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| Articles written in 2009 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2009 | | A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages (james-iry.blogspot.com) |
| 1765 points across 9 posts | 9 months ago with 64 comments |
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| 2009 | | I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived (uss-la-ca135.org) |
| 1657 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 257 comments |
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| 2009 | | Keep Your Identity Small (paulgraham.com) |
| 1415 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 162 comments |
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| 2009 | | Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (georgehart.com) |
| 1351 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 2009 | | “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (bugs.launchpad.net) |
| 996 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 207 comments |
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| 2009 | | Not Lisp again (funcall.blogspot.com) |
| 915 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2009 | | Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (improvingsoftware.com) |
| 910 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 430 comments |
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| 2009 | | How not to sort by average rating (evanmiller.org) |
| 858 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2009 | | Start all of your commands with a comma (rhodesmill.org) |
| 845 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 121 comments |
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| 2009 | | There Is No Speed Limit (sivers.org) |
| 837 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2009 | | Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (link.springer.com) |
| 830 points | 6 months ago with 235 comments |
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| 2009 | | The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (moserware.com) |
| 821 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2009 | | A stick figure guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (moserware.com) |
| 725 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2009 | | Maker's schedule, Manager's schedule (paulgraham.com) |
| 706 points across 6 posts | 9 months ago with 72 comments |
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| 2009 | | Linus’s rules on keeping Git history clean (mail-archive.com) |
| 688 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2009 | | There’s no speed limit (sive.rs) |
| 670 points | 1 year ago with 276 comments |
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| 2009 | | Papers every developer should read at least twice (michaelfeathers.silvrback.com) |
| 623 points | 2 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2009 | | Oberon (ignorethecode.net) |
| 618 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 143 comments |
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| 2009 | | Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (sivers.org) |
| 581 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 2009 | | Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know (info.ucl.ac.be) |
| 565 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2009 | | What I've Learned from Hacker News (paulgraham.com) |
| 553 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2009 | | What typing ^D does on Unix (utcc.utoronto.ca) |
| 536 points | 7 years ago with 156 comments |
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| 2009 | | Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (drdobbs.com) |
| 482 points | 6 years ago with 305 comments |
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| 2009 | | Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto (ecorenovator.org) |
| 477 points | 1 year ago with 246 comments |
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| 2009 | | A home microhydro plant (ludens.cl) |
| 464 points | 4 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (ribbonfarm.com) |
| 416 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 149 comments |
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| 2009 | | Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (beej.us) |
| 415 points across 2 posts | 5 months ago with 29 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics (math.vanderbilt.edu) |
| 400 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2009 | | “Facebook turned me down” (twitter.com) |
| 388 points | 10 years ago with 191 comments |
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| 2009 | | A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms (blog.rongarret.info) |
| 362 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 172 comments |
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| 2009 | | Quant Job Interview Questions (math.kent.edu) |
| 358 points | 7 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 2009 | | Intel's "cripple AMD" function (agner.org) |
| 356 points | 10 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2009 | | How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing (radian.org) |
| 354 points | 12 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2009 | | LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (gist.github.com) |
| 349 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 64 comments |
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| 2009 | | Linux ate my RAM (linuxatemyram.com) |
| 348 points across 3 posts | 6 months ago with 167 comments |
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| 2009 | | An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (web.archive.org) |
| 347 points | 5 years ago with 129 comments |
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| 2009 | | An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus (wraabe.wordpress.com) |
| 343 points | 5 years ago with 90 comments |
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| 2009 | | How to be a consultant, a freelancer, or an independent contractor (jacquesmattheij.com) |
| 343 points | 9 months ago with 163 comments |
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| 2009 | | Divisibility by 7 is a Walk on a Graph (blog.tanyakhovanova.com) |
| 335 points | 8 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (petersmagnusson.org) |
| 334 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2009 | | Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 330 points | 4 years ago with 293 comments |
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| 2009 | | Fuck the Cloud (ascii.textfiles.com) |
| 325 points | 8 years ago with 219 comments |
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| 2009 | | A beginner's guide to Big O notation (rob-bell.net) |
| 312 points | 7 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2009 | | Startups in 13 Sentences (paulgraham.com) |
| 306 points | 7 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2009 | | New York Times Election Day Crossword (crosswordunclued.com) |
| 300 points | 9 months ago with 44 comments |
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| 2009 | | 37signals valuation tops $100 billion after bold VC investment (37signals.com) |
| 300 points | 10 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (steveblank.com) |
| 299 points across 3 posts | 4 months ago with 3 comments |
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| 2009 | | Damn Cool Algorithms: Log structured storage (blog.notdot.net) |
| 296 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2009 | | LaTeX Coffee Stains (hanno-rein.de) |
| 288 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2009 | | Nobody wants to read your shit (stevenpressfield.com) |
| 276 points | 5 years ago with 84 comments |
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