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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2014 | | Becoming a better developer (gist.github.com) |
| 468 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1932 | | In Praise of Idleness (harpers.org) |
| 468 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 170 comments |
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| 2015 | | Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (news.yale.edu) |
| 465 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 2019 | | Racket Is an Acceptable Python (dustycloud.org) |
| 460 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 2016 | | I could do that in a weekend (danluu.com) |
| 459 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2017 | | Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing (mango.pdf.zone) |
| 458 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2019 | | How random can you be? (expunctis.com) |
| 457 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2003 | | An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (web.mit.edu) |
| 457 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2018 | | Snowboarding for Geeks: An Ultimate Guide (xfive.co) |
| 457 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 192 comments |
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| 2018 | | Learning BASIC Like It's 1983 (twobithistory.org) |
| 455 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 2019 | | Is Everything an MLM? (annehelen.substack.com) |
| 453 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2002 | | “Design Patterns” Aren't (perl.plover.com) |
| 451 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 2014 | | Wage Theft Is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft (epi.org) |
| 450 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2017 | | Xbox360 –> Windows Executable Converter (github.com) |
| 450 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2005 | | Being Poor (whatever.scalzi.com) |
| 449 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 216 comments |
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| 2017 | | C89 compiler produces printable executables from C code [pdf] (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 448 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2019 | | US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries (theconversation.com) |
| 448 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2011 | | I hate almost all software (tinyclouds.org) |
| 446 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 135 comments |
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| 2016 | | Teaching C (blog.regehr.org) |
| 446 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Philosophy of Computer Science (plato.stanford.edu) |
| 446 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 1979 | | Byte Magazine: LISP (archive.org) |
| 445 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 2013 | | Kill Sticky Headers (alisdair.mcdiarmid.org) |
| 443 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2018 | | Data-Oriented Design (dataorienteddesign.com) |
| 443 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 19 comments |
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| 2010 | | Readme Driven Development (tom.preston-werner.com) |
| 443 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2019 | | Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search (opensourceconnections.com) |
| 442 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Anti-Mac User Interface (nngroup.com) |
| 440 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 2016 | | Your Idea Is Brilliant, Your Idea Is Worthless (stonemaiergames.com) |
| 440 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2018 | | The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s (perceptivetravel.com) |
| 440 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 1981 | | Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (nytimes.com) |
| 440 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 354 comments |
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| 2018 | | How to get kids to do chores: Does the Maya method work? (npr.org) |
| 439 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 1985 | | Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (reprints.longform.org) |
| 439 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2006 | | The $25B eigenvector (rose-hulman.edu) |
| 438 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2018 | | I Quit My Job to Live on Donations to Zig (andrewkelley.me) |
| 434 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2011 | | Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (blog.fogus.me) |
| 432 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2013 | | On Hacking MicroSD Cards (bunniestudios.com) |
| 431 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2018 | | The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (listennotes.com) |
| 431 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Zen of Erlang (ferd.ca) |
| 428 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2014 | | Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU? (danluu.com) |
| 427 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2015 | | Experts once predicted that Americans would face excess leisure time (newyorker.com) |
| 427 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 352 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Cube Rule (cuberule.com) |
| 427 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2019 | | Elements of Programming (elementsofprogramming.com) |
| 426 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1990 | | RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (tools.ietf.org) |
| 425 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 2018 | | Reasons Python Sucks (hackerfactor.com) |
| 425 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2019 | | Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (jarv.is) |
| 425 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 204 comments |
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| 1995 | | Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (web.stanford.edu) |
| 423 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 234 comments |
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| 2016 | | What’s a fire and why does it burn? (qchu.wordpress.com) |
| 423 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Raft Consensus Algorithm (raft.github.io) |
| 423 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2016 | | Don't Design Your Emails (gkogan.co) |
| 420 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments |
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| 2019 | | The day the dinosaurs died (newyorker.com) |
| 419 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2015 | | Why I Am a Sociomediapath (nealstephenson.com) |
| 418 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 9 comments |
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