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Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News.
2015Trident whistleblower: nuclear 'disaster waiting to happen' (wikileaks.org)
256 points | 8 years ago with 96 comments
2014Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun (realclearscience.com)
256 points | 6 years ago with 200 comments
2017Types of propaganda, propaganda techniques, and propaganda strategies (factmyth.com)
256 points | 4 years ago with 236 comments
2015Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (jonathas.com)
256 points | 8 years ago with 281 comments
2011Magnesium and major depression (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
256 points | 6 years ago with 228 comments
2015Can People Choose to Change Their Personality Traits? (internal.psychology.illinois.edu)
256 points | 7 years ago with 115 comments
2014Why squared error? (benkuhn.net)
256 points | 8 years ago with 99 comments
2017The Big Vitamin D Mistake (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
256 points | 5 years ago with 182 comments
2012Feelings of guilt may signal leadership potential (gsb.stanford.edu)
256 points | 3 years ago with 71 comments
2006In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (nytimes.com)
255 points | 7 years ago with 197 comments
2011SamyGO: Open-Source Firmware for Samsung TVs (samygo.tv)
255 points | 5 years ago with 72 comments
1997Motive.c: The Soul of the Sims (donhopkins.com)
255 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments
1976The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (en.wikipedia.org)
255 points | 4 years ago with 158 comments
2019Problems with “graceful shutdown” in Kubernetes (philpearl.github.io)
255 points | 3 years ago with 77 comments
2003The Problem of Thinking Too Much (statweb.stanford.edu)
255 points | 6 years ago with 82 comments
2019UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (percona.com)
255 points | 3 years ago with 232 comments
2015Rust Koans (users.rust-lang.org)
255 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2019Netflix is not a tech company (ben-evans.com)
254 points | 4 years ago with 304 comments
2013How can you be fooled by the U+202E trick? (galogetlatorre.blogspot.com)
254 points | 3 years ago with 140 comments
2010Why I stopped reading HN (sealedabstract.com)
254 points | 5 years ago with 289 comments
2012The Matrix Cookbook (math.uwaterloo.ca)
254 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2002How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (doc.ic.ac.uk)
254 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments
2012Y Not – Adventures in Functional Programming (confreaks.com)
254 points | 11 years ago with 14 comments
2011What is energy, actually? (jancovici.com)
254 points | 5 years ago with 267 comments
2009Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (popularmechanics.com)
254 points | 3 years ago with 210 comments
2016TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (vox.com)
254 points | 2 years ago with 443 comments
2017Most book clubs are doing it wrong (jsomers.net)
254 points | 5 years ago with 151 comments
1998Praise for Intelligence Can Undermine Children's Motivation (psychology.stanford.edu)
253 points | 9 years ago with 155 comments
2016A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M Users on Amazon's AWS (highscalability.com)
253 points | 6 years ago with 91 comments
2014JMAP: A better way to email (blog.fastmail.com)
253 points | 8 years ago with 51 comments
2015FBI testimony on hair analysis contained errors in 90% of cases (fbi.gov)
253 points | 3 years ago with 73 comments
1985Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (longform.org)
253 points | 11 years ago with 148 comments
2019From Zero to main(): Bare metal C (interrupt.memfault.com)
253 points | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2018Faster neural networks straight from JPEG (uber.com)
253 points | 2 years ago with 102 comments
2012Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (paulgraham.com)
252 points | 8 years ago with 245 comments
2017Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (bbc.com)
252 points | 5 years ago with 358 comments
2018Why SQLite does not use Git (sqlite.org)
252 points | 4 years ago with 356 comments
2015Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’ (seveninchesofyourtime.com)
252 points | 3 years ago with 207 comments
2018We use too many damn modals (modalzmodalzmodalz.com)
252 points | 5 years ago with 119 comments
2002Yahoo admits mangling e-mail (news.bbc.co.uk)
252 points | 3 years ago with 133 comments
2017A Critical Problem (nucleardiner.wordpress.com)
252 points | 2 years ago with 93 comments
2015Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies (bbc.com)
252 points | 6 years ago with 66 comments
2008How does database indexing work? (stackoverflow.com)
252 points | 3 years ago with 58 comments
2018Classical data structures that can outperform learned indexes (dawn.cs.stanford.edu)
252 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2012Why I Love Coding (henrikwarne.com)
252 points | 4 years ago with 118 comments
2014Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you’ve never heard of (righto.com)
251 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments
2008How can C Programs be so Reliable? (tratt.net)
251 points | 11 years ago with 221 comments
2019The Melancholy of Subculture Society (gwern.net)
251 points | 4 years ago with 161 comments
2015Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' forums (issendai.com)
251 points | 3 years ago with 201 comments
2013Learning how to write a 3D engine from scratch in C#, TypeScript or JavaScript (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
251 points | 9 years ago with 36 comments
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