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Articles written in 2011 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2011Quoting command line arguments the wrong way (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
127 points | 7 years ago with 147 comments
2011Why Lisp is a Big Hack and Haskell is Doomed to Succeed (axisofeval.blogspot.ca)
127 points | 10 years ago with 117 comments
2011Creating Languages in Racket (queue.acm.org)
127 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2011An Introduction to High-Performance Flashlights (asos1.com)
127 points | 9 years ago with 56 comments
2011The NumPy array: a structure for efficient numerical computation (hal.inria.fr)
126 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments
2011How I OCR hundreds of hours of video (waldo.jaquith.org)
125 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments
2011Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (mail-archive.com)
125 points | 2 years ago with 172 comments
2011DNA Is a Fractal Antenna in Electromagnetic Fields (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
125 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 95 comments
2011How 'OK' took over the world (bbc.com)
125 points | 7 years ago with 99 comments
20113D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (nothings.org)
125 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments
2011Lead Bullets (bhorowitz.com)
123 points | 11 years ago with 46 comments
2011Sorting in Japanese – An Unsolved Problem (localizingjapan.com)
123 points | 5 years ago with 112 comments
2011Tuple Spaces (Or, Good Ideas Don't Always Win) (software-carpentry.org)
123 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments
2011Duckspeak vs. Smalltalk: Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple (dorophone.blogspot.com)
122 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments
2011Why Developers Don't Want to Work on Your Idea (swombat.com)
122 points | 11 years ago with 113 comments
2011You are not a software engineer (chrisaitchison.com)
122 points | 11 years ago with 127 comments
2011In-Depth: Static Code Analysis (gamasutra.com)
122 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2011The Linux Security Circus: On GUI Isolation (theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com)
121 points | 8 years ago with 84 comments
2011Pinboard After Delicious Shutdown (blog.pinboard.in)
121 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 5 comments
2011CQRS: Command Query Responsibility Segregation (martinfowler.com)
120 points | 4 years ago with 58 comments
2011Nobody Cares (a16z.com)
120 points | 4 years ago with 74 comments
2011How the Dutch got their cycling infrastructure (bicycledutch.wordpress.com)
120 points | 9 years ago with 74 comments
2011LAN-Party House (kentonshouse.com)
119 points | 1 year ago with 47 comments
2011Lead Bullets (a16z.com)
119 points | 7 years ago with 43 comments
2011Headphone and Amp Impedance (nwavguy.blogspot.com)
117 points | 8 years ago with 57 comments
2011US claims jurisdiction over all .com/.net sites even if outside the US (web.archive.org)
117 points | 2 years ago with 95 comments
2011Surprising magnetic effect of light discovered at University of Michigan (michigantoday.umich.edu)
116 points | 11 years ago with 34 comments
2011The origin of “log in” (designcult.org)
116 points | 10 years ago with 61 comments
2011Maze Algorithms (jamisbuck.org)
116 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments
2011Why Walking Through a Doorway Makes You Forget (scientificamerican.com)
116 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 5 comments
2011Cooperative Linux – running Linux as a Windows driver (colinux.org)
115 points | 4 years ago with 58 comments
2011Comments on the MISRA C coding guidelines (knosof.co.uk)
114 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 38 comments
2011It's Time to End the War on Salt (scientificamerican.com)
114 points | 8 years ago with 71 comments
2011Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Super-Productive Programmer (smartbear.com)
114 points | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2011Why Women Leave Engineering (energy.gov)
114 points | 7 years ago with 90 comments
2011Spent – Poverty Simulator (playspent.org)
114 points | 6 years ago with 190 comments
2011Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor (northwesthistory.blogspot.se)
114 points | 11 years ago with 109 comments
2011A Bayesian view of Amazon resellers (johndcook.com)
113 points | 1 year ago with 36 comments
2011An Apology for Roger Ebert (ludix.com)
113 points | 7 years ago with 153 comments
2011Why I'm Furious with Silicon Valley (aarongreenspan.com)
113 points | 11 years ago with 81 comments
2011Linux at 20, some personal memories (liw.fi)
113 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments
2011A silent epidemic of male suicide (bcmj.org)
112 points | 8 years ago with 110 comments
2011Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (birdhouse.org)
112 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2011Pipe Logic – Simulating circuits in the Unix shell (linusakesson.net)
111 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
2011The Linux graphics stack from X to Wayland (arstechnica.com)
111 points | 8 years ago with 94 comments
2011Post-Human Nightmares – The World of Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema (midnighteye.com)
111 points | 3 years ago with 27 comments
2011The Holy Trinity: Logic, Languages, Categories (existentialtype.wordpress.com)
111 points | 7 years ago with 49 comments
201151 Star Flag (danbliss.blogspot.com)
111 points | 3 years ago with 115 comments
2011What Is the Morning Writing Effect? (gwern.net)
111 points | 4 years ago with 41 comments
2011Handler beliefs affect scent detection dog outcomes (link.springer.com)
110 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments
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