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|  | Articles written in 2012 that Hacker News still talks about. | 
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| 2012 |  | Elsevier – My part in its downfall  (gowers.wordpress.com) | 
|  | 111 points | 9 years ago with 37 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark  (mentalfloss.com) | 
|  | 110 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Bumblebees Sleeping in Flowers  (beeisbeautiful.wordpress.com) | 
|  | 110 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Startups, this is how design works  (startupsthisishowdesignworks.com) | 
|  | 109 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 94 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Copying is not theft, but censorship is  (techdirt.com) | 
|  | 109 points | 5 years ago with 49 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The culture where play is shameful  (psychologytoday.com) | 
|  | 109 points | 10 years ago with 72 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Crazy fast build times, or when 10 seconds starts to make you nervous  (dan.bodar.com) | 
|  | 108 points | 4 years ago with 137 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Raise the Crime Rate  (nplusonemag.com) | 
|  | 108 points | 11 years ago with 76 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Homotopy Type Theory  (hottheory.files.wordpress.com) | 
|  | 108 points | 5 years ago with 87 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Dynamic Programming in Python: Bayesian Blocks  (jakevdp.github.io) | 
|  | 108 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | How statically linked programs run on Linux  (eli.thegreenplace.net) | 
|  | 107 points | 11 years ago with 7 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Android Full Disk Encryption Cold Boot Attack  (www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de) | 
|  | 107 points | 9 years ago with 49 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Haskell Is Exceptionally Unsafe  (existentialtype.wordpress.com) | 
|  | 107 points | 11 years ago with 122 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The greatest paper map of the United States, made by one guy in Oregon  (slate.com) | 
|  | 106 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 4 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Clojure at a Bank – Moving from Java  (pitheringabout.com) | 
|  | 106 points | 10 years ago with 65 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Man Who Almost Never Succeeded  (lensrentals.com) | 
|  | 106 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Why Portland's Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed  (citylab.com) | 
|  | 106 points | 6 years ago with 132 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Unix as IDE  (blog.sanctum.geek.nz) | 
|  | 106 points | 1 year ago with 60 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | You Are Not Your Code  (sstephenson.us) | 
|  | 105 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | What to Make of Finnegans Wake?  (nybooks.com) | 
|  | 105 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 30 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | A Gentle Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo  (theclevermachine.wordpress.com) | 
|  | 105 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Kindle DX as E-Ink computer monitor  (tinyapps.org) | 
|  | 104 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | STON – Smalltalk Object Notation  (github.com) | 
|  | 104 points | 8 years ago with 59 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior  (pnas.org) | 
|  | 104 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Have we forgotten to make heat traps?  (esbe.eu) | 
|  | 104 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades  (wired.com) | 
|  | 104 points | 10 years ago with 28 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Do the math: too much calculus?  (washingtonpost.com) | 
|  | 104 points | 9 years ago with 212 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Xmonad from Coq: Programming a Window Manager with a Proof Assistant  (staff.science.uu.nl) | 
|  | 104 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Matrix Cookbook  (www2.imm.dtu.dk) | 
|  | 103 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | x86 API Hooking Demystified  (jbremer.org) | 
|  | 103 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Ops School Curriculum  (opsschool.org) | 
|  | 103 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Suffering Oriented Programming  (nathanmarz.com) | 
|  | 102 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 1 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Where Are the Customers' Yachts? Or a Good Hard Look at Wall Street  (ifa.com) | 
|  | 102 points | 8 years ago with 52 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Making robust software: the “Mars Code” talk  (verticalsysadmin.com) | 
|  | 102 points | 9 years ago with 43 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Maze Generation in Thirteen Bytes  (trixter.oldskool.org) | 
|  | 102 points | 10 years ago with 21 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Social Login Buttons Aren't Worth It  (blog.mailchimp.com) | 
|  | 102 points | 11 years ago with 74 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Your Body Wasn’t Built To Last: A Lesson From Human Mortality Rates  (singularityhub.com) | 
|  | 102 points | 10 years ago with 152 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | What “Worse is Better vs. The Right Thing” is really about  (yosefk.com) | 
|  | 102 points | 9 years ago with 35 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | How Eduardo Saverin sold Facebook ads in 2004  (digiday.com) | 
|  | 102 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | EFI Sucks  (plus.google.com) | 
|  | 101 points | 7 years ago with 72 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it better?  (npr.org) | 
|  | 101 points | 4 years ago with 93 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Why we don't sell ads  (blog.whatsapp.com) | 
|  | 101 points | 11 years ago with 76 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | How Python 3 Should Have Worked  (aaronsw.com) | 
|  | 101 points | 11 years ago with 76 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Personal Analytics of My Life  (wired.com) | 
|  | 100 points | 4 years ago with 21 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Hardware Isn't Generally Copyrightable  (web.archive.org) | 
|  | 100 points | 5 years ago with 56 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Happiness and the Art of Being  (happinessofbeing.com) | 
|  | 100 points | 3 years ago with 71 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | It is time to stop teaching frequentism to non-statisticians  (arxiv.org) | 
|  | 100 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Making Of “Homer At The Bat,” The Episode That Conquered Prime Time  (deadspin.com) | 
|  | 100 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Digital Music Industry Is Inept  (bennjordan.com) | 
|  | 99 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | A few useful things to know about machine learning  (cs.washington.edu) | 
|  | 99 points | 11 years ago with 7 comments | 
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