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