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| Articles written in 2012 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2012 | | Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple (greenteapress.com) |
| 404 points | 7 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2012 | | Living Worlds in HTML5 (effectgames.com) |
| 403 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2012 | | Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done (pdfs.semanticscholar.org) |
| 386 points | 6 years ago with 151 comments |
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| 2012 | | Vim Anti-Patterns (sanctum.geek.nz) |
| 385 points | 5 years ago with 238 comments |
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| 2012 | | Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts (notebook.kulchenko.com) |
| 384 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2012 | | Turn Raspberry Pi’s GPIO into an FM Transmitter (icrobotics.co.uk) |
| 375 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2012 | | Resolutions for programmers (matt.might.net) |
| 369 points | 8 years ago with 221 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Mathematical Hacker (evanmiller.org) |
| 367 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 174 comments |
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| 2012 | | Linux on an 8bit Microcontroller (dmitry.gr) |
| 365 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 37 comments |
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| 2012 | | JSFuck (jsfuck.com) |
| 365 points | 3 years ago with 156 comments |
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| 2012 | | USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (intel.com) |
| 364 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 118 comments |
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| 2012 | | USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (intel.com) |
| 364 points | 3 years ago with 226 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Architecture of Git (aosabook.org) |
| 355 points | 6 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why concatenative programming matters (evincarofautumn.blogspot.com) |
| 353 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2012 | | Seven signs of ethical collapse (scu.edu) |
| 350 points | 1 year ago with 137 comments |
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| 2012 | | A Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz (theatlantic.com) |
| 348 points | 6 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 2012 | | Thirty-three Miniatures: Applications of Linear Algebra (kam.mff.cuni.cz) |
| 346 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2012 | | 24/192 Music Downloads ... and why they make no sense (people.xiph.org) |
| 345 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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| 2012 | | What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define all other words? (reddit.com) |
| 343 points | 5 years ago with 159 comments |
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| 2012 | | Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (web.archive.org) |
| 341 points | 2 years ago with 198 comments |
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| 2012 | | A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (queue.acm.org) |
| 338 points | 9 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2012 | | Thinking too much can be bad for you (economist.com) |
| 336 points | 3 years ago with 252 comments |
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| 2012 | | On being the maintainer and sole developer of SPITBOL (daveshields.me) |
| 334 points | 9 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 329 points | 7 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2012 | | A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (scottlocklin.wordpress.com) |
| 325 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2012 | | Xkcd-Style Plots in Matplotlib (jakevdp.github.io) |
| 325 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why I program in Erlang (evanmiller.org) |
| 324 points | 2 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2012 | | Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (web.archive.org) |
| 323 points | 2 years ago with 352 comments |
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| 2012 | | Aggressive Chess Openings (chess.stackexchange.com) |
| 322 points | 5 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2012 | | Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like one (blogs.scientificamerican.com) |
| 320 points | 4 years ago with 228 comments |
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| 2012 | | Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her from her books (nbcnews.com) |
| 319 points | 4 years ago with 245 comments |
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| 2012 | | Latency Comparisons every programmer should know (gist.github.com) |
| 318 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2012 | | Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (nothings.org) |
| 313 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2012 | | C as an intermediate language (yosefk.com) |
| 311 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2012 | | The silent majority of experts (prog21.dadgum.com) |
| 308 points | 2 years ago with 197 comments |
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| 2012 | | The care and feeding of software engineers, or why engineers are grumpy (humanwhocodes.com) |
| 308 points | 5 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 2012 | | Decoding small QR codes by hand (blog.qartis.com) |
| 308 points | 1 year ago with 68 comments |
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| 2012 | | The multi-armed bandit problem (stevehanov.ca) |
| 303 points | 5 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2012 | | There are no particles, there are only fields (arxiv.org) |
| 294 points | 8 years ago with 199 comments |
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| 2012 | | A 12pt Font Should Be the Same Size Everywhere (github.com) |
| 290 points | 7 years ago with 156 comments |
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| 2012 | | LaTeX Coffee Stains (hanno-rein.de) |
| 289 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2012 | | Goldman Sachs and the $580M Black Hole (nytimes.com) |
| 289 points | 8 years ago with 141 comments |
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| 2012 | | Signs that you're a bad programmer (yacoset.com) |
| 289 points | 9 years ago with 170 comments |
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| 2012 | | A Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down (discovermagazine.com) |
| 288 points | 4 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2012 | | NASA solved a $100M problem for five bucks (gizmodo.com) |
| 288 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 123 comments |
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| 2012 | | Mail Loop From Hell (blog.dbrgn.ch) |
| 288 points | 5 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2012 | | John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (blogs.uw.edu) |
| 285 points across 3 posts | 9 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2012 | | The tyranny of the rocket equation (nasa.gov) |
| 284 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2012 | | How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (daedtech.com) |
| 283 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2012 | | Brian Armstrong seeking cofounder on HN (news.ycombinator.com) |
| 281 points | 3 years ago with 180 comments |
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