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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 1997 | | Why is c the symbol for the speed of light? (math.ucr.edu) |
| 157 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2002 | | Internet Explorer is EVIL! (toastytech.com) |
| 157 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2019 | | Flash Boys 2: Frontrunning, transaction reordering, consensus instability (arxiv.org) |
| 156 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2018 | | Super Wood (scientificamerican.com) |
| 156 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2010 | | Who does that server really serve? (gnu.org) |
| 156 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2010 | | So You Wanna Be a Chef (ruhlman.com) |
| 156 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2017 | | Artificial glacier growing in the desert (cnn.com) |
| 156 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 39 comments |
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| 2005 | | Practical Common Lisp (gigamonkeys.com) |
| 156 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1977 | | Kurt Vonnegut, The Art of Fiction No. 64 (theparisreview.org) |
| 156 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2015 | | An earthquake could destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest (newyorker.com) |
| 156 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2016 | | UnicodeMath – A Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics (unicode.org) |
| 156 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2015 | | Drawing Lines is Hard (mattdesl.svbtle.com) |
| 155 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2019 | | Hacking Google ReCAPTCHA v3 Using Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org) |
| 155 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2002 | | How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (samizdat.mines.edu) |
| 155 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Yamaha NS10 Story (soundonsound.com) |
| 154 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2013 | | Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (neocomputer.org) |
| 154 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2018 | | How to Read an RFC (ietf.org) |
| 154 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2003 | | Ashby's book "Introduction to Cybernetics" (pespmc1.vub.ac.be) |
| 154 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2011 | | I bought 259684 BTC for under $3000 (bitcointalk.org) |
| 154 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2018 | | What does code readability mean? (typicalprogrammer.com) |
| 154 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Shareholder Value Myth (europeanfinancialreview.com) |
| 154 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2013 | | Making WebGL Dance: How, Where, and What to Draw (acko.net) |
| 153 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2013 | | Yanis Varoufakis: How I became an erratic Marxist (theguardian.com) |
| 153 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2000 | | The Great Tree-List Recursion Problem (cslibrary.stanford.edu) |
| 153 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2014 | | Clojure Compilation (blog.ndk.io) |
| 153 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2015 | | How to read mathematics (people.vcu.edu) |
| 153 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Spy Novelist Who Knows Too Much (nytimes.com) |
| 152 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2015 | | Running Lisp in Production (grammarly.com) |
| 152 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2017 | | Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark (nautil.us) |
| 152 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Sad Saga of Silicon Graphics (businessweek.com) |
| 151 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2011 | | A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (blog.tanyakhovanova.com) |
| 151 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 2018 | | Desmos uses Pratt Parsers (engineering.desmos.com) |
| 150 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2012 | | New Garbage Collector (wiki.luajit.org) |
| 150 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2010 | | Confirming the exact location of the invention of the web (davidgalbraith.org) |
| 150 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2009 | | Origins of Python's “Functional” Features (python-history.blogspot.com) |
| 150 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2019 | | With Category Theory, Mathematics Escapes from Equality (quantamagazine.org) |
| 150 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Weight I Carry (theatlantic.com) |
| 150 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Great Filter – Are We Almost Past It? (mason.gmu.edu) |
| 150 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 174 comments |
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| 2007 | | The Checklist (newyorker.com) |
| 149 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2014 | | BLAKE2: “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” Than MD5 (leastauthority.com) |
| 149 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2008 | | What happens when you add a new teller? (johndcook.com) |
| 148 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2007 | | Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (viemu.com) |
| 148 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 2006 | | HashLife: An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time (drdobbs.com) |
| 148 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2019 | | Why Architecture Oriented Programming Matters (blog.metaobject.com) |
| 148 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2013 | | High Performance Browser Networking (hpbn.co) |
| 148 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2009 | | C’s Biggest Mistake (digitalmars.com) |
| 148 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2014 | | How Water Heaters Have Evolved into Grid-Scale Energy-Storage Devices (esource.com) |
| 147 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 1983 | | Ironies of Automation (ise.ncsu.edu) |
| 147 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1979 | | Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation (multicians.org) |
| 147 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2016 | | NES Emulator in Common Lisp (github.com) |
| 147 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 33 comments |
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