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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2019 | | This page is designed to last (jeffhuang.com) |
| 1450 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2019 | | “DigitalOcean Killed Our Company” (twitter.com) |
| 1398 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2019 | | The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness (city-journal.org) |
| 1346 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2019 | | Dotfile madness (0x46.net) |
| 1335 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 181 comments |
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| 2016 | | What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (aeon.co) |
| 1327 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 396 comments |
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| 2015 | | You can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off (twitter.com) |
| 1269 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2015 | | Monolith First (martinfowler.com) |
| 1250 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 340 comments |
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| 2013 | | How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (propublica.org) |
| 1249 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 253 comments |
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| 2014 | | Markov Chains Explained Visually (setosa.io) |
| 1198 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2018 | | The Bullshit Web (pxlnv.com) |
| 1193 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 2017 | | How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos (thehustle.co) |
| 1186 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 261 comments |
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| 2018 | | Software Disenchantment (tonsky.me) |
| 1164 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2016 | | Music theory for nerds (eev.ee) |
| 1129 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 300 comments |
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| 2018 | | Game Boy Camera Canon EF Lens Mount (ekeler.com) |
| 1095 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (nytimes.com) |
| 1086 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 315 comments |
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| 1995 | | Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (web.archive.org) |
| 1086 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 301 comments |
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| 1991 | | Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 1083 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 405 comments |
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| 2018 | | Make Front End Shit Again (makefrontendshitagain.party) |
| 1070 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 169 comments |
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| 2018 | | Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (boredpanda.com) |
| 1065 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 192 comments |
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| 1988 | | What not to write on your security clearance form (milk.com) |
| 1061 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 545 comments |
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| 2019 | | Going Critical (meltingasphalt.com) |
| 1052 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2014 | | Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (righto.com) |
| 1046 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 378 comments |
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| 2014 | | Web Design: The First 100 Years (idlewords.com) |
| 1016 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2019 | | Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer (localghost.dev) |
| 1003 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2009 | | “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (bugs.launchpad.net) |
| 996 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 207 comments |
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| 2017 | | Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C (cstack.github.io) |
| 993 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Talk (smbc-comics.com) |
| 983 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments |
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| 2019 | | Lessons learned building an ML trading system that turned $5k into $200k (tradientblog.com) |
| 983 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1982 | | Negative 2000 Lines of Code (folklore.org) |
| 978 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 166 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 year ago with 733 comments |
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| 2019 | | Alzheimer’s amyloid hypothesis ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (statnews.com) |
| 976 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 300 comments |
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| 2010 | | Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity (rumorsontheinternets.org) |
| 962 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 2010 | | Learn Just a Little Awk (gregable.com) |
| 961 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 1868 | | 507 Mechanical Movements (507movements.com) |
| 957 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2008 | | To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (wired.com) |
| 955 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2012 | | Do things, tell people (carl.flax.ie) |
| 954 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 2018 | | Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design (brutalist-web.design) |
| 953 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 115 comments |
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| 2019 | | Chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 (sha-mbles.github.io) |
| 950 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 8 comments |
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| 2017 | | Computer Graphics from Scratch (gabrielgambetta.com) |
| 947 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2017 | | Build Your Own Text Editor (viewsourcecode.org) |
| 945 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2015 | | How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (freedom-to-tinker.com) |
| 933 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 1993 | | A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (what.cd) |
| 925 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 1995 | | Foundations of Databases (webdam.inria.fr) |
| 915 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2017 | | How to Study Mathematics (math.uh.edu) |
| 909 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2017 | | Things Every Hacker Once Knew (catb.org) |
| 907 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 191 comments |
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| 2017 | | How discord stores billions of messages (discord.com) |
| 900 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2012 | | Photos Always Pointing at the Pointer (pointerpointer.com) |
| 879 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2000 | | Curse Of The Gifted (vanadac.com) |
| 875 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 356 comments |
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| 2018 | | JPEG of Shakespeare is also a zip file containing his complete works (twitter.com) |
| 871 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2017 | | Routing History of AS15562 (stat.ripe.net) |
| 870 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 11 comments |
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