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2016Jo – a shell command to create JSON (jpmens.net)
323 points | 3 years ago with 94 comments
2007The Rule of 72 (betterexplained.com)
323 points | 9 years ago with 92 comments
2012Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (web.archive.org)
323 points | 3 years ago with 352 comments
2015In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (custodians.online)
322 points | 2 years ago with 70 comments
2016Releasing an indie game on 3 consoles at once and failing financially (juicybeast.com)
322 points | 2 years ago with 271 comments
2012Aggressive Chess Openings (chess.stackexchange.com)
322 points | 6 years ago with 99 comments
2014Quake on an oscilloscope (lofibucket.com)
322 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
2018/* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */ (community.cadence.com)
321 points | 5 years ago with 118 comments
2017People Met in Hotel Lobbies (jasonlefkowitz.net)
321 points | 6 years ago with 87 comments
2005Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (defacto2.net)
321 points | 2 years ago with 221 comments
1999Doors I touched today (fluxus.org)
321 points | 2 years ago with 99 comments
2001Is your son a computer hacker? (wh0rd.ca)
320 points | 4 years ago with 235 comments
2012Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like one (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
320 points | 5 years ago with 228 comments
2013Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (bookofhook.blogspot.com)
319 points | 7 years ago with 84 comments
2015People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened (psychologicalscience.org)
319 points | 2 years ago with 200 comments
2017Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (marc.info)
319 points | 5 years ago with 389 comments
2012Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her from her books (nbcnews.com)
319 points | 5 years ago with 245 comments
2013Why are free proxies free? (blog.haschek.at)
319 points | 10 years ago with 82 comments
2015Things I Learned from Chris Dixon about Startups (a16z.com)
319 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments
2019Always Own Your Platform (alwaysownyourplatform.com)
319 points | 3 years ago with 177 comments
2017People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (atlasobscura.com)
319 points | 2 years ago with 125 comments
2013A practical introduction to functional programming (maryrosecook.com)
319 points | 8 years ago with 151 comments
2016Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (mobile.nytimes.com)
319 points | 7 years ago with 262 comments
2013Stacksort – Searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them (gkoberger.github.io)
318 points | 7 years ago with 79 comments
2016Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (news.ycombinator.com)
318 points | 4 years ago with 257 comments
2017An introduction to distributed systems (github.com)
318 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2017Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? (sapiens.org)
318 points | 6 years ago with 220 comments
2015Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (mitpress.mit.edu)
318 points | 6 years ago with 87 comments
2017Quiet Hacker News (speak.sh)
318 points | 6 years ago with 127 comments
2013Set Theory and Algebra in CS: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
317 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2014How I Came to Write D (drdobbs.com)
317 points | 7 years ago with 188 comments
2011Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
317 points | 8 years ago with 194 comments
1933War Is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler (wanttoknow.info)
317 points | 8 years ago with 152 comments
2015Wine bricks saved the U.S. wine industry during Prohibition (vinepair.com)
316 points | 3 years ago with 166 comments
2017Bash $* and $@ (eklitzke.org)
316 points | 5 years ago with 234 comments
2000Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (sean-crist.com)
316 points | 12 years ago with 206 comments
2016Raytracing in One Weekend (raytracing.github.io)
316 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments
2015Random – Probability, mathematical statistics, and stochastic processes (math.uah.edu)
315 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2010Study shows salaries of young women 8% higher than men in peer group (content.time.com)
315 points | 7 years ago with 264 comments
1987Higher Math for Beginners (archive.org)
315 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments
2016Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful (medium.com)
315 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2014Heisenberg Developers (mikehadlow.blogspot.cl)
315 points | 9 years ago with 189 comments
2004I'm OK, the bull is dead (computerworld.com)
315 points | 2 years ago with 173 comments
2018An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (blog.mozilla.org)
314 points | 4 years ago with 165 comments
2013How to get your first ten customers (danshipper.com)
314 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2011Modern B-Tree Techniques (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
314 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
2016tcpdump is amazing (jvns.ca)
314 points | 2 years ago with 83 comments
2011C for Python programmers (toves.org)
314 points | 9 years ago with 162 comments
2004What happens when patients find out how good their doctors are? (newyorker.com)
314 points | 7 years ago with 224 comments
2007Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (robwalling.com)
313 points | 6 years ago with 222 comments
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