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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2017 | | Soviet Officer Stanislav Petrov, 'The Man Who Saved the World' (npr.org) |
| 128 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2017 | | How did anyone do math in Roman numerals? (washingtoncitypaper.com) |
| 128 points | 5 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2013 | | 15 Biggest Ships Create More Pollution Than All Cars in the World (industrytap.com) |
| 128 points | 9 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2008 | | Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (iquilezles.org) |
| 128 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Origin of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Album Cover Art (kottke.org) |
| 128 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2016 | | Invent More, Toil Less (usenix.org) |
| 128 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2016 | | Things I did wrong as a professor (matt-welsh.blogspot.com) |
| 128 points | 7 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2007 | | Apollo 13: the Towing Invoice (web.archive.org) |
| 128 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2010 | | Stalin's daughter on her life in Wisconsin (madison.com) |
| 128 points | 6 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 2004 | | Great Works in Programming Languages (cis.upenn.edu) |
| 128 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2000 | | Things You Should Never Do (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 128 points | 5 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Art of Unix Usability (catb.org) |
| 128 points | 11 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2008 | | Grass makes better ethanol than corn does (scientificamerican.com) |
| 128 points | 2 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 2008 | | How does the calculator percent key work? (blogs.msdn.com) |
| 128 points | 10 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2015 | | The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson (arxiv.org) |
| 128 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2014 | | Programming paradigms that change how people think about coding (ybrikman.com) |
| 128 points | 6 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2015 | | Becoming a Lawyer Without Going to Law School (priceonomics.com) |
| 128 points | 7 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2019 | | TROS: How IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers (righto.com) |
| 128 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2017 | | NP-hard does not mean hard (jeremykun.com) |
| 128 points | 2 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2015 | | Smart kids should skip high school (sonyaellenmann.com) |
| 128 points | 4 years ago with 186 comments |
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| 1864 | | Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 128 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1978 | | Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 128 points | 8 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 2011 | | A Cosmonaut's Fiery Death Retold (npr.org) |
| 128 points | 12 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1865 | | To My Old Master (lettersofnote.com) |
| 128 points | 12 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1996 | | Setting User-Agent Field? (groups.google.com) |
| 127 points | 4 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2011 | | How secure is HTTPS today? How often is it attacked? (eff.org) |
| 127 points | 12 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2011 | | Quoting command line arguments the wrong way (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) |
| 127 points | 8 years ago with 147 comments |
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| 2019 | | Inefficient Efficiency (medium.com) |
| 127 points | 4 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2007 | | Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds (wired.com) |
| 127 points | 12 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2009 | | Laws of Fun (lesswrong.com) |
| 127 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2016 | | Scientific Papers That Were Rejected Before Going on to Win a Nobel Prize (sciencealert.com) |
| 127 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2009 | | You can't parse [X]HTML with regex (stackoverflow.com) |
| 127 points | 4 years ago with 130 comments |
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| 2017 | | Photographer Jacob Riis showed “How the Other Half Lives” in 1890s NYC (mymodernmet.com) |
| 127 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2017 | | A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles (nullprogram.com) |
| 127 points | 3 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2006 | | Strategies of Human Mating (weimag.ch) |
| 127 points | 9 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (brucefwebster.com) |
| 127 points | 5 years ago with 127 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why Isn’t Telegram End-to-End Encrypted by Default (telegra.ph) |
| 127 points | 4 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 2012 | | Lisp as the Maxwell’s Equations of Software (michaelnielsen.org) |
| 127 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 1901 | | “Corn-Pone Opinions” by Mark Twain (paulgraham.com) |
| 127 points | 9 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2017 | | Mathematics for Computer Science (opendatastructures.org) |
| 127 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Done About It (forensic.belkasoft.com) |
| 127 points | 11 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2016 | | Fork() without exec() is dangerous in large programs (evanjones.ca) |
| 127 points | 3 years ago with 135 comments |
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| 2017 | | Topology-disturbing objects: a new class of 3D optical illusion (tandfonline.com) |
| 127 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1992 | | For BSD Unix, It's Sayonara (tech-insider.org) |
| 127 points | 2 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2012 | | Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox (eranki.tumblr.com) |
| 127 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2018 | | Bullshit Jobs (bloomberg.com) |
| 127 points | 5 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 2017 | | Sorting 2 Tons of Lego (jacquesmattheij.com) |
| 127 points | 6 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2019 | | Sinkholed: A DNS Horror Story (susam.net) |
| 127 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2007 | | Stuff (paulgraham.com) |
| 127 points | 12 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 1998 | | Adam Smith did not mean what he is often made to say (theatlantic.com) |
| 127 points | 3 years ago with 128 comments |
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