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Articles written in 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2009“To a Top Scientist at Woomera Rocket Range, South Australia” (lettersofnote.com)
95 points | 7 years ago with 8 comments
2009The Safe C Library (drdobbs.com)
94 points | 7 years ago with 108 comments
2009A New Form of Social Withdrawal in Japan: A Review of ‘Hikikomori’ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
94 points | 7 years ago with 69 comments
2009The Duct Tape Programmer (joelonsoftware.com)
93 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments
2009Is Haskell a Good Choice for Web Applications? (jekor.com)
93 points | 12 years ago with 21 comments
2009Let It Crash the Right Way (mazenharake.wordpress.com)
92 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments
2009Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (washingtonpost.com)
92 points | 6 years ago with 220 comments
2009Lovelace – The Origin (sydneypadua.com)
91 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
2009The TRIBES Engine Networking Model (gamedevs.org)
91 points | 7 years ago with 66 comments
2009“I have already used the name for my programming language” (github.com)
91 points | 8 years ago with 74 comments
2009Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor (theguardian.com)
91 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments
2009Linux Kernel Modules in Haskell (tommd.wordpress.com)
90 points | 10 years ago with 48 comments
2009The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor (scientificamerican.com)
90 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2009Benefits of Napping in Healthy Adults (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
88 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments
2009Your body wasn’t built to last: Math of human mortality (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
88 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2009Fully Countering Trusting Trust Through Diverse Double-Compiling (dwheeler.com)
88 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments
2009Attacked from Within (atdt.freeshell.org)
88 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2009The unspoken truth about managing geeks (computerworld.com)
88 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
2009How To Be a Consultant, a freelancer or an independent contractor (jacquesmattheij.com)
88 points | 13 years ago with 7 comments
2009Kind of Bloop (kindofbloop.com)
87 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments
2009Someone Stole My Startup Idea: They Raised Money with My Slides? (steveblank.com)
87 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2009The miracle of Smalltalk’s become: (gbracha.blogspot.com)
87 points | 1 year ago with 29 comments
2009Microchips That Shook the World (spectrum.ieee.org)
87 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 24 comments
2009History of Tcl (web.stanford.edu)
86 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2009Hello Haskell, Goodbye Lisp (newartisans.com)
86 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 68 comments
2009On Being Jewish in State Prison (splcenter.org)
85 points | 6 years ago with 42 comments
2009Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarine (ru-submarine.livejournal.com)
85 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2009The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News (bitquabit.com)
85 points | 10 years ago with 25 comments
2009A tutorial on active learning (hunch.net)
85 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2009Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (wired.com)
85 points | 5 months ago with 78 comments
2009How London buses are numbered (markhadfield.typepad.com)
84 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2009J Has the Best Development Environment (prog21.dadgum.com)
84 points | 9 years ago with 41 comments
2009Entitlement issues (journal.neilgaiman.com)
84 points | 2 years ago with 184 comments
2009Freeman Dyson takes on the climate establishment (e360.yale.edu)
83 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments
2009Tail calls, tailrec and trampolines (blog.richdougherty.com)
83 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments
2009Time management trips I learned from years of hating Tim Ferriss (blog.penelopetrunk.com)
82 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2009Is Food the New Sex? (hoover.org)
82 points | 9 years ago with 81 comments
2009Proquints: Identifiers That Are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (arxiv.org)
82 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments
2009Work on stuff that matters, first principles (radar.oreilly.com)
80 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments
2009Forget Shorter Showers (orionmagazine.org)
79 points | 9 years ago with 68 comments
2009Netflix's Culture Document (slideshare.net)
79 points | 11 years ago with 33 comments
2009The LED's Dark Secret (spectrum.ieee.org)
79 points | 9 years ago with 45 comments
2009How powerful was the Apollo 11 computer? (downloadsquad.switched.com)
78 points | 10 years ago with 51 comments
2009Why Did Symbolics Fail? (danweinreb.org)
78 points | 10 years ago with 61 comments
2009Zombie Operating Systems and ASP.NET MVC (bitquabit.com)
78 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments
2009Interview with Brad Cox, the Man Behind Objective-C (mactech.com)
77 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments
2009The cybernetics scare and the origins of the Internet (balticworlds.com)
77 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
2009Analysis of Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back Atari ST Floppy Disks (dmweb.free.fr)
76 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments
2009Goldman Sachs: The Great American Bubble Machine (rollingstone.com)
75 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2009The Problem of the Aging Surgeon (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
75 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments
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