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|  | Articles written in 2012 that Hacker News still talks about. | 
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| 2012 |  | Scripting Nginx with Lua  (londonlua.org) | 
|  | 88 points | 11 years ago with 22 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Macro Shots Taken Inside Instruments  (fstoppers.com) | 
|  | 88 points | 3 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | A Personal Lisp Crisis  (blog.jacius.info) | 
|  | 87 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Using Wage Earnings to Support a New Business  (frbatlanta.org) | 
|  | 87 points | 11 years ago with 39 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Management Debt  (a16z.com) | 
|  | 87 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Obfuscated Erlang  (ferd.ca) | 
|  | 87 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Life after detonation  (sciencemadness.org) | 
|  | 86 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Creating Languages in Racket  (cacm.acm.org) | 
|  | 85 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | What Data Compression Does to Music  (soundonsound.com) | 
|  | 85 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | FPGA Programming: Where to Begin?  (741mhz.com) | 
|  | 85 points | 10 years ago with 25 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | What is mathematical thinking?  (devlinsangle.blogspot.com) | 
|  | 85 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Long Term Health Effects  (k1project.columbia.edu) | 
|  | 85 points | 7 years ago with 60 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Tyranny of the Clock – Ivan Sutherland  (worrydream.com) | 
|  | 84 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma  (blog.jgc.org) | 
|  | 84 points | 9 years ago with 88 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is good, but not quite the best  (righto.com) | 
|  | 84 points | 2 years ago with 56 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Galois Field in Cryptography  (sites.math.washington.edu) | 
|  | 84 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | NIST Handbook of Engineering Statistics  (itl.nist.gov) | 
|  | 84 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Magic Ring Buffer  (fgiesen.wordpress.com) | 
|  | 83 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Prof. Robert Boice's Rules of the Road for Writers  (home.uchicago.edu) | 
|  | 83 points | 2 years ago with 42 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Whiteboard exercises are a terrible way to investigate coding ability  (exratione.com) | 
|  | 83 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Anatomy of an Attack: How I Hacked StackOverflow  (blog.ircmaxell.com) | 
|  | 83 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Ian Stewart's top popular mathematics books  (theguardian.com) | 
|  | 83 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array?  (stackoverflow.com) | 
|  | 83 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Patoline: A modern digital typesetting system  (patoline.org) | 
|  | 83 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Exploring Zork  (filfre.net) | 
|  | 83 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Fight  (dcurt.is) | 
|  | 83 points | 11 years ago with 19 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The researcher programmer, a new species?  (dirkgorissen.com) | 
|  | 82 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | A Unix-style mail setup  (dev.gentoo.org) | 
|  | 82 points | 11 years ago with 36 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Peter Thiel’s CS183: Class 13 Notes – You Are Not A Lottery Ticket  (blakemasters.com) | 
|  | 82 points | 11 years ago with 15 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Clean Architecture  (8thlight.com) | 
|  | 82 points | 8 years ago with 80 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | “The street finds its own uses for things”  (citiesandcitizenship.blogspot.com) | 
|  | 82 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | How to Clone Mineral Water  (ediblegeography.com) | 
|  | 82 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | A Raspberry Pi VAX Cluster  (rs-online.com) | 
|  | 81 points | 6 years ago with 36 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Become a nurse or physicians assistant instead of a doctor  (jakeseliger.com) | 
|  | 81 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 61 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | An Analysis of Minecraft-like Engines  (0fps.net) | 
|  | 81 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Great EU Debt Write Off  (econ.anthonyjevans.com) | 
|  | 81 points | 7 years ago with 45 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Do you want to be making this much money when you're 50?  (yosefk.com) | 
|  | 81 points | 4 years ago with 98 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Extracting Audio from Pictures  (mediapreservation.wordpress.com) | 
|  | 81 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The surprising and continuing influence of Swami Vivekananda  (online.wsj.com) | 
|  | 81 points | 11 years ago with 19 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Why are glasses so expensive?  (cbsnews.com) | 
|  | 81 points | 10 years ago with 113 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost?  (arxiv.org) | 
|  | 80 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Semantic Linefeeds  (rhodesmill.org) | 
|  | 80 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Who Killed Lard?  (npr.org) | 
|  | 80 points | 11 years ago with 70 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Altered States: Self-Experiments in Chemistry  (newyorker.com) | 
|  | 80 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Making of Warcraft  (codeofhonor.com) | 
|  | 80 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | SMT Solvers in Software Security  (usenix.org) | 
|  | 80 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Leaderless Organization  (digitaltonto.com) | 
|  | 80 points | 4 years ago with 58 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | How to Learn Emacs  (david.rothlis.net) | 
|  | 80 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | GlaxoSmithKline fined $3B after bribing doctors to increase drug sales  (theguardian.com) | 
|  | 79 points | 10 years ago with 26 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | A Response to Paul Graham's “How to Make Wealth”  (czep.net) | 
|  | 79 points | 8 years ago with 75 comments | 
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