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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 2015 | | Understanding Glibc Malloc (sploitfun.wordpress.com) |
| 289 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 16 comments |
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| 1960 | | Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions Computation by Machine (www-formal.stanford.edu) |
| 288 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1980 | | Byte Magazine: The Forth Language (archive.org) |
| 285 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2012 | | John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (blogs.uw.edu) |
| 285 points across 3 posts | 9 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2012 | | The tyranny of the rocket equation (nasa.gov) |
| 284 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2018 | | Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (lethain.com) |
| 284 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 324 comments |
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| 1996 | | The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (nytimes.com) |
| 282 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Website Obesity Crisis (idlewords.com) |
| 282 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 43 comments |
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| 2015 | | The map is not the territory (fs.blog) |
| 282 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2012 | | Less is exponentially more (commandcenter.blogspot.com) |
| 278 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2010 | | My history with Forth and stack machines (yosefk.com) |
| 277 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 98 comments |
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| 2012 | | The surprising subtleties of zeroing a register (randomascii.wordpress.com) |
| 276 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2000 | | I Don't Like Debuggers (lwn.net) |
| 274 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 239 comments |
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| 2019 | | Lines of code that changed everything (slate.com) |
| 273 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 20 comments |
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| 2002 | | Computers Without Clocks – Ivan Sutherland (cs.virginia.edu) |
| 272 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2019 | | Reasons Not to Be a Manager (charity.wtf) |
| 270 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 182 comments |
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| 2019 | | Britain can help you get away with stealing millions (theguardian.com) |
| 267 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2012 | | An Introduction to Lock-Free Programming (preshing.com) |
| 267 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2006 | | An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu) |
| 263 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2006 | | Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (googleresearch.blogspot.com) |
| 259 points across 3 posts | 10 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1990 | | WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project (w3.org) |
| 258 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2019 | | Good times create weak men (tonsky.me) |
| 258 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 239 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why do so few people major in computer science? (danwang.co) |
| 256 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 291 comments |
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| 1998 | | How Complex Systems Fail (web.mit.edu) |
| 255 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2018 | | Consistency Models (jepsen.io) |
| 255 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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| 2001 | | Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (projecteuclid.org) |
| 254 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2017 | | Some were meant for C [pdf] (humprog.org) |
| 248 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 146 comments |
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| 2018 | | Common Lisp Quick Reference (clqr.boundp.org) |
| 247 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 32 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Relativity of Wrong (chem.tufts.edu) |
| 245 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to do distributed locking (martin.kleppmann.com) |
| 238 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 16 comments |
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| 2010 | | Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (kalzumeus.com) |
| 238 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 1995 | | RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines (rfc-editor.org) |
| 237 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2005 | | Does Visual Studio rot the mind? (charlespetzold.com) |
| 235 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 143 comments |
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| 2012 | | Homoiconicity isn’t the point (calculist.org) |
| 234 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2018 | | To build truly intelligent machines, teach them cause and effect (quantamagazine.org) |
| 229 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2005 | | Practicing Programming (sites.google.com) |
| 228 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2016 | | When Kodak Accidentally Discovered A-Bomb Testing (popularmechanics.com) |
| 228 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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| 2005 | | K (archive.vector.org.uk) |
| 226 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1982 | | Doing a Job (govleaders.org) |
| 224 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 16 comments |
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| 2018 | | The Notorious Board Game That Takes 1,500 Hours to Complete (kotaku.com) |
| 223 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1999 | | Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge (supermemo.com) |
| 223 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2019 | | Quantum computing for the curious (quantum.country) |
| 222 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2017 | | Google's true origin: NSA research grants for mass surveillance (qz.com) |
| 221 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2013 | | Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (worrydream.com) |
| 221 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2012 | | Frequent fliers who flew too much (articles.latimes.com) |
| 219 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Graphing Calculator Story (pacifict.com) |
| 217 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1994 | | Haskell, Ada, C++: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (haskell.cs.yale.edu) |
| 216 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2007 | | The Axiom of Choice Is Wrong (cornellmath.wordpress.com) |
| 213 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 2018 | | The Stanford Prison Experiment was hugely influential. We learned it was a fraud (vox.com) |
| 211 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 118 comments |
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| 1996 | | Mother Earth Mother Board (wired.com) |
| 210 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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