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Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News.
2015What can a technologist do about climate change? (worrydream.com)
127 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 56 comments
2013When is “ACID” ACID? Rarely (bailis.org)
126 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2014Revisiting how we put together Linux systems (0pointer.net)
126 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 22 comments
2005The Emacs Problem (sites.google.com)
125 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 14 comments
2014Programming Sucks (stilldrinking.org)
124 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 29 comments
1982Perlis' Epigrams (cs.yale.edu)
123 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 5 comments
1998Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (infolab.stanford.edu)
123 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 7 comments
2018A Short History of Chaosnet (twobithistory.org)
122 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 5 comments
2008Tom’s Essay (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
120 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 14 comments
2017Why I’m making my family German (theguardian.com)
117 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 186 comments
1996The Twelve Networking Truths (ietf.org)
115 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 17 comments
1922The Chaos (ncf.idallen.com)
113 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 25 comments
1960Man-Computer Symbiosis (groups.csail.mit.edu)
111 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments
1989Tiananmen Square: Protests and Massacre (en.wikipedia.org)
105 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments
2007Upside-Down-Ternet (ex-parrot.com)
104 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 9 comments
2017Aristotle influenced the computer (theatlantic.com)
103 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 23 comments
2010Solitude and Leadership (theamericanscholar.org)
101 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 5 comments
2007The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (idlewords.com)
97 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 40 comments
2012The Configuration Complexity Clock (mikehadlow.blogspot.com)
97 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 15 comments
2016Google’s close relationship with Obama White House (theintercept.com)
95 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments
2011Why I'm Putting All My Savings into Bitcoin (falkvinge.net)
93 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 84 comments
1982Living with a Computer (theatlantic.com)
91 points across 3 posts | 10 years ago with 0 comments
2018Debugging the Postgres query planner (gocardless.com)
88 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 23 comments
2018Sweden clears snow-covered walkways before roads (usa.streetsblog.org)
87 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 75 comments
2003Joel on The Absolute Minimum Every Developer Must Know About Unicode (joelonsoftware.com)
82 points across 3 posts | 9 years ago with 1 comments
2013The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan Stalin Did (foreignpolicy.com)
76 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2016It’s easy to become obese in America. These 7 charts explain why. (vox.com)
70 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2011First, Let’s Fire All the Managers (hbr.org)
68 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 2 comments
2012The Design and Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels (lib.tkk.fi)
65 points across 3 posts | 9 years ago with 1 comments
2019The Tragedy of systemd (youtube.com)
64 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2009Why I Hate Star Trek (antipope.org)
62 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 69 comments
2009Time and Frequency (prc68.com)
59 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2011Steve Yegge's Google Platforms Rant (gist.github.com)
58 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments
2010Computing Your Skill (moserware.com)
56 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 0 comments
2019A 'Null' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell (wired.com)
54 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments
2019Xkcd 2169: Predictive Models (xkcd.com)
45 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments
2016The Russian “Firehose of Falsehood” Propaganda Model (rand.org)
45 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments
2019I Sell Onions on the Internet (deepsouthventures.com)
3248 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 89 comments
2019A DIY business card that runs Linux (thirtythreeforty.net)
2815 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 58 comments
2016Immersive Linear Algebra (immersivemath.com)
2284 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 140 comments
2018Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (anishathalye.com)
2233 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 90 comments
2019Cloudflare stood up to a patent troll and won (blog.cloudflare.com)
2043 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 239 comments
2019Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer (monicalent.com)
1986 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 257 comments
2016Electron is flash for the desktop (josephg.com)
1664 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 183 comments
2009I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived (uss-la-ca135.org)
1657 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 257 comments
2018Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (thehustle.co)
1623 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 247 comments
2013Hacker News Parody Thread (bradconte.com)
1618 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 328 comments
2016Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (gkbrk.com)
1544 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 179 comments
2019Why are glasses so expensive? The industry prefers to keep that blurry (latimes.com)
1525 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 309 comments
2019Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (hacks.mozilla.org)
1523 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 48 comments
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