|
| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
|
| 2014 | | Teach Debugging (danluu.com) |
| 340 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 34 comments |
|
| 2015 | | 40k-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found (digitaljournal.com) |
| 338 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 36 comments |
|
| 2011 | | Homemade GPS Receiver (aholme.co.uk) |
| 337 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
|
| 2018 | | Lobotomizing Gnome (eklitzke.org) |
| 337 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 168 comments |
|
| 2010 | | B-Heap vs. Binary Heap (queue.acm.org) |
| 337 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 36 comments |
|
| 2015 | | Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 (anders.unix.se) |
| 337 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 189 comments |
|
| 2019 | | Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (blog.wolfram.com) |
| 337 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 292 comments |
|
| 1985 | | Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 336 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 114 comments |
|
| 2014 | | An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system (mbtaviz.github.io) |
| 336 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
|
| 2018 | | Backblaze Durability Calculates at 99.999999999% – Why It Doesn’t Matter (backblaze.com) |
| 334 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
|
| 2014 | | What not to do when giving technical interviews (seldo.com) |
| 334 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 174 comments |
|
| 2009 | | Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (petersmagnusson.org) |
| 334 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 21 comments |
|
| 2014 | | How to Start a Startup (startupclass.samaltman.com) |
| 331 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 67 comments |
|
| 2015 | | Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (cryptomuseum.com) |
| 331 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments |
|
| 2019 | | Greg Brockman: How I became a machine learning practitioner (blog.gregbrockman.com) |
| 331 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments |
|
| 2014 | | Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (maplant.com) |
| 330 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 32 comments |
|
| 2019 | | Understanding Kafka with Factorio (ruurtjan.medium.com) |
| 329 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 109 comments |
|
| 1959 | | Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (technologyreview.com) |
| 328 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 28 comments |
|
| 2018 | | The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (atlasobscura.com) |
| 327 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 308 comments |
|
| 2016 | | What does it feel like to do maths? (plus.maths.org) |
| 327 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
|
| 2010 | | Lessons from Doom (vectorpoem.com) |
| 326 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 89 comments |
|
| 2015 | | The origin of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover art (blogs.scientificamerican.com) |
| 326 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 41 comments |
|
| 1992 | | Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (pinyin.info) |
| 325 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 49 comments |
|
| 2012 | | A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (scottlocklin.wordpress.com) |
| 325 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 68 comments |
|
| 2013 | | Never use MongoDB (sarahmei.com) |
| 325 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 141 comments |
|
| 1993 | | Burning a NeXTCube (simson.net) |
| 322 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 70 comments |
|
| 1830 | | The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (blissbat.net) |
| 322 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 21 comments |
|
| 2015 | | Don't Outsource Your Thinking (medium.com) |
| 321 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 27 comments |
|
| 2014 | | Using the Wrong Dictionary (jsomers.net) |
| 320 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 33 comments |
|
| 1967 | | Why Programming Is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly Understood Ideas (web.media.mit.edu) |
| 320 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 87 comments |
|
| 1982 | | Report on an Unidentified Space Station (geosci.uchicago.edu) |
| 320 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 84 comments |
|
| 2012 | | Latency Comparisons every programmer should know (gist.github.com) |
| 318 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 27 comments |
|
| 1981 | | Changing San Francisco Is Foreseen as a Haven for Wealthy and Childless (nytimes.com) |
| 318 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 109 comments |
|
| 2018 | | ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive (hacks.mozilla.org) |
| 317 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 35 comments |
|
| 2013 | | Unraveling the linothorax mystery, or how linen armor came to dominate our lives (jhupress.wordpress.com) |
| 317 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 71 comments |
|
| 2018 | | The technology that changed air travel (retool.com) |
| 317 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 32 comments |
|
| 2015 | | How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry (fastcompany.com) |
| 316 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 118 comments |
|
| 2019 | | A Forty-Year Career (lethain.com) |
| 316 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 86 comments |
|
| 2019 | | C++ Modules Might Be Dead-on-Arrival (vector-of-bool.github.io) |
| 316 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 54 comments |
|
| 2016 | | Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (vox.com) |
| 313 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 195 comments |
|
| 1985 | | Bumper Sticker Computer Science (bowdoin.edu) |
| 312 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 49 comments |
|
| 2014 | | Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (jakevdp.github.io) |
| 312 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 178 comments |
|
| 2010 | | DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need (secretgeek.net) |
| 310 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 43 comments |
|
| 2008 | | The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (theamericanscholar.org) |
| 307 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 206 comments |
|
| 1936 | | Physics as a Way of Thinking (kb.osu.edu) |
| 307 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 48 comments |
|
| 2015 | | Lisp and Haskell (markkarpov.com) |
| 307 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 166 comments |
|
| 2011 | | Why do we need modules at all? (erlang.org) |
| 306 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 102 comments |
|
| 1986 | | Unix Recovery Legend (ee.ryerson.ca) |
| 306 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 97 comments |
|
| 2013 | | My favorite Erlang Program (joearms.github.io) |
| 306 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
|
| 2007 | | Introduction to Operating System Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs (lsub.org) |
| 306 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments |
|
|
| More |
