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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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| How to use: Browse the newest or best links, or filter articles per website or publish year. |
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| 2012 | | Self-locking gears prevent backdriving (gearsolutions.com) |
| 57 points | 1 day ago with 6 comments |
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| 2014 | | “Pigeon Neck” Illusion (michaelbach.de) |
| 321 points | 1 day ago with 73 comments |
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| 2019 | | Why Go and Not Rust? (kristoff.it) |
| 675 points across 3 posts | 1 day ago with 156 comments |
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| 2015 | | Elite for Emacs (salkosuo.net) |
| 260 points | 1 day ago with 43 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Passive in English (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu) |
| 56 points | 1 day ago with 61 comments |
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| 2007 | | The Science of Sword-Swallowing (twistedphysics.typepad.com) |
| 97 points | 1 day ago with 34 comments |
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| 2018 | | Tactic Metaprogramming in Haskell (totbwf.github.io) |
| 13 points | 1 day ago with 0 comments |
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| 2015 | | Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (wired.com) |
| 20 points | 1 day ago with 8 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Galaga no-fire-cheat mystery (jasoneckert.github.io) |
| 215 points | 2 days ago with 95 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Python Paradox (paulgraham.com) |
| 317 points across 3 posts | 2 days ago with 264 comments |
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| 1983 | | A Fix-It-Yourself Trend for Appliances (nytimes.com) |
| 36 points | 2 days ago with 49 comments |
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| 2018 | | Slack is the opposite of organizational memory (abe-winter.github.io) |
| 710 points across 2 posts | 2 days ago with 191 comments |
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| 2019 | | Sound travels further in cold weather (blog.weatherops.com) |
| 31 points | 3 days ago with 24 comments |
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| 2013 | | CamelCase vs. underscores revisited (whatheco.de) |
| 100 points | 3 days ago with 257 comments |
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| 2002 | | The rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab (flownet.com) |
| 292 points across 2 posts | 3 days ago with 136 comments |
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| 2018 | | Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself (arxiv.org) |
| 21 points | 3 days ago with 2 comments |
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| 2015 | | Semaphores are surprisingly versatile (preshing.com) |
| 69 points | 3 days ago with 26 comments |
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| 2016 | | A forgery earned Michelangelo his first Roman patron (artsy.net) |
| 21 points | 3 days ago with 2 comments |
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| 2015 | | Motors for Makers: A Guide to Steppers, Servos, and Other Electrical Machines (motorsformakers.com) |
| 262 points | 3 days ago with 99 comments |
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| 2011 | | Modulo of negative numbers (torstencurdt.com) |
| 54 points | 3 days ago with 46 comments |
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| 2016 | | 1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness as much as 3x aerobics (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 375 points | 3 days ago with 490 comments |
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| 1941 | | Who Goes Nazi? (harpers.org) |
| 469 points across 5 posts | 4 days ago with 7 comments |
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| 2007 | | Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (theguardian.com) |
| 571 points across 2 posts | 4 days ago with 7 comments |
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| 2005 | | The six dumbest ideas in computer security (ranum.com) |
| 421 points across 3 posts | 4 days ago with 196 comments |
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| 2018 | | Ibn Battuta: A Scholar's Epic Journey (jurnalanas.com) |
| 147 points | 4 days ago with 24 comments |
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| 1899 | | Frost Flowers on the Windows (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 25 points | 4 days ago with 10 comments |
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| 2014 | | Mystery Signal from a Helicopter (windytan.com) |
| 177 points | 4 days ago with 28 comments |
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| 2018 | | Strings in YAML – To quote or not to quote (blogs.perl.org) |
| 32 points | 4 days ago with 10 comments |
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| 2016 | | A Perceptually Meaningful Audio Visualizer (delu.medium.com) |
| 110 points | 4 days ago with 31 comments |
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| 2010 | | Bayes Theorem for project managers (eight2late.wordpress.com) |
| 71 points | 4 days ago with 16 comments |
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| 2015 | | Linear-log bucketing: fast, versatile, simple (pvk.ca) |
| 41 points | 4 days ago with 5 comments |
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| 1997 | | Oberon-2, a hi-performance alternative to C++ (folk.ntnu.no) |
| 72 points | 4 days ago with 102 comments |
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| 2015 | | Bayesian Project Management (maxwideman.com) |
| 39 points | 4 days ago with 1 comments |
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| 2012 | | A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is good, but not quite the best (righto.com) |
| 84 points | 5 days ago with 56 comments |
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| 2012 | | NASA solved a $100M problem for five bucks (gizmodo.com) |
| 288 points across 2 posts | 5 days ago with 123 comments |
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| 2019 | | Commercial 3D printers emit traces of toxic fumes, study finds (eandt.theiet.org) |
| 136 points | 5 days ago with 158 comments |
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| 2012 | | In Search of Lost Art: Kurt Schwitters’s Merzbau (moma.org) |
| 19 points | 6 days ago with 1 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why developers never use state machines (skorks.com) |
| 273 points across 2 posts | 6 days ago with 112 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Body in the Buddha (economist.com) |
| 32 points | 6 days ago with 10 comments |
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| 2018 | | A telescope fan sabotaged an astronomy forum. He ended up in prison (theverge.com) |
| 96 points across 2 posts | 6 days ago with 0 comments |
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| 2018 | | Merger and Acquisition Failures (monkeynoodle.org) |
| 51 points | 6 days ago with 13 comments |
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| 2016 | | Google Search URL Request Parameters (stenevang.wordpress.com) |
| 77 points | 6 days ago with 18 comments |
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| 2015 | | Fortran H and PL.8: Papers about Great Optimizing Compilers [pdf] (clear.rice.edu) |
| 43 points | 6 days ago with 6 comments |
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| 1993 | | Antique Roman Dishes – Collection (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 62 points | 1 week ago with 25 comments |
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| 2002 | | Pattern Theory: The Mathematics of Perception (arxiv.org) |
| 77 points | 1 week ago with 12 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Website Obesity Crisis (idlewords.com) |
| 282 points across 3 posts | 1 week ago with 43 comments |
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| 2019 | | From Zero to main(): Bare metal C (interrupt.memfault.com) |
| 253 points | 1 week ago with 31 comments |
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| 2016 | | Your Idea Is Brilliant, Your Idea Is Worthless (stonemaiergames.com) |
| 440 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 0 comments |
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| 2018 | | German Remembrance of the Holocaust and Growing US Anti-Semitism (kottke.org) |
| 40 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 3 comments |
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| 2013 | | Parser as Prototype: why choice-based games are more interesting (threeedgedsword.wordpress.com) |
| 55 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 1 comments |
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