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| Articles written in 2011 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2011 | | Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (npr.org) |
| 229 points | 8 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2011 | | Aaron Swartz v. United States (blogs.law.harvard.edu) |
| 228 points | 11 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2011 | | Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (richardspens.com) |
| 227 points | 6 years ago with 227 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why isn’t the fundamental theorem of arithmetic obvious? (gowers.wordpress.com) |
| 225 points | 8 years ago with 197 comments |
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| 2011 | | What happens after Yahoo acquires you (37signals.com) |
| 225 points | 11 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2011 | | A JVM Does That? (azulsystems.com) |
| 224 points | 8 years ago with 165 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why Russians Are Not Smiling (blog.properrussian.com) |
| 223 points | 11 years ago with 221 comments |
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| 2011 | | Rats free each other from cages (nature.com) |
| 222 points | 8 years ago with 169 comments |
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| 2011 | | The rape of men: a dark secret of war (theguardian.com) |
| 215 points | 4 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2011 | | What is the origin of “daemon” with regards to computing? (english.stackexchange.com) |
| 214 points | 2 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2011 | | X Minus One: 1950s Science Fiction Radio Programs Available to Listen (archive.org) |
| 213 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2011 | | Pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev” (webmasters.googleblog.com) |
| 212 points | 8 years ago with 90 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why 'Passive Income' Is A Dangerous Fantasy (forbes.com) |
| 211 points | 11 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 2011 | | Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer (w3.org) |
| 210 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 91 comments |
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| 2011 | | Subtractive synths explained (residentadvisor.net) |
| 209 points | 5 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2011 | | How to beat the CAP theorem (nathanmarz.com) |
| 208 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 19 comments |
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| 2011 | | Hard work vs. Long work (seths.blog) |
| 208 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2011 | | Bret Victor Redesigns Classic Strogatz Paper (worrydream.com) |
| 206 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2011 | | Amazon’s $23M book about flies (michaeleisen.org) |
| 205 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2011 | | Don't Be a Free User (blog.pinboard.in) |
| 202 points | 7 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2011 | | City of London: Tax haven in the heart of Britain (newstatesman.com) |
| 201 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2011 | | Rel="logo" (relogo.org) |
| 201 points | 11 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2011 | | Stevey's Google Platforms Rant (plus.google.com) |
| 200 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2011 | | Things you should do now (secure.phabricator.com) |
| 199 points | 3 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2011 | | Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? (cafbit.com) |
| 198 points | 7 years ago with 108 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Beauty of LaTeX (nitens.org) |
| 197 points | 10 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 2011 | | Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (arstechnica.com) |
| 196 points | 5 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Focus to Say No (fs.blog) |
| 196 points | 3 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2011 | | Erlang and First-Person Shooters (erlang-factory.com) |
| 195 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2011 | | Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 195 points | 4 years ago with 230 comments |
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| 2011 | | My Doctor's Office Asked me to Lie (stallman.org) |
| 194 points | 11 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2011 | | Vim Creep (rudism.com) |
| 194 points | 3 years ago with 167 comments |
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| 2011 | | A self-killing web site requested by a customer (rachelbythebay.com) |
| 194 points | 4 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2011 | | All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed (theatlantic.com) |
| 193 points | 6 years ago with 179 comments |
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| 2011 | | “Unexplainable” core dump (stackoverflow.com) |
| 193 points | 1 year ago with 64 comments |
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| 2011 | | ØMQ – The Guide (zguide.zeromq.org) |
| 193 points | 4 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2011 | | How to explain to a layperson why a developer should not be interrupted? (softwareengineering.stackexchange.com) |
| 193 points | 7 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2011 | | Magnesium and the Brain (psychologytoday.com) |
| 192 points | 7 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2011 | | How And Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (engineering.mixpanel.com) |
| 192 points | 5 years ago with 141 comments |
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| 2011 | | Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (corte.si) |
| 190 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2011 | | Illegally climbing the Golden Gate bridge at dawn (nopromiseofsafety.com) |
| 188 points | 11 years ago with 119 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 188 points | 11 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2011 | | Real pixel coding (iquilezles.org) |
| 188 points | 11 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2011 | | You've heard of “yes men”. Now learn about “no men” (rachelbythebay.com) |
| 188 points | 5 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 2011 | | The boy who stole Half-Life 2 (eurogamer.net) |
| 187 points | 1 year ago with 94 comments |
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| 2011 | | Papers from the Lost Culture of Array Languages (prog21.dadgum.com) |
| 187 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2011 | | Linux x86 program start up – How the heck do we get to main()? (dbp-consulting.com) |
| 187 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2011 | | Explain mathematically a video from a space station (mathoverflow.net) |
| 186 points | 7 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2011 | | How many Commodore 64 computers were sold? (pagetable.com) |
| 185 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2011 | | Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (damninteresting.com) |
| 185 points | 3 years ago with 110 comments |
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