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Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News.
2012A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (queue.acm.org)
812 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 70 comments
2013Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different (randomwire.com)
806 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 102 comments
2014The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video] (destroyallsoftware.com)
792 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 36 comments
2015GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (blog.printf.net)
791 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2018Decoded: GNU Coreutils (maizure.org)
757 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 123 comments
2004Should I just stop attempting to make these trivial patches? (lkml.org)
752 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 29 comments
2015Normalization of Deviance (danluu.com)
748 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 219 comments
2017Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (spectrum.ieee.org)
741 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 124 comments
2005BBS: The Documentary (bbsdocumentary.com)
727 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 59 comments
2017Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me (github.com)
724 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2019What happened to the 100k-hour LED bulbs? (hackaday.com)
723 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments
2019How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software developer (spectrum.ieee.org)
719 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 136 comments
2013Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (somethingsimilar.com)
702 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 8 comments
2011To become a good C programmer (fabiensanglard.net)
698 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 15 comments
2019The office is a theatre for work (tomcritchlow.com)
697 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 247 comments
2003Essential C (cslibrary.stanford.edu)
696 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 82 comments
2019Fast Software, the Best Software (craigmod.com)
694 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 79 comments
1997Graphics Programming Black Book (github.com)
693 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 42 comments
2009Linus’s rules on keeping Git history clean (mail-archive.com)
688 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 65 comments
2019Why Go and Not Rust? (kristoff.it)
682 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 168 comments
2013Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords (blog.dustinkirkland.com)
667 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 124 comments
2017Why Japan's rail workers can't stop pointing at things (atlasobscura.com)
654 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 50 comments
2017Terminal Latency (danluu.com)
651 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 40 comments
2018American tech giants are making life tough for startups (economist.com)
645 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 128 comments
2016I'm a fucking webmaster (justinjackson.ca)
640 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 222 comments
2014A command-line murder mystery (github.com)
638 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 19 comments
2018Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful (vorpus.org)
631 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 119 comments
2006The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (teslamotors.com)
631 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 194 comments
2019It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼‍♂️".length == 7 (hsivonen.fi)
624 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 300 comments
2018Artificial Intelligence: The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (medium.com)
622 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 89 comments
1998Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (norvig.com)
614 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 110 comments
1988Let's Build a Compiler (compilers.iecc.com)
611 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 14 comments
2019Petition to open source Flash (github.com)
607 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments
2016Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (cacm.acm.org)
603 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 1 comments
2016Sam Altman's Manifest Destiny (newyorker.com)
603 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 40 comments
2018Visualizing quaternions (eater.net)
586 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 42 comments
2005Google Mars (google.com)
574 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 80 comments
2012Never Use Black (ianstormtaylor.com)
565 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 217 comments
2014MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 is now open-source (github.com)
564 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 101 comments
2018The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (explained.ai)
564 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 40 comments
2017Typing the technical interview (aphyr.com)
561 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2016Diablo (Pitch from 1994) (graybeardgames.com)
560 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 6 comments
2019What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (arxiv.org)
560 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 173 comments
1978How to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later (urbigenous.net)
550 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 134 comments
2013A Primer on Bézier Curves (pomax.github.io)
547 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 34 comments
2013The Theoretical Minimum (theoreticalminimum.com)
545 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2012Functional programming in C++ (gamasutra.com)
540 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 100 comments
2014Most Unit Testing Is Waste (rbcs-us.com)
540 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 159 comments
2010How Fake Money Saved Brazil (npr.org)
534 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 93 comments
2010Haskell researchers discover industry programmer who gives a shit (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
528 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments
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