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|  | Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. | 
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| 2018 |  | Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain  (arstechnica.com) | 
|  | 690 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 15 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Paper Airplane Designs  (foldnfly.com) | 
|  | 689 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 96 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | What every computer science major should know  (matt.might.net) | 
|  | 688 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 182 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big  (chrisstucchio.com) | 
|  | 688 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 352 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | Fantasy Map Generator  (azgaar.github.io) | 
|  | 684 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 24 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | I may be the only evil (bit) user on the internet  (blog.benjojo.co.uk) | 
|  | 684 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 61 comments | 
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| 2019 |  | Cool, but obscure X11 tools  (cyber.dabamos.de) | 
|  | 679 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 257 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Parody HN Homepage  (linkedlistnyc.org) | 
|  | 678 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | Professor Frisby's mostly adequate guide to functional programming  (mostly-adequate.gitbooks.io) | 
|  | 677 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 51 comments | 
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| 2008 |  | A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering  (prog21.dadgum.com) | 
|  | 676 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 179 comments | 
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| 1910 |  | Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson  (calculusmadeeasy.org) | 
|  | 676 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 57 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes  (bbc.com) | 
|  | 676 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 165 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Xerox scanners randomly alter numbers in scanned documents  (dkriesel.com) | 
|  | 673 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 60 comments | 
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| 2017 |  | Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls  (blog.packagecloud.io) | 
|  | 666 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 63 comments | 
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| 2019 |  | One week of empathy training  (shkspr.mobi) | 
|  | 664 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 286 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | JVM Internals  (blog.jamesdbloom.com) | 
|  | 664 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 126 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry”  (harmful.cat-v.org) | 
|  | 663 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 36 comments | 
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| 2019 |  | I assure you, medieval people bathed  (going-medieval.com) | 
|  | 661 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 340 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | CPU Bugs  (danluu.com) | 
|  | 660 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 20 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs  (jamie-wong.com) | 
|  | 658 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 9 comments | 
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| 2007 |  | A regular expression to check for prime numbers  (noulakaz.net) | 
|  | 655 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 97 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | How to parent more predictably  (jefftk.com) | 
|  | 655 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 76 comments | 
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| 2010 |  | Concise Electronics for Geeks  (lcamtuf.coredump.cx) | 
|  | 648 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 49 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | The Church of Interruption  (sambleckley.com) | 
|  | 647 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 95 comments | 
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| 1995 |  | Does memory leak?  (groups.google.com) | 
|  | 647 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 279 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Work only 3 hours a day, but everyday  (plumshell.com) | 
|  | 646 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 71 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | The Tools I Use to Write Books  (thorstenball.com) | 
|  | 640 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 36 comments | 
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| 2007 |  | Psychology of Intelligence Analysis  (cia.gov) | 
|  | 635 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 17 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier  (theguardian.com) | 
|  | 632 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 254 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting  (lcamtuf.coredump.cx) | 
|  | 631 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 156 comments | 
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| 2017 |  | Org Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text  (karl-voit.at) | 
|  | 631 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 60 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Pixar's Rules of Storytelling  (aerogrammestudio.com) | 
|  | 630 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 74 comments | 
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| 2017 |  | How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game  (theverge.com) | 
|  | 628 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments | 
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| 2019 |  | Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes  (zdnet.com) | 
|  | 622 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 46 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go  (andrewkelley.me) | 
|  | 621 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 44 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | Why aren't there C conferences?  (nullprogram.com) | 
|  | 619 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 184 comments | 
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| 2002 |  | The case of the 500-mile email  (ibiblio.org) | 
|  | 614 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 93 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | PID Without a PhD  (wescottdesign.com) | 
|  | 612 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 106 comments | 
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| 1946 |  | Einstein: The Negro Question  (onbeing.org) | 
|  | 610 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 123 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill  (madinamerica.com) | 
|  | 607 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 290 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | Fibonacci Hashing: An optimization that the world forgot  (probablydance.com) | 
|  | 607 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 62 comments | 
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| 1998 |  | Cool URIs don't change  (w3.org) | 
|  | 606 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 140 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | Tesla won’t give drivers their own crash data without a court order  (consumeraffairs.com) | 
|  | 606 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 117 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Always bet on text  (graydon2.dreamwidth.org) | 
|  | 605 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data  (ecc-comp.blogspot.com) | 
|  | 604 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 59 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | How a Kalman filter works, in pictures  (bzarg.com) | 
|  | 603 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 34 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | How Doctors Die  (saturdayeveningpost.com) | 
|  | 601 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 319 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system  (theguardian.com) | 
|  | 601 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 124 comments | 
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| 2019 |  | AWS costs every programmer should know  (david-codes.hatanian.com) | 
|  | 598 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 156 comments | 
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| 2019 |  | Timsort  (skerritt.blog) | 
|  | 595 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 60 comments | 
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