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| Articles written in 2009 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2009 | | Hacking a Google Interview (courses.csail.mit.edu) |
| 189 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2009 | | How Command Line Parameters Are Parsed (daviddeley.com) |
| 186 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2009 | | Rules of Spycraft (oss.net) |
| 180 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2009 | | Linear algebra for game developers – Part 1 (blog.wolfire.com) |
| 177 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Emacs Calculator (nullprogram.com) |
| 177 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2009 | | The History of Random.org (random.org) |
| 176 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2009 | | Bryan Cantrill interviews Arthur Whitney (queue.acm.org) |
| 174 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2009 | | Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (bloomberg.com) |
| 172 points | 9 years ago with 163 comments |
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| 2009 | | colorForth (colorforth.github.io) |
| 171 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2009 | | Books of a Highly Effective Programmer (blog.fogus.me) |
| 171 points | 11 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2009 | | Teaching Concurrency (research.microsoft.com) |
| 171 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2009 | | Extinct goat was cold-blooded (phys.org) |
| 169 points | 1 year ago with 99 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? (econ.ucsb.edu) |
| 169 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 108 comments |
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| 2009 | | Typing the Letters A-E-S Into Your Code (chargen.matasano.com) |
| 168 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2009 | | Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (raphkoster.com) |
| 168 points | 4 years ago with 172 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why Google Employees Quit (techcrunch.com) |
| 167 points | 9 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2009 | | My $3.3M Mistake (sivers.org) |
| 165 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2009 | | Yakhchal: Ancient Refrigerators (eartharchitecture.org) |
| 165 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2009 | | Sugar, acid and teeth (dbskeptic.com) |
| 165 points | 12 years ago with 102 comments |
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| 2009 | | The $300M Button (articles.uie.com) |
| 164 points | 8 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2009 | | Things I Won't Work With: Thioacetone (science.org) |
| 164 points | 1 year ago with 75 comments |
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| 2009 | | NASA Open Sources Apollo 11 Code (apcmag.com) |
| 164 points | 10 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2009 | | Design of LuaJIT 2.0 (lua-users.org) |
| 162 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2009 | | Qian Xuesen dies at 98; Co-Founder of JPL and China's space program (latimes.com) |
| 159 points | 10 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2009 | | How and Why Athletes Go Broke (si.com) |
| 158 points | 6 years ago with 262 comments |
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| 2009 | | Plain English explanation of Big O? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 158 points | 11 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2009 | | User interface design timeframes: from 0.1 seconds to 10 years (nngroup.com) |
| 158 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 56 comments |
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| 2009 | | Summary of all the MIT Introduction to Algorithms lectures (catonmat.net) |
| 158 points | 4 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2009 | | Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (sensi.org) |
| 157 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 32 comments |
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| 2009 | | Users Rationally Rejecting Security Advice (schneier.com) |
| 155 points | 9 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2009 | | Starting your own bank is laborious but profitable (wealthmanagement.com) |
| 154 points | 6 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2009 | | DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show (nytimes.com) |
| 154 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2009 | | Acetaminophen and the War on Drugs (paleonu.com) |
| 154 points | 13 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2009 | | Reasonable Person Principle (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 152 points | 3 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2009 | | Gresham’s Law: Bad Drives Out Good as Time Passes (fs.blog) |
| 150 points | 4 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2009 | | Origins of Python's “Functional” Features (python-history.blogspot.com) |
| 150 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2009 | | A Practical Guide to Correctly Troubleshooting with Traceroute (nanog.org) |
| 150 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2009 | | A Unix Utility to Know About: lsof (catonmat.net) |
| 149 points | 8 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2009 | | Ignore Sunk Costs (seths.blog) |
| 149 points | 4 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. – San Francisco (sfweekly.com) |
| 148 points | 11 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 2009 | | A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (catonmat.net) |
| 148 points | 11 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur (kauffman.org) |
| 148 points | 11 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2009 | | C’s Biggest Mistake (digitalmars.com) |
| 148 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 96 comments |
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| 2009 | | My favorite liar (zenmoments.org) |
| 147 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Life of a Cherry Drying Pilot (aneclecticmind.com) |
| 147 points | 5 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2009 | | “Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (europe.theoildrum.com) |
| 147 points | 6 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2009 | | Influenza A (H1N1) – How many bits does it take to kill a human? (bunniestudios.com) |
| 146 points | 7 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2009 | | Super Resolution from a Single Image (wisdom.weizmann.ac.il) |
| 146 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Art of Kimchi (saveur.com) |
| 146 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2009 | | The joy of index cards (nickpage.co.uk) |
| 146 points | 6 years ago with 65 comments |
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