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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2006 | | Dennis Ritchie Home Page (bell-labs.com) |
| 817 points across 12 posts | 1 year ago with 79 comments |
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| 2019 | | Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (apenwarr.ca) |
| 1696 points across 11 posts | 1 month ago with 58 comments |
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| 1985 | | Byte Magazine: Declarative Languages (archive.org) |
| 1246 points across 11 posts | 1 year ago with 52 comments |
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| 1983 | | Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (archive.org) |
| 1245 points across 11 posts | 1 year ago with 275 comments |
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| 2009 | | A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages (james-iry.blogspot.com) |
| 1765 points across 9 posts | 5 months ago with 64 comments |
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| 2010 | | Why take a compiler course? (blog.regehr.org) |
| 1745 points across 9 posts | 8 months ago with 114 comments |
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| 1987 | | Byte Magazine: Prolog and 386 Hardware Software (archive.org) |
| 811 points across 9 posts | 1 year ago with 8 comments |
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| 1984 | | Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (archive.org) |
| 811 points across 9 posts | 1 year ago with 113 comments |
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| 2014 | | WiFi: “beamforming” only begins to describe it (apenwarr.ca) |
| 1913 points across 8 posts | 9 months ago with 47 comments |
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| 2012 | | Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index (swtch.com) |
| 999 points across 8 posts | 9 months ago with 16 comments |
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| 2005 | | NewOS (newos.org) |
| 978 points across 8 posts | 3 months ago with 9 comments |
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| 2010 | | Land of Lisp (landoflisp.com) |
| 1703 points across 7 posts | 1 year ago with 80 comments |
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| 2017 | | The world in which IPv6 was a good design (apenwarr.ca) |
| 1643 points across 7 posts | 3 months ago with 294 comments |
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| 2016 | | Beautiful Racket (beautifulracket.com) |
| 1605 points across 7 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Lost Art of C Structure Packing (catb.org) |
| 1142 points across 7 posts | 1 year ago with 153 comments |
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| 2015 | | Programmers should not call themselves engineers (theatlantic.com) |
| 281 points across 7 posts | 3 months ago with 67 comments |
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| 2016 | | Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side (idontplaydarts.com) |
| 1485 points across 6 posts | 11 months ago with 185 comments |
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| 2009 | | Keep Your Identity Small (paulgraham.com) |
| 1415 points across 6 posts | 11 months ago with 162 comments |
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| 2008 | | Why to start a startup in a bad economy (paulgraham.com) |
| 1311 points across 6 posts | 10 months ago with 223 comments |
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| 2019 | | Local-First Software (inkandswitch.com) |
| 1119 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 28 comments |
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| 2015 | | Don’t Use VPN Services (gist.github.com) |
| 922 points across 6 posts | 3 months ago with 59 comments |
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| 2011 | | Stuff I said at Kansas City Startup Weekend that sounded smart (apenwarr.ca) |
| 804 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments |
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| 2019 | | A free introduction to quantum computing with spaced repetition (quantum.country) |
| 716 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 15 comments |
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| 2009 | | Maker's schedule, Manager's schedule (paulgraham.com) |
| 706 points across 6 posts | 5 months ago with 72 comments |
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| 2014 | | The worst API ever made (caseymuratori.com) |
| 640 points across 6 posts | 3 months ago with 215 comments |
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| 2005 | | Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (lists.warhead.org.uk) |
| 610 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 56 comments |
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| 1993 | | Space After Periods (1997.webhistory.org) |
| 478 points across 6 posts | 4 months ago with 178 comments |
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| 2001 | | History of T (paulgraham.com) |
| 413 points across 6 posts | 4 months ago with 22 comments |
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| 1993 | | The Early History of Smalltalk (worrydream.com) |
| 407 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 26 comments |
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| 2018 | | Mtime comparison considered harmful (apenwarr.ca) |
| 389 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 33 comments |
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| 2016 | | Life Is Short (paulgraham.com) |
| 2385 points across 5 posts | 11 months ago with 289 comments |
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| 2019 | | Algorithms (jeffe.cs.illinois.edu) |
| 2342 points across 5 posts | 2 weeks ago with 23 comments |
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| 2017 | | Filing taxes could be free & simple. H&R Block & Intuit lobby against it (propublica.org) |
| 2200 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 114 comments |
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| 1998 | | Cool URIs Don't Change (w3.org) |
| 1470 points across 5 posts | 8 months ago with 120 comments |
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| 2015 | | The hardest program I've ever written (journal.stuffwithstuff.com) |
| 1408 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 132 comments |
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| 2018 | | C Is Not a Low-level Language (queue.acm.org) |
| 1323 points across 5 posts | 1 month ago with 393 comments |
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| 2010 | | Why GNU grep is fast (lists.freebsd.org) |
| 1246 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 61 comments |
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| 2018 | | Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL (developer.apple.com) |
| 1199 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 55 comments |
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| 2019 | | WTF Happened in 1971? (wtfhappenedin1971.com) |
| 1162 points across 5 posts | 2 months ago with 105 comments |
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| 2017 | | Things we finally know about network queues (apenwarr.ca) |
| 1148 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 45 comments |
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| 2010 | | Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (shadyurl.com) |
| 1037 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 52 comments |
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| 2007 | | ‘I've got nothing to hide’ and other misunderstandings of privacy (papers.ssrn.com) |
| 960 points across 5 posts | 3 months ago with 260 comments |
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| 2011 | | Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (kalzumeus.com) |
| 885 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 1992 | | Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (github.com) |
| 802 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 81 comments |
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| 2009 | | A stick figure guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (moserware.com) |
| 725 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 14 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Lisp Curse (winestockwebdesign.com) |
| 715 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 89 comments |
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| 2004 | | What You Can't Say (paulgraham.com) |
| 706 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 194 comments |
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| 2005 | | How to be more productive (aaronsw.com) |
| 698 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments |
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| 2006 | | Tcl the Misunderstood (antirez.com) |
| 527 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 77 comments |
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| 2008 | | Low-level is easy (yosefk.com) |
| 480 points across 5 posts | 10 months ago with 24 comments |
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