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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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2019 | | Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (practicaltypography.com) |
| 528 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 191 comments |
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2016 | | Why I Don't Like Golang (teamten.com) |
| 527 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 215 comments |
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2012 | | Guide to implementing 2D platformers (higherorderfun.com) |
| 526 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 37 comments |
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2017 | | The Evolution of Trust (ncase.me) |
| 523 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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2017 | | MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua (moonscript.org) |
| 519 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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2017 | | Encryption Lava Lamps (atlasobscura.com) |
| 513 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 37 comments |
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2003 | | “A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 507 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 227 comments |
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1944 | | Simple Sabotage Field Manual (cia.gov) |
| 502 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 89 comments |
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2005 | | Rewriting Reddit (aaronsw.com) |
| 499 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 26 comments |
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2016 | | The Linux scheduler: A decade of wasted cores (blog.acolyer.org) |
| 494 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 26 comments |
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2013 | | Git Koans (stevelosh.com) |
| 492 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 65 comments |
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2019 | | The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence (numenta.com) |
| 490 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 62 comments |
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1946 | | Hiroshima (newyorker.com) |
| 486 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 158 comments |
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2007 | | Holding a Program in One's Head (paulgraham.com) |
| 483 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 79 comments |
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2019 | | How Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't (gankra.github.io) |
| 478 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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2018 | | Parachute use to prevent death, major trauma when jumping from aircraft (bmj.com) |
| 463 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments |
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2008 | | "Secret" History of Silicon Valley (steveblank.com) |
| 460 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 48 comments |
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1974 | | Cargo cult science (calteches.library.caltech.edu) |
| 455 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 156 comments |
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2014 | | Visualizing Algorithms (bost.ocks.org) |
| 453 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 27 comments |
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2008 | | 1k True Fans (kk.org) |
| 450 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 139 comments |
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2012 | | Valve – Handbook for New Employees (valvesoftware.com) |
| 449 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 197 comments |
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2019 | | The great American eye-exam scam (theatlantic.com) |
| 448 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 80 comments |
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2018 | | Python Design Patterns (python-patterns.guide) |
| 445 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 89 comments |
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2008 | | Shouting in the Datacenter (youtube.com) |
| 444 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 47 comments |
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2019 | | Don't ask to ask, just ask (dontasktoask.com) |
| 442 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 360 comments |
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2014 | | Torus-Earth (aleph.se) |
| 441 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 33 comments |
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2013 | | Stop Reading News (fs.blog) |
| 439 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 61 comments |
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2015 | | Reasons Not to Use Google (stallman.org) |
| 438 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 102 comments |
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2017 | | Free coding exercises for budding gophers (gophercises.com) |
| 435 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments |
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2017 | | Tribes of Programming (josephg.com) |
| 430 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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2014 | | Literate DevOps (howardism.org) |
| 427 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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1999 | | In the Beginning was the Command Line (cristal.inria.fr) |
| 426 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 64 comments |
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2019 | | Modern C for C++ peeps (floooh.github.io) |
| 423 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 248 comments |
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2019 | | Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging (cell.com) |
| 422 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments |
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2005 | | The six dumbest ideas in computer security (ranum.com) |
| 421 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 196 comments |
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2018 | | The interesting ideas in Datasette (simonwillison.net) |
| 420 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments |
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1924 | | Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (en.wikisource.org) |
| 419 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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2019 | | Why Books Donʼt Work (andymatuschak.org) |
| 418 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments |
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2015 | | The days are long but the decades are short (blog.samaltman.com) |
| 411 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 83 comments |
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2016 | | The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (medium.com) |
| 411 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments |
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2019 | | “Terrascope”: The possibility of using the Earth as an atmospheric lens (arxiv.org) |
| 410 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 36 comments |
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2019 | | Mathematicians discover the perfect way to multiply (quantamagazine.org) |
| 410 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 33 comments |
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2018 | | Spinning Up in Deep RL (spinningup.openai.com) |
| 406 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 5 comments |
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1932 | | In Praise of Idleness (zpub.com) |
| 401 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments |
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2018 | | The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone (theatlantic.com) |
| 399 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 70 comments |
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2018 | | In defense of swap: common misconceptions (chrisdown.name) |
| 399 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 165 comments |
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2019 | | Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours (alexdanco.com) |
| 398 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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2019 | | Safe deposit boxes aren’t safe (nytimes.com) |
| 395 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 147 comments |
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2011 | | Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction (worrydream.com) |
| 386 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 8 comments |
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2012 | | Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts (notebook.kulchenko.com) |
| 384 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 93 comments |
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