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Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News.
2014“Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure (kevin.burke.dev)
313 points | 2 years ago with 277 comments
2015Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (chinafile.com)
312 points | 7 years ago with 243 comments
2009A beginner's guide to Big O notation (rob-bell.net)
312 points | 9 years ago with 65 comments
2011The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
312 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments
2015Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (nytimes.com)
312 points | 7 years ago with 424 comments
2018Can't uninstall Adobe apps without an account (feedback.photoshop.com)
312 points | 4 years ago with 247 comments
2018Why SQLite does not use Git (sqlite.org)
312 points | 2 years ago with 434 comments
2013U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (hyperstealth.com)
311 points | 3 years ago with 297 comments
2011Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (zwischenzugs.com)
311 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments
2018Hacker News Classics (jsomers.net)
311 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2017A Mind Is Born (linusakesson.net)
311 points | 4 years ago with 64 comments
2017I Got My Attention Back (craigmod.com)
310 points | 5 years ago with 181 comments
2018TIL–Python has a built-in persistent key-value store (remusao.github.io)
310 points | 3 years ago with 90 comments
2018Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR (xissufotoday.space)
310 points | 4 years ago with 97 comments
2018Learn TLA+ (learntla.com)
310 points | 5 years ago with 58 comments
1986Why Read the Classics? (nybooks.com)
310 points | 7 years ago with 160 comments
2016John Carmack on shorter work weeks (news.ycombinator.com)
309 points | 2 years ago with 431 comments
1963I Have a Dream (americanrhetoric.com)
309 points | 3 years ago with 173 comments
2017My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (dl.acm.org)
309 points | 3 years ago with 104 comments
2017How we do Vue: one year later (about.gitlab.com)
309 points | 6 years ago with 157 comments
2015Surviving Burnout (lifeofaudrey.com)
308 points | 2 years ago with 161 comments
2012The silent majority of experts (prog21.dadgum.com)
308 points | 3 years ago with 197 comments
2007Shor, I’ll do it (scottaaronson.blog)
308 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments
2014Why Don't We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? (pcmonk.me)
308 points | 8 years ago with 212 comments
2012The care and feeding of software engineers, or why engineers are grumpy (humanwhocodes.com)
308 points | 5 years ago with 145 comments
2012Decoding small QR codes by hand (blog.qartis.com)
308 points | 2 years ago with 68 comments
2013An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (bookofbadarguments.com)
307 points | 8 years ago with 102 comments
2013The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (web.archive.org)
307 points | 3 years ago with 268 comments
2014Different ways to build a $100M business (christophjanz.blogspot.com)
307 points | 6 years ago with 61 comments
1992Ordering burritos from my SPARC (mit.edu)
307 points | 4 years ago with 97 comments
2007My National Security Letter Gag Order (washingtonpost.com)
307 points | 14 years ago with 60 comments
2004TheFacebook.com’s darker side (web.archive.org)
306 points | 8 years ago with 132 comments
2009Startups in 13 Sentences (paulgraham.com)
306 points | 9 years ago with 78 comments
2016The code I’m still ashamed of (freecodecamp.org)
306 points | 5 years ago with 172 comments
2016Writing An Interpreter In Go (interpreterbook.com)
305 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments
1940George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (docs.google.com)
305 points | 11 years ago with 240 comments
2014CSS-Powered 3D Engine (keithclark.co.uk)
305 points | 6 years ago with 67 comments
1945Transcript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (ghdi.ghi-dc.org)
305 points | 2 years ago with 282 comments
2018I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (privacyinternational.org)
305 points | 5 years ago with 179 comments
2015Do not let your CDN betray you: use subresource integrity (hacks.mozilla.org)
305 points | 8 years ago with 83 comments
2013Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (medium.com)
305 points | 10 years ago with 335 comments
2011Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (english.stackexchange.com)
305 points | 1 year ago with 274 comments
2013Explain like I’m 5: Kerberos (roguelynn.com)
305 points | 8 years ago with 92 comments
2011Drugs and the Meaning of Life (samharris.org)
304 points | 12 years ago with 261 comments
1998Furby source code (archive.org)
304 points | 2 years ago with 79 comments
2002A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (dwheeler.com)
304 points | 4 years ago with 132 comments
2014So you want to write your own CSV code (thomasburette.com)
303 points | 5 years ago with 253 comments
2012The multi-armed bandit problem (stevehanov.ca)
303 points | 6 years ago with 79 comments
1996The Net Is a Waste of Time (nytimes.com)
303 points | 12 years ago with 81 comments
2017Depressed People See the World More Realistically (vice.com)
303 points | 6 years ago with 292 comments
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