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Articles written in 2010 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2010The Top Idea in Your Mind (paulgraham.com)
203 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
2010AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server (aolserver.github.io)
203 points | 1 year ago with 100 comments
2010Problem solving strategies in a graduate real analysis course (terrytao.wordpress.com)
197 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments
2010You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance (codahale.com)
196 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 59 comments
2010The Aesthetics of Science Fiction Spaceship Design (uwspace.uwaterloo.ca)
194 points | 3 years ago with 100 comments
2010The Failure Mode of Clever (whatever.scalzi.com)
194 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 46 comments
2010How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries (aht.seriouseats.com)
193 points | 10 years ago with 73 comments
2010Great Mathematicians on Math Competitions and "Genius" (lesswrong.com)
191 points | 7 years ago with 81 comments
2010Making an RPG in Clojure (briancarper.net)
191 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments
2010If your product is great, it doesn't need to be good (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
191 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2010The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (cdixon.org)
191 points | 4 years ago with 198 comments
2010What’s up with the Beep driver in Windows 7? (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
189 points | 7 years ago with 103 comments
2010Mark Zuckerberg: “Please Resign” (techemails.com)
189 points | 1 year ago with 166 comments
2010What Broke My Father's Heart (nytimes.com)
185 points | 11 years ago with 39 comments
2010The best debugging story I've ever heard (patrickthomson.tumblr.com)
185 points | 1 year ago with 39 comments
2010So You Wanna Be a Chef (web.archive.org)
183 points | 1 year ago with 105 comments
2010Jef Raskin's final gift to Aza (azarask.in)
181 points | 12 years ago with 10 comments
2010High-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain than sugar (princeton.edu)
181 points | 10 years ago with 122 comments
2010Intro to Hidden Markov Models (ocw.mit.edu)
181 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
2010The Aphex Face (bastwood.com)
180 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 44 comments
2010What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (talyarkoni.org)
180 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 68 comments
2010Major discoveries made by mathematicians past age 50 (mathoverflow.net)
179 points | 1 year ago with 76 comments
2010History of Emacs and vi Keys (xahlee.info)
178 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 85 comments
2010TSA compton backscattering exposes body to non-negligible radiation (public.asu.edu)
178 points | 3 years ago with 90 comments
2010Inside PayPal (paulgraham.com)
178 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2010Auto Complete with Redis (oldblog.antirez.com)
178 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2010The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be Happy (theguardian.com)
176 points | 7 years ago with 180 comments
2010What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (talyarkoni.org)
176 points | 3 years ago with 96 comments
2010Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review (blog.nelhage.com)
176 points | 5 years ago with 160 comments
2010Never Pay for Online Dating (web.archive.org)
176 points | 3 years ago with 265 comments
2010Learning Vim incrementally (yehudakatz.com)
174 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 86 comments
2010High-quality schools can increase academic achievement among the poor (scholar.harvard.edu)
173 points | 5 years ago with 218 comments
2010The Most Officialest SkiFree Home Page (ski.ihoc.net)
173 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments
2010Taco Bell Programming (web.archive.org)
172 points | 8 years ago with 109 comments
2010How and Why I Taught My Toddler to Read (larrysanger.org)
172 points | 8 years ago with 130 comments
2010Are closed social networks inevitable? (danluu.com)
170 points | 7 years ago with 91 comments
2010Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
169 points | 6 years ago with 156 comments
2010Python's Innards: Introduction (tech.blog.aknin.name)
167 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments
2010Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs (lwn.net)
167 points | 2 years ago with 75 comments
2010Digital Photocopiers Loaded with Secrets (cbsnews.com)
166 points | 5 years ago with 56 comments
2010Self-forgiveness for procrastinating can reduce future procrastination (law.utexas.edu)
163 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2010Binary Decision Diagrams (crypto.stanford.edu)
162 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments
2010How to Detect a Toxic Customer (softwarebyrob.com)
162 points | 11 years ago with 64 comments
2010World War II – Not remotely believable (squid314.livejournal.com)
161 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 3 comments
2010You can't make C++ not ugly, but you can't not try (apenwarr.ca)
159 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 177 comments
2010Clever ideas that failed (yacoset.com)
159 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2010For progress to be by accumulation and not random walk, read great books (lesswrong.com)
158 points | 5 years ago with 74 comments
2010The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly (scatter.wordpress.com)
158 points | 2 years ago with 142 comments
2010What happens when you eject at 780mph (f-15e.info)
157 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments
2010Opensource your abandonware (pulkomandy.tk)
157 points | 3 years ago with 56 comments
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