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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 1998 | | The sad story of Heisenberg's doctoral oral exam (aps.org) |
| 517 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 2017 | | Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (nayuki.io) |
| 516 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 226 comments |
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| 2017 | | Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (isglobal.org) |
| 515 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 135 comments |
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| 2018 | | Why is front-end development so unstable? (breck-mckye.com) |
| 514 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 166 comments |
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| 2007 | | Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (damtp.cam.ac.uk) |
| 514 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 2018 | | I think I found a Mac kernel bug (jvns.ca) |
| 513 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2003 | | Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” (purl.org) |
| 512 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 292 comments |
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| 2011 | | I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still a Programmer? (zef.me) |
| 512 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2019 | | I’m Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s (blogs.scientificamerican.com) |
| 510 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2019 | | JMAP: It’s Like IMAP but Not Really (unencumberedbyfacts.com) |
| 509 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 131 comments |
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| 2007 | | How Not to Die (paulgraham.com) |
| 508 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 130 comments |
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| 1998 | | How Complex Systems Fail (how.complexsystems.fail) |
| 507 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2011 | | Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (boingboing.net) |
| 507 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2019 | | Unraveling the JPEG (parametric.press) |
| 506 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2018 | | DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (media.defense.gov) |
| 503 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1807 | | Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper (press-pubs.uchicago.edu) |
| 502 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 332 comments |
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| 2019 | | I grew up gifted, but my life didn’t turn out the way I expected (cbc.ca) |
| 500 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2015 | | Choose Boring Technology (mcfunley.com) |
| 500 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why Is SQLite Coded in C (sqlite.org) |
| 499 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2011 | | Cells are fast and crowded places (righto.com) |
| 499 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2019 | | Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences (srconstantin.wordpress.com) |
| 499 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2018 | | The History of Unix, Rob Pike [video] (youtube.com) |
| 497 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2010 | | The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell (thetech.com) |
| 495 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 2011 | | Data Structure Visualizations (cs.usfca.edu) |
| 495 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2017 | | SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (sqlite.org) |
| 493 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 127 comments |
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| 2019 | | Should small Rust structs be passed by-copy or by-borrow? (forrestthewoods.com) |
| 493 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 226 comments |
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| 2018 | | What the Hell Was the Microsoft Network? (codersnotes.com) |
| 490 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2019 | | In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’ (nature.com) |
| 490 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 159 comments |
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| 2014 | | I reverse engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes (features.jsomers.net) |
| 490 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 2016 | | Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (blog.zamzar.com) |
| 488 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 189 comments |
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| 2018 | | A mysterious grey-hat is patching people's outdated MikroTik routers (zdnet.com) |
| 487 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2012 | | Teller Reveals His Secrets (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 487 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2016 | | Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (blog.burntsushi.net) |
| 487 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 187 comments |
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| 2012 | | Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package (righto.com) |
| 486 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 273 comments |
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| 2019 | | Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years (zdnet.com) |
| 484 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 117 comments |
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| 2016 | | Xz format considered inadequate for long-term archiving (nongnu.org) |
| 483 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why Go Is Not Good (yager.io) |
| 482 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2019 | | Programmers should plan for lower pay (jefftk.com) |
| 482 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 304 comments |
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| 2016 | | The memory models that underlie programming languages (canonical.org) |
| 481 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2019 | | Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D? (blog.mecheye.net) |
| 480 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2017 | | Famous Laws of Software Development (timsommer.be) |
| 479 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2015 | | A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art (dinofarmgames.com) |
| 479 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 2016 | | So You Want to Learn Physics (susanjfowler.com) |
| 478 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2019 | | Building the most inaccessible site with a perfect Lighthouse score (matuzo.at) |
| 476 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2017 | | Writing a C Compiler (norasandler.com) |
| 475 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2013 | | Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (camdavidsonpilon.github.io) |
| 474 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (chronicle.com) |
| 473 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 2017 | | The biggest and weirdest commits in Linux kernel Git history (destroyallsoftware.com) |
| 473 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2019 | | Cormac McCarthy’s tips on how to write a great science paper (nature.com) |
| 471 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 2003 | | Internet Archive gets DMCA exemption to help archive vintage software (archive.org) |
| 470 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 44 comments |
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