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Articles written in 2011 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2011Do Small-RAM Devices Have a Future? (blog.regehr.org)
82 points | 9 years ago with 49 comments
2011A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 (ribbonfarm.com)
82 points | 1 year ago with 31 comments
2011A man, a Plan. No canals (davidkendal.net)
81 points | 11 years ago with 92 comments
2011Dissecting the Gzip Format (infinitepartitions.com)
81 points | 4 years ago with 9 comments
2011How to Avoid Equidistant HSV Colors (vis4.net)
81 points | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2011Node.js is Cancer (pages.citebite.com)
81 points | 11 years ago with 39 comments
2011Why did Japan surrender? (boston.com)
81 points | 9 years ago with 71 comments
2011The Wiki is in French (hccp.org)
80 points | 5 years ago with 32 comments
2011Why doesn't Britain make things any more? (theguardian.com)
80 points | 5 years ago with 109 comments
2011PID Theory Explained (ni.com)
80 points | 9 years ago with 14 comments
2011Learn you an Agda (learnyouanagda.liamoc.net)
80 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2011What Is a 'Nautical Mile'? (science.howstuffworks.com)
79 points | 5 years ago with 49 comments
2011Time-Lock Encryption (gwern.net)
79 points | 10 years ago with 28 comments
2011The HP-35 Design: A Case Study in Innovation (archive.computerhistory.org)
79 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2011An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in 4chan /b/ (projects.csail.mit.edu)
79 points | 7 years ago with 36 comments
2011Languages as Libraries (ccs.neu.edu)
79 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments
2011Why do we need modules at all? (erlang.org)
79 points | 9 years ago with 45 comments
2011The true story of the Amazon door desk (glog.glennf.com)
79 points | 5 years ago with 66 comments
2011There Is Only One Cloud Icon (hanselman.com)
78 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 19 comments
2011Scanning a Braille Playboy (blog.archive.org)
78 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 17 comments
2011Of Lisp Macros and Washing Machines (loper-os.org)
78 points | 11 years ago with 62 comments
2011BufferBloat: What's Wrong with the Internet? (queue.acm.org)
78 points | 11 years ago with 26 comments
2011Hire for the Ability to Get Shit Done (blog.eladgil.com)
78 points | 3 years ago with 106 comments
2011Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (theguardian.com)
77 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments
201119th century cyclists paved the way for modern motorists' roads (theguardian.com)
77 points | 7 years ago with 60 comments
2011The Body on Somerton Beach (smithsonianmag.com)
77 points | 10 years ago with 14 comments
2011Floating point error is the least of my worries (johndcook.com)
77 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2011Unicode: Good, Bad, and Ugly (azabani.com)
77 points | 9 years ago with 27 comments
2011Kind of Screwed (waxy.org)
76 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2011GitHub forking has one big flaw (zbowling.github.io)
76 points | 9 years ago with 33 comments
2011The HTML5 Shiv (paulirish.com)
76 points | 2 years ago with 16 comments
2011Rendering floating numbers: advances in problems you didn’t know you had (serpentine.com)
76 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments
2011Elements of Chip Music (linusakesson.net)
75 points | 9 years ago with 4 comments
2011Tcl for Web Nerds (philip.greenspun.com)
75 points | 4 years ago with 13 comments
2011Dependency Injection is Evil (tonymarston.net)
75 points | 9 years ago with 69 comments
2011Own your identity (marco.org)
75 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments
2011The Sharashka Phenomenon (russianhistoryblog.org)
75 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments
2011Comparison of the Go and Erlang concurrency models (informit.com)
74 points | 9 years ago with 11 comments
2011Creating a simple blog system with a 500-line bash script (mmb.pcb.ub.es)
74 points | 11 years ago with 29 comments
2011Stanford Driving Software (stanforddriving.sourceforge.net)
74 points | 10 years ago with 21 comments
2011Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education (apa.org)
74 points | 5 years ago with 72 comments
2011Is it OK to Hire People from Your Friend’s Company? (bhorowitz.com)
74 points | 10 years ago with 54 comments
2011Portugal decriminalized drugs a decade ago – what have we learned? (newyorker.com)
73 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments
2011The MIME guys: How two Internet gurus changed e-mail (networkworld.com)
73 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2011Babylon and the Square Root of 2 (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
73 points | 3 years ago with 9 comments
2011Bug of the Year (antonym.org)
73 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2011What does a GB of Internet service really cost? The worst case scenario (blogs.howstuffworks.com)
72 points | 8 years ago with 71 comments
2011Mental math pseudo-random number generators (blog.yunwilliamyu.net)
72 points | 7 years ago with 8 comments
2011Memcache internals (adayinthelifeof.nl)
72 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments
2011The Ruins of Dead Social Networks (theatlantic.com)
72 points | 8 years ago with 24 comments
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