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Articles written in 2011 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2011The “three things” exercise for getting things out of talks (math.stanford.edu)
336 points | 1 year ago with 60 comments
2011A brief rant on the future of interaction design (worrydream.com)
335 points | 5 years ago with 153 comments
2011The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress (nytimes.com)
334 points | 7 years ago with 226 comments
2011I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (dinakelberman.tumblr.com)
332 points | 9 years ago with 47 comments
2011How to get gmail.com banned (mailinator.blogspot.com)
327 points | 9 years ago with 60 comments
2011Sleep sort (dis.4chan.org)
326 points | 9 years ago with 68 comments
2011Why the Arabic world turned away from science (thenewatlantis.com)
324 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 388 comments
2011Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
317 points | 7 years ago with 194 comments
2011Modern B-Tree Techniques (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
314 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments
2011C for Python programmers (toves.org)
314 points | 8 years ago with 162 comments
2011The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
312 points | 6 years ago with 46 comments
2011Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (zwischenzugs.com)
311 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments
2011HTTP Status Dogs (httpstatusdogs.com)
310 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 18 comments
2011Why do we need modules at all? (erlang.org)
306 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 102 comments
2011Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (english.stackexchange.com)
305 points | 11 months ago with 274 comments
2011Drugs and the Meaning of Life (samharris.org)
304 points | 11 years ago with 261 comments
2011The Making of Prince of Persia (jordanmechner.com)
302 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments
2011Freedom of Information Release on Nikola Tesla (vault.fbi.gov)
302 points | 7 years ago with 109 comments
2011Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecraft creator (torrentfreak.com)
301 points | 3 years ago with 242 comments
2011Salary negotiations for techies (jacquesmattheij.com)
299 points | 9 years ago with 226 comments
2011Working at Apple (worrydream.com)
297 points | 3 years ago with 300 comments
2011Fucking Sue Me (pud.com)
295 points | 7 years ago with 114 comments
2011Exotic Data Structures (concatenative.org)
293 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2011Coffee and its Effects on Feature Creep (royrapoport.blogspot.com)
279 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 46 comments
2011Deep C and C++ (slideshare.net)
278 points | 11 years ago with 237 comments
2011Why developers never use state machines (skorks.com)
273 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 112 comments
2011Pricing Experiments You Can Learn From (conversionxl.com)
270 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments
2011Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO (a16z.com)
269 points | 4 years ago with 102 comments
2011Uncovering an advertising fraud scheme (NSFW) (behind-the-enemy-lines.com)
268 points | 11 years ago with 47 comments
2011How Doctors Die (zocalopublicsquare.org)
266 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 45 comments
2011Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (aaplinvestors.net)
265 points | 2 years ago with 305 comments
2011Reminder: Oh, Won't You Please Shut Up? (popehat.com)
263 points | 9 years ago with 209 comments
2011Clean Up Your Mess – A Guide to Visual Design for Everyone (visualmess.com)
262 points | 9 years ago with 111 comments
2011The boy who stole Half Life 2 source code (eurogamer.net)
261 points | 10 years ago with 153 comments
2011Magnesium and major depression (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
256 points | 5 years ago with 228 comments
2011SamyGO: Open-Source Firmware for Samsung TVs (samygo.tv)
255 points | 4 years ago with 72 comments
2011What is energy, actually? (jancovici.com)
254 points | 5 years ago with 267 comments
2011The German School of Lisp (blog.fogus.me)
249 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 72 comments
2011Crockford on JSON license (gist.github.com)
248 points | 1 year ago with 59 comments
2011Yahoo Logo ASCII Animation in 462 bytes of C (a1k0n.net)
247 points | 9 years ago with 41 comments
2011What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings (kunststube.net)
245 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 57 comments
2011Stuxnet is embarrassing, not amazing (rdist.root.org)
238 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 92 comments
2011Why is writing mathematical proofs more fault-proof than writing code? (cs.stackexchange.com)
238 points | 6 years ago with 132 comments
2011The Twelve-Factor App (12factor.net)
238 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 102 comments
2011On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (norvig.com)
237 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2011The bomb that changed my life (swombat.com)
236 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 0 comments
2011Jitsi Architecture – legacy desktop application (aosabook.org)
233 points | 4 years ago with 65 comments
2011HCL: a color model that actually matches our perceptions (vis4.net)
232 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 43 comments
2011Size is the best predictor of code quality (blog.vivekhaldar.com)
231 points | 2 years ago with 187 comments
2011Is infinity an odd or even number? (math.stackexchange.com)
229 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 373 comments
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