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Articles written in 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2009Where Are the Fins? (apogeerockets.com)
45 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments
2009The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data (static.googleusercontent.com)
44 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2009Natural Language Corpus Data (norvig.com)
44 points | 11 years ago with 3 comments
2009Autofocus System (static1.1.sqspcdn.com)
44 points | 7 years ago with 7 comments
2009Napoleon as Organizational Designer (dtic.mil)
44 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2009Designing Aero Snap (web.archive.org)
43 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments
2009Patterson's Cipher for Jefferson – Challenge Solved After 200 Years (cryptiana.web.fc2.com)
43 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2009After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation (tdpf.org.uk)
43 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2009An Appalachian gunsmith’s robot army (newyorker.com)
43 points | 10 years ago with 51 comments
2009Automatic Differentiation (justindomke.wordpress.com)
43 points | 8 years ago with 30 comments
2009A thoroughly modern particle system (directtovideo.wordpress.com)
42 points | 4 years ago with 6 comments
2009Automatically Mimicking Unique Hand-Drawn Pencil Lines (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
42 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments
2009The Pac-Man Dossier – Meet the Ghosts (home.comcast.net)
42 points | 9 years ago with 4 comments
2009“Hugo Cornwall” and the Hacker's Handbook (pmsommer.net)
42 points | 4 years ago with 3 comments
2009The Strategic Consequences of F-22 Termination (ausairpower.net)
42 points | 11 years ago with 50 comments
2009A Thought for Your Pennies: Micropayment and the Liberation of Content (transcopyright.org)
42 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments
2009Usability and Key Management (csrc.nist.gov)
42 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2009Deactivate the Rootkit: Attacks on BIOS anti-theft technologies (blackhat.com)
42 points | 4 years ago with 1 comments
2009RunWithScissors() (android.googlesource.com)
42 points | 1 year ago with 22 comments
2009Legacy PC design misery (mjg59.livejournal.com)
42 points | 9 years ago with 25 comments
2009The loudness wars: Why music sounds worse (npr.org)
42 points | 13 years ago with 23 comments
2009Achieving Eye Contact in a One-To-Many 3D Video Teleconferencing System (gl.ict.usc.edu)
41 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
2009The hidden cost of C++ (rachelslabnotes.com)
41 points | 12 years ago with 70 comments
2009Technology First, Needs Last (jnd.org)
41 points | 4 years ago with 6 comments
2009The Man Who Invented Pi (historytoday.com)
40 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2009Software patents should be abolished (cdixon.org)
40 points | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2009Money, the Unit of Caring (lesswrong.com)
40 points | 1 year ago with 80 comments
2009Perceptions of Randomness: Why Three Heads Are Better Than Four (psych.cf.ac.uk)
40 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2009Video Games as High Art? Roger Ebert and the cultural abyss (doomlaser.com)
40 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments
2009Elliptical Propeller (rexresearch.com)
40 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
2009Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (washingtonpost.com)
40 points | 2 years ago with 101 comments
2009The C++ bashing season is back (eli.thegreenplace.net)
40 points | 9 years ago with 96 comments
2009Ragtime is neither classical music nor jazz (frederickhodges.com)
40 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments
2009Ubuntu Causes Girl To Drop Out Of College (youtube.com)
40 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 9 comments
2009Twenty years, only a few tears (doublefine.com)
40 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments
2009Amber Ale: Brewing Beer from 45M-Year-Old Yeast (wired.com)
39 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2009X.org Alternatives? MicroXWin, Wayland, Y, DFB, Xynth, Fresco, etc. (bbs.archlinux.org)
39 points | 1 year ago with 68 comments
2009Tools: Proxxon Mini Drill Press TBM115 / TBM220 (hackaday.com)
39 points | 2 years ago with 27 comments
2009The cancer vaccine roller coaster (nature.com)
39 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
2009Mastering Dyalog APL (dyalog.com)
38 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2009Drill small, precise holes (instructables.com)
37 points | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2009Why districts are slow to charge market rates for water (onthepublicrecord.org)
37 points | 1 year ago with 65 comments
2009The Real American Pie (chicagoreader.com)
37 points | 1 year ago with 10 comments
2009The Three Projections of Doctor Futamura (blog.sigfpe.com)
36 points | 1 year ago with 7 comments
2009What is parallelism, anyhow? (web.archive.org)
34 points | 2 years ago with 37 comments
2009Ventilated Prose (vanemden.wordpress.com)
34 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2009“The Golden Age of Software Architecture” Revisited (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
34 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2009Software Design Review (philip.greenspun.com)
33 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments
2009Texas has at least 38 kinds of police agencies (arencambre.com)
33 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2009Analytic versus Continental Philosophy (philosophynow.org)
33 points | 2 years ago with 16 comments
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