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| Articles written in 2009 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2009 | | Climbing the wrong hill (cdixon.org) |
| 273 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2009 | | Aaron Swartz's Thoughts on djb (aaronsw.com) |
| 271 points | 10 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 2009 | | The /bin/true Command and Copyright (trillian.mit.edu) |
| 267 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2009 | | Choice of search engine on Android nuked by “Anonymous Coward” (android.googlesource.com) |
| 265 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (steveblank.com) |
| 264 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 198 comments |
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| 2009 | | What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're from Korea or Japan (pagef30.com) |
| 262 points | 4 years ago with 183 comments |
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| 2009 | | Conflating pointers with arrays: C's biggest mistake? (digitalmars.com) |
| 260 points | 6 years ago with 254 comments |
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| 2009 | | Apple’s Mistake (paulgraham.com) |
| 258 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 261 comments |
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| 2009 | | Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (popularmechanics.com) |
| 254 points | 3 years ago with 210 comments |
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| 2009 | | Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (codersatwork.com) |
| 252 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 32 comments |
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| 2009 | | Dice-O-Matic hopper and elevator (gamesbyemail.com) |
| 246 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2009 | | Can I Talk to that William Fellow? He was so Helpful (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) |
| 246 points | 8 years ago with 126 comments |
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| 2009 | | How to Write Your Own Compiler (staff.polito.it) |
| 246 points | 7 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 | 7 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2009 | | What a Real Train System Looks Like (newworldeconomics.com) |
| 240 points | 6 years ago with 199 comments |
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| 2009 | | Amish Hackers (kk.org) |
| 237 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2009 | | On Being Smart (sma.epfl.ch) |
| 236 points | 9 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 | 4 years ago with 359 comments |
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| 2009 | | PSD is not my favourite file format (github.com) |
| 235 points | 4 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 2009 | | Not Lisp again (funcall.blogspot.sg) |
| 234 points | 12 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 2009 | | Growing a Compiler (cs.dartmouth.edu) |
| 234 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2009 | | Mathematics for Physics (goldbart.gatech.edu) |
| 233 points | 8 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2009 | | What is your favorite C programming trick? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 229 points | 4 years ago with 180 comments |
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| 2009 | | I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement (nobelprize.org) |
| 227 points | 7 years ago with 212 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why we don't use Galileo's last name (slate.com) |
| 223 points | 5 years ago with 169 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Egg (galactanet.com) |
| 223 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2009 | | How we made GitHub fast (github.com) |
| 222 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2009 | | Head-On Crash: 2009 Chevrolet Malibu vs. 1959 Bel Air (thecarconnection.com) |
| 222 points | 2 years ago with 211 comments |
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| 2009 | | Suicide Linux (qntm.org) |
| 218 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 170 comments |
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| 2009 | | ldd arbitrary code execution (catonmat.net) |
| 217 points | 1 year ago with 85 comments |
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| 2009 | | Anatomy of a Program in Memory (duartes.org) |
| 212 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2009 | | OpenSSL is written by monkeys (peereboom.us) |
| 212 points | 11 years ago with 180 comments |
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| 2009 | | Robert Sapolsky on Depression (robertsapolskyrocks.com) |
| 212 points | 3 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 2009 | | HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (news.ycombinator.com) |
| 211 points | 4 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 2009 | | The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wrong (stackoverflow.blog) |
| 209 points | 4 years ago with 447 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why Is C Faster Than Java (marc.info) |
| 209 points | 3 years ago with 366 comments |
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| 2009 | | Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts (scientificamerican.com) |
| 208 points | 8 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (wisdomandwonder.com) |
| 205 points | 8 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2009 | | Existential Depression in Gifted Children and Adults (hoagiesgifted.org) |
| 204 points | 8 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 2009 | | Baker's Math (thefreshloaf.com) |
| 204 points | 2 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 2009 | | All or something (37signals.com) |
| 202 points | 13 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2009 | | Fixing Unix/Linux/Posix Filenames (dwheeler.com) |
| 201 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2009 | | The C language is purely functional (conal.net) |
| 200 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2009 | | Work less, get more done: Analytics for maximizing productivity (kalzumeus.com) |
| 200 points | 2 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2009 | | Visualizing Bayes Theorem (oscarbonilla.com) |
| 200 points across 2 posts | 3 years 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 | 4 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2009 | | Consciousness and Anaesthesia (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 197 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 2009 | | Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app code “just work” (lwn.net) |
| 195 points | 5 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks (thenewatlantis.com) |
| 191 points | 4 years ago with 166 comments |
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| 2009 | | The 1,000-hour rule (pgbovine.net) |
| 190 points | 10 years ago with 119 comments |
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