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| Articles written in 2012 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2012 | | Edge of the Abyss (smh.com.au) |
| 144 points | 8 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2012 | | Who Killed Lard? (npr.org) |
| 143 points | 5 years ago with 231 comments |
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| 2012 | | 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (10print.org) |
| 142 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2012 | | How Does FreeConferenceCall.com Make Money? (aaronparecki.com) |
| 142 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2012 | | Unix as IDE (sanctum.geek.nz) |
| 142 points | 4 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 2012 | | How should mathematics be taught to non-mathematicians? (gowers.wordpress.com) |
| 141 points | 8 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2012 | | Fun with fluorescence in olive oil (aapt.scitation.org) |
| 141 points | 1 year ago with 66 comments |
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| 2012 | | Legacy Train Control System Stabilisation (webinfo.uk) |
| 140 points | 3 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2012 | | Metaprogramming for Madmen (fgiesen.wordpress.com) |
| 140 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2012 | | YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (slate.com) |
| 140 points | 2 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2012 | | What Is Bayesian/Frequentist Inference? (normaldeviate.wordpress.com) |
| 139 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2012 | | What will programming look like in 2020? (lambda-the-ultimate.org) |
| 139 points | 3 years ago with 146 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (250bpm.com) |
| 139 points | 2 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2012 | | Re: MemSQL the “world's fastest database”? (postgresql.org) |
| 138 points | 10 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2012 | | From Java code to Java heap (ibm.com) |
| 138 points | 8 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 2012 | | What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (tor.com) |
| 138 points | 7 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 2012 | | Page Weight Matters (blog.chriszacharias.com) |
| 137 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2012 | | A very casual introduction to Fully Homomorphic Encryption (blog.cryptographyengineering.com) |
| 137 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Case for the /usr Merge (freedesktop.org) |
| 136 points | 2 years ago with 159 comments |
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| 2012 | | A Tour of Acme (research.swtch.com) |
| 136 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2012 | | My Laptop Bit Me – The Shocking Truth (enclydion.blogspot.com) |
| 136 points | 5 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2012 | | Reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular (arstechnica.com) |
| 136 points | 1 year ago with 40 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why Coke Cost a Nickel for 70 Years (npr.org) |
| 135 points | 9 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2012 | | Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES (ahefner.livejournal.com) |
| 135 points | 10 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2012 | | Ramanujan Factorial Approximation (johndcook.com) |
| 133 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2012 | | Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (hanselman.com) |
| 133 points | 1 year ago with 123 comments |
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| 2012 | | A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (jonmillward.com) |
| 133 points | 4 years ago with 255 comments |
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| 2012 | | Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (dothemath.ucsd.edu) |
| 133 points | 5 years ago with 170 comments |
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| 2012 | | In a Remote Part of Utah, Life Alone in a Hangar (nytimes.com) |
| 133 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2012 | | Massive Zurich building completes 19-hour trip (swissinfo.ch) |
| 132 points | 8 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2012 | | Working on The Witness, Part 1 (mollyrocket.com) |
| 132 points | 10 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2012 | | Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (calnewport.com) |
| 132 points | 6 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 2012 | | If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter (quoteinvestigator.com) |
| 131 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2012 | | When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed (theweek.com) |
| 131 points | 1 year ago with 78 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Worst (moxie.org) |
| 131 points | 2 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2012 | | Chinese Crankshafts (flycorvair.net) |
| 130 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2012 | | Principles of high-performance programs (blog.libtorrent.org) |
| 130 points | 10 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2012 | | Amish Counter Top Kitchen Appliances Run Off Compressed Air (sufficientself.com) |
| 130 points | 5 years ago with 170 comments |
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| 2012 | | DNA has a 521-year half-life (nature.com) |
| 130 points | 2 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 2012 | | The No-Order File System (pages.cs.wisc.edu) |
| 129 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2012 | | Real time bidding in Erlang (ferd.ca) |
| 128 points | 9 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2012 | | Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen? (superuser.com) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2012 | | Call/cc for C programmers (community.schemewiki.org) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2012 | | In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You (crookedtimber.org) |
| 127 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2012 | | Lisp as the Maxwell’s Equations of Software (michaelnielsen.org) |
| 127 points | 2 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Done About It (forensic.belkasoft.com) |
| 127 points | 10 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2012 | | Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox (eranki.tumblr.com) |
| 127 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2012 | | NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques (highlyscalable.wordpress.com) |
| 127 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2012 | | Please Stop “Fixing” Font Smoothing (usabilitypost.com) |
| 126 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 2012 | | How jeans conquered the world (bbc.com) |
| 126 points | 7 years ago with 147 comments |
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