|
| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
|
| 2018 | | The man who produced Steve Jobs’ keynotes for 20 years (cake.co) |
| 674 points | 4 years ago with 196 comments |
|
| 2015 | | Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (cbc.ca) |
| 674 points | 6 years ago with 330 comments |
|
| 2018 | | A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (github.com) |
| 673 points | 5 years ago with 266 comments |
|
| 2012 | | How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (daedtech.com) |
| 672 points | 5 years ago with 432 comments |
|
| 2009 | | There’s no speed limit (sive.rs) |
| 670 points | 3 years ago with 276 comments |
|
| 2011 | | Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping Lego blocks (johndcook.com) |
| 667 points | 5 years ago with 228 comments |
|
| 1996 | | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (opendocs.github.io) |
| 665 points | 6 years ago with 142 comments |
|
| 2011 | | Fucking Sue Me (pud.com) |
| 663 points | 12 years ago with 194 comments |
|
| 2005 | | Why I Hate Frameworks (factoryfactoryfactory.net) |
| 662 points | 2 years ago with 392 comments |
|
| 2017 | | Magit, the magical Git interface (emacsair.me) |
| 658 points | 4 years ago with 344 comments |
|
| 2010 | | Tron Legacy (jtnimoy.net) |
| 657 points | 12 years ago with 143 comments |
|
| 2000 | | Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (cs.otago.ac.nz) |
| 656 points | 6 years ago with 380 comments |
|
| 2015 | | Amazon Web Services in Plain English (expeditedssl.com) |
| 655 points | 8 years ago with 75 comments |
|
| 2013 | | How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 652 points | 9 years ago with 138 comments |
|
| 2015 | | It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (drmaciver.com) |
| 650 points | 5 years ago with 345 comments |
|
| 2012 | | 24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (xiph.org) |
| 647 points | 8 years ago with 428 comments |
|
| 2018 | | Learning to See in the Dark (github.com) |
| 645 points | 5 years ago with 170 comments |
|
| 2007 | | Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (elbruz.org) |
| 645 points | 2 years ago with 254 comments |
|
| 2016 | | In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (adamhooper.medium.com) |
| 642 points | 3 years ago with 344 comments |
|
| 2015 | | Startup Playbook (playbook.samaltman.com) |
| 640 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments |
|
| 2010 | | Don’t mess with a genius (shreevatsa.wordpress.com) |
| 631 points | 2 years ago with 151 comments |
|
| 2014 | | Only 90s web developers remember this (zachholman.com) |
| 628 points | 3 years ago with 345 comments |
|
| 2019 | | In 1886, the US commissioned watercolor paintings of every known fruit (openculture.com) |
| 627 points | 2 years ago with 149 comments |
|
| 2008 | | NirSoft Freeware (nirsoft.net) |
| 625 points | 7 years ago with 232 comments |
|
| 2009 | | Papers every developer should read at least twice (michaelfeathers.silvrback.com) |
| 623 points | 4 years ago with 95 comments |
|
| 2010 | | Why do many math books have so much detail and so little enlightenment? (mathoverflow.net) |
| 620 points | 8 years ago with 260 comments |
|
| 2016 | | Computer Science from the Bottom Up (bottomupcs.com) |
| 618 points | 5 years ago with 76 comments |
|
| 2017 | | I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (huffpost.com) |
| 617 points | 6 years ago with 443 comments |
|
| 2017 | | Please, enough with the dead butterflies (emilydamstra.com) |
| 614 points | 4 years ago with 210 comments |
|
| 2015 | | When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (nationalgeographic.com) |
| 611 points | 5 years ago with 224 comments |
|
| 2016 | | Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 611 points | 4 years ago with 399 comments |
|
| 2019 | | Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (henricodolfing.com) |
| 608 points | 3 years ago with 402 comments |
|
| 2016 | | I’m a very slow thinker (sivers.org) |
| 604 points | 7 years ago with 224 comments |
|
| 2018 | | Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (twitter.com) |
| 602 points | 4 years ago with 274 comments |
|
| 2015 | | The Art of Command Line (github.com) |
| 597 points | 6 years ago with 169 comments |
|
| 2013 | | T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (github.com) |
| 595 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments |
|
| 2014 | | The Myth of RAM (ilikebigbits.com) |
| 593 points | 9 years ago with 277 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (news.cnet.com) |
| 592 points | 12 years ago with 299 comments |
|
| 2019 | | Google Blocking Web Privacy Proposals at W3C (cpomagazine.com) |
| 592 points | 4 years ago with 173 comments |
|
| 2017 | | I was wrong about spreadsheets (reifyworks.com) |
| 590 points | 6 years ago with 369 comments |
|
| 2014 | | A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (scientificamerican.com) |
| 589 points | 6 years ago with 238 comments |
|
| 2017 | | When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (bicycling.com) |
| 586 points | 6 years ago with 261 comments |
|
| 2016 | | Useful Mental Models (defmacro.org) |
| 586 points | 7 years ago with 73 comments |
|
| 2006 | | Far Cry 1.34 source code (archive.org) |
| 585 points | 2 years ago with 304 comments |
|
| 2018 | | Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (byorgey.wordpress.com) |
| 580 points | 5 years ago with 155 comments |
|
| 2012 | | Hexaflexagons [video] (youtube.com) |
| 578 points | 3 years ago with 54 comments |
|
| 2014 | | Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt (ai.google) |
| 576 points | 7 years ago with 88 comments |
|
| 2015 | | Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (nautil.us) |
| 571 points | 7 years ago with 200 comments |
|
| 2016 | | Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (gwan.com) |
| 569 points | 7 years ago with 333 comments |
|
| 2003 | | Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu) |
| 558 points | 7 years ago with 157 comments |
|
|
| More |
