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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 1970 | | Von Neumann's First Computer Program (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 80 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2007 | | Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer? (newyorker.com) |
| 80 points | 6 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2015 | | Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC (lwn.net) |
| 80 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1985 | | Design case history: the Commodore 64 (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 80 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2015 | | When tipping was considered un-American (npr.org) |
| 80 points | 4 years ago with 241 comments |
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| 2013 | | GCC and Make: Compiling, Linking and Building C/C++ Applications (www3.ntu.edu.sg) |
| 80 points | 7 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2015 | | Currying vs. Partial Application (datchley.name) |
| 80 points | 8 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1961 | | Quicksort (cs.ox.ac.uk) |
| 80 points | 8 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2012 | | Who Killed Lard? (npr.org) |
| 80 points | 11 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 1996 | | How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (bioperl.org) |
| 80 points | 12 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2014 | | Myths about /dev/urandom (2uo.de) |
| 80 points | 7 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 1974 | | Cybernetics A to Z (archive.org) |
| 80 points | 3 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1999 | | Side Effects of the Growth of Wealth (nytimes.com) |
| 80 points | 8 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2014 | | Undefined behavior can result in time travel (devblogs.microsoft.com) |
| 80 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2012 | | Altered States: Self-Experiments in Chemistry (newyorker.com) |
| 80 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2004 | | Calculus on Graphs (arxiv.org) |
| 80 points | 10 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2014 | | How much is time wrong around the world? (blog.poormansmath.net) |
| 80 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2008 | | A Field Guide to Genetic Programming (libros.metabiblioteca.org:8080) |
| 80 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Making of Warcraft (codeofhonor.com) |
| 80 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2013 | | HLearn: A Machine Learning Library for Haskell (izbicki.me) |
| 80 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2005 | | Linus Torvalds's first public mention of git (lkml.iu.edu) |
| 80 points | 10 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2012 | | SMT Solvers in Software Security (usenix.org) |
| 80 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2018 | | The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age (digitalcommons.law.yale.edu) |
| 80 points | 5 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Categories Were Made for Man, Not Man for the Categories (slatestarcodex.com) |
| 80 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2013 | | How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? (propublica.org) |
| 80 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2015 | | A man who invented lithium-ion battery at 57 has an idea for a new one at 92 (qz.com) |
| 80 points | 3 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Original Sin of Software Metrics (infoq.com) |
| 80 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2006 | | Music: A Mathematical Offering (freecomputerbooks.com) |
| 80 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2011 | | PID Theory Explained (ni.com) |
| 80 points | 10 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Leaderless Organization (digitaltonto.com) |
| 80 points | 4 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 1966 | | Theory of self-reproducing automata (archive.org) |
| 80 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2014 | | Does wearing glasses weaken your eyesight? (bbc.com) |
| 80 points | 7 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2013 | | To Kill a Centrifuge (langner.com) |
| 80 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2010 | | The Fall of Schlitz: How Milwaukee’s Famous Beer Became Infamous (beerconnoisseur.com) |
| 80 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2013 | | Photos of a KH-12 Kennan Keyhole Secret Military Spy Satellite (spacesafetymagazine.com) |
| 80 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Sounds of New York City, Circa 1920 (npr.org) |
| 80 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1991 | | The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 80 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1983 | | The story of Mel (pbm.com) |
| 80 points | 16 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1994 | | NetScape: A Sneak Preview of the shape of WWW Browsers to come (web.archive.org) |
| 80 points | 3 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2004 | | Homeland Security: Requirements for Security Decision Support Systems (dtic.mil) |
| 80 points | 12 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Penguin Oil Industry (thetravellingcheetah.com) |
| 80 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2010 | | Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS (techblog.netflix.com) |
| 80 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2017 | | Haute Baroque Capitalism (subpixel.space) |
| 80 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2002 | | Esperanto is not my favourite artificial language (miresperanto.com) |
| 80 points | 3 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 1880 | | Electricity as Power (science.sciencemag.org) |
| 80 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1965 | | A City Is Not a Tree (patternlanguage.com) |
| 80 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2016 | | Web Audio API: Musically-aware scheduling and Dynamic looping (jakearchibald.com) |
| 80 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2016 | | German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, operator says (reuters.com) |
| 80 points | 7 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2006 | | When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission (dig.csail.mit.edu) |
| 80 points | 16 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2018 | | India's Alphonso mangoes are virtually impossible to find in America (vice.com) |
| 80 points | 2 years ago with 68 comments |
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