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| Articles written in 2011 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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2011 | | How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $6.5m for My Startup (joncrawford.com) |
| 151 points | 11 years ago with 71 comments |
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2011 | | A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (blog.tanyakhovanova.com) |
| 151 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 94 comments |
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2011 | | The Soviet Superplane Program That Rattled Area 51 (wired.com) |
| 150 points | 11 years ago with 42 comments |
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2011 | | Object-oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel (lwn.net) |
| 149 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments |
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2011 | | Amazon War Story #1: Jeff Bezos (plus.google.com) |
| 149 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments |
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2011 | | Hotelling’s Law (uh.edu) |
| 149 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments |
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2011 | | "Another World" source code review (fabiensanglard.net) |
| 146 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments |
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2011 | | The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple Computers (dorophone.blogspot.com) |
| 146 points | 9 years ago with 113 comments |
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2011 | | MMIX 2009: A RISC computer for the third millennium (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu) |
| 145 points | 7 years ago with 61 comments |
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2011 | | Last Words of Programmer Bill Zeller (gizmodo.com) |
| 145 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments |
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2011 | | Job interviews go both ways (diegobasch.com) |
| 145 points | 10 years ago with 80 comments |
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2011 | | The Chinese Wheelbarrow (lowtechmagazine.com) |
| 143 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 33 comments |
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2011 | | Game theory in practice (economist.com) |
| 143 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments |
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2011 | | All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (thoughtmaybe.com) |
| 142 points | 7 years ago with 108 comments |
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2011 | | Solving the Wrong Problem (azarask.in) |
| 142 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments |
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2011 | | Simultaneous cat and external keyboard input causing kernel panic (lore.kernel.org) |
| 141 points | 11 months ago with 25 comments |
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2011 | | Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts (gmkeros.wordpress.com) |
| 141 points | 1 year ago with 84 comments |
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2011 | | How Class-based Programming Sucks (loup-vaillant.fr) |
| 140 points | 10 years ago with 139 comments |
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2011 | | There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says (wired.com) |
| 140 points | 11 years ago with 41 comments |
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2011 | | CS143: Compilers (keithschwarz.com) |
| 139 points | 8 years ago with 62 comments |
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2011 | | Cosmonaut Crashed into Earth 'Crying in Rage' (npr.org) |
| 139 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 16 comments |
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2011 | | Nerds, we need to have a talk (thingist.com) |
| 136 points | 11 years ago with 85 comments |
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2011 | | Nobody Cares (bhorowitz.com) |
| 136 points | 8 years ago with 49 comments |
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2011 | | Why do Windows functions begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction? (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) |
| 136 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments |
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2011 | | What It's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs (inventor-labs.com) |
| 136 points | 8 years ago with 43 comments |
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2011 | | Donut math: how donut.c works (a1k0n.net) |
| 136 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 0 comments |
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2011 | | 1991's PC technology was unbelievable (zdnet.com) |
| 136 points | 3 years ago with 235 comments |
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2011 | | The Society of Mind (ocw.mit.edu) |
| 135 points | 2 years ago with 37 comments |
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2011 | | The Terrible Secret (blog.corememory.io) |
| 135 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments |
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2011 | | How and Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (code.mixpanel.com) |
| 135 points | 11 years ago with 43 comments |
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2011 | | Cardinality Estimation (cs.princeton.edu) |
| 134 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments |
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2011 | | 1% of CMS-Powered Sites Expose Their Database Passwords (feross.org) |
| 134 points | 11 years ago with 90 comments |
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2011 | | Thinking, Fast and Slow (nytimes.com) |
| 133 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments |
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2011 | | In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (nicklevine.org) |
| 133 points | 5 years ago with 126 comments |
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2011 | | Race Condition vs. Data Race (blog.regehr.org) |
| 133 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments |
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2011 | | Joel Sposky's Take On Equity Allocation In A New Software Startup (money.stackexchange.com) |
| 133 points | 10 years ago with 65 comments |
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2011 | | Simple Made Easy (infoq.com) |
| 133 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments |
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2011 | | In defense of the Google Chef (blog.rongarret.info) |
| 132 points | 10 years ago with 86 comments |
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2011 | | Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999? (sixrevisions.com) |
| 132 points | 11 years ago with 85 comments |
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2011 | | Staedtler and Faber-Castell's productive pencil rivalry (bbc.com) |
| 132 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 33 comments |
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2011 | | The Coming War on General Computation (opentranscripts.org) |
| 132 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments |
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2011 | | The Joy of Erlang; Or, How to Ride a Toruk (evanmiller.org) |
| 131 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments |
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2011 | | Don’t use IDs in CSS selectors? (oli.jp) |
| 131 points | 10 years ago with 44 comments |
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2011 | | Composers as Gardeners (edge.org) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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2011 | | Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (chronicle.com) |
| 130 points | 10 years ago with 73 comments |
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2011 | | Users of my iOS Game Teach Me a Lesson MIT Didn’t (blog.aaroniba.net) |
| 130 points | 11 years ago with 58 comments |
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2011 | | The Coffeeshop Fallacy (web.archive.org) |
| 129 points | 1 year ago with 195 comments |
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2011 | | What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior (blog.llvm.org) |
| 129 points | 7 years ago with 61 comments |
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2011 | | A Cosmonaut's Fiery Death Retold (npr.org) |
| 128 points | 11 years ago with 45 comments |
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2011 | | How secure is HTTPS today? How often is it attacked? (eff.org) |
| 127 points | 11 years ago with 20 comments |
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