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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2011 | | Darts, Dice, and Coins: Sampling from a Discrete Distribution (keithschwarz.com) |
| 82 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2002 | | Reforming the Mathematical Language of Physics (geocalc.clas.asu.edu) |
| 82 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2006 | | A student's guide to startups (paulgraham.com) |
| 82 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2014 | | Engineering Security (cs.auckland.ac.nz) |
| 82 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1993 | | Typeful Programming (lucacardelli.name) |
| 82 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2012 | | Become a nurse or physicians assistant instead of a doctor (jakeseliger.com) |
| 81 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2004 | | What the bubble got right (paulgraham.com) |
| 81 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2013 | | Floating-Point Determinism (randomascii.wordpress.com) |
| 81 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2012 | | Semantic Linefeeds (rhodesmill.org) |
| 80 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2004 | | Great Hackers (paulgraham.com) |
| 80 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2017 | | Data Organization in Spreadsheets (tandfonline.com) |
| 80 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1953 | | A Most Important Discovery (lettersofnote.com) |
| 80 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2017 | | It’s always windy somewhere: Balancing renewable energy in Europe (arstechnica.com) |
| 80 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2013 | | Snow – Whitespace Steganography (darkside.com.au) |
| 79 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table (newyorker.com) |
| 79 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2007 | | Building a Hacker Space (events.ccc.de) |
| 79 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2014 | | Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, Citizens (scholar.princeton.edu) |
| 79 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2014 | | John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar in 1972 (telegraph.co.uk) |
| 79 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1930 | | The Proposal of the Neutrino (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 79 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1983 | | Hints for Computer System Design (research.microsoft.com) |
| 79 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2011 | | There Is Only One Cloud Icon (hanselman.com) |
| 78 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2000 | | MicroMac Technology's Home Page for Macintosh Upgrades and Accelerators (micromac.com) |
| 78 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2015 | | Contempt Culture (blog.aurynn.com) |
| 78 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2013 | | Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors (hypirion.com) |
| 78 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2011 | | Scanning a Braille Playboy (blog.archive.org) |
| 78 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2018 | | Elon Musk texts Larry Page about investing in Tesla (twitter.com) |
| 77 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2013 | | There Was a Time before Mathematica (blog.stephenwolfram.com) |
| 77 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2011 | | Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media (theguardian.com) |
| 77 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1987 | | Scratch Monkey Story (edp.org) |
| 77 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2003 | | A Brief History of Just-in-Time (eecs.ucf.edu) |
| 77 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2013 | | JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Pointer (rfc-editor.org) |
| 76 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2006 | | Division by three (arxiv.org) |
| 76 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2008 | | Up and Then Down: The lives of elevators (newyorker.com) |
| 76 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2016 | | Data Is a Toxic Asset, So Why Not Throw It Out? (schneier.com) |
| 76 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2006 | | Object Oriented Programming in C (ldeniau.web.cern.ch) |
| 75 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2014 | | Asymmetric numeral systems (arxiv.org) |
| 75 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2001 | | Copy Protection in Modern Microcontrollers (cl.cam.ac.uk) |
| 74 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2008 | | Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (vidarholen.net) |
| 74 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Technical Evolution of Vannevar Bush’s Memex (digitalhumanities.org) |
| 74 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2019 | | Classics for the People (aeon.co) |
| 74 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2004 | | Acoustic Location and Sound Mirrors (douglas-self.com) |
| 74 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2012 | | QArt Codes (research.swtch.com) |
| 74 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2004 | | If All Stories Were Written Like Science Fiction Stories (web.archive.org) |
| 74 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why you shouldn't use Markdown for documentation (ericholscher.com) |
| 74 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2008 | | Consistency: How to defeat the purpose of IEEE floating point (yosefk.com) |
| 73 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2014 | | Ultrasound Networking (anfractuosity.com) |
| 73 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Outsiders (worlddreambank.org) |
| 73 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (ditext.com) |
| 73 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why Cryonics Makes Sense (waitbutwhy.com) |
| 72 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2003 | | Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose (borrett.id.au) |
| 72 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 1 comments |
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