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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 1996 | | The Twelve Networking Truths (tools.ietf.org) |
| 54 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2007 | | A case against syntax highlighting (linusakesson.net) |
| 54 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Pleasures of Eating (ecoliteracy.org) |
| 54 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1971 | | Secrets of the Little Blue Box (lospadres.info) |
| 54 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2007 | | It's totally reasonable to chalk it up to cosmic rays (lwn.net) |
| 54 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2014 | | Barricelli showed that organisms evolved by symbiosis and cooperation (nautil.us) |
| 54 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1997 | | Quantum Honeybees (discovermagazine.com) |
| 53 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2015 | | True, False, and Random (nautil.us) |
| 53 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2018 | | Thoughts on compile-time function evaluation and type systems (ralfj.de) |
| 53 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2007 | | When is one thing equal to some other thing? (math.harvard.edu) |
| 53 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2011 | | The “Nonplussed” Problem (slate.com) |
| 53 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2017 | | US Navy swaps $38,000 periscope joysticks for $30 Xbox controllers (geekwire.com) |
| 53 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2012 | | Ithkuil – An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented (newyorker.com) |
| 53 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2019 | | Sufficiently Advanced Testing (zhd.dev) |
| 52 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2015 | | Make it Simple: A Tale about Robert Dewar (dwheeler.com) |
| 52 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2010 | | An Introduction to Petname Systems (skyhunter.com) |
| 51 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2016 | | Gender is not a spectrum (aeon.co) |
| 51 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Running Novelist (newyorker.com) |
| 51 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1997 | | Lookup Tables – Forth Dimensions (benhoyt.com) |
| 50 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2012 | | I won’t hire people who use poor grammar (hbr.org) |
| 50 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 1983 | | Transporting a portable operating system: UNIX to an IBM minicomputer (zero.sci-hub.se) |
| 50 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1978 | | APL is more French than English (jsoftware.com) |
| 50 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Art of Nomography (myreckonings.com) |
| 49 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2013 | | MinimaLT: Minimal-Latency Networking Through Better Security (cr.yp.to) |
| 49 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2015 | | Aggregation Theory (stratechery.com) |
| 49 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2014 | | Web SQL Database: In Memoriam (nolanlawson.com) |
| 49 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1999 | | Scales for building your own slide rule (sliderulemuseum.com) |
| 49 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1955 | | The Crystal Goblet (web.archive.org) |
| 49 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Robustness Principle Reconsidered (queue.acm.org) |
| 48 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2014 | | The seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security (theguardian.com) |
| 48 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Necessity of Musical Hallucinations (nautil.us) |
| 48 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2012 | | Distribunomicon (learnyousomeerlang.com) |
| 48 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2016 | | One programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code (qz.com) |
| 48 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 2000 | | A Memory Allocator (g.oswego.edu) |
| 47 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2012 | | Provably Fair Shuffling Through Cryptography (techblog.bitzino.com) |
| 47 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2010 | | Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World (cs.cornell.edu) |
| 47 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2019 | | Stanford’s Robotics Legacy (news.stanford.edu) |
| 47 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2011 | | Bugs and Battleships (blog.ezyang.com) |
| 46 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Essayification of Everything (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com) |
| 46 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1997 | | Paradoxes of Material Implication (legacy.earlham.edu) |
| 46 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2005 | | Raising the Dead (outsideonline.com) |
| 46 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1985 | | Weizenbaum examines computers and society (tech.mit.edu) |
| 46 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1955 | | Parkinson's Law: work expands to fill the time available (economist.com) |
| 46 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2000 | | Bill Joy: Why the future doesn't need us (archive.wired.com) |
| 46 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2018 | | I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site (medium.com) |
| 46 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1971 | | Program Development by Stepwise Refinement (sunnyday.mit.edu) |
| 45 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2011 | | A comparison of text-based browsers (kmandla.wordpress.com) |
| 45 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2000 | | Mob Software (dreamsongs.com) |
| 45 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2016 | | Social media is killing discourse because it’s too much like TV (technologyreview.com) |
| 45 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2016 | | 'I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad' (theguardian.com) |
| 44 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments |
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