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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2016 | | The Double Entry Counting Method (beancount.github.io) |
| 249 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 1983 | | CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of the Absolute (cia.gov) |
| 248 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2013 | | My Hardest Bug Ever (gamasutra.com) |
| 247 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2014 | | Clifford Algebra: A visual introduction (slehar.wordpress.com) |
| 247 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2016 | | Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro (blog.pinboard.in) |
| 246 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2008 | | Common shell script mistakes (pixelbeat.org) |
| 246 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1939 | | The usefulness of useless knowledge (library.ias.edu) |
| 246 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2009 | | Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (arxiv.org) |
| 245 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2011 | | What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings (kunststube.net) |
| 245 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2016 | | Welcome to the land that no country wants: Bir Tawil (theguardian.com) |
| 245 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2016 | | The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol (minnpost.com) |
| 245 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2008 | | The TTY Demystified (linusakesson.net) |
| 244 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2013 | | My favorite Erlang Program (joearms.github.io) |
| 244 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2017 | | Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons (cambridge.org) |
| 244 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2016 | | Learning Technical Writing Using the Engineering Method (cs.tufts.edu) |
| 243 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1996 | | Sergey Brin’s Resume (infolab.stanford.edu) |
| 243 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2016 | | Sunset Geometry (shapeoperator.com) |
| 242 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2002 | | Minimalism: Practical Guide to Writing Less Code (two-sdg.demon.co.uk) |
| 242 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2018 | | What interns wrought at Jane Street (blog.janestreet.com) |
| 242 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2019 | | Racket for e-commerce (defn.io) |
| 242 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Future of Programming (worrydream.com) |
| 242 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2017 | | Epoll is fundamentally broken (idea.popcount.org) |
| 241 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2017 | | How to Be a Know-It-All (newyorker.com) |
| 241 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2016 | | Fuck You Startup World (medium.com) |
| 240 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2018 | | No one is certain what Roman bronze dodecahedrons were used for (mentalfloss.com) |
| 240 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 207 comments |
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| 2010 | | Everything you need to know about pointers in C (boredzo.org) |
| 240 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2005 | | Ontology Is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (shirky.com) |
| 240 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2002 | | The Antidesktop (web.archive.org) |
| 238 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2016 | | Function multi-versioning in GCC 6 (lwn.net) |
| 238 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2011 | | Stuxnet is embarrassing, not amazing (rdist.root.org) |
| 238 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2015 | | Löb and möb: strange loops in Haskell (github.com) |
| 238 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Twelve-Factor App (12factor.net) |
| 238 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 102 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics of Open Source (techcrunch.com) |
| 238 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2013 | | Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (yosefk.com) |
| 238 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2015 | | What color is your function? (journal.stuffwithstuff.com) |
| 238 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2015 | | I fooled millions into thinking chocolate helps weight loss (gizmodo.com) |
| 238 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 165 comments |
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| 2011 | | On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (norvig.com) |
| 237 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2001 | | Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 237 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 148 comments |
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| 2018 | | Fermentation and Daily Life (notechmagazine.com) |
| 237 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2009 | | Amish Hackers (kk.org) |
| 237 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2014 | | Reviving Smalltalk-78 (freudenbergs.de) |
| 236 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Bitter Lesson (incompleteideas.net) |
| 236 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2016 | | Feathered dinosaur tail found in amber (bbc.com) |
| 236 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2011 | | The bomb that changed my life (swombat.com) |
| 236 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1909 | | The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (archive.ncsa.illinois.edu) |
| 235 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2019 | | What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone? (vogue.com) |
| 234 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 85 comments |
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| 2016 | | Pigeon Towers: A Low-Tech Alternative to Synthetic Fertilizers (notechmagazine.com) |
| 234 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2004 | | It's Charisma, Stupid (paulgraham.com) |
| 233 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2010 | | Levenshtein Automata (blog.notdot.net) |
| 233 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2017 | | Let's stop ascribing meaning to code points (manishearth.github.io) |
| 233 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 91 comments |
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