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2012Basic Social Skills Guide (improveyoursocialskills.com)
1291 points | 5 years ago with 409 comments
2012Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (nytimes.com)
1086 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 315 comments
2012Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index (swtch.com)
999 points across 8 posts | 1 year ago with 16 comments
2012Why 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
2012Do things, tell people (carl.flax.ie)
954 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 164 comments
2012Photos Always Pointing at the Pointer (pointerpointer.com)
879 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 106 comments
2012A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (queue.acm.org)
812 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 70 comments
2012Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (karpathy.github.io)
807 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2012How I went from programming to consulting (training.kalzumeus.com)
780 points | 6 years ago with 472 comments
2012Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (250bpm.com)
742 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 163 comments
2012An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (betterexplained.com)
709 points | 4 years ago with 102 comments
2012Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (github.com)
706 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 165 comments
2012Parody HN Homepage (linkedlistnyc.org)
678 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments
2012How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (daedtech.com)
672 points | 4 years ago with 432 comments
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
201224/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (xiph.org)
647 points | 7 years ago with 428 comments
2012Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (madinamerica.com)
607 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 290 comments
2012Wat [video] (destroyallsoftware.com)
593 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 144 comments
2012Hexaflexagons [video] (youtube.com)
578 points | 2 years ago with 54 comments
2012Never Use Black (ianstormtaylor.com)
565 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 217 comments
2012Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (jesshamrick.com)
549 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 257 comments
201220 lines of code that beat A/B testing (stevehanov.ca)
545 points | 8 years ago with 157 comments
2012Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps (news.nationalgeographic.com)
541 points | 5 years ago with 140 comments
2012Functional programming in C++ (gamasutra.com)
540 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 100 comments
2012Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (blog.garrytan.com)
535 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 164 comments
2012Terry Tao's generals (web.math.princeton.edu)
527 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 137 comments
2012Guide to implementing 2D platformers (higherorderfun.com)
526 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 37 comments
2012Functional Core, Imperative Shell (destroyallsoftware.com)
525 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 39 comments
2012An interactive guide to the Fourier transform (betterexplained.com)
518 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 74 comments
2012Dad and the ten commandments of egoless programming (blog.stephenwyattbush.com)
518 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 102 comments
2012Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (quora.com)
515 points | 7 years ago with 253 comments
2012How a car works (howacarworks.com)
508 points | 9 years ago with 117 comments
2012Good sleep, good learning, good life (supermemo.com)
506 points | 6 years ago with 254 comments
2012Build your own FPGA (blog.notdot.net)
506 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2012The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (jerrydallal.com)
502 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments
2012In 1957, Five Men Agreed to Stand Under an Exploding Nuclear Bomb (npr.org)
498 points | 7 years ago with 203 comments
2012Don't just roll the dice – Software pricing guide (neildavidson.com)
488 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments
2012Teller Reveals His Secrets (smithsonianmag.com)
487 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2012Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package (righto.com)
486 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 273 comments
2012A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept (gist.github.com)
485 points | 1 year ago with 116 comments
2012The effect of meditation on brain structure (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
472 points | 5 years ago with 242 comments
2012What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen? (javlaskitsystem.se)
471 points | 6 years ago with 186 comments
2012The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (russolsen.com)
462 points | 5 years ago with 237 comments
2012Dotsies (dotsies.org)
460 points | 5 years ago with 194 comments
2012Valve – Handbook for New Employees (valvesoftware.com)
449 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 197 comments
2012Understanding the math behind 0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (h14s.p5r.org)
434 points across 4 posts | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2012Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (kalzumeus.com)
420 points | 4 years ago with 260 comments
2012Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch (journals.sagepub.com)
418 points | 1 year ago with 243 comments
2012Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (npr.org)
408 points | 9 years ago with 95 comments
2012The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (boingboing.net)
405 points | 4 years ago with 210 comments
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