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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2000 | | Lisp as an Alternative to Java (norvig.com) |
| 383 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 108 comments |
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| 2017 | | Where oil rigs go to die (theguardian.com) |
| 382 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 16 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Beauty of Roots (math.ucr.edu) |
| 381 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2010 | | It's not mathematics that you need to contribute to (mathoverflow.net) |
| 377 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 58 comments |
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| 1975 | | Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (depauw.edu) |
| 369 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2007 | | Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (twitter.com) |
| 368 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 44 comments |
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| 1998 | | How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children (pages.cs.wisc.edu) |
| 366 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2012 | | Linux on an 8bit Microcontroller (dmitry.gr) |
| 365 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 37 comments |
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| 2019 | | In 17th century, Leibniz dreamed of a machine that could calculate ideas (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 360 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 50 comments |
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| 2007 | | Seemingly impossible functional programs (math.andrej.com) |
| 359 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1983 | | A Story About ‘Magic' (catb.org) |
| 358 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why concatenative programming matters (evincarofautumn.blogspot.com) |
| 353 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1979 | | History of Lisp (jmc.stanford.edu) |
| 352 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2009 | | LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (gist.github.com) |
| 349 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 64 comments |
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| 2009 | | Linux ate my RAM (linuxatemyram.com) |
| 348 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 167 comments |
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| 2014 | | Minimal Viable Programs (joearms.github.io) |
| 348 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments |
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| 2019 | | From email to phone number, a new OSINT approach (martinvigo.com) |
| 345 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 123 comments |
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| 2012 | | 24/192 Music Downloads ... and why they make no sense (people.xiph.org) |
| 345 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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| 1995 | | A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (alvyray.com) |
| 342 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2015 | | An ffmpeg and SDL Tutorial (dranger.com) |
| 340 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2002 | | My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (gnu.org) |
| 339 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2019 | | Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (arxiv.org) |
| 337 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 70 comments |
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| 2008 | | So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (varnish-cache.org) |
| 335 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2007 | | What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 (lwn.net) |
| 332 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2010 | | Deconstructing K&R C (c.learncodethehardway.org) |
| 329 points across 3 posts | 10 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 1990 | | The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (algorithmicbotany.org) |
| 328 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2015 | | The poor, misunderstood innerText (perfectionkills.com) |
| 328 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 28 comments |
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| 2017 | | Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts (arxiv.org) |
| 325 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why the Arabic world turned away from science (thenewatlantis.com) |
| 324 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 388 comments |
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| 2006 | | The Windows Shutdown crapfest (moishelettvin.blogspot.com) |
| 322 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2014 | | John Carmack on Inlined Code (number-none.com) |
| 322 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 169 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Python Paradox (paulgraham.com) |
| 318 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 268 comments |
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| 2014 | | Money creation in the modern economy (bankofengland.co.uk) |
| 318 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 1949 | | Why Socialism? (monthlyreview.org) |
| 315 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 630 comments |
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| 2012 | | Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (nothings.org) |
| 313 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2005 | | Return of the Mac (paulgraham.com) |
| 313 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 181 comments |
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| 2012 | | C as an intermediate language (yosefk.com) |
| 311 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2011 | | HTTP Status Dogs (httpstatusdogs.com) |
| 310 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 18 comments |
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| 2001 | | Tiny-C Compiler (iro.umontreal.ca) |
| 307 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 66 comments |
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| 2006 | | A CD Spectrometer (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 307 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments |
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| 2019 | | Commoditize Your Complement (gwern.net) |
| 306 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2017 | | History of Alice and Bob (cryptocouple.com) |
| 306 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 34 comments |
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| 2015 | | Tasks, microtasks, queues and schedules (jakearchibald.com) |
| 304 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 2 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (steveblank.com) |
| 299 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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| 2019 | | A group of activists got leaf blowers banned in the nation’s capital (theatlantic.com) |
| 295 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 163 comments |
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| 2013 | | Hacker News Comments I'm tired of Seeing (righto.com) |
| 294 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1945 | | As We May Think (theatlantic.com) |
| 294 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 55 comments |
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| 2003 | | UTF-8 history (cl.cam.ac.uk) |
| 292 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 2014 | | A little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station (arstechnica.com) |
| 291 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2003 | | The Art of Picking Intel Registers (swansontec.com) |
| 291 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 55 comments |
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