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|  | Articles written in 2012 that Hacker News still talks about. | 
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| 2012 |  | Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99%  (hanselman.com) | 
|  | 126 points | 6 years ago with 90 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Malloc Never Fails  (scvalex.net) | 
|  | 125 points | 6 years ago with 156 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Symptoms of Groupthink  (courses.washington.edu) | 
|  | 125 points | 5 years ago with 56 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Linux on an 8-bit micro  (dmitry.gr) | 
|  | 125 points | 10 years ago with 44 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | A review of Dominion, 4000 plays later  (dominionstrategy.com) | 
|  | 125 points | 4 years ago with 74 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Old Techies Never Die; They Just Can’t Get Hired as an Industry Moves On  (nytimes.com) | 
|  | 124 points | 9 years ago with 132 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Good Sleep, Good Learning  (super-memory.com) | 
|  | 124 points | 9 years ago with 27 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Brainfuck beware: JavaScript is after you  (patriciopalladino.com) | 
|  | 123 points | 11 years ago with 37 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The fine art of Italian hand gestures: A vintage visual dictionary  (themarginalian.org) | 
|  | 123 points | 3 years ago with 46 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Growing One's Consulting Business  (training.kalzumeus.com) | 
|  | 123 points | 10 years ago with 35 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Anthrax Guitarist Turned Master Watchmaker  (hodinkee.com) | 
|  | 123 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Mice fed a time-restricted, high-fat diet show reduced metabolic disease  (sciencedirect.com) | 
|  | 123 points | 8 years ago with 85 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Build a simple 2D physics engine for JavaScript games  (developer.ibm.com) | 
|  | 122 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | How to Build a Windmill  (jacquesmattheij.com) | 
|  | 122 points | 1 year ago with 20 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | UTF-8 Everywhere  (utf8everywhere.org) | 
|  | 122 points | 9 years ago with 153 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Email Zuckerberg Sent to Cut His Cofounder Out of Facebook  (businessinsider.com) | 
|  | 122 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 39 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease and You Can’t  (wbur.org) | 
|  | 122 points | 10 years ago with 75 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | How Corruption Is Strangling U.S. Innovation  (blogs.hbr.org) | 
|  | 122 points | 11 years ago with 97 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Extroverts destroy the world  (nypost.com) | 
|  | 121 points | 3 years ago with 78 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got  (russolsen.com) | 
|  | 121 points | 11 years ago with 50 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | NSA's Warrantless Wiretaps  (nerdylorrin.net) | 
|  | 121 points | 3 years ago with 108 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java  (kuomarc.wordpress.com) | 
|  | 121 points | 6 years ago with 165 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | San Francisco’s Secret DC Grid  (spectrum.ieee.org) | 
|  | 120 points | 4 years ago with 103 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Musicians wage war against evil robots  (smithsonianmag.com) | 
|  | 120 points | 2 years ago with 167 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Developer depression: Isolation is the biggest problem  (thenextweb.com) | 
|  | 120 points | 11 years ago with 52 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx  (aosabook.org) | 
|  | 119 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Refusing to apologize can have psychological benefits  (onlinelibrary.wiley.com) | 
|  | 119 points | 3 years ago with 120 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Intuition in Mathematics  (as.miami.edu) | 
|  | 119 points | 8 years ago with 34 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Sculpting text with regex, grep, sed, awk, emacs and vim  (matt.might.net) | 
|  | 119 points | 11 years ago with 32 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Teller Reveals His Secrets  (smithsonianmag.com) | 
|  | 117 points | 3 years ago with 68 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Thelonious Monk Creates a List of Tips for Playing a Gig  (openculture.com) | 
|  | 117 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Faster Spelling Correction algorithm  (blog.faroo.com) | 
|  | 117 points | 11 years ago with 20 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Bret Victor: Learnable Programming  (worrydream.com) | 
|  | 117 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Soyuz Users Manual  (arianespace.com) | 
|  | 117 points | 10 years ago with 30 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Kids Who Get Driven Everywhere Don't Know Where They're Going  (citylab.com) | 
|  | 116 points | 5 years ago with 73 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The IBM PC, Part 1  (filfre.net) | 
|  | 116 points | 8 years ago with 43 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard  (arxiv.org) | 
|  | 115 points | 9 years ago with 59 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | 30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web  (arstechnica.com) | 
|  | 115 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Actually using ed  (sanctum.geek.nz) | 
|  | 114 points | 8 years ago with 88 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Why don't we define “imaginary” numbers for every “impossibility”?  (math.stackexchange.com) | 
|  | 114 points | 2 years ago with 93 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Cognitive sophistication does not attenuate the bias blind spot  (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) | 
|  | 114 points | 2 years ago with 153 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language  (wilfred.me.uk) | 
|  | 114 points | 10 years ago with 97 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | RouterOS – Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act  (wiki.mikrotik.com) | 
|  | 113 points | 3 years ago with 51 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man)  (johnnycashhasbeeneverywhere.com) | 
|  | 112 points | 3 years ago with 53 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | A Spaniard in Samarkand, 1404  (resobscura.blogspot.com) | 
|  | 112 points | 10 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Introduction to the Autotools  (dwheeler.com) | 
|  | 112 points | 9 years ago with 55 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | PIN number analysis  (datagenetics.com) | 
|  | 112 points | 7 years ago with 72 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Building a 10BASE5 “Thick Ethernet” Network  (tech.mattmillman.com) | 
|  | 112 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 23 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Sol – a sunny little virtual machine  (rsms.me) | 
|  | 111 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 10 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Static analysis of an unknown compression format  (blog.lse.epita.fr) | 
|  | 111 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments | 
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