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Articles written in 2011 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2011How 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
2011A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (blog.tanyakhovanova.com)
151 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 94 comments
2011The Soviet Superplane Program That Rattled Area 51 (wired.com)
150 points | 11 years ago with 42 comments
2011Object-oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel (lwn.net)
149 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2011Amazon War Story #1: Jeff Bezos (plus.google.com)
149 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2011Hotelling’s Law (uh.edu)
149 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2011"Another World" source code review (fabiensanglard.net)
146 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments
2011The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple Computers (dorophone.blogspot.com)
146 points | 9 years ago with 113 comments
2011MMIX 2009: A RISC computer for the third millennium (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
145 points | 7 years ago with 61 comments
2011Last Words of Programmer Bill Zeller (gizmodo.com)
145 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments
2011Job interviews go both ways (diegobasch.com)
145 points | 10 years ago with 80 comments
2011The Chinese Wheelbarrow (lowtechmagazine.com)
143 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 33 comments
2011Game theory in practice (economist.com)
143 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2011All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (thoughtmaybe.com)
142 points | 7 years ago with 108 comments
2011Solving the Wrong Problem (azarask.in)
142 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2011Simultaneous cat and external keyboard input causing kernel panic (lore.kernel.org)
141 points | 11 months ago with 25 comments
2011Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts (gmkeros.wordpress.com)
141 points | 1 year ago with 84 comments
2011How Class-based Programming Sucks (loup-vaillant.fr)
140 points | 10 years ago with 139 comments
2011There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says (wired.com)
140 points | 11 years ago with 41 comments
2011CS143: Compilers (keithschwarz.com)
139 points | 8 years ago with 62 comments
2011Cosmonaut Crashed into Earth 'Crying in Rage' (npr.org)
139 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2011Nerds, we need to have a talk (thingist.com)
136 points | 11 years ago with 85 comments
2011Nobody Cares (bhorowitz.com)
136 points | 8 years ago with 49 comments
2011Why do Windows functions begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction? (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
136 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments
2011What It's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs (inventor-labs.com)
136 points | 8 years ago with 43 comments
2011Donut math: how donut.c works (a1k0n.net)
136 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 0 comments
20111991's PC technology was unbelievable (zdnet.com)
136 points | 3 years ago with 235 comments
2011The Society of Mind (ocw.mit.edu)
135 points | 2 years ago with 37 comments
2011The Terrible Secret (blog.corememory.io)
135 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments
2011How and Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (code.mixpanel.com)
135 points | 11 years ago with 43 comments
2011Cardinality Estimation (cs.princeton.edu)
134 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments
20111% of CMS-Powered Sites Expose Their Database Passwords (feross.org)
134 points | 11 years ago with 90 comments
2011Thinking, Fast and Slow (nytimes.com)
133 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments
2011In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (nicklevine.org)
133 points | 5 years ago with 126 comments
2011Race Condition vs. Data Race (blog.regehr.org)
133 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2011Joel Sposky's Take On Equity Allocation In A New Software Startup (money.stackexchange.com)
133 points | 10 years ago with 65 comments
2011Simple Made Easy (infoq.com)
133 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
2011In defense of the Google Chef (blog.rongarret.info)
132 points | 10 years ago with 86 comments
2011Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999? (sixrevisions.com)
132 points | 11 years ago with 85 comments
2011Staedtler and Faber-Castell's productive pencil rivalry (bbc.com)
132 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2011The Coming War on General Computation (opentranscripts.org)
132 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
2011The Joy of Erlang; Or, How to Ride a Toruk (evanmiller.org)
131 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2011Don’t use IDs in CSS selectors? (oli.jp)
131 points | 10 years ago with 44 comments
2011Composers as Gardeners (edge.org)
131 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments
2011Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (chronicle.com)
130 points | 10 years ago with 73 comments
2011Users of my iOS Game Teach Me a Lesson MIT Didn’t (blog.aaroniba.net)
130 points | 11 years ago with 58 comments
2011The Coffeeshop Fallacy (web.archive.org)
129 points | 1 year ago with 195 comments
2011What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior (blog.llvm.org)
129 points | 7 years ago with 61 comments
2011A Cosmonaut's Fiery Death Retold (npr.org)
128 points | 11 years ago with 45 comments
2011How secure is HTTPS today? How often is it attacked? (eff.org)
127 points | 11 years ago with 20 comments
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