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Articles written in 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2009Climbing the wrong hill (cdixon.org)
273 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 101 comments
2009Aaron Swartz's Thoughts on djb (aaronsw.com)
271 points | 9 years ago with 137 comments
2009The /bin/true Command and Copyright (trillian.mit.edu)
267 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 83 comments
2009Choice of search engine on Android nuked by “Anonymous Coward” (android.googlesource.com)
265 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments
2009The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (steveblank.com)
264 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 198 comments
2009What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're from Korea or Japan (pagef30.com)
262 points | 4 years ago with 183 comments
2009Conflating pointers with arrays: C's biggest mistake? (digitalmars.com)
260 points | 6 years ago with 254 comments
2009Apple’s Mistake (paulgraham.com)
258 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 261 comments
2009Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (popularmechanics.com)
254 points | 3 years ago with 210 comments
2009Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (codersatwork.com)
252 points across 2 posts | 10 months ago with 32 comments
2009Dice-O-Matic hopper and elevator (gamesbyemail.com)
246 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments
2009Can I Talk to that William Fellow? He was so Helpful (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
246 points | 7 years ago with 126 comments
2009How to Write Your Own Compiler (staff.polito.it)
246 points | 7 years ago with 42 comments
2009Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (arxiv.org)
245 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 31 comments
2009What a Real Train System Looks Like (newworldeconomics.com)
240 points | 6 years ago with 199 comments
2009Amish Hackers (kk.org)
237 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 61 comments
2009On Being Smart (sma.epfl.ch)
236 points | 9 years ago with 130 comments
2009Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (gamesfromwithin.com)
236 points | 3 years ago with 359 comments
2009PSD is not my favourite file format (github.com)
235 points | 3 years ago with 103 comments
2009Not Lisp again (funcall.blogspot.sg)
234 points | 11 years ago with 175 comments
2009Growing a Compiler (cs.dartmouth.edu)
234 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments
2009Mathematics for Physics (goldbart.gatech.edu)
233 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2009What is your favorite C programming trick? (stackoverflow.com)
229 points | 3 years ago with 180 comments
2009I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement (nobelprize.org)
227 points | 7 years ago with 212 comments
2009Why we don't use Galileo's last name (slate.com)
223 points | 5 years ago with 169 comments
2009The Egg (galactanet.com)
223 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments
2009How we made GitHub fast (github.com)
222 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2009Head-On Crash: 2009 Chevrolet Malibu vs. 1959 Bel Air (thecarconnection.com)
222 points | 2 years ago with 211 comments
2009Suicide Linux (qntm.org)
218 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 170 comments
2009ldd arbitrary code execution (catonmat.net)
217 points | 1 year ago with 85 comments
2009Anatomy of a Program in Memory (duartes.org)
212 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 5 comments
2009OpenSSL is written by monkeys (peereboom.us)
212 points | 10 years ago with 180 comments
2009Robert Sapolsky on Depression (robertsapolskyrocks.com)
212 points | 3 years ago with 123 comments
2009HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (news.ycombinator.com)
211 points | 3 years ago with 140 comments
2009The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wrong (stackoverflow.blog)
209 points | 3 years ago with 447 comments
2009Why Is C Faster Than Java (marc.info)
209 points | 2 years ago with 366 comments
2009Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts (scientificamerican.com)
208 points | 7 years ago with 133 comments
2009Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (wisdomandwonder.com)
205 points | 7 years ago with 97 comments
2009Existential Depression in Gifted Children and Adults (hoagiesgifted.org)
204 points | 8 years ago with 128 comments
2009Baker's Math (thefreshloaf.com)
204 points | 2 years ago with 113 comments
2009All or something (37signals.com)
202 points | 12 years ago with 64 comments
2009Fixing Unix/Linux/Posix Filenames (dwheeler.com)
201 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 96 comments
2009The C language is purely functional (conal.net)
200 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 31 comments
2009Work less, get more done: Analytics for maximizing productivity (kalzumeus.com)
200 points | 1 year ago with 116 comments
2009Visualizing Bayes Theorem (oscarbonilla.com)
200 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2009The SO_LINGER page, or: why is my TCP not reliable (blog.netherlabs.nl)
199 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 8 comments
2009Consciousness and Anaesthesia (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
197 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 173 comments
2009Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app code “just work” (lwn.net)
195 points | 4 years ago with 110 comments
2009The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks (thenewatlantis.com)
191 points | 3 years ago with 166 comments
2009The 1,000-hour rule (pgbovine.net)
190 points | 10 years ago with 119 comments
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