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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2013 | | Mistakes in the Design of CSS (wiki.csswg.org) |
| 636 points across 4 posts | 5 months ago with 142 comments |
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| 1999 | | Doom as a tool for system administration (cs.unm.edu) |
| 625 points across 4 posts | 6 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2009 | | Oberon (ignorethecode.net) |
| 618 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 143 comments |
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| 2012 | | Wat [video] (destroyallsoftware.com) |
| 593 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 144 comments |
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| 2018 | | Handles are the better pointers (floooh.github.io) |
| 582 points across 4 posts | 10 months ago with 78 comments |
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| 2014 | | Meditations on Moloch (slatestarcodex.com) |
| 579 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 106 comments |
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| 2019 | | Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US (theguardian.com) |
| 577 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 22 comments |
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| 2015 | | A visual introduction to machine learning (r2d3.us) |
| 571 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2018 | | Why doctors hate their computers (newyorker.com) |
| 554 points across 4 posts | 9 months ago with 110 comments |
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| 2009 | | What I've Learned from Hacker News (paulgraham.com) |
| 553 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2011 | | Visualization of Common Algorithms (visualgo.net) |
| 538 points across 4 posts | 8 months ago with 13 comments |
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| 1970 | | The Tyranny of Structurelessness (jofreeman.com) |
| 530 points across 4 posts | 10 months ago with 72 comments |
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| 2005 | | So you want to be a consultant? (unixwiz.net) |
| 527 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 42 comments |
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| 2012 | | Build your own FPGA (blog.notdot.net) |
| 506 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 19 comments |
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| 2018 | | Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity (theatlantic.com) |
| 502 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to get the most out of next year (alexvermeer.com) |
| 473 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 26 comments |
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| 2006 | | Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (regex.info) |
| 468 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2005 | | Bit Twiddling Hacks (graphics.stanford.edu) |
| 462 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 24 comments |
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| 2011 | | Katamari Hack (kathack.com) |
| 444 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 37 comments |
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| 2007 | | Microsoft Is Dead (paulgraham.com) |
| 440 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Matasano crypto challenges (cryptopals.com) |
| 440 points across 4 posts | 10 months ago with 54 comments |
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| 1982 | | Why numbering should start at zero (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 439 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 220 comments |
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| 2012 | | Understanding the math behind 0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (h14s.p5r.org) |
| 434 points across 4 posts | 6 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2010 | | (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (norvig.com) |
| 432 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2011 | | Jewish Problems (arxiv.org) |
| 423 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 126 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (ribbonfarm.com) |
| 416 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 149 comments |
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| 2011 | | Add Honest Achmed's root certificate (bugzilla.mozilla.org) |
| 414 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 25 comments |
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| 2019 | | Get your work recognized: write a brag document (jvns.ca) |
| 399 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments |
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| 2016 | | Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript (eev.ee) |
| 393 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 215 comments |
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| 1999 | | Big Ball of Mud (laputan.org) |
| 389 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 31 comments |
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| 1972 | | Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (library.sciencemadness.org) |
| 382 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1996 | | Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (sfwriter.com) |
| 362 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1995 | | Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (newsweek.com) |
| 353 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2007 | | How to Write a Spelling Corrector (norvig.com) |
| 349 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2006 | | The Nature of Lisp (defmacro.org) |
| 340 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1981 | | Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (cs.virginia.edu) |
| 321 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 80 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture (currentaffairs.org) |
| 295 points across 4 posts | 5 months ago with 10 comments |
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| 2014 | | Assertions are pessimistic, assumptions are optimistic (blog.regehr.org) |
| 280 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 9 comments |
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| 2017 | | The logic behind Google rejecting Max Howell, the author of Homebrew (quora.com) |
| 278 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2005 | | The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (nickbostrom.com) |
| 275 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 73 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Halo Drive: Fuel-Free Relativistic Propulsion (arxiv.org) |
| 272 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 21 comments |
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| 1996 | | The long strange trip to Java (blinkenlights.com) |
| 247 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2000 | | Interview with the authors of C, C++ and Java (gotw.ca) |
| 237 points across 4 posts | 9 months ago with 0 comments |
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| 1979 | | Vela incident (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 233 points across 4 posts | 5 months ago with 54 comments |
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| 2000 | | Coroutines in C (chiark.greenend.org.uk) |
| 230 points across 4 posts | 8 months ago with 1 comments |
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| 1998 | | By 1995, it'll be evident that the Internet means as little as fax (web.archive.org) |
| 215 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 68 comments |
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| 2009 | | Anatomy of a Program in Memory (duartes.org) |
| 212 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2010 | | You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance (codahale.com) |
| 196 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 1996 | | They Write the Right Stuff (fastcompany.com) |
| 167 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2019 | | A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked (theatlantic.com) |
| 163 points across 4 posts | 6 months ago with 7 comments |
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