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Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News.
2012Don't just roll the dice – Software pricing guide (neildavidson.com)
488 points | 5 years ago with 62 comments
2016Why can’t women get pregnant without the menstrual cycle? (quora.com)
488 points | 7 years ago with 111 comments
2016A comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (unicodepowersymbol.com)
488 points | 5 years ago with 186 comments
2012A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept (gist.github.com)
485 points | 2 years ago with 116 comments
2016The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (bunniefoo.com)
485 points | 5 years ago with 192 comments
2018Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (nytimes.com)
485 points | 4 years ago with 250 comments
2019The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann (cantorsparadise.com)
484 points | 4 years ago with 261 comments
2014Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (robert.ocallahan.org)
484 points | 9 years ago with 295 comments
2009Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (drdobbs.com)
482 points | 8 years ago with 305 comments
2015The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (mjt.me.uk)
480 points | 3 years ago with 101 comments
2018A crash course in compilers (increment.com)
480 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2014How Does Sqlite Work? (jvns.ca)
480 points | 5 years ago with 62 comments
2019I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (blog.samuelmaddock.com)
479 points | 4 years ago with 186 comments
2016The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product managers (qz.com)
479 points | 7 years ago with 351 comments
2009Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto (ecorenovator.org)
477 points | 3 years ago with 246 comments
1951How to Grow Old (sites.google.com)
476 points | 6 years ago with 79 comments
2008Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (web.media.mit.edu)
476 points | 9 years ago with 167 comments
2015Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (affordanything.com)
475 points | 7 years ago with 478 comments
2014The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence (blog.revolutionanalytics.com)
474 points | 2 years ago with 158 comments
2016How I Almost Destroyed a £50M War Plane and the Normalisation of Deviance (fastjetperformance.com)
473 points | 6 years ago with 181 comments
2012The effect of meditation on brain structure (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
472 points | 6 years ago with 242 comments
2015The case for bad coffee (seriouseats.com)
471 points | 3 years ago with 618 comments
2012What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen? (javlaskitsystem.se)
471 points | 7 years ago with 186 comments
2015McDonald's Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money (blog.wallstreetsurvivor.com)
470 points | 8 years ago with 259 comments
2018Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (css.umich.edu)
469 points | 4 years ago with 760 comments
2013Use long flags when scripting (changelog.com)
468 points | 5 years ago with 189 comments
2016How to rapidly improve at any programming language (cbui.dev)
468 points | 4 years ago with 123 comments
2013Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had the highest sound quality (discuss.systems)
468 points | 2 years ago with 617 comments
2018Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise for brain plasticity (journals.plos.org)
467 points | 5 years ago with 214 comments
2015HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web (blog.neocities.org)
467 points | 8 years ago with 216 comments
2003Simpsons Hit and Run source code (github.com)
467 points | 2 years ago with 164 comments
2019Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (webapp.io)
467 points | 3 years ago with 200 comments
1989Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (users.ece.utexas.edu)
466 points | 2 years ago with 258 comments
2016Giraffes Added to the Endangered Species List (smithsonianmag.com)
465 points | 7 years ago with 191 comments
2017American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math' (wbur.org)
465 points | 4 years ago with 525 comments
2016Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (quora.com)
465 points | 6 years ago with 229 comments
2009A home microhydro plant (ludens.cl)
464 points | 6 years ago with 87 comments
2011Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (blog.smartbear.com)
463 points | 12 years ago with 155 comments
2018Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver (leetcode.com)
462 points | 3 years ago with 363 comments
2011Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (npr.org)
462 points | 10 years ago with 81 comments
2012The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (russolsen.com)
462 points | 6 years ago with 237 comments
2013Please don't say just hello in chat (nohello.net)
461 points | 4 years ago with 350 comments
2010Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (shadyurl.com)
460 points | 4 years ago with 91 comments
2012Dotsies (dotsies.org)
460 points | 6 years ago with 194 comments
2013System design and the cost of architectural complexity (dspace.mit.edu)
459 points | 2 years ago with 165 comments
2016Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (thelegalartist.com)
459 points | 3 years ago with 306 comments
2000Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (pages.cs.wisc.edu)
459 points | 2 years ago with 77 comments
2008Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone. (halfhalf.posterous.com)
459 points | 13 years ago with 103 comments
2018I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (jacksoncunningham.medium.com)
458 points | 3 years ago with 393 comments
2018ADHD, a Lifelong Struggle (gekk.info)
458 points | 5 years ago with 441 comments
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