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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2004 | | Ten predictions (sites.google.com) |
| 457 points | 12 years ago with 309 comments |
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| 2013 | | Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (computerhistory.org) |
| 457 points | 7 years ago with 200 comments |
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| 2005 | | BSD vs. Linux (over-yonder.net) |
| 457 points | 9 years ago with 356 comments |
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| 2015 | | Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python (interactivepython.org) |
| 456 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2006 | | How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (coding.derkeiler.com) |
| 454 points | 7 years ago with 419 comments |
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| 2017 | | Computer input latency from 1977-2017 (danluu.com) |
| 454 points | 4 years ago with 259 comments |
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| 2015 | | Ramanujan Surprises Again (plus.maths.org) |
| 454 points | 5 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2017 | | Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (math.stackexchange.com) |
| 453 points | 5 years ago with 131 comments |
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| 2018 | | Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill (azeria-labs.com) |
| 452 points | 5 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2019 | | Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl Libc project (andrewkelley.me) |
| 451 points | 4 years ago with 160 comments |
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| 2016 | | Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (github.com) |
| 451 points | 6 years ago with 198 comments |
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| 2019 | | Someone should probably start a bright home lighting company (lincolnquirk.com) |
| 449 points | 3 years ago with 283 comments |
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| 2017 | | Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (polygon.com) |
| 445 points | 3 years ago with 271 comments |
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| 2013 | | Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10k jobs per second (gist.github.com) |
| 445 points | 5 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 2014 | | Is TDD Dead? (martinfowler.com) |
| 445 points | 5 years ago with 476 comments |
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| 1983 | | The Story of Mel (cs.utah.edu) |
| 443 points | 3 years ago with 166 comments |
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| 2017 | | Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (magcius.github.io) |
| 443 points | 6 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2010 | | The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (sivers.org) |
| 442 points | 12 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 2018 | | Bullshit Jobs (theanarchistlibrary.org) |
| 440 points | 2 years ago with 388 comments |
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| 2004 | | Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (poignant.guide) |
| 440 points | 4 years ago with 201 comments |
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| 1991 | | The WorldWideWeb application is now available as an alpha release (groups.google.com) |
| 438 points | 13 years ago with 125 comments |
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| 2016 | | Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (science.org) |
| 437 points | 4 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 2013 | | Google Web Designer (google.com) |
| 437 points | 8 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death (outsideonline.com) |
| 437 points | 12 years ago with 184 comments |
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| 2013 | | Why the Brain Needs More Downtime (scientificamerican.com) |
| 436 points | 8 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2014 | | C4: C in Four Functions (github.com) |
| 436 points | 5 years ago with 131 comments |
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| 2019 | | I cheated on my Microsoft interview (facet.net) |
| 436 points | 3 years ago with 475 comments |
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| 2014 | | Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (gkogan.co) |
| 436 points | 5 years ago with 272 comments |
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| 2015 | | Dealing with Hard Problems (artofproblemsolving.com) |
| 435 points | 7 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Stripe Designs Websites (leerob.io) |
| 434 points | 5 years ago with 159 comments |
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| 2016 | | Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (ezali.substack.com) |
| 434 points | 1 year ago with 131 comments |
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| 2018 | | 91% of plastic isn't recycled (nationalgeographic.com) |
| 433 points | 5 years ago with 245 comments |
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| 2011 | | Does it scale? Who cares (jacquesmattheij.com) |
| 431 points | 8 years ago with 273 comments |
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| 2019 | | 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (mcmillen.dev) |
| 431 points | 4 years ago with 163 comments |
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| 2018 | | Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (returntonow.net) |
| 431 points | 4 years ago with 355 comments |
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| 2007 | | Fark redesign is now live (fark.com) |
| 430 points | 2 years ago with 466 comments |
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| 2017 | | How I became a better programmer (jlongster.com) |
| 430 points | 5 years ago with 146 comments |
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| 2014 | | “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (git.kernel.org) |
| 429 points | 6 years ago with 108 comments |
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| 2015 | | Building Better Interfaces with SVG (slides.com) |
| 429 points | 8 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2010 | | No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? (m.spiegel.de) |
| 429 points | 7 years ago with 168 comments |
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| 2017 | | Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (yakshav.es) |
| 428 points | 3 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2016 | | Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (geon.github.io) |
| 428 points | 5 years ago with 181 comments |
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| 2007 | | Beej's Guide to C Programming (beej.us) |
| 427 points | 8 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2011 | | Music for Programming (musicforprogramming.net) |
| 427 points | 5 years ago with 261 comments |
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| 2018 | | MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts (news.mit.edu) |
| 425 points | 3 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 2015 | | 14,000x Speedup (james.hiebert.name) |
| 424 points | 5 years ago with 228 comments |
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| 1914 | | Calculus Made Easy (gutenberg.org) |
| 424 points | 5 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2019 | | Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific – research (outsideonline.com) |
| 424 points | 3 years ago with 334 comments |
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| 2014 | | World Airports Voronoi (jasondavies.com) |
| 424 points | 7 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 2017 | | Floating Point Visually Explained (fabiensanglard.net) |
| 423 points | 5 years ago with 96 comments |
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