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Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News.
2018Blueberry Earth or “what if the entire Earth was replaced with blueberries?“ (arxiv.org)
112 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 36 comments
2007Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (prog21.dadgum.com)
112 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 144 comments
2012Building a 10BASE5 “Thick Ethernet” Network (tech.mattmillman.com)
112 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2016The engineer’s engineer: Dave Cutler (news.microsoft.com)
112 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments
2006How to Do What You Love (paulgraham.com)
111 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 18 comments
2015Monkey Patching in Go (bou.ke)
111 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 6 comments
2012Sol – a sunny little virtual machine (rsms.me)
111 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 10 comments
2017“If You Are Not Drowning in Demand, You Don’t Have Product-Market Fit” (capitalandgrowth.org)
111 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 74 comments
2015Spreadsheets are dreams (medium.com)
111 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2007Mocks Aren't Stubs (martinfowler.com)
111 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 29 comments
2017Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich (newyorker.com)
111 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 66 comments
2019Always Bump Downwards (fitzgeraldnick.com)
110 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 72 comments
2005Native Intelligence (smithsonianmag.com)
110 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 2 comments
2014A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite (magazine.atavist.com)
110 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2009Index cards are pretty cool (theguardian.com)
110 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments
2013Slow ideas (newyorker.com)
110 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 8 comments
2012Startups, this is how design works (startupsthisishowdesignworks.com)
109 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 94 comments
2017Time to Use Mesh Networks to Build Your Own Internet? (inverse.com)
109 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 4 comments
2010Prof. Dr. Style (contemporary-home-computing.org)
109 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 18 comments
2013George W. Bush is smarter than you (keithhennessey.com)
109 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 99 comments
2013Ruins of forgotten empires: APL languages (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
109 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2019Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population (theguardian.com)
109 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments
1991Language as an intellectual tool: From hieroglyphics to APL (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
108 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 19 comments
1998Why I Am a Bad Correspondent (nealstephenson.com)
108 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 28 comments
1988Fabrik – A Visual Programming Environment (web.archive.org)
108 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 13 comments
1999The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm (schneier.com)
107 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 8 comments
2019People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share Psychological Features (scientificamerican.com)
107 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2016Tax Consequences of John Oliver’s $15M Medical Debt Forgiveness (proskauertaxtalks.com)
107 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 4 comments
1983The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce (esquire.com)
107 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2016The DIY scientist, the Olympian, and the mutated gene (propublica.org)
107 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2000Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant (doc.cat-v.org)
107 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 43 comments
2015Quick fix for an early Internet problem lives on a quarter-century later (washingtonpost.com)
106 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2012The greatest paper map of the United States, made by one guy in Oregon (slate.com)
106 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 4 comments
1996How to help someone use a computer (pages.gseis.ucla.edu)
106 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 46 comments
2017The Serial-Killer Detector (newyorker.com)
106 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2016Frankie Manning's dancing skills made him famous twice (vox.com)
105 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2002Shelling Out: The Origins of Money (nakamotoinstitute.org)
105 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 28 comments
2012What to Make of Finnegans Wake? (nybooks.com)
105 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 30 comments
2009Why TV Lost (paulgraham.com)
105 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 132 comments
2008Atomic John: Truck driver uncovers secrets about first nuclear bombs (newyorker.com)
104 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 7 comments
1981Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (lysator.liu.se)
104 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 55 comments
2016Ejection Decision (verticalmag.com)
104 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 14 comments
1988Tom Duff on Duff's device (lysator.liu.se)
104 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2010Ewww, You Use PHP? (blog.mailchimp.com)
104 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 44 comments
2019The Crane Wife (theparisreview.org)
104 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 5 comments
1999Reading code from top to bottom (iq0.com)
103 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 14 comments
2013The homogenization of scientific computing (talyarkoni.org)
103 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 14 comments
2003Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma: systematic review (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
103 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2018The story of ispc: origins (part 1) (pharr.org)
103 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments
2019On Having Enough Socks (gwern.net)
103 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 172 comments
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