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| Articles written in 2009 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2009 | | Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (research.microsoft.com) |
| 145 points | 9 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2009 | | Detexify: LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition (detexify.kirelabs.org) |
| 144 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2009 | | Lambda Calculus Examples (ics.uci.edu) |
| 144 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (ubiquity.acm.org) |
| 144 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 59 comments |
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| 2009 | | A Visual Overview of Typography (thinkingwithtype.com) |
| 143 points | 4 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2009 | | Letter from the grave (newyorker.com) |
| 143 points | 11 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2009 | | 90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (theonion.com) |
| 143 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2009 | | Antivirus Software Pioneer John McAfee Loses Fortune (abcnews.go.com) |
| 142 points | 12 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2009 | | What is the best way to programatically detect porn images? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 142 points | 10 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 2009 | | Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why (wired.com) |
| 141 points | 12 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2009 | | LavaBit's Architecture (possibility.com) |
| 140 points | 10 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2009 | | How do trains stay on track? (materials.mcmaster.ca) |
| 139 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2009 | | Cloudflare Beta (projecthoneypot.org) |
| 139 points | 1 year ago with 46 comments |
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| 2009 | | How I Hire Programmers (aaronsw.com) |
| 138 points | 8 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Strangest Book on the Theory of Computation (recursed.blogspot.com) |
| 138 points | 5 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2009 | | Be sceptical of your own work (terrytao.wordpress.com) |
| 136 points | 8 months ago with 39 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube (web.mit.edu) |
| 135 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2009 | | JPL Institutional Coding Standard for the C Programming Language (lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov) |
| 135 points | 5 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2009 | | Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (infoq.com) |
| 132 points | 12 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2009 | | Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (math.ucr.edu) |
| 132 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why MIT uses Python instead of Scheme for its undergraduate CS program (cemerick.com) |
| 131 points | 5 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2009 | | Co-routines as an alternative to state machines (eli.thegreenplace.net) |
| 131 points | 9 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2009 | | The B Lane Swimmer (holly.witteman.ca) |
| 130 points | 7 months ago with 33 comments |
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| 2009 | | Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com) |
| 129 points | 2 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2009 | | What does the “pipe” value mean in the output of “ping”? (web.archive.org) |
| 128 points | 8 months ago with 24 comments |
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| 2009 | | Laws of Fun (lesswrong.com) |
| 127 points | 2 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2009 | | You can't parse [X]HTML with regex (stackoverflow.com) |
| 127 points | 3 years ago with 130 comments |
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| 2009 | | Worst Puzzle Ever (blog.rongarret.info) |
| 127 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2009 | | Jan Koum promoting WhatsApp in the Flyertalk forum (flyertalk.com) |
| 126 points | 10 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2009 | | Stanford scholar gets six-figure settlement from James Joyce Estate (news.stanford.edu) |
| 126 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2009 | | All about Linux signals (linuxprogrammingblog.com) |
| 124 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2009 | | Body by Victoria (hackerfactor.com) |
| 124 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (johndcook.com) |
| 123 points | 12 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2009 | | U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry (reuters.com) |
| 123 points | 1 year ago with 305 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Most Shameful RPG Dice (toplessrobot.com) |
| 122 points | 1 year ago with 104 comments |
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| 2009 | | Java’s Forgotten Forebear (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 122 points | 5 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2009 | | Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down (chronicle.com) |
| 121 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2009 | | UEFI Programming – First Steps (x86asm.net) |
| 120 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (web.archive.org) |
| 120 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2009 | | Original Hacker News Source Code (github.com) |
| 119 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why do so many people move to the Falkland Islands? (slate.com) |
| 119 points | 2 years ago with 216 comments |
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| 2009 | | Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (infoq.com) |
| 118 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2009 | | An Explanation of Cricket (cs.purdue.edu) |
| 117 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2009 | | Advanced Programming Languages (matt.might.net) |
| 117 points | 2 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2009 | | Classification of the Principal Programming Paradigms (info.ucl.ac.be) |
| 116 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2009 | | Math for Machine Learning (umiacs.umd.edu) |
| 116 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2009 | | Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise (pnas.org) |
| 116 points | 3 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2009 | | How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 115 points | 6 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2009 | | An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (ft.com) |
| 115 points | 2 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2009 | | Writing English as a Second Language (theamericanscholar.org) |
| 115 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 11 comments |
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