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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 site aggregates old articles that get reposted on Hacker News, so that you have a chance to read the best ones. It's the equivalent of your cozy neighbourhood library, if you wish. |
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| How to use: Browse the newest or most-frequently posted links, search for resources on any topic, or list the best articles per website or year. |
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| New feature: Click on the "annotations" link under popular posts to view HN comments inline. |
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| 2014 | | Brain surgeon: There's no point wearing bicycle helmets (cnet.com) |
| 10 points | 1 annotation | 20 hours ago with 8 comments |
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| 2015 | | The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (atlasobscura.com) |
| 134 points | 1 annotation | 1 day ago with 110 comments |
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| 2014 | | Worst practices are viral for the wrong reasons (haskellforall.com) |
| 119 points | 1 annotation | 1 day ago with 59 comments |
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| 2015 | | Wanna buy a radio station? (darrylparks.com) |
| 39 points | 2 days ago with 26 comments |
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| 2011 | | Aspiring to a Higher Plane (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 21 points | 2 days ago with 1 comments |
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| 1998 | | PFX: How Not to Design a Crypto Protocol/Standard (cs.auckland.ac.nz) |
| 53 points | 2 annotations | 2 days ago with 12 comments |
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| 2013 | | Switchable Telescopic Contact Lens (osapublishing.org) |
| 39 points | 2 days ago with 6 comments |
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| 2019 | | Sleep quality and consistency associated with better academic performance (nature.com) |
| 170 points | 1 annotation | 2 days ago with 102 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Piano Test for Program Verification (blog.regehr.org) |
| 37 points | 2 annotations | 2 days ago with 22 comments |
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| 2014 | | Surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored (righto.com) |
| 104 points | 1 annotation | 2 days ago with 70 comments |
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| 2017 | | Original Antigenic Sin (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 27 points | 2 days ago with 1 comments |
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| 2017 | | Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (polygon.com) |
| 445 points | 5 annotations | 3 days ago with 271 comments |
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| 2001 | | Worse Is Better (dreamsongs.com) |
| 98 points across 2 posts | 2 annotations | 3 days ago with 3 comments |
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| 2013 | | Caffeine's Smarter Sibling: An Experience with Modafinil (erowid.org) |
| 113 points | 3 days ago with 173 comments |
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| 1999 | | Amazon.com Homepage (web.archive.org) |
| 35 points | 3 days ago with 58 comments |
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| 2019 | | Reasons I'm Still Blogging About CRPGs After 10 Years (crpgaddict.blogspot.com) |
| 53 points | 1 annotation | 3 days ago with 23 comments |
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| 2012 | | FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity and lifecycle (lists.freebsd.org) |
| 150 points | 1 annotation | 3 days ago with 176 comments |
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| 2016 | | Implementing Web accessibility guidelines for nondisabled users (journals.sagepub.com) |
| 53 points | 4 days ago with 39 comments |
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| 1998 | | DC Circuit Water Analogy (hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu) |
| 125 points | 4 days ago with 73 comments |
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| 2018 | | A surprisingly hard CS problem: sums of square roots (shlegeris.com) |
| 292 points | 6 annotations | 4 days ago with 177 comments |
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| 2017 | | A Simple Guide to Architectural Rendering (strongtowns.org) |
| 34 points | 1 annotation | 4 days ago with 1 comments |
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| 2019 | | In praise of the vertically sliced St. Louis bagel (seriouseats.com) |
| 72 points | 4 days ago with 23 comments |
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| 2005 | | P2P Future Darkens as EDonkey Closes (web.archive.org) |
| 0 points | 1 annotation | 4 days ago with 2 comments |
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| 1995 | | Roger Ebert: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (rogerebert.com) |
| 111 points | 4 days ago with 74 comments |
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| 2007 | | Brain of a White-Collar Worker (thelancet.com) |
| 66 points | 4 days ago with 47 comments |
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| 2014 | | BLAKE2: “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” Than MD5 (leastauthority.com) |
| 149 points across 2 posts | 1 annotation | 4 days ago with 49 comments |
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| 2011 | | Soundscape Ecology: The Science of Sound in the Landscape (academic.oup.com) |
| 32 points | 5 days ago with 3 comments |
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| 2017 | | The logic behind Google rejecting Max Howell, the author of Homebrew (quora.com) |
| 278 points across 4 posts | 5 days ago with 4 comments |
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| 2016 | | When Did Sex Become Fun? (sapiens.org) |
| 39 points | 5 days ago with 40 comments |
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| 2016 | | Automatic Ripping Machine (b3n.org) |
| 60 points | 5 days ago with 38 comments |
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| 1980 | | Bell Labs Org Chart (neil.computer) |
| 172 points | 5 days ago with 70 comments |
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| 2009 | | Reading to the Endgame (cabinetmagazine.org) |
| 14 points | 5 days ago with 1 comments |
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| 2013 | | Myths about cooking steak that need to go away (seriouseats.com) |
| 223 points | 5 days ago with 290 comments |
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| 2014 | | The control group is out of control (slatestarcodex.com) |
| 184 points | 6 days ago with 174 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Dangers of Dimethylmercury (chemistryworld.com) |
| 100 points | 6 days ago with 77 comments |
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| 2009 | | C++ Frequently Questioned Answers (yosefk.com) |
| 53 points | 6 days ago with 110 comments |
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| 2017 | | Lego Spectrometer (publiclab.org) |
| 65 points | 6 days ago with 6 comments |
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| 2012 | | Machiavelli I – S.P.Q.F (exurbe.com) |
| 23 points | 6 days ago with 4 comments |
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| 2015 | | Pitfalls of Time Stamp Counter (TSC) usage (oliveryang.net) |
| 11 points | 6 days ago with 0 comments |
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| 2019 | | Industrial ammonia emits more CO2 than other chemical-making reactions (cen.acs.org) |
| 121 points | 6 days ago with 115 comments |
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| 1935 | | War Is a Racket. (ratical.org) |
| 36 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 1 comments |
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| 2014 | | Ayn Rand reviews children’s movies (newyorker.com) |
| 31 points | 1 week ago with 43 comments |
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| 2017 | | A better way to display museum hours (jamesrobertwatson.com) |
| 134 points | 1 annotation | 1 week ago with 26 comments |
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| 2018 | | Sweden clears snow-covered walkways before roads (usa.streetsblog.org) |
| 87 points across 3 posts | 1 week ago with 75 comments |
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| 2013 | | The tragic rape of Charles Bukowski’s ghost by Black Sparrow Press (mjpbooks.com) |
| 192 points | 1 week ago with 101 comments |
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| 2018 | | Leadership as a Type B Introvert (upbuild.io) |
| 96 points | 1 week ago with 44 comments |
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| 2016 | | Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (jackschaedler.github.io) |
| 175 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 3 comments |
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| 2011 | | More shell, less egg (leancrew.com) |
| 336 points across 4 posts | 1 week ago with 23 comments |
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| 1982 | | The Ecology of Freedom (theanarchistlibrary.org) |
| 68 points | 1 week ago with 42 comments |
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| 2017 | | Patents are out of control, and they’re hurting innovation (learnliberty.org) |
| 201 points | 1 annotation | 1 week ago with 87 comments |
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