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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2009 | | How to Write Your Own Compiler (staff.polito.it) |
| 246 points | 8 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2018 | | The mystery of why one ant species goes after larger foes (nationalgeographic.com) |
| 246 points | 5 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 2018 | | Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated (blog.farhan.codes) |
| 245 points | 5 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2019 | | Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code (arstechnica.com) |
| 245 points | 4 years ago with 225 comments |
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| 2014 | | Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (robert.ocallahan.org) |
| 245 points | 8 years ago with 254 comments |
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| 2017 | | An Intro to Compilers (nicoleorchard.com) |
| 245 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2019 | | A Senior Engineer's Check-List (littleblah.com) |
| 245 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Tao of Programming (textfiles.com) |
| 245 points | 6 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2016 | | You Are Not ‘Behind’ (zackkanter.com) |
| 245 points | 4 years ago with 205 comments |
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| 2012 | | A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads (slobc.org) |
| 244 points | 9 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2013 | | A collection of things that are Turing-complete by accident (beza1e1.tuxen.de) |
| 244 points | 7 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2015 | | Clojure for the Brave and True (braveclojure.com) |
| 244 points | 8 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2015 | | Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (vox.com) |
| 244 points | 6 years ago with 293 comments |
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| 2017 | | 110M year-old nodosaur is the best-preserved fossil of its kind (nationalgeographic.com) |
| 244 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2019 | | Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (news.medill.northwestern.edu) |
| 244 points | 3 years ago with 176 comments |
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| 2016 | | In MySQL, don’t use “utf8”, use “utf8mb4” (medium.com) |
| 244 points | 7 years ago with 160 comments |
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| 2003 | | The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (doc.cat-v.org) |
| 244 points | 4 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2007 | | Risk Everything (web.archive.org) |
| 244 points | 3 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2018 | | Google AMP Can Go To Hell (polemicdigital.com) |
| 244 points | 5 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2017 | | Economists Are Obsessed with Job Creation – How About Less Work? (evonomics.com) |
| 244 points | 6 years ago with 174 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Night Watch (scholar.harvard.edu) |
| 244 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2017 | | Geometry, Algebra, and Intuition (shapeoperator.com) |
| 244 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2015 | | Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (deepmind.com) |
| 243 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2017 | | Money as a System of Control (thedistillery.pub) |
| 243 points | 6 years ago with 205 comments |
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| 2019 | | Self studying the MIT applied math curriculum (smallstepcap.com) |
| 243 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2008 | | Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (reuters.com) |
| 243 points | 4 years ago with 219 comments |
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| 2010 | | An employee whose job was to be sacked (henrytapper.com) |
| 243 points | 7 years ago with 161 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Screwed-O-Meter (rachelbythebay.com) |
| 243 points | 2 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2007 | | Goto (beej.us) |
| 243 points | 4 years ago with 201 comments |
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| 2017 | | Dude, You Broke the Future (antipope.org) |
| 243 points | 5 years ago with 142 comments |
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| 2019 | | Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 243 points | 4 years ago with 229 comments |
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| 1998 | | Amazon’s distributed computing manifesto (allthingsdistributed.com) |
| 242 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2018 | | Peter Norvig's Economic Simulation (github.com) |
| 242 points | 5 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2019 | | How to Be Successful (blog.samaltman.com) |
| 242 points | 3 years ago with 179 comments |
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| 2016 | | Physically Based Rendering: From theory to implementation (pbr-book.org) |
| 242 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2005 | | Sleeve cap ease is bogus (fashion-incubator.com) |
| 242 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2016 | | Furiosa's Cat Feeder (blondihacks.com) |
| 242 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2008 | | Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (old.ycombinator.com) |
| 242 points | 7 years ago with 176 comments |
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| 2001 | | The world's most toxic value system (uwgb.edu) |
| 242 points | 7 years ago with 193 comments |
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| 2019 | | A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (blog.chriszacharias.com) |
| 241 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2012 | | Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (toothycat.net) |
| 241 points | 7 years ago with 115 comments |
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| 2017 | | Amazon memo: Here’s why we should acquire Ring (twitter.com) |
| 241 points | 3 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 1992 | | WordPerfect for UNIX (lock.cmpxchg8b.com) |
| 241 points | 3 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2017 | | Designing better data tables (uxdesign.cc) |
| 241 points | 6 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (lysator.liu.se) |
| 241 points | 5 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 2010 | | More Dirty Coding Tricks from Game Developers (gamasutra.com) |
| 241 points | 10 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2014 | | Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science (cacm.acm.org) |
| 241 points | 4 years ago with 167 comments |
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| 2017 | | Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working (theguardian.com) |
| 241 points | 6 years ago with 239 comments |
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| 2016 | | 16 bytes of Python that compile to 32 terabytes of bytecode (codegolf.stackexchange.com) |
| 241 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2007 | | The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen (pbs.org) |
| 241 points | 11 years ago with 237 comments |
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