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Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News.
2015A CEO's Guide to Emacs (blog.fugue.co)
364 points | 7 years ago with 172 comments
2011Depixelizing Pixel Art (johanneskopf.de)
363 points | 7 years ago with 88 comments
2017RethinkDB: why we failed (defmacro.org)
362 points | 4 years ago with 227 comments
2014Efficient dehumidifier makes air conditioning a breeze (pnnl.gov)
362 points | 3 years ago with 209 comments
2014How to Pick Your Life Partner (waitbutwhy.com)
362 points | 8 years ago with 209 comments
2014Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (aadrake.com)
362 points | 9 years ago with 171 comments
2015Gitlet.js – Git implemented in 1k lines of JavaScript (gitlet.maryrosecook.com)
361 points | 4 years ago with 75 comments
2019All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people (bellmar.medium.com)
361 points | 4 years ago with 76 comments
2015Home-Built Scanning Tunneling Microscope (dberard.com)
361 points | 4 years ago with 79 comments
2008Trolls (paulgraham.com)
360 points | 13 years ago with 303 comments
2014Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (hndex.org)
360 points | 5 years ago with 391 comments
2014Fasting leads to stress resistance, self-renewal, and regeneration (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
359 points | 8 years ago with 233 comments
2015Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention (nautil.us)
359 points | 7 years ago with 72 comments
2005Naked shorting: The curious incident of the shares that didn't exist (euromoney.com)
359 points | 4 years ago with 298 comments
2016I turned down $500k, pissed off my investors, and shut down my startup (disruptingjapan.com)
359 points | 3 years ago with 141 comments
2009Quant Job Interview Questions (math.kent.edu)
358 points | 8 years ago with 145 comments
2017Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control – Free Textbook (hades.mech.northwestern.edu)
358 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2015600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (blog.jayway.com)
357 points | 6 years ago with 137 comments
2011Effects of grill patterns on fan performance/noise (pugetsystems.com)
357 points | 3 years ago with 121 comments
2011Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed (avichal.com)
356 points | 7 years ago with 141 comments
2019Why do long options start with two dashes? (blog.djmnet.org)
356 points | 4 years ago with 246 comments
2016How is bamboo lumber made? (bambooimport.com)
356 points | 4 years ago with 222 comments
2009Intel's "cripple AMD" function (agner.org)
356 points | 11 years ago with 124 comments
2015Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Overflow (i-programmer.info)
356 points | 7 years ago with 280 comments
2017Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (metis.fi)
356 points | 6 years ago with 206 comments
2012The Architecture of Git (aosabook.org)
355 points | 7 years ago with 79 comments
2015The True Size of Africa (kai.sub.blue)
355 points | 4 years ago with 219 comments
1992The Document Which Used to Be Called the MIT Lockpicking Guide (blurofinsanity.com)
355 points | 8 years ago with 114 comments
2015NSA Owns Everything (blog.thinkst.com)
355 points | 5 years ago with 248 comments
2009How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing (radian.org)
354 points | 14 years ago with 92 comments
2014What's been wrought using the Piece Table? (web.archive.org)
354 points | 8 years ago with 83 comments
2016The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (atlasobscura.com)
353 points | 3 years ago with 365 comments
20156 days to change 1 line of code (edw519.posthaven.com)
353 points | 2 years ago with 243 comments
2014What Armenians should know about life in America (likewise.am)
353 points | 5 years ago with 347 comments
2017Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (spectrum.ieee.org)
353 points | 5 years ago with 196 comments
2010How to increase your luck surface area (codusoperandi.com)
353 points | 4 years ago with 200 comments
1992Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (news.lettersofnote.com)
352 points | 3 years ago with 320 comments
2017What software engineers should know about search (scribe.rip)
352 points | 4 years ago with 129 comments
2017I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (dewitters.com)
351 points | 4 years ago with 387 comments
2017Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs (blog.jessfraz.com)
351 points | 5 years ago with 128 comments
2013Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (arxiv.org)
351 points | 8 years ago with 204 comments
2006Busy Person Patterns (hillside.net)
350 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2014Let’s write a simple Kernel (arjunsreedharan.org)
350 points | 8 years ago with 50 comments
2012Seven signs of ethical collapse (scu.edu)
350 points | 1 year ago with 137 comments
2010Never pay for online dating (web.archive.org)
350 points | 3 years ago with 469 comments
2008Jeff Varasano's Famous New York Pizza Recipe (varasanos.com)
350 points | 8 years ago with 145 comments
2004Soviet Venus Images (mentallandscape.com)
350 points | 4 years ago with 96 comments
2019Dorodango: the Japanese art of making shiny mud balls (laurenceking.com)
349 points | 4 years ago with 67 comments
2016We do not use foreign keys (github.com)
349 points | 6 years ago with 320 comments
2015Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to the Young: “Learn to Be Alone” (openculture.com)
349 points | 5 years ago with 91 comments
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