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