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| Articles written in 2014 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2014 | | WiFi: “beamforming” only begins to describe it (apenwarr.ca) |
| 1913 points across 8 posts | 2 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2014 | | Don't End the Week with Nothing (training.kalzumeus.com) |
| 1299 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2014 | | Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (adamdrake.com) |
| 1259 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 2014 | | Markov Chains Explained Visually (setosa.io) |
| 1198 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Lost Art of C Structure Packing (catb.org) |
| 1142 points across 7 posts | 3 years ago with 153 comments |
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| 2014 | | There Are Only Four Billion Floats–So Test Them All (randomascii.wordpress.com) |
| 1082 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2014 | | Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (righto.com) |
| 1046 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 378 comments |
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| 2014 | | Web Design: The First 100 Years (idlewords.com) |
| 1016 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2014 | | How to assess the quality of garments (anuschkarees.com) |
| 991 points | 6 years ago with 287 comments |
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| 2014 | | How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (mathematica.stackexchange.com) |
| 986 points | 2 years ago with 185 comments |
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| 2014 | | If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (joshworth.com) |
| 945 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 2014 | | All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (theguardian.com) |
| 826 points | 4 years ago with 446 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (rexegg.com) |
| 809 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 191 comments |
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| 2014 | | Typography in Alien (typesetinthefuture.com) |
| 802 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2014 | | What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (wozniak.ca) |
| 795 points | 6 years ago with 634 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video] (destroyallsoftware.com) |
| 792 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2014 | | Windows 93 (windows93.net) |
| 790 points | 9 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 2014 | | How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (gizmodo.com) |
| 783 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 238 comments |
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| 2014 | | SQLite as an Application File Format (sqlite.org) |
| 778 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 301 comments |
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| 2014 | | Calculus Explained with GIFs and Pics (0a.io) |
| 770 points | 5 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2014 | | I can tolerate anything except the outgroup (slatestarcodex.com) |
| 732 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 371 comments |
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| 2014 | | What if OpenDocument used SQLite? (sqlite.org) |
| 711 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 290 comments |
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| 2014 | | Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (robert.ocallahan.org) |
| 698 points | 6 years ago with 329 comments |
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| 2014 | | Radiation-hardened Quine (github.com) |
| 695 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 2014 | | The worst API ever made (caseymuratori.com) |
| 640 points across 6 posts | 2 years ago with 215 comments |
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| 2014 | | A command-line murder mystery (github.com) |
| 638 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2014 | | Only 90s web developers remember this (zachholman.com) |
| 628 points | 3 years ago with 345 comments |
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| 2014 | | Always bet on text (graydon2.dreamwidth.org) |
| 605 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Myth of RAM (ilikebigbits.com) |
| 593 points | 9 years ago with 277 comments |
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| 2014 | | A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (scientificamerican.com) |
| 589 points | 6 years ago with 238 comments |
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| 2014 | | Meditations on Moloch (slatestarcodex.com) |
| 579 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2014 | | Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt (ai.google) |
| 576 points | 7 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 2014 | | Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (dougseven.com) |
| 574 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 273 comments |
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| 2014 | | Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (mako.cc) |
| 570 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 386 comments |
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| 2014 | | MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 is now open-source (github.com) |
| 564 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2014 | | Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (lcamtuf.blogspot.com) |
| 561 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2014 | | Engineering management lessons (defmacro.org) |
| 558 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why I did not go to jail (a16z.com) |
| 556 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 142 comments |
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| 2014 | | Most Unit Testing Is Waste (rbcs-us.com) |
| 540 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 159 comments |
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| 2014 | | What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (woz.posthaven.com) |
| 540 points | 7 years ago with 348 comments |
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| 2014 | | Kindness is Underrated (circleci.com) |
| 536 points | 8 years ago with 210 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why Racket? Why Lisp? (beautifulracket.com) |
| 526 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 151 comments |
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| 2014 | | I reverse engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes (features.jsomers.net) |
| 490 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 2014 | | Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (robert.ocallahan.org) |
| 484 points | 9 years ago with 295 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why Go Is Not Good (yager.io) |
| 482 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2014 | | How Does Sqlite Work? (jvns.ca) |
| 480 points | 5 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence (blog.revolutionanalytics.com) |
| 474 points | 2 years ago with 158 comments |
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| 2014 | | Becoming a better developer (gist.github.com) |
| 468 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2014 | | Visualizing Algorithms (bost.ocks.org) |
| 453 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2014 | | Wage Theft Is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft (epi.org) |
| 450 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 124 comments |
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