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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2017 | | EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (engadget.com) |
| 987 points | 4 years ago with 351 comments |
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| 2014 | | How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (mathematica.stackexchange.com) |
| 986 points | 2 years ago with 185 comments |
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| 2015 | | I fear App Review is getting too powerful (judiciary.house.gov) |
| 985 points | 5 years ago with 357 comments |
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| 2019 | | De-Stressing Booking.com (alexcharlton.co) |
| 960 points | 2 years ago with 359 comments |
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| 1985 | | Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (asc.ohio-state.edu) |
| 915 points | 4 years ago with 276 comments |
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| 2019 | | Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (nationalgeographic.com) |
| 911 points | 4 years ago with 292 comments |
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| 2010 | | Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (news.ycombinator.com) |
| 908 points | 5 years ago with 437 comments |
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| 2016 | | IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (rogerschank.com) |
| 904 points | 7 years ago with 435 comments |
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| 2004 | | Zoomquilt (zoomquilt.org) |
| 878 points | 4 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (journals.uchicago.edu) |
| 874 points | 5 years ago with 369 comments |
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| 2016 | | Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (cbc.ca) |
| 862 points | 6 years ago with 289 comments |
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| 2003 | | Calculus for Beginners and Artists (www-math.mit.edu) |
| 836 points | 6 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 2009 | | Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (link.springer.com) |
| 830 points | 2 years ago with 235 comments |
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| 2014 | | All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (theguardian.com) |
| 826 points | 4 years ago with 446 comments |
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| 2019 | | TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (propublica.org) |
| 807 points | 4 years ago with 199 comments |
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| 2019 | | Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (blog.danslimmon.com) |
| 804 points | 4 years ago with 230 comments |
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| 2019 | | Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (arstechnica.com) |
| 797 points | 4 years ago with 424 comments |
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| 2014 | | What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (wozniak.ca) |
| 795 points | 6 years ago with 634 comments |
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| 2019 | | The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (blog.haschek.at) |
| 795 points | 3 years ago with 261 comments |
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| 1922 | | What the world will be like in a hundred years (loc.gov) |
| 791 points | 3 years ago with 634 comments |
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| 2014 | | Windows 93 (windows93.net) |
| 790 points | 9 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 1966 | | Do not remain nameless to yourself (lettersofnote.com) |
| 782 points | 5 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2012 | | How I went from programming to consulting (training.kalzumeus.com) |
| 780 points | 7 years ago with 472 comments |
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| 2014 | | Calculus Explained with GIFs and Pics (0a.io) |
| 770 points | 5 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2018 | | Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (eloquentjavascript.net) |
| 767 points | 5 years ago with 185 comments |
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| 2015 | | I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (web.stanford.edu) |
| 766 points | 3 years ago with 347 comments |
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| 2015 | | Awk in 20 Minutes (ferd.ca) |
| 762 points | 5 years ago with 126 comments |
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| 1995 | | Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (web.archive.org) |
| 755 points | 4 years ago with 455 comments |
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| 2000 | | Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (cgl.uwaterloo.ca) |
| 753 points | 8 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2017 | | “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (theregister.co.uk) |
| 746 points | 6 years ago with 395 comments |
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| 2013 | | A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (minimizedistraction.com) |
| 740 points | 4 years ago with 271 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (quora.com) |
| 734 points | 5 years ago with 661 comments |
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| 2013 | | The shittiest project I ever worked on (blog.plover.com) |
| 732 points | 6 years ago with 296 comments |
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| 2012 | | An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (betterexplained.com) |
| 709 points | 5 years ago with 102 comments |
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| 2019 | | The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (programming.guide) |
| 706 points | 4 years ago with 334 comments |
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| 2011 | | Your own company? You can do it (jacquesmattheij.com) |
| 701 points | 8 years ago with 366 comments |
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| 2014 | | Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (robert.ocallahan.org) |
| 698 points | 6 years ago with 329 comments |
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| 2015 | | Spot the Drowning Child (spotthedrowningchild.com) |
| 697 points | 5 years ago with 405 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (blog.discord.com) |
| 696 points | 4 years ago with 368 comments |
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| 2017 | | CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (shkspr.mobi) |
| 696 points | 4 years ago with 679 comments |
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| 2013 | | Scar tissues make relationships wear out (gist.github.com) |
| 695 points | 2 years ago with 190 comments |
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| 2019 | | No More Medium – Build Your Own Site (nomedium.dev) |
| 694 points | 4 years ago with 242 comments |
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| 2016 | | Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise (hbr.org) |
| 691 points | 4 years ago with 203 comments |
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| 2016 | | How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (reasonablypolymorphic.com) |
| 688 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2013 | | Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (amusingplanet.com) |
| 685 points | 2 years ago with 407 comments |
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| 2018 | | Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (twitter.com) |
| 685 points | 3 years ago with 719 comments |
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| 2017 | | Software Engineering at Google (arxiv.org) |
| 685 points | 6 years ago with 309 comments |
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| 2013 | | Avoid Else, Return Early (blog.timoxley.com) |
| 682 points | 7 years ago with 578 comments |
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| 2010 | | The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (sive.rs) |
| 681 points | 3 years ago with 445 comments |
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| 2016 | | Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (cbc.ca) |
| 677 points | 7 years ago with 306 comments |
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