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Articles written in 2012 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2012The Nature of Code (natureofcode.com)
279 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 22 comments
2012Quake GPL Source Release (github.com)
279 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments
2012Less is exponentially more (commandcenter.blogspot.com)
278 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 27 comments
2012The surprising subtleties of zeroing a register (randomascii.wordpress.com)
276 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 59 comments
2012The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies (cryptome.org)
272 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 187 comments
2012Eight years today (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
270 points | 8 years ago with 82 comments
2012An Introduction to Lock-Free Programming (preshing.com)
267 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 36 comments
2012Better Bash History (sanctum.geek.nz)
267 points | 4 years ago with 83 comments
2012MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on (cirw.in)
267 points | 4 years ago with 178 comments
2012Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (joeyh.name)
266 points | 3 years ago with 220 comments
2012Sorting 1M 8-digit numbers in 1 MB of RAM (stackoverflow.com)
266 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments
2012Quake III Arena GPL Source Release (github.com)
265 points | 6 years ago with 79 comments
2012Whats thw crazyest thing ur goats have eaten? (thegoatspot.net)
260 points | 5 years ago with 67 comments
2012Network programming with Go (jannewmarch.gitbooks.io)
258 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments
2012Feelings of guilt may signal leadership potential (gsb.stanford.edu)
256 points | 1 year ago with 71 comments
2012The true power of regular expressions (nikic.github.io)
254 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 38 comments
2012The Matrix Cookbook (math.uwaterloo.ca)
254 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2012Y Not – Adventures in Functional Programming (confreaks.com)
254 points | 10 years ago with 14 comments
2012Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (paulgraham.com)
252 points | 6 years ago with 245 comments
2012Why I Love Coding (henrikwarne.com)
252 points | 2 years ago with 118 comments
2012R, the master troll of statistical languages (talyarkoni.org)
250 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 148 comments
2012Mathematics I Use (pub.gajendra.net)
248 points | 6 years ago with 42 comments
2012How MIT Students Won $8M in the Massachusetts Lottery (newsfeed.time.com)
247 points | 8 years ago with 204 comments
2012Fatigue Is a Brain-Derived Emotion that Regulates to Ensure Protection (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
247 points | 7 years ago with 98 comments
2012Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (theguardian.com)
247 points | 8 years ago with 209 comments
2012A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads (slobc.org)
244 points | 7 years ago with 73 comments
2012Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (toothycat.net)
241 points | 6 years ago with 115 comments
2012How Yahoo Killed Flickr (gizmodo.com)
238 points | 7 years ago with 179 comments
2012Homoiconicity isn’t the point (calculist.org)
234 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 49 comments
2012“Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World” (2012diaries.blogspot.com)
233 points | 4 years ago with 77 comments
2012Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? (blogs.msdn.com)
230 points | 9 years ago with 67 comments
2012The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (otherhand.org)
229 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 147 comments
2012RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (github.com)
225 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments
2012Rides of Glory – Uber Blog (web.archive.org)
224 points | 9 years ago with 112 comments
2012The little book about OS development (littleosbook.github.io)
224 points | 9 years ago with 18 comments
2012How to give a great presentation: advice from a legendary adman (brainpickings.org)
224 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments
2012A file that’s both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
223 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments
2012Reasons not to use Skype (stallman.org)
223 points | 7 years ago with 167 comments
2012The FFmpeg/Libav situation (blog.pkh.me)
223 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 43 comments
2012Understanding is poor substitute for convexity (edge.org)
223 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 25 comments
2012How Y Combinator Started (paulgraham.com)
222 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
2012Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (livescience.com)
220 points | 3 years ago with 221 comments
2012Frequent fliers who flew too much (articles.latimes.com)
219 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 12 comments
2012The Galaga no-fire-cheat mystery (jasoneckert.github.io)
218 points | 1 year ago with 95 comments
2012Eller’s Algorithm (neocomputer.org)
217 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments
2012Restoration of defocused and blurred images (yuzhikov.com)
215 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments
2012Doom3 Source Code Review (fabiensanglard.net)
214 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2012Tough times on the road to Starcraft (codeofhonor.com)
211 points | 1 year ago with 111 comments
2012How to tell a raven from a crow (audubon.org)
210 points | 5 years ago with 100 comments
2012How the government set up a fake bank to launder drug money (npr.org)
210 points | 2 years ago with 97 comments
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