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| Articles written in 2012 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2012 | | Why Bloom filters work the way they do (michaelnielsen.org) |
| 99 points | 11 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2012 | | The sound of the dialup, pictured (windytan.com) |
| 99 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2012 | | The ‘-ize’ have it (metadyne.co.uk) |
| 98 points | 5 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 2012 | | Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (jeremykun.com) |
| 98 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2012 | | Logical difficulties in modern mathematics (njwildberger.com) |
| 98 points | 6 years ago with 90 comments |
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| 2012 | | Le Paper Globe – a DIY paper terrestrial globe (joachimesque.com) |
| 97 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2012 | | Deconcentration of Attention: Addressing the Complexity of Software (deconcentration-of-attention.com) |
| 97 points | 10 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2012 | | I often have to cut into the brain (granta.com) |
| 97 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2012 | | Memory Access Patterns Are Important (mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com) |
| 97 points | 9 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Configuration Complexity Clock (mikehadlow.blogspot.com) |
| 97 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius (psychologytoday.com) |
| 95 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2012 | | Kolmogorov Complexity – A Primer (jeremykun.com) |
| 95 points | 9 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2012 | | IgNobel Prize in Neuroscience: The dead salmon study (blogs.scientificamerican.com) |
| 95 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Enduring Legacy of Dennis Ritchie (cs.columbia.edu) |
| 95 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2012 | | I wrote a Forth implementation for x86 (davazp.net) |
| 95 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2012 | | Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative (revolt.axismaps.com) |
| 94 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2012 | | Work on Unimportant Problems (yosefk.com) |
| 94 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2012 | | Trade secrets of the oldest family firm in the US (bbc.com) |
| 94 points | 10 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2012 | | Blameless post-mortems and a just culture (codeascraft.com) |
| 94 points | 5 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2012 | | Extremist Programming (blog.ezyang.com) |
| 93 points | 4 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2012 | | A Mouse is a Database (queue.acm.org) |
| 93 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2012 | | It's done in hardware so it's cheap (yosefk.com) |
| 93 points | 3 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2012 | | Thinking Parallel, Part I: Collision Detection on the GPU (devblogs.nvidia.com) |
| 93 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2012 | | We Don’t Do Legacy (mitadmissions.org) |
| 93 points | 8 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2012 | | Seiko 7S26 for Novice Horologists (clockmaker.com.au) |
| 92 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2012 | | Prolog-Based Reasoning Layer for Counter-Strike Agents (ceur-ws.org) |
| 91 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2012 | | A Gentle Introduction to Algorithm Complexity Analysis (discrete.gr) |
| 91 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why psychology isn’t science (latimes.com) |
| 91 points | 4 years ago with 120 comments |
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| 2012 | | User's Kindle eBook collection revoked by Amazon (bekkelund.net) |
| 91 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2012 | | Single Tone Detection with the Goertzel Algorithm (embedded.com) |
| 91 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2012 | | How we built a Super Nintendo out of a wireless keyboard (blog.adafruit.com) |
| 90 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2012 | | Independently Poor: A Twist on FU Money. Or: "FU, Money" (micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com) |
| 90 points | 11 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 2012 | | Counting Billion Distinct Objects Using Only 1.5KB of Memory (highscalability.com) |
| 90 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2012 | | The little ssh that sometimes couldn't (mina.naguib.ca) |
| 90 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2012 | | Black mamba venom is 'better painkiller' than morphine (bbc.com) |
| 90 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2012 | | Cracking a 250-Year-Old Code to Reveal a Secret Society (wired.com) |
| 90 points | 10 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2012 | | Design and Implementation of Modern Column-Oriented Databases (db.csail.mit.edu) |
| 90 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2012 | | EU court rules software transfer is a sale (bdkadvokati.com) |
| 89 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2012 | | Binary Search Eliminates Branch Mispredictions (pvk.ca) |
| 89 points | 11 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2012 | | A Git Horror Story: Repository Integrity with Signed Commits (mikegerwitz.com) |
| 89 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2012 | | Most complex ASCII fluid – Honorable mention (ioccc.org) |
| 89 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2012 | | A Slower Speed of Light (gamelab.mit.edu) |
| 89 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2012 | | Is Pop Music Evolving, or Is It Just Getting Louder? (blogs.scientificamerican.com) |
| 89 points | 7 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2012 | | Optimizing Your Industry to the Point of Suicide (baekdal.com) |
| 89 points | 11 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2012 | | How to Generate Millions of HTTP Requests (dak1n1.com) |
| 88 points | 10 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2012 | | What makes Paris look like Paris? (cacm.acm.org) |
| 88 points | 7 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2012 | | Random Write Considered Harmful in SSDs (usenix.org) |
| 88 points | 8 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2012 | | SHUT THE FUCK UP. WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE! (lkml.org) |
| 88 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2012 | | Mexican Cartels Enslave Engineers to Build Radio Network (wired.com) |
| 88 points | 10 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2012 | | Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking (pearson.com) |
| 88 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments |
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