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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2013 | | For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off from All Human Contact (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 417 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2019 | | Dentistry is less scientific and more gratuitous than people think (theatlantic.com) |
| 415 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 326 comments |
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| 2009 | | Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (beej.us) |
| 415 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 29 comments |
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| 2016 | | Shitlist Driven Development (sirupsen.com) |
| 414 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 2013 | | 90% of Python in 90 Minutes (slideshare.net) |
| 411 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2010 | | God's Number Is 20 (cube20.org) |
| 411 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Guy I Almost Was (electricsheepcomix.com) |
| 410 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 203 comments |
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| 2014 | | Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (pbs.org) |
| 409 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2006 | | Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 409 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 146 comments |
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| 2013 | | Bugger: Maybe the real state secret is spies aren't good at their jobs (bbc.co.uk) |
| 408 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 90 comments |
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| 1943 | | Albert Hofmann discovers the effects of LSD (laphamsquarterly.org) |
| 408 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2017 | | We Switched from Python to Go (getstream.io) |
| 407 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2011 | | Biggest image in the smallest space (bamsoftware.com) |
| 406 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 5 comments |
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| 2013 | | What if I were 1% charged? (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com) |
| 405 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2011 | | OCaml for the Masses (queue.acm.org) |
| 404 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 223 comments |
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| 2012 | | Living Worlds in HTML5 (effectgames.com) |
| 403 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics (math.vanderbilt.edu) |
| 400 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2019 | | Brains speed up perception by guessing what's next (quantamagazine.org) |
| 397 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 92 comments |
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| 2017 | | Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (journals.plos.org) |
| 395 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2019 | | There’s more than one way to write an IP address (ma.ttias.be) |
| 395 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 99 comments |
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| 2016 | | Attrs – the Python library everyone needs (glyph.twistedmatrix.com) |
| 395 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2014 | | Game Programming Patterns (gameprogrammingpatterns.com) |
| 393 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1979 | | Notation as a Tool of Thought (jsoftware.com) |
| 391 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2013 | | The $12 “Gongkai” Phone (bunniestudios.com) |
| 390 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2005 | | Google Will Eat Itself (gwei.org) |
| 390 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 131 comments |
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| 2019 | | Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon workstation (tedium.co) |
| 389 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 214 comments |
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| 2019 | | Why Does Windows Use Backslash as Path Separator? (os2museum.com) |
| 389 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2014 | | The retaliation: Pranking my roommate with targeted Facebook ads (ghostinfluence.com) |
| 387 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 64 comments |
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| 2015 | | Principal Component Analysis explained visually (setosa.io) |
| 387 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2013 | | How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (blogs.lse.ac.uk) |
| 386 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 120 comments |
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| 2019 | | Americans are retiring to Vietnam, for healthcare and standard of living (latimes.com) |
| 386 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 333 comments |
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| 2013 | | Do Things that Don't Scale (paulgraham.com) |
| 386 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2017 | | A lot of what is known about pirates is not true (neh.gov) |
| 386 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2010 | | The Mystery of 355/113 (davidbau.com) |
| 386 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2015 | | C Runtime Overhead (ryanhileman.info) |
| 385 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2006 | | How to Destroy the Earth (qntm.org) |
| 385 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2017 | | Web Audio Modem (martinmelhus.com) |
| 384 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1998 | | A Beginner’s Guide to the Mathematics of Neural Networks (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu) |
| 384 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1886 | | How much land does a man need? (online-literature.com) |
| 384 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 53 comments |
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| 2013 | | Stop Reading News (fs.blog) |
| 382 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 108 comments |
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| 2017 | | On the Unhappiness of Software Developers (arxiv.org) |
| 382 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 131 comments |
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| 2011 | | Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the info he wants? (serverfault.com) |
| 382 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 43 comments |
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| 1998 | | Why ML/OCaml are good for writing compilers (flint.cs.yale.edu) |
| 381 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 147 comments |
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| 2016 | | Does a compiler use all x86 instructions? (pepijndevos.nl) |
| 381 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2017 | | A still of Kermit The Frog in Blade Runner 2049 (twitter.com) |
| 381 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2015 | | Why Use ECC? (danluu.com) |
| 379 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2016 | | Drop Table “Companies”;– LTD (find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk) |
| 377 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 79 comments |
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| 2012 | | Turn Raspberry Pi’s GPIO into an FM Transmitter (icrobotics.co.uk) |
| 375 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2010 | | Things Unix can do atomically (rcrowley.org) |
| 375 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments |
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| 2001 | | Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (chrisdone.com) |
| 375 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 116 comments |
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