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Articles written in 2011 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2011Interpreting 9/11 commemorative Afghan carpets (rugsofwar.wordpress.com)
182 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2011In Investing, It’s When You Start and When You Finish (nytimes.com)
181 points | 8 years ago with 149 comments
2011Minimum Viable Personality (avc.com)
181 points | 5 years ago with 96 comments
2011Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (jwz.org)
180 points | 11 years ago with 58 comments
2011K Language (math.bas.bg)
178 points | 4 years ago with 125 comments
2011A Tmux Crash Course (robots.thoughtbot.com)
177 points | 11 years ago with 84 comments
2011Alternative notation for exponents, logs and roots? (math.stackexchange.com)
177 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments
2011Microsoft admits Patriot Act can access EU-based cloud data (zdnet.com)
177 points | 11 years ago with 25 comments
2011Norwegian butter crisis (en.wikipedia.org)
176 points | 9 years ago with 111 comments
2011Why I do not want to work at Google (mail-archive.com)
176 points | 10 years ago with 112 comments
2011Apple Execs on Facebook (techemails.com)
175 points | 1 year ago with 136 comments
2011If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (anildash.com)
174 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 47 comments
2011The Day our investors came to see the office (thedayseries.tumblr.com)
174 points | 11 years ago with 64 comments
2011Neue Haas Grotesk (fontbureau.com)
174 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments
2011Bored People Quit (randsinrepose.com)
173 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 1 comments
2011Intro to Cryptography [pdf] (cs.umd.edu)
173 points | 1 year ago with 42 comments
2011All late projects are the same (systemsguild.com)
172 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 58 comments
2011Goodnight Dune (goodnightdune.com)
172 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments
2011Subject: Airbnb (paulgraham.com)
171 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 162 comments
2011Why philosophers should care about computational complexity (arxiv.org)
171 points | 3 years ago with 143 comments
2011Virtual Particles: What are they? (profmattstrassler.com)
171 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2011Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes” (longform.asmartbear.com)
170 points | 1 year ago with 60 comments
201175-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's internet (spectrum.ieee.org)
169 points | 4 years ago with 97 comments
2011Simple Made Easy (infoq.com)
168 points | 7 years ago with 36 comments
2011Fast and easy Levenshtein distance using a trie (stevehanov.ca)
168 points | 10 years ago with 38 comments
2011Deep C (pvv.org)
166 points | 7 years ago with 59 comments
2011North American versus European distribution systems (electrical-engineering-portal.com)
166 points | 5 years ago with 236 comments
2011If too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault (rachelbythebay.com)
165 points | 8 years ago with 112 comments
2011Math behind rotation in MS Paint (math.stackexchange.com)
165 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2011Why 3D doesn't work and never will (rogerebert.com)
165 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 91 comments
2011The Dangerous Power of Crowds (newyorker.com)
165 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2011Why is finance so complex? (interfluidity.com)
164 points | 9 years ago with 144 comments
2011Free Software Is More Reliable (gnu.org)
164 points | 4 years ago with 117 comments
2011Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (web.archive.org)
162 points | 5 years ago with 101 comments
2011The Coming War on General Computation (github.com)
160 points | 11 years ago with 59 comments
2011Dissecting the GZIP format (infinitepartitions.com)
159 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 5 comments
2011A trip through the Graphics Pipeline (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
159 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2011What would Feynman do? (blogs.msdn.com)
159 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments
2011Obscure Features of JPEG (hodapple.com)
159 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
2011The joys of maintenance programming (typicalprogrammer.com)
158 points | 1 year ago with 71 comments
20110x7FDE623822FC16E6: A magic constant for double float reciprocal (pvk.ca)
158 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments
2011Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor (ursulakleguin.com)
158 points | 3 years ago with 108 comments
2011What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (stackoverflow.com)
157 points | 11 years ago with 95 comments
2011Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap (gingerybookstore.com)
154 points | 3 years ago with 57 comments
2011A quick start guide to Commodore 64 assembly programming on Windows (digitalerr0r.wordpress.com)
154 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments
2011I bought 259684 BTC for under $3000 (bitcointalk.org)
154 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments
2011How the Atari ST Almost Had Real Unix (dadhacker.com)
153 points | 8 years ago with 73 comments
2011Casio F-91W: The strangely ubiquitous watch (bbc.com)
153 points | 3 years ago with 220 comments
2011Rhythm (taal) in Indian Classical Music (raag-hindustani.com)
153 points | 1 year ago with 31 comments
2011Homemade Memristor (sparkbangbuzz.com)
152 points | 9 years ago with 23 comments
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