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Articles written in 2011 that Hacker News still talks about.
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201190 Percent of People Don't Know How to Use CTRL+F (theatlantic.com)
94 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 5 comments
2011Why I'm Putting All My Savings into Bitcoin (falkvinge.net)
93 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 84 comments
2011What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior (blog.llvm.org)
92 points | 9 years ago with 65 comments
2011Developers should be force-fed state machines (shopify.engineering)
92 points | 1 year ago with 105 comments
2011Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (arxiv.org)
92 points | 10 years ago with 24 comments
2011Where Games Go to Sleep: The Game Preservation Crisis (gamasutra.com)
92 points | 7 years ago with 59 comments
2011Interview with Ken Thompson (drdobbs.com)
91 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments
2011SIMD vs. SIMT vs. SMT: parallelism in NVIDIA GPUs (yosefk.com)
91 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2011Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (hackertyper.net)
91 points | 10 years ago with 32 comments
2011Join-Idle-Queue: Load Balancing Algorithm for Scalable Web Services (microsoft.com)
91 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments
2011The Advantage of No Funding (sive.rs)
91 points | 2 years ago with 55 comments
2011WebGL Water (madebyevan.com)
91 points | 7 years ago with 31 comments
2011There's the Wrong Way and Jacques Pépin's Way (nytimes.com)
90 points | 8 years ago with 62 comments
2011The unfortunate math behind consulting companies (longform.asmartbear.com)
90 points | 11 months ago with 82 comments
2011What is a file? (microsoft.com)
89 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2011Galactic-Scale Energy (dothemath.ucsd.edu)
88 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 58 comments
2011Solar Sinter: Solar-powered 3D printer that sinters sand into 3D objects (markuskayser.com)
88 points | 8 years ago with 25 comments
2011Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Super-Productive Programmer (blog.smartbear.com)
88 points | 10 years ago with 24 comments
2011Multiplexing on top of TCP (250bpm.com)
88 points | 8 years ago with 47 comments
2011I'm the guy who bought 259684 BTC for under $3000 yesterday (web.archive.org)
88 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments
2011Pycel: Compiling Excel spreadsheets to Python and making pretty pictures (dirkgorissen.com)
88 points | 4 years ago with 4 comments
2011South Korean police impose curfew on late-night studying (content.time.com)
88 points | 4 years ago with 68 comments
2011Bodies hanging from bridge in Mexico are warning to social media users (cnn.com)
88 points | 11 years ago with 32 comments
2011In Nuclear Silos, Death Wears a Snuggie (wired.com)
87 points | 8 years ago with 58 comments
2011Tresor – CPU-only AES implementation resistant to RAM cold-boot attacks (www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de)
87 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments
2011What Do Public Library Workers Do? (laurensmith.wordpress.com)
87 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments
2011Principles of Programming Languages (feederio.com)
87 points | 7 years ago with 5 comments
2011Escape the scripter mentality if reliability matters (rachelbythebay.com)
87 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments
2011Warren Buffett: “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich” (nytimes.com)
86 points | 8 years ago with 129 comments
2011What happens to Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends? (nymag.com)
86 points | 5 years ago with 105 comments
2011Fixing the World (zguide.zeromq.org)
86 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2011How to write code in modern Fortran (tacc.utexas.edu)
86 points | 5 years ago with 74 comments
2011Nara – the typeface that never existed (typotheque.com)
85 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2011History of energy consumption in the United States, 1775–2009 (eia.gov)
85 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2011A Sociology of Steve Jobs (kieranhealy.org)
85 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
2011‘Lede’ vs. ‘Lead’ (howardowens.com)
85 points | 6 years ago with 72 comments
2011The DJB Legacy (skarnet.org)
84 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments
2011Super Mario Melodies (losdoggies.com)
84 points | 11 years ago with 9 comments
2011Learn Elisp the Hard Way (github.com)
84 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2011TrackPoint (research.microsoft.com)
84 points | 9 years ago with 66 comments
2011Owsley Stanley: The King of LSD (rollingstone.com)
84 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments
2011Parsing with Derivatives: A Functional Pearl (matt.might.net)
84 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2011A look at EarthBound's text system and scripting language (earthboundcentral.com)
83 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
2011Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? (cafbit.com)
82 points | 9 years ago with 56 comments
2011Sanskrit and Lisp (ifacethoughts.net)
82 points | 11 years ago with 61 comments
20113D Animated Rollercoaster in Excel (youtube.com)
82 points | 2 years ago with 15 comments
2011John Conway: Discovering free will (plus.maths.org)
82 points | 6 years ago with 134 comments
2011Darts, Dice, and Coins: Sampling from a Discrete Distribution (keithschwarz.com)
82 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 5 comments
2011The Very Rich Indie Writer (novelr.com)
82 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments
2011What the Luddites Really Fought Against (smithsonianmag.com)
82 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
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