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| Hacker News is a treasure, and not only to discuss news. 99% of the best content was not created today.
This website aggregates classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2016 | | I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know (tech.davis-hansson.com) |
| 194 points | 7 hours ago with 81 comments |
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| 2014 | | Email apnea – are you breathing? (lindastone.net) |
| 44 points | 15 hours ago with 7 comments |
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| 2016 | | Filial Piety in Chinese Culture (china-journal.org) |
| 52 points | 18 hours ago with 38 comments |
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| 2005 | | A Coder in Courierland (web.archive.org) |
| 45 points | 23 hours ago with 13 comments |
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| 2014 | | Circles rolling on circles (plus.maths.org) |
| 54 points | 1 day ago with 19 comments |
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| 2014 | | Chocolate and the Steam Engine (chocolateclass.wordpress.com) |
| 20 points | 1 day ago with 0 comments |
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| 1988 | | The C Interpreter: A Tutorial for Cin (tuhs.org) |
| 33 points | 1 day ago with 11 comments |
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| 2006 | | The halting problem is decidable on a set of asymptotic probability one (projecteuclid.org) |
| 147 points | 1 day ago with 118 comments |
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| 2017 | | Octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia (arstechnica.com) |
| 270 points | 1 day ago with 162 comments |
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| 2017 | | In every country people think others are less happy than they themselves say (ourworldindata.org) |
| 97 points | 1 day ago with 92 comments |
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| 1954 | | The First Sherpa to Climb to the Top of Mt. Everest (newyorker.com) |
| 55 points | 1 day ago with 18 comments |
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| 2014 | | Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (ahf.nuclearmuseum.org) |
| 61 points | 2 days ago with 73 comments |
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| 2017 | | Bread Board Wristwatch (ingep.net) |
| 59 points | 2 days ago with 4 comments |
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| 2016 | | Superintelligence: An idea that eats smart people (idlewords.com) |
| 246 points across 2 posts | 2 days ago with 350 comments |
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| 2016 | | TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (vox.com) |
| 250 points | 2 days ago with 435 comments |
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| 2013 | | Scar tissues make relationships wear out (gist.github.com) |
| 690 points | 2 days ago with 190 comments |
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| 2007 | | Requirements (ericsink.com) |
| 35 points | 3 days ago with 30 comments |
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| 2018 | | Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (codingnest.com) |
| 590 points across 2 posts | 3 days ago with 88 comments |
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| 2018 | | How the lemon was invented (trueorbetter.com) |
| 163 points | 3 days ago with 152 comments |
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| 1975 | | A Spreading Activation Theory of Semantic Processing (researchgate.net) |
| 13 points | 3 days ago with 3 comments |
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| 2019 | | Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (masteringmonero.com) |
| 165 points | 3 days ago with 164 comments |
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| 2015 | | Don't abuse su for dropping user privileges (jdebp.uk) |
| 50 points | 4 days ago with 23 comments |
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| 1953 | | Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' Memo (whatisnuclear.com) |
| 126 points | 4 days ago with 45 comments |
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| 2018 | | A Short History of Chaosnet (twobithistory.org) |
| 122 points across 3 posts | 4 days ago with 5 comments |
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| 2000 | | Microsoft asks slashdot to remove readers' posts about Kerberos protocol (slashdot.org) |
| 42 points | 4 days ago with 2 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Burden of Writing: Scribes in Medieval Manuscripts (blogs.bl.uk) |
| 12 points | 4 days ago with 0 comments |
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| 1935 | | War Is a Racket (archive.org) |
| 383 points | 4 days ago with 534 comments |
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| 2009 | | Attacked from Within (web.archive.org) |
| 23 points | 4 days ago with 2 comments |
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| 1966 | | Before the Fire: Saturn-Apollo Applications (wired.com) |
| 16 points | 5 days ago with 4 comments |
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| 2014 | | The XY Problem (xyproblem.info) |
| 216 points across 2 posts | 5 days ago with 95 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Life (and Death) Spring from Disorder (quantamagazine.org) |
| 25 points | 5 days ago with 2 comments |
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| 2017 | | State of the Union (inference-review.com) |
| 11 points | 6 days ago with 0 comments |
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| 1988 | | Let's Build a Compiler (xmonader.github.io) |
| 132 points | 6 days ago with 19 comments |
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| 2014 | | Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (metalintheory.com) |
| 323 points | 1 week ago with 246 comments |
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| 2014 | | Using livestock guardian dogs in a small-scale commercial sheep operation (flyingmule.blogspot.com) |
| 59 points | 1 week ago with 22 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (slate.com) |
| 977 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 733 comments |
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| 2005 | | Polyphonic Audio Key Finding Using the Spiral Array CEG Algorithm (ieeexplore.ieee.org) |
| 20 points | 1 week ago with 6 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Alien-Life Summit (slate.com) |
| 11 points | 1 week ago with 2 comments |
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| 2011 | | Stippling and Blue Noise (joesfer.com) |
| 51 points | 1 week ago with 8 comments |
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| 2017 | | The many faces of DISTINCT in Postgres (hakibenita.com) |
| 187 points | 1 week ago with 69 comments |
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| 2018 | | Safety I vs. Safety II: An overview (safety4sea.com) |
| 26 points | 1 week ago with 6 comments |
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| 2010 | | Programming with natural language is going to work (writings.stephenwolfram.com) |
| 95 points | 1 week ago with 233 comments |
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| 1990 | | Choosing a Name for Your Computer (rfc-editor.org) |
| 432 points across 5 posts | 1 week ago with 200 comments |
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| 1994 | | Source code for Glider Pro (github.com) |
| 81 points | 1 week ago with 13 comments |
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| 2017 | | A Chicago newspaper that bought a bar (topic.com) |
| 360 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 26 comments |
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| 2017 | | How to Be a Know-It-All (newyorker.com) |
| 241 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 21 comments |
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| 2018 | | Plotinus (plato.stanford.edu) |
| 30 points | 1 week ago with 5 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin (newyorker.com) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 59 comments |
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| 2018 | | Deep neural networks as computational graphs (medium.com) |
| 102 points | 1 week ago with 44 comments |
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| 1955 | | ПП-BESM – a Soviet language (xav.io) |
| 125 points | 1 week ago with 28 comments |
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