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| Articles written in 2012 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2012 | | Basic Social Skills Guide (improveyoursocialskills.com) |
| 1291 points | 5 years ago with 409 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (nytimes.com) |
| 1086 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 315 comments |
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| 2012 | | Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index (swtch.com) |
| 999 points across 8 posts | 1 year ago with 16 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (slate.com) |
| 977 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 733 comments |
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| 2012 | | Do things, tell people (carl.flax.ie) |
| 954 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 2012 | | Photos Always Pointing at the Pointer (pointerpointer.com) |
| 879 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2012 | | A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (queue.acm.org) |
| 812 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2012 | | Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (karpathy.github.io) |
| 807 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2012 | | How I went from programming to consulting (training.kalzumeus.com) |
| 780 points | 6 years ago with 472 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (250bpm.com) |
| 742 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 163 comments |
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| 2012 | | An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (betterexplained.com) |
| 709 points | 4 years ago with 102 comments |
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| 2012 | | Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (github.com) |
| 706 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 165 comments |
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| 2012 | | Parody HN Homepage (linkedlistnyc.org) |
| 678 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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| 2012 | | How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (daedtech.com) |
| 672 points | 4 years ago with 432 comments |
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| 2012 | | “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (harmful.cat-v.org) |
| 663 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2012 | | 24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (xiph.org) |
| 647 points | 7 years ago with 428 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (madinamerica.com) |
| 607 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 290 comments |
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| 2012 | | Wat [video] (destroyallsoftware.com) |
| 593 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 144 comments |
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| 2012 | | Hexaflexagons [video] (youtube.com) |
| 578 points | 2 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2012 | | Never Use Black (ianstormtaylor.com) |
| 565 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 217 comments |
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| 2012 | | Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (jesshamrick.com) |
| 549 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 257 comments |
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| 2012 | | 20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (stevehanov.ca) |
| 545 points | 8 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 2012 | | Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps (news.nationalgeographic.com) |
| 541 points | 5 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 2012 | | Functional programming in C++ (gamasutra.com) |
| 540 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2012 | | Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (blog.garrytan.com) |
| 535 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 2012 | | Terry Tao's generals (web.math.princeton.edu) |
| 527 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 137 comments |
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| 2012 | | Guide to implementing 2D platformers (higherorderfun.com) |
| 526 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2012 | | Functional Core, Imperative Shell (destroyallsoftware.com) |
| 525 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 39 comments |
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| 2012 | | An interactive guide to the Fourier transform (betterexplained.com) |
| 518 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 74 comments |
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| 2012 | | Dad and the ten commandments of egoless programming (blog.stephenwyattbush.com) |
| 518 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 102 comments |
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| 2012 | | Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (quora.com) |
| 515 points | 7 years ago with 253 comments |
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| 2012 | | How a car works (howacarworks.com) |
| 508 points | 9 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2012 | | Good sleep, good learning, good life (supermemo.com) |
| 506 points | 6 years ago with 254 comments |
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| 2012 | | Build your own FPGA (blog.notdot.net) |
| 506 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (jerrydallal.com) |
| 502 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2012 | | In 1957, Five Men Agreed to Stand Under an Exploding Nuclear Bomb (npr.org) |
| 498 points | 7 years ago with 203 comments |
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| 2012 | | Don't just roll the dice – Software pricing guide (neildavidson.com) |
| 488 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2012 | | Teller Reveals His Secrets (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 487 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2012 | | Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package (righto.com) |
| 486 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 273 comments |
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| 2012 | | A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept (gist.github.com) |
| 485 points | 1 year ago with 116 comments |
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| 2012 | | The effect of meditation on brain structure (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 472 points | 5 years ago with 242 comments |
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| 2012 | | What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen? (javlaskitsystem.se) |
| 471 points | 6 years ago with 186 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (russolsen.com) |
| 462 points | 6 years ago with 237 comments |
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| 2012 | | Dotsies (dotsies.org) |
| 460 points | 6 years ago with 194 comments |
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| 2012 | | Valve – Handbook for New Employees (valvesoftware.com) |
| 449 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 197 comments |
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| 2012 | | Understanding the math behind 0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (h14s.p5r.org) |
| 434 points across 4 posts | 7 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2012 | | Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (kalzumeus.com) |
| 420 points | 4 years ago with 260 comments |
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| 2012 | | Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch (journals.sagepub.com) |
| 418 points | 1 year ago with 243 comments |
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| 2012 | | Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (npr.org) |
| 408 points | 9 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (boingboing.net) |
| 405 points | 4 years ago with 210 comments |
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