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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2006 | | Tcl the Misunderstood (antirez.com) |
| 527 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2015 | | Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (washingtonpost.com) |
| 491 points across 5 posts | 4 months ago with 9 comments |
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| 2008 | | Low-level is easy (yosefk.com) |
| 480 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 24 comments |
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| 1941 | | Who Goes Nazi? (harpers.org) |
| 469 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 7 comments |
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| 2017 | | How the blog broke the web (stackingthebricks.com) |
| 465 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 115 comments |
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| 1990 | | Choosing a Name for Your Computer (rfc-editor.org) |
| 432 points across 5 posts | 11 months ago with 200 comments |
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| 2010 | | A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (blog.regehr.org) |
| 426 points across 5 posts | 8 months ago with 183 comments |
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| 1981 | | Starting FORTH (forth.com) |
| 358 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 23 comments |
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| 2005 | | The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (nickbostrom.com) |
| 331 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2001 | | Java's Cover (paulgraham.com) |
| 301 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 122 comments |
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| 2014 | | Semantic compression (caseymuratori.com) |
| 284 points across 5 posts | 10 months ago with 30 comments |
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| 2014 | | Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (akkartik.name) |
| 234 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 168 comments |
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| 2002 | | A Retrospective on Paradigms of AI Programming (norvig.com) |
| 184 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 32 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Elements of Style: Unix as Literature (theody.net) |
| 169 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (newyorker.com) |
| 2795 points across 4 posts | 8 months ago with 243 comments |
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| 2016 | | H.264 is Magic (sidbala.com) |
| 2637 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 219 comments |
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| 2018 | | User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (userinyerface.com) |
| 2346 points across 4 posts | 11 months ago with 113 comments |
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| 2010 | | Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (lists.busybox.net) |
| 2163 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 231 comments |
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| 2017 | | $1 Microcontrollers (jaycarlson.net) |
| 2104 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2017 | | Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (twitter.com) |
| 1928 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 193 comments |
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| 2017 | | Reality has a surprising amount of detail (johnsalvatier.org) |
| 1883 points across 4 posts | 5 months ago with 136 comments |
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| 2016 | | Click (clickclickclick.click) |
| 1802 points across 4 posts | 11 months ago with 35 comments |
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| 1997 | | NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes (cypherspace.org) |
| 1623 points across 4 posts | 7 months ago with 167 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Wrong Abstraction (sandimetz.com) |
| 1588 points across 4 posts | 11 months ago with 68 comments |
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| 2015 | | Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (github.com) |
| 1571 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 116 comments |
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| 2019 | | Fast (patrickcollison.com) |
| 1528 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2011 | | A brief rant on the future of interaction design (worrydream.com) |
| 1468 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 132 comments |
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| 2019 | | Parse, don't validate (lexi-lambda.github.io) |
| 1456 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 214 comments |
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| 2004 | | You can't tell people anything (habitatchronicles.com) |
| 1381 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 182 comments |
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| 2009 | | Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (georgehart.com) |
| 1351 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Deep Sea (neal.fun) |
| 1306 points across 4 posts | 9 months ago with 124 comments |
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| 2018 | | Designing Windows 95’s User Interface (socket3.wordpress.com) |
| 1098 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 171 comments |
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| 2017 | | Thank You, Firebug (getfirebug.com) |
| 1070 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 84 comments |
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| 2015 | | A Constructive Look at TempleOS (codersnotes.com) |
| 907 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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| 1999 | | Why I Wrote PGP (philzimmermann.com) |
| 904 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2013 | | English has been my pain for 15 years (antirez.com) |
| 887 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 266 comments |
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| 2013 | | Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (coding2learn.org) |
| 867 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 28 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (nngroup.com) |
| 865 points across 4 posts | 9 months ago with 58 comments |
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| 2018 | | How HTTPS Works (howhttps.works) |
| 845 points across 4 posts | 7 months ago with 25 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Unix-Haters Handbook (web.mit.edu) |
| 824 points across 4 posts | 5 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 2019 | | “Why We Sleep” is riddled with scientific and factual errors (guzey.com) |
| 797 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 115 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (250bpm.com) |
| 742 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 163 comments |
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| 2014 | | I can tolerate anything except the outgroup (slatestarcodex.com) |
| 732 points across 4 posts | 7 months ago with 371 comments |
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| 2018 | | The average age of a successful startup founder is 45 (hbr.org) |
| 720 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2017 | | CPU branch prediction evolution over years (danluu.com) |
| 719 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 70 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Book of Shaders (thebookofshaders.com) |
| 703 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 22 comments |
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| 2014 | | Radiation-hardened Quine (github.com) |
| 695 points across 4 posts | 10 months ago with 107 comments |
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| 2008 | | History of the browser user-agent string (webaim.org) |
| 669 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2018 | | Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (software.rajivprab.com) |
| 643 points across 4 posts | 10 months ago with 138 comments |
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| 2006 | | I Hate the News (aaronsw.com) |
| 643 points across 4 posts | 9 months ago with 93 comments |
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