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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2018 | | Mister Rogers had a simple set of rules for talking to children (theatlantic.com) |
| 552 points | 4 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 2013 | | Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests” (istacee.wordpress.com) |
| 550 points | 8 years ago with 354 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why does my SSH private key still work after changing some bytes? (crypto.stackexchange.com) |
| 549 points | 2 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2018 | | Facebook confirms data-sharing agreements with Chinese firms, including Huawei (bbc.com) |
| 549 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2002 | | Why Russians do not smile (chicagomaroon.com) |
| 548 points | 4 years ago with 481 comments |
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| 2012 | | 20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (stevehanov.ca) |
| 545 points | 9 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 1988 | | Xmas.c (udel.edu) |
| 544 points | 1 year ago with 92 comments |
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| 2015 | | Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (github.com) |
| 543 points | 5 years ago with 196 comments |
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| 2015 | | Visual Information Theory (colah.github.io) |
| 543 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2018 | | BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk) |
| 541 points | 5 years ago with 131 comments |
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| 2012 | | Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps (news.nationalgeographic.com) |
| 541 points | 6 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 2014 | | What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (woz.posthaven.com) |
| 540 points | 7 years ago with 348 comments |
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| 2016 | | I'm a very slow thinker (sive.rs) |
| 537 points | 2 years ago with 258 comments |
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| 2009 | | What typing ^D does on Unix (utcc.utoronto.ca) |
| 536 points | 9 years ago with 156 comments |
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| 2014 | | Kindness is Underrated (circleci.com) |
| 536 points | 8 years ago with 210 comments |
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| 2015 | | Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (jnd.org) |
| 535 points | 5 years ago with 500 comments |
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| 2018 | | 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (sciencemag.org) |
| 531 points | 5 years ago with 356 comments |
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| 2018 | | A Concrete Introduction to Probability (github.com) |
| 529 points | 4 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2017 | | Wikipedia Has Cancer (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 528 points | 5 years ago with 310 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (blog.discordapp.com) |
| 528 points | 6 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 2005 | | Why I Hate Frameworks (fredrikholmqvist.com) |
| 525 points | 4 years ago with 295 comments |
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| 1958 | | Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (tranquilmonkey.com) |
| 525 points | 9 years ago with 257 comments |
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| 2017 | | Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (gwern.net) |
| 525 points | 6 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2000 | | You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (nngroup.com) |
| 523 points | 6 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 2002 | | Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu) |
| 523 points | 11 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 2016 | | When negotiating a price, never bid with a round number (hbswk.hbs.edu) |
| 522 points | 3 years ago with 239 comments |
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| 2004 | | Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (imaginary.org) |
| 521 points | 4 years ago with 318 comments |
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| 2018 | | Slacktyping: I'm typing when you're typing (github.com) |
| 519 points | 4 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2017 | | The radix 2^51 trick (chosenplaintext.ca) |
| 518 points | 5 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2016 | | Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (yosefk.com) |
| 517 points | 4 years ago with 196 comments |
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| 2013 | | Snowflake macro photography (chaoticmind75.blogspot.com) |
| 517 points | 8 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2008 | | Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (bitcoin.org) |
| 516 points | 7 years ago with 385 comments |
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| 2013 | | Computer Science from the Bottom Up (bottomupcs.com) |
| 516 points | 8 years ago with 156 comments |
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| 2012 | | Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (quora.com) |
| 515 points | 8 years ago with 253 comments |
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| 2016 | | Art student’s 407-piece hand-carved wooden clock (ablogtowatch.com) |
| 512 points | 4 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2015 | | HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permanent web (ipfs.io) |
| 510 points | 4 years ago with 325 comments |
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| 1999 | | Get a cable modem, go to jail (telecom.csail.mit.edu) |
| 510 points | 2 years ago with 455 comments |
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| 2012 | | How a car works (howacarworks.com) |
| 508 points | 10 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2016 | | I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (blog.haschek.at) |
| 508 points | 5 years ago with 174 comments |
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| 2012 | | Good sleep, good learning, good life (supermemo.com) |
| 506 points | 7 years ago with 254 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (jerrydallal.com) |
| 502 points | 6 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2015 | | Facebook’s code quality problem (darkcoding.net) |
| 502 points | 8 years ago with 226 comments |
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| 2002 | | Wi Flag (asheron.fandom.com) |
| 501 points | 2 years ago with 205 comments |
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| 2019 | | I Miss the Old Internet (sffworld.com) |
| 500 points | 4 years ago with 424 comments |
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| 2011 | | If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (calnewport.com) |
| 499 points | 5 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 2012 | | In 1957, Five Men Agreed to Stand Under an Exploding Nuclear Bomb (npr.org) |
| 498 points | 8 years ago with 203 comments |
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| 1968 | | Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (twitter.com) |
| 497 points | 6 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2011 | | Advice on Getting Better from an Accomplished Piano Player (calnewport.com) |
| 492 points | 6 years ago with 156 comments |
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| 1999 | | Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (futureblues.com) |
| 492 points | 2 years ago with 182 comments |
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| 2018 | | Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (linkedin.com) |
| 491 points | 4 years ago with 293 comments |
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