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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 1964 | | The Paranoid Style in American Politics (harpers.org) |
| 132 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments |
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| 2013 | | Hard disk hacking (spritesmods.com) |
| 132 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2011 | | Staedtler and Faber-Castell's productive pencil rivalry (bbc.com) |
| 132 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1991 | | The Rise of Worse Is Better (dreamsongs.com) |
| 132 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1992 | | J one-page interpreter fragment (code.jsoftware.com) |
| 132 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2017 | | Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years with Nearly Nothing Going Wrong (theatlantic.com) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 89 comments |
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| 2014 | | US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (bbc.com) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 1991 | | Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big (dreamsongs.com) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2017 | | Undocumented 8086 Opcodes part 1 (os2museum.com) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2011 | | Composers as Gardeners (edge.org) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2017 | | Zebras hate you for no reason: Why Amdahl's law is misleading (EmbeddedRelated.com) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Disruption Machine: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong (newyorker.com) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1999 | | 1x Forth (ultratechnology.com) |
| 130 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2013 | | Bracketed paste mode (cirw.in) |
| 129 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1990 | | Prefix Sums and Their Applications (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 129 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2013 | | Detecting voting rings using HyperLogLog counters (opensourceconnections.com) |
| 129 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2006 | | Object-Relational Mapping Is the Vietnam of Computer Science (blogs.tedneward.com) |
| 129 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2019 | | EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight (arstechnica.com) |
| 129 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to get started with DJing (medium.com) |
| 129 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1996 | | On FPGAs as PC Coprocessors (fpgacpu.org) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2008 | | First recorded usage of “hacker” (manybutfinite.com) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2008 | | Building Robust Systems (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin (newyorker.com) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2012 | | Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen? (superuser.com) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2019 | | Apple I Emulator (shadertoy.com) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2019 | | Exploring the Macintosh ROM (macgui.com) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 34 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Hipster PDA (43folders.com) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2018 | | The Mind-Bending Math Behind Spot It (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2012 | | Call/cc for C programmers (community.schemewiki.org) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2015 | | The First Computers in East Africa and what became of them (owaahh.com) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1978 | | Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu: The End of Hot Metal Typesetting at the NY Times (archive.org) |
| 127 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2012 | | In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You (crookedtimber.org) |
| 127 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2015 | | The strange case of ICMP Type 69 on Linux (blog.benjojo.co.uk) |
| 127 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1944 | | The Inner Ring (lewissociety.org) |
| 127 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2007 | | Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known and Loved (billbuxton.com) |
| 127 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2005 | | Michael Crichton: Why Speculate? (larvatus.com) |
| 127 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2015 | | GPG and me (moxie.org) |
| 127 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2012 | | Please Stop “Fixing” Font Smoothing (usabilitypost.com) |
| 126 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 2014 | | Playing with My Son (medium.com) |
| 126 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2000 | | Lisp as an Alternative to Java (flownet.com) |
| 126 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2018 | | Cause of Cambrian Explosion – Terrestrial or cosmic? (sciencedirect.com) |
| 125 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2004 | | Citizen Kubrick (theguardian.com) |
| 125 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2011 | | DNA Is a Fractal Antenna in Electromagnetic Fields (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 125 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2018 | | ML Beyond Curve Fitting: An Intro to Causal Inference and Do-Calculus (inference.vc) |
| 125 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2015 | | Consciousness as a State of Matter (arxiv.org) |
| 125 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2005 | | Why I Hate Frameworks (discuss.joelonsoftware.com) |
| 124 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2014 | | Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine (lispm.de) |
| 123 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2011 | | Tuple Spaces (Or, Good Ideas Don't Always Win) (software-carpentry.org) |
| 123 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2018 | | Scheele’s Green, the Color of Fake Foliage and Death (theparisreview.org) |
| 123 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2018 | | Google and HTTP (this.how) |
| 123 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 165 comments |
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