door for much the same reasons that you can't open a pub or an aluminum smelter.
4. And yes, there is some rent seeking behaviour. I'll just mention transient accommodation taxes.
You may agree or disagree with the various laws to various degrees, but you must admit that they exist for a reason. By all means discuss reforms that can be made, but please stop with the "these laws are stupid" or "serve no purpose" sort of sentiments.