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 | Articles written in 2011 that Hacker News still talks about. | 
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| 2011 |  | Technological Prudence: What the Amish Can Teach Us  (baylor.edu) | 
 | 45 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Notes from Michael Feathers’ “Brutal Refactoring”  (thekua.com) | 
 | 45 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The Point of Laziness  (existentialtype.wordpress.com) | 
 | 45 points | 10 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | How Software Architecture Learns  (methodsandtools.com) | 
 | 44 points | 6 years ago with 0 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | A Look at Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer’s Use of Typography  (catnormoyle.com) | 
 | 44 points | 4 years ago with 3 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The Eunuch Admiral  (alumni.berkeley.edu) | 
 | 44 points | 2 years ago with 27 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | How Do We See Art: An Eye-Tracker Study  (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) | 
 | 44 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Your app shouldn't suffer SSL's problems  (moxie.org) | 
 | 44 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | My travels: Judith Schalansky on remote islands  (theguardian.com) | 
 | 44 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Lessons from Dropbox - One Million Files Saved Every 15 minutes  (highscalability.com) | 
 | 44 points | 12 years ago with 16 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | High speed Morse telegraphy using a straight key [video]  (youtube.com) | 
 | 44 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Why [“1”,“2”,“3”].map(parseInt) yields [1, NaN, NaN] in JavaScript  (wirfs-brock.com) | 
 | 44 points | 2 years ago with 80 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | More shell, less egg  (leancrew.com) | 
 | 44 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The LMAX Architecture  (martinfowler.com) | 
 | 44 points | 10 years ago with 4 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | That’s What She Said: Double Entendre Identification  (aclweb.org) | 
 | 44 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Is Hungarian notation a workaround for insufficient type systems?  (programmers.stackexchange.com) | 
 | 43 points | 11 years ago with 36 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Air gaps never exist  (gse-compliance.blogspot.com) | 
 | 43 points | 9 years ago with 49 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Number of species on Earth estimated at 8.7M  (nature.com) | 
 | 43 points | 9 years ago with 14 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | GitHub and BitBucket  (pocoo.org) | 
 | 43 points | 11 years ago with 47 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The Floppy Disk  (ibm.com) | 
 | 43 points | 2 years ago with 42 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | When Worse Is Better  (susam.in) | 
 | 43 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Definition of Simple  (rebol.com) | 
 | 43 points | 7 years ago with 2 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Moral causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union  (foreignpolicy.com) | 
 | 43 points | 10 years ago with 66 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | How a handful of geeks defied the USSR  (owni.fr) | 
 | 43 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Loopy C Puzzle  (susam.in) | 
 | 43 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The Growth Ponzi Scheme  (strongtowns.org) | 
 | 43 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The Genius in My Basement  (theguardian.com) | 
 | 42 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Spreadsheet technology  (itu.dk) | 
 | 42 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The perils of relying on output streams in C  (gnu.org) | 
 | 42 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | San Marino: The World’s Oldest Republic  (slate.com) | 
 | 42 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The Redis Manifesto  (oldblog.antirez.com) | 
 | 42 points | 4 years ago with 0 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Why most hiring processes suck  (adammcfarland.com) | 
 | 42 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | All software sucks  (harmful.cat-v.org) | 
 | 42 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | C4: The Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector  (azulsystems.com) | 
 | 42 points | 11 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Don’t Blink: The Hazards of Confidence  (nytimes.com) | 
 | 42 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The Foonly F1 Computer  (dave.zfxinc.net) | 
 | 42 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The Problem with Vanity TLDs  (templetons.com) | 
 | 41 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to Be a Religion  (wired.com) | 
 | 41 points | 10 years ago with 29 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Culture is not about esthetics  (gwern.net) | 
 | 41 points | 10 years ago with 55 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Facebook denies cookie tracking allegations  (zdnet.com) | 
 | 41 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Use of HD and DD drives, diskettes  (retrotechnology.com) | 
 | 41 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Why does subtracting these two times give a strange result?  (stackoverflow.com) | 
 | 41 points | 12 years ago with 24 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | From Tower of Hanoi to Counting Bits  (susam.in) | 
 | 41 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Branchless Conditionals  (blueraja.com) | 
 | 41 points | 10 years ago with 23 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The Magical Island of Kanren – Core.logic Intro  (objectcommando.com) | 
 | 41 points | 10 years ago with 0 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The “Talent War” Revisited  (mindtangle.net) | 
 | 41 points | 9 years ago with 1 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Not a Luddite fallacy  (baatz.io) | 
 | 40 points | 10 years ago with 70 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The Logic of Failure  (tersesystems.com) | 
 | 40 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Insider Accounts of Computing and Life at BBN: A sixty-year report  (walden-family.com) | 
 | 40 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet  (queue.acm.org) | 
 | 40 points | 10 years ago with 9 comments | 
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