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Articles written in 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2009Hacking a Google Interview (courses.csail.mit.edu)
189 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments
2009How Command Line Parameters Are Parsed (daviddeley.com)
186 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments
2009Rules of Spycraft (oss.net)
180 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 62 comments
2009Linear algebra for game developers – Part 1 (blog.wolfire.com)
177 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2009The Emacs Calculator (nullprogram.com)
177 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
2009The History of Random.org (random.org)
176 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments
2009Bryan Cantrill interviews Arthur Whitney (queue.acm.org)
174 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 14 comments
2009Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (bloomberg.com)
172 points | 9 years ago with 163 comments
2009colorForth (colorforth.github.io)
171 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 54 comments
2009Books of a Highly Effective Programmer (blog.fogus.me)
171 points | 11 years ago with 35 comments
2009Teaching Concurrency (research.microsoft.com)
171 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 44 comments
2009Extinct goat was cold-blooded (phys.org)
169 points | 5 months ago with 99 comments
2009The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? (econ.ucsb.edu)
169 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 108 comments
2009Typing the Letters A-E-S Into Your Code (chargen.matasano.com)
168 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments
2009Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (raphkoster.com)
168 points | 3 years ago with 172 comments
2009Why Google Employees Quit (techcrunch.com)
167 points | 8 years ago with 101 comments
2009My $3.3M Mistake (sivers.org)
165 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments
2009Yakhchal: Ancient Refrigerators (eartharchitecture.org)
165 points | 5 years ago with 49 comments
2009Sugar, acid and teeth (dbskeptic.com)
165 points | 11 years ago with 102 comments
2009The $300M Button (articles.uie.com)
164 points | 8 years ago with 72 comments
2009Things I Won't Work With: Thioacetone (science.org)
164 points | 1 year ago with 75 comments
2009NASA Open Sources Apollo 11 Code (apcmag.com)
164 points | 9 years ago with 36 comments
2009Design of LuaJIT 2.0 (lua-users.org)
162 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 3 comments
2009Qian Xuesen dies at 98; Co-Founder of JPL and China's space program (latimes.com)
159 points | 10 years ago with 84 comments
2009How and Why Athletes Go Broke (si.com)
158 points | 6 years ago with 262 comments
2009Plain English explanation of Big O? (stackoverflow.com)
158 points | 10 years ago with 24 comments
2009User interface design timeframes: from 0.1 seconds to 10 years (nngroup.com)
158 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 56 comments
2009Summary of all the MIT Introduction to Algorithms lectures (catonmat.net)
158 points | 3 years ago with 9 comments
2009Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (sensi.org)
157 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 32 comments
2009Users Rationally Rejecting Security Advice (schneier.com)
155 points | 8 years ago with 91 comments
2009Starting your own bank is laborious but profitable (wealthmanagement.com)
154 points | 5 years ago with 155 comments
2009DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show (nytimes.com)
154 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
2009Acetaminophen and the War on Drugs (paleonu.com)
154 points | 13 years ago with 58 comments
2009Reasonable Person Principle (cs.cmu.edu)
152 points | 2 years ago with 109 comments
2009Gresham’s Law: Bad Drives Out Good as Time Passes (fs.blog)
150 points | 3 years ago with 110 comments
2009Origins of Python's “Functional” Features (python-history.blogspot.com)
150 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2009A Practical Guide to Correctly Troubleshooting with Traceroute (nanog.org)
150 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2009A Unix Utility to Know About: lsof (catonmat.net)
149 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments
2009Ignore Sunk Costs (seths.blog)
149 points | 4 years ago with 98 comments
2009The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. – San Francisco (sfweekly.com)
148 points | 11 years ago with 121 comments
2009A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (catonmat.net)
148 points | 10 years ago with 36 comments
2009The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur (kauffman.org)
148 points | 11 years ago with 106 comments
2009C’s Biggest Mistake (digitalmars.com)
148 points across 2 posts | 8 months ago with 96 comments
2009My favorite liar (zenmoments.org)
147 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2009The Life of a Cherry Drying Pilot (aneclecticmind.com)
147 points | 4 years ago with 96 comments
2009“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (europe.theoildrum.com)
147 points | 6 years ago with 91 comments
2009Influenza A (H1N1) – How many bits does it take to kill a human? (bunniestudios.com)
146 points | 7 years ago with 29 comments
2009Super Resolution from a Single Image (wisdom.weizmann.ac.il)
146 points | 8 years ago with 42 comments
2009The Art of Kimchi (saveur.com)
146 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments
2009The joy of index cards (nickpage.co.uk)
146 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments
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