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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2015 | | A South Vietnamese Air Force Officer and a Crazy Carrier Landing (tacairnet.com) |
| 241 points | 7 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 1955 | | They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (press.uchicago.edu) |
| 240 points | 4 years ago with 382 comments |
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| 2018 | | I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon (theatlantic.com) |
| 240 points | 4 years ago with 275 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber (nautil.us) |
| 240 points | 7 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 2013 | | FAQs: Why we don’t have them (gds.blog.gov.uk) |
| 240 points | 3 years ago with 190 comments |
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| 2013 | | Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (nytimes.com) |
| 240 points | 9 years ago with 174 comments |
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| 2016 | | Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (nautil.us) |
| 240 points | 7 years ago with 197 comments |
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| 2010 | | Magnus Carlsen – “I am chaotic and lazy” (en.chessbase.com) |
| 240 points | 10 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2009 | | What a Real Train System Looks Like (newworldeconomics.com) |
| 240 points | 6 years ago with 199 comments |
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| 2004 | | Magician-turned-mathematician uncovers bias in coin flipping (news.stanford.edu) |
| 240 points | 4 years ago with 120 comments |
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| 2015 | | Disaster planning for regular folks (lcamtuf.coredump.cx) |
| 240 points | 3 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2006 | | The management myth (theatlantic.com) |
| 240 points | 9 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2014 | | Google's CardDAV server isn't standards compliant (evertpot.com) |
| 240 points | 7 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2007 | | The Sun seen through the Earth in “neutrino light” (strangepaths.com) |
| 240 points | 5 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 1961 | | Harrison Bergeron (archive.org) |
| 240 points | 3 years ago with 268 comments |
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| 2013 | | Public Must Fight against Prism and Tempora Surveillance (spiegel.de) |
| 240 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2014 | | Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 239 points | 2 years ago with 158 comments |
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| 2018 | | How to Collaborate with People You Don’t Like (hbr.org) |
| 239 points | 5 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2014 | | `three = 1` in the Linux sourcecode (github.com) |
| 239 points | 4 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2019 | | An Open-Source FPGA-Optimized Out-of-Order RISC-V Soft Processor (rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp) |
| 239 points | 4 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2013 | | We Should All Have Something to Hide (thoughtcrime.org) |
| 239 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2016 | | Ableton Connection Kit (ableton.com) |
| 239 points | 6 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (arxiv.org) |
| 239 points | 7 years ago with 318 comments |
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| 2015 | | How Bad Are Things? (slatestarcodex.com) |
| 239 points | 6 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2014 | | Researchers use light to coax stem cells to repair teeth (seas.harvard.edu) |
| 239 points | 9 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2017 | | A KGB agent shipped a Sidewinder missile by mail to Moscow (nationalinterest.org) |
| 239 points | 6 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 1998 | | America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (nytimes.com) |
| 239 points | 11 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 2012 | | How Yahoo Killed Flickr (gizmodo.com) |
| 238 points | 8 years ago with 179 comments |
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| 2019 | | “Harbinger households” consistently buy products that get discontinued (boingboing.net) |
| 238 points | 3 years ago with 253 comments |
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| 1964 | | The Truth, by Stanisław Lem (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu) |
| 238 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why is writing mathematical proofs more fault-proof than writing code? (cs.stackexchange.com) |
| 238 points | 7 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2018 | | World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (theguardian.com) |
| 238 points | 4 years ago with 407 comments |
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| 1995 | | Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism (theanarchistlibrary.org) |
| 238 points | 4 years ago with 191 comments |
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| 1984 | | Dynamic Programming: The Name (learning.cis.upenn.edu) |
| 238 points | 9 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (dspguide.com) |
| 238 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2019 | | Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (blog.kellybrazil.com) |
| 238 points | 4 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 2015 | | A philosophical difference between Haskell and Lisp (chrisdone.com) |
| 238 points | 5 years ago with 181 comments |
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| 2018 | | The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (medium.com) |
| 238 points | 5 years ago with 212 comments |
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| 1955 | | John Nash's letters to the NSA (nsa.gov) |
| 238 points | 10 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2018 | | Successful BBQ pork butt and brisket is science (arstechnica.com) |
| 238 points | 4 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 1979 | | Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (medium.com) |
| 237 points | 9 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2018 | | John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++ (sevangelatos.com) |
| 237 points | 2 years ago with 171 comments |
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| 2017 | | CGI Renders Are Real Photos (petapixel.com) |
| 237 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2018 | | The untold origin story of eBay that I lived (cake.co) |
| 237 points | 5 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2008 | | Want to Write a Compiler? Read These Two Papers (prog21.dadgum.com) |
| 237 points | 9 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2017 | | Montreal is taxing churches (montreal.ctvnews.ca) |
| 237 points | 5 years ago with 304 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Problem with ‘5 Whys’ (qualitysafety.bmj.com) |
| 237 points | 6 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2019 | | On the death of my family's dairy farm (blog.abevoelker.com) |
| 236 points | 4 years ago with 331 comments |
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| 2016 | | Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in U.S. (hopkinsmedicine.org) |
| 236 points | 3 years ago with 215 comments |
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| 2018 | | Cement is the source of 8% of the world's CO2 emissions (bbc.com) |
| 236 points | 5 years ago with 149 comments |
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