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| Articles written in 2009 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2009 | | Can I Talk to that William Fellow? He was so Helpful (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) |
| 246 points | 5 years ago with 126 comments |
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| 2009 | | How to Write Your Own Compiler (staff.polito.it) |
| 246 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2009 | | Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (arxiv.org) |
| 245 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (ubiquity.acm.org) |
| 243 points across 3 posts | 2 annotations | 2 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 2009 | | What a Real Train System Looks Like (newworldeconomics.com) |
| 240 points | 3 years ago with 199 comments |
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| 2009 | | Amish Hackers (kk.org) |
| 237 points across 2 posts | 5 months ago with 61 comments |
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| 2009 | | On Being Smart (sma.epfl.ch) |
| 236 points | 6 years ago with 130 comments |
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| 2009 | | Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (gamesfromwithin.com) |
| 236 points | 1 year ago with 359 comments |
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| 2009 | | PSD is not my favourite file format (github.com) |
| 235 points | 1 year ago with 103 comments |
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| 2009 | | Not Lisp again (funcall.blogspot.sg) |
| 234 points | 9 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 2009 | | Growing a Compiler (cs.dartmouth.edu) |
| 234 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2009 | | Mathematics for Physics (goldbart.gatech.edu) |
| 233 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2009 | | C’s Biggest Mistake (digitalmars.com) |
| 232 points | 1 year ago with 374 comments |
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| 2009 | | What is your favorite C programming trick? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 229 points | 1 year ago with 180 comments |
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| 2009 | | I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement (nobelprize.org) |
| 227 points | 4 years ago with 212 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why we don't use Galileo's last name (slate.com) |
| 223 points | 2 years ago with 169 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Egg (galactanet.com) |
| 223 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2009 | | How we made GitHub fast (github.com) |
| 222 points across 2 posts | 2 annotations | 6 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2009 | | Suicide Linux (qntm.org) |
| 218 points across 2 posts | 6 annotations | 1 year ago with 170 comments |
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| 2009 | | Anatomy of a Program in Memory (duartes.org) |
| 212 points across 4 posts | 3 annotations | 10 months ago with 5 comments |
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| 2009 | | OpenSSL is written by monkeys (peereboom.us) |
| 212 points | 8 years ago with 180 comments |
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| 2009 | | Robert Sapolsky on Depression (robertsapolskyrocks.com) |
| 212 points | 10 months ago with 123 comments |
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| 2009 | | HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (news.ycombinator.com) |
| 211 points | 1 year ago with 140 comments |
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| 2009 | | The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wrong (stackoverflow.blog) |
| 209 points | 1 year ago with 447 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why Is C Faster Than Java (marc.info) |
| 209 points | 2 annotations | 6 months ago with 366 comments |
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| 2009 | | Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts (scientificamerican.com) |
| 208 points | 5 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (wisdomandwonder.com) |
| 205 points | 5 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2009 | | Existential Depression in Gifted Children and Adults (hoagiesgifted.org) |
| 204 points | 5 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 2009 | | All or something (37signals.com) |
| 202 points | 10 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2009 | | Fixing Unix/Linux/Posix Filenames (dwheeler.com) |
| 201 points across 2 posts | 4 annotations | 3 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2009 | | The C language is purely functional (conal.net) |
| 200 points across 3 posts | 3 annotations | 3 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2009 | | Visualizing Bayes Theorem (oscarbonilla.com) |
| 200 points across 2 posts | 6 months ago with 21 comments |
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| 2009 | | The SO_LINGER page, or: why is my TCP not reliable (blog.netherlabs.nl) |
| 199 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 8 comments |
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| 2009 | | Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app code “just work” (lwn.net) |
| 195 points | 2 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2009 | | Recreating the THX Deep Note (earslap.com) |
| 193 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks (thenewatlantis.com) |
| 191 points | 1 year ago with 166 comments |
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| 2009 | | The 1,000-hour rule (pgbovine.net) |
| 190 points | 7 years ago with 119 comments |
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| 2009 | | Hacking a Google Interview (courses.csail.mit.edu) |
| 189 points | 4 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2009 | | How Command Line Parameters Are Parsed (daviddeley.com) |
| 186 points across 2 posts | 1 annotation | 3 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2009 | | Rules of Spycraft (oss.net) |
| 180 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2009 | | Linear algebra for game developers – Part 1 (blog.wolfire.com) |
| 177 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Emacs Calculator (nullprogram.com) |
| 177 points | 4 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2009 | | The History of Random.org (random.org) |
| 176 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2009 | | Bryan Cantrill interviews Arthur Whitney (queue.acm.org) |
| 174 points across 2 posts | 1 annotation | 2 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2009 | | Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (beej.us) |
| 174 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2009 | | Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (bloomberg.com) |
| 172 points | 7 years ago with 163 comments |
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| 2009 | | colorForth (colorforth.github.io) |
| 171 points across 2 posts | 2 annotations | 8 months ago with 54 comments |
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| 2009 | | Books of a Highly Effective Programmer (blog.fogus.me) |
| 171 points | 9 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2009 | | Teaching Concurrency (research.microsoft.com) |
| 171 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? (econ.ucsb.edu) |
| 169 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 108 comments |
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