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Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News.
1984Value Of Windowing Is Questioned (nytimes.com)
44 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 9 comments
2001Down with meritocracy (theguardian.com)
44 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 46 comments
2013A Point of View: Chess and 18th Century artificial intelligence (bbc.com)
44 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 0 comments
1974The Protection of Information in Computer Systems (cs.virginia.edu)
44 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 0 comments
2016Research into the reasons for trepanation (bbc.com)
44 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2012Are Sunk Costs Fallacies? (gwern.net)
43 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 8 comments
2016Learning by Association in Plants (nature.com)
43 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments
2010Scott and Scurvy (idlewords.com)
43 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2013The Exceptional Beauty of Doom 3's source code (kotaku.com)
43 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 3 comments
2012The five programming books that meant most to me (signalvnoise.com)
43 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 0 comments
20053.4 Million Americans are Extreme Commuters (businessweek.com)
42 points across 2 posts | 15 years ago with 38 comments
2004The Word "Hacker" (paulgraham.com)
42 points across 2 posts | 12 years ago with 9 comments
2019Automating the capture of airplane pictures with Raspberry Pi, ADS-B, IoT (medium.com)
42 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments
1996Ricardo's Difficult Idea by Paul Krugman (web.mit.edu)
41 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 46 comments
2007The Art of Unpacking (blackhat.com)
41 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 3 comments
1989Learning ZIL (xlisp.org)
41 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 0 comments
2000Useless Use of Cat Award (porkmail.org)
41 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2015The Alchemy of Madness: Understanding a Seventeenth-Century “Brain Scan” (resobscura.blogspot.com)
40 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments
1999The Difficulty of Faking Data (kkuniyuk.com)
40 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 3 comments
2013On the Near Impossibility of Measuring the Returns to Advertising (justinmrao.com)
40 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 0 comments
2018German Remembrance of the Holocaust and Growing US Anti-Semitism (kottke.org)
40 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2006Website Meta Language (thewml.org)
40 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 11 comments
2009Ubuntu Causes Girl To Drop Out Of College (youtube.com)
40 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 9 comments
2013In Praise of the Flâneur (theparisreview.org)
39 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2018Chalk drums: Measuring devices from the time of Stonehenge (tandfonline.com)
38 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments
2019Consider the Golden Mole (lrb.co.uk)
38 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2008The Itch (newyorker.com)
36 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments
1935War Is a Racket. (ratical.org)
36 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 1 comments
1920The Discarnates: Thomas Carlyle in the Spirit-World (publicdomainreview.org)
35 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments
2009Ventilated Prose (vanemden.wordpress.com)
34 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 1 comments
2014Tracking the sex of cell lines used in the lab (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
32 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 7 comments
2002The Maximum Tension Principle in General Relativity (arxiv.org)
31 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2014Yog’s Law and Self-Publishing (whatever.scalzi.com)
30 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments
2010A man-eating tiger's 'vengeance' (npr.org)
29 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 8 comments
2010Xkcd Color Survey Results (blog.xkcd.com)
29 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2017Classifying Hacker News Titles (ontology2.com)
26 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments
2016Why I've Quit Twitter (hintjens.com)
21 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 7 comments
2014Srcset and Sizes (ericportis.com)
20 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments
1999A cab ride I'll never forget (kentnerburn.com)
1704 points | 2 years ago with 165 comments
2000Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (cs.cmu.edu)
1655 points | 2 years ago with 498 comments
2017You Are Not Google (blog.bradfieldcs.com)
1623 points | 6 years ago with 572 comments
1961The Chaostron: An Important Advance in Learning Machines (dl.acm.org)
1474 points | 3 years ago with 9 comments
2012Basic Social Skills Guide (improveyoursocialskills.com)
1291 points | 5 years ago with 409 comments
2016Things you notice when you quit the news (raptitude.com)
1240 points | 3 years ago with 695 comments
2002Can’t send email more than 500 miles (web.mit.edu)
1158 points | 2 years ago with 195 comments
2019My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (twitter.com)
1137 points | 4 years ago with 556 comments
1914Calculus Made Easy (djm.cc)
1080 points | 8 years ago with 189 comments
2013Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (ourway.keybase.pub)
1060 points | 6 years ago with 161 comments
2016Signs you’re working in a feature factory (cutle.fish)
1002 points | 5 years ago with 281 comments
2014How to assess the quality of garments (anuschkarees.com)
991 points | 6 years ago with 287 comments
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