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Articles written in 2010 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2010The answer to “Will you mentor me?” is no (pindancing.blogspot.com)
294 points | 5 years ago with 81 comments
2010A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming (aem.umn.edu)
291 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2010My history with Forth and stack machines (yosefk.com)
277 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 98 comments
2010Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers (prog21.dadgum.com)
276 points | 1 year ago with 84 comments
2010Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour (daemonology.net)
275 points | 10 years ago with 97 comments
2010Will It Optimize? (ridiculousfish.com)
275 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 26 comments
2010Facebook's Zuckerberg Says the Age of Privacy Is Over (archive.nytimes.com)
274 points | 6 years ago with 96 comments
2010Tabnabbing: A New Type of Phishing Attack (azarask.in)
273 points | 10 years ago with 95 comments
2010The US government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (slate.com)
271 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 98 comments
2010A successful Git branching model (nvie.com)
268 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 74 comments
2010On 81st birthday, Oregon man gives company to employees (seattletimes.com)
265 points | 11 years ago with 57 comments
2010Calling NSA to find your encryption key after a few bits were flipped (astroengineer.wordpress.com)
264 points | 2 years ago with 122 comments
2010Fuck the Super Game Boy (loveconquersallgam.es)
262 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 39 comments
2010'All I wanted to do is build a house' (beta.theglobeandmail.com)
262 points | 7 years ago with 244 comments
2010Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (mitpress.mit.edu)
260 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments
2010Git for Computer Scientists (eagain.net)
259 points | 3 years ago with 101 comments
2010If money doesn't make you happy, you probably aren't spending it right (wjh.harvard.edu)
258 points | 10 years ago with 143 comments
2010Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (science.org)
258 points | 2 years ago with 75 comments
2010Ways to break your systems code using volatile (blog.regehr.org)
255 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 62 comments
2010Why I stopped reading HN (sealedabstract.com)
254 points | 4 years ago with 289 comments
2010Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (conal.net)
253 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 82 comments
2010Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (highscalability.com)
250 points | 5 years ago with 119 comments
2010An employee whose job was to be sacked (henrytapper.com)
243 points | 6 years ago with 161 comments
2010More Dirty Coding Tricks from Game Developers (gamasutra.com)
241 points | 9 years ago with 134 comments
2010Magnus Carlsen – “I am chaotic and lazy” (en.chessbase.com)
240 points | 9 years ago with 87 comments
2010Everything you need to know about pointers in C (boredzo.org)
240 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2010Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (kalzumeus.com)
238 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 64 comments
2010Why is the volume of a cone one third of the volume of a cylinder? (math.stackexchange.com)
233 points | 1 year ago with 112 comments
2010Levenshtein Automata (blog.notdot.net)
233 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2010Tarkovsky Films Free Online (openculture.com)
231 points | 10 years ago with 52 comments
2010A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind (greatergood.berkeley.edu)
231 points | 6 years ago with 73 comments
2010What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki? (cstheory.stackexchange.com)
229 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 42 comments
2010You're doing it wrong: B-heap 10x faster than binary heap (phk.freebsd.dk)
229 points | 5 years ago with 95 comments
2010The Sad History of the Microsoft Posix Subsystem (brianreiter.org)
228 points | 8 years ago with 71 comments
2010The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. (matt.might.net)
224 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 120 comments
2010Why Clojure? (thecleancoder.blogspot.com)
223 points | 7 years ago with 279 comments
2010Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (mariovittone.com)
217 points | 6 years ago with 91 comments
2010Dumb and Gets Things Done (johndcook.com)
217 points | 1 year ago with 142 comments
2010Getting Stuff Done by Not Being Mean to Yourself (openheartproject.com)
214 points | 1 year ago with 69 comments
2010Creating Shazam in Java (royvanrijn.com)
213 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments
2010How to Minimize Politics in Your Company (bhorowitz.com)
213 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 1 comments
2010Interviews with programming language creators (math.bas.bg)
212 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2010Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses? (stackoverflow.com)
212 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments
2010Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless (newyorker.com)
212 points | 10 years ago with 171 comments
2010Your high IQ might kill your startup (jamiebegin.com)
212 points | 10 years ago with 128 comments
2010Genetic Algorithms Produce Winning StarCraft II Build Order (rockpapershotgun.com)
208 points | 10 years ago with 50 comments
2010Why are bones not made of steel? (materialstoday.com)
207 points | 6 years ago with 159 comments
2010Why the sun is a poor dumping ground for nuclear waste (csicop.org)
207 points | 9 years ago with 171 comments
2010Galois Theory for Beginners (math.jhu.edu)
204 points | 7 years ago with 33 comments
2010Demoralize Your Teams Quickly and Efficiently with Micromanagement (stellman-greene.com)
203 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments
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