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 | Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. | 
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| 2009 |  | Rules of Spycraft  (oss.net) | 
 | 180 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 62 comments | 
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| 2002 |  | The Etherkiller and Friends  (fiftythree.org) | 
 | 180 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 26 comments | 
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| 2019 |  | Theory to systems: A grounded approach to programming language education  (arxiv.org) | 
 | 180 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments | 
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| 2006 |  | Ssss: Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme  (point-at-infinity.org) | 
 | 179 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 41 comments | 
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| 1986 |  | The History of FoxPro: Interview with Wayne Ratliff  (foxprohistory.org) | 
 | 179 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 47 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | x86 is Turing-complete with no registers  (mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com) | 
 | 179 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 48 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Car alarms and smoke alarms: tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity  (blog.danslimmon.com) | 
 | 179 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 78 comments | 
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| 2010 |  | History of Emacs and vi Keys  (xahlee.info) | 
 | 178 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 85 comments | 
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| 2019 |  | The Road to OCIv2 Images: What's Wrong with Tar?  (cyphar.com) | 
 | 178 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 15 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | Advanced techniques to implement fast hash tables  (attractivechaos.wordpress.com) | 
 | 178 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | A fast alternative to the modulo reduction  (lemire.me) | 
 | 177 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 33 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Wirecutter CEO Sells Top Reviews for Kickbacks  (xdesk.com) | 
 | 177 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 27 comments | 
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| 2003 |  | Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker  (twitter.com) | 
 | 177 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 64 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Borges and $: The Parable of the Literary Master and the Coin  (longreads.com) | 
 | 177 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant  (thewalrus.ca) | 
 | 177 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | Tetris Randomizers  (simon.lc) | 
 | 177 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 16 comments | 
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| 1977 |  | Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?  (thocp.net) | 
 | 177 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 32 comments | 
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| 1987 |  | Nuclear War Survival Skills  (oism.org) | 
 | 176 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 205 comments | 
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| 1997 |  | Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible?  (math.ucr.edu) | 
 | 176 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 84 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services  (research.microsoft.com) | 
 | 175 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition  (jackschaedler.github.io) | 
 | 175 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | The Computational Theory of Mind  (plato.stanford.edu) | 
 | 175 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 90 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | A bug story: data alignment on x86  (pzemtsov.github.io) | 
 | 174 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 39 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault  (anildash.com) | 
 | 174 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 47 comments | 
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| 2009 |  | Bryan Cantrill interviews Arthur Whitney  (queue.acm.org) | 
 | 174 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 14 comments | 
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| 2010 |  | Learning Vim incrementally  (yehudakatz.com) | 
 | 174 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 86 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Bored People Quit  (randsinrepose.com) | 
 | 173 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 1 comments | 
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| 1995 |  | Modern art was CIA 'weapon'  (independent.co.uk) | 
 | 173 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 83 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | How 'DevOps' Is Killing the Developer  (jeffknupp.com) | 
 | 173 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 140 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences  (qualiacomputing.com) | 
 | 172 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 78 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | All late projects are the same  (systemsguild.com) | 
 | 172 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 58 comments | 
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| 2019 |  | How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?  (bbc.com) | 
 | 172 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 64 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Scandalous weird old things about the C preprocessor  (blog.robertelder.org) | 
 | 172 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 32 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Dr. Seuss’ satirical lesson on nuclear armament and the absurdity of war  (dailyfig.com) | 
 | 172 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 34 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Clojure is a product design tool  (precursorapp.com) | 
 | 172 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 68 comments | 
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| 2017 |  | The Rise and Rise of JSON  (twobithistory.org) | 
 | 172 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 167 comments | 
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| 2009 |  | colorForth  (colorforth.github.io) | 
 | 171 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 54 comments | 
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| 1995 |  | A plea for lean software  (cr.yp.to) | 
 | 171 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 100 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Subject: Airbnb  (paulgraham.com) | 
 | 171 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 162 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Workarounds to Computer Access in Healthcare: Password or a Dead Patient?  (cs.dartmouth.edu) | 
 | 171 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 58 comments | 
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| 2007 |  | The Dark Side of C++  (fefe.de) | 
 | 171 points across 2 posts | 12 years ago with 52 comments | 
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| 2019 |  | Efficient IO in Linux with io_uring [pdf]  (kernel.dk) | 
 | 171 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 32 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | How Not to Measure Latency  (highscalability.com) | 
 | 171 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 29 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Virtual Particles: What are they?  (profmattstrassler.com) | 
 | 171 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 32 comments | 
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| 2009 |  | Teaching Concurrency  (research.microsoft.com) | 
 | 171 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 44 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Common Lisp: The Untold Story  (nhplace.com) | 
 | 170 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 30 comments | 
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| 2017 |  | What Next?  (graydon2.dreamwidth.org) | 
 | 170 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments | 
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| 2017 |  | The mystery of the lost Roman herb  (bbc.com) | 
 | 169 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 26 comments | 
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| 2009 |  | The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition?  (econ.ucsb.edu) | 
 | 169 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 108 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | We need less powerful languages  (lukeplant.me.uk) | 
 | 169 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 94 comments | 
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