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Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News.
2013How the NSA obtains and uses airline reservations (papersplease.org)
187 points | 8 years ago with 80 comments
2018Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database (medium.com)
187 points | 4 years ago with 77 comments
2011Papers from the Lost Culture of Array Languages (prog21.dadgum.com)
187 points | 7 years ago with 77 comments
2017Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting (medium.com)
187 points | 6 years ago with 65 comments
2007Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (wired.com)
187 points | 12 years ago with 32 comments
1998Set Up to Fail: How Bosses Create Their Own Poor Performers (insead.edu)
187 points | 11 years ago with 60 comments
2013Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (plosone.org)
187 points | 10 years ago with 56 comments
2019IP over Spaghetti (github.com)
187 points | 1 year ago with 59 comments
2017Please stop calling dopamine an addictive rewarding neurochemical (psychologytoday.com)
187 points | 4 years ago with 58 comments
2011Linux x86 program start up – How the heck do we get to main()? (dbp-consulting.com)
187 points | 4 years ago with 21 comments
2017A Primer on Database Replication (brianstorti.com)
187 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2013Useful Perl one-liners (catonmat.net)
187 points | 8 years ago with 91 comments
2012The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything (fs.blog)
187 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments
2016A neurologist who hacked his brain and almost lost his mind (wired.com)
186 points | 3 years ago with 115 comments
1994An Insulin Index of Foods (fermatslibrary.com)
186 points | 6 years ago with 117 comments
1996Steve Jobs Introduces WebObjects [video] (channel9.msdn.com)
186 points | 10 years ago with 98 comments
2016Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow (joelgrus.com)
186 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments
2016The Khmer Rouge: Genocide in the Name of Utopia (openendedsocialstudies.org)
186 points | 5 years ago with 217 comments
2011Explain mathematically a video from a space station (mathoverflow.net)
186 points | 8 years ago with 32 comments
2018So You Want to Compete with Steam (fortressofdoors.com)
186 points | 3 years ago with 278 comments
2019I Miss the Old Internet (misc-stuff.terraaeon.com)
186 points | 4 years ago with 178 comments
1998Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (itprotoday.com)
186 points | 7 years ago with 96 comments
2008The Algorithm Design Manual (algorist.com)
186 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
1998Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (norvig.com)
186 points | 12 years ago with 86 comments
2015Differences between Tmux vs Screen (wtanaka.com)
186 points | 8 years ago with 88 comments
2016First TV Image of Mars: Interplanetary color by numbers (directedplay.com)
186 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments
2012A Fresh Graduate's Guide to Software Development Tools and Technologies (comp.nus.edu.sg)
186 points | 7 years ago with 42 comments
1992This Place Is Not a Place of Honor (web.archive.org)
186 points | 6 years ago with 119 comments
2018Mark Fisher’s “K-punk” and the futures that have never arrived (newyorker.com)
186 points | 3 years ago with 123 comments
2018The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (theringer.com)
186 points | 4 years ago with 169 comments
2003The Making Of Dust (johnsto.co.uk)
186 points | 6 years ago with 33 comments
2006Writing device drivers in Linux: A brief tutorial (freesoftwaremagazine.com)
186 points | 12 years ago with 33 comments
2018Open source is not a business model (anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com)
186 points | 4 years ago with 145 comments
2017Let them paste passwords (ncsc.gov.uk)
186 points | 5 years ago with 126 comments
2010What Broke My Father's Heart (nytimes.com)
185 points | 12 years ago with 39 comments
2017An x86 Assembler in 256 LOC (blog.jeff.over.bz)
185 points | 6 years ago with 33 comments
2016São Paulo’s Outdoor Advertising Ban (99percentinvisible.org)
185 points | 6 years ago with 94 comments
2014Doing Business in Japan (kalzumeus.com)
185 points | 9 years ago with 51 comments
2016The night an audience member filled in for Keith Moon (loudersound.com)
185 points | 2 years ago with 42 comments
2014Why we write elementary apps in Vala (blog.elementary.io)
185 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments
2018Riding in a peloton is the most energy efficient locomotion – research (bikebiz.com)
185 points | 3 years ago with 275 comments
2011Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (damninteresting.com)
185 points | 4 years ago with 110 comments
2016A coworker stole my spicy food, got sick, and is blaming me (askamanager.org)
185 points | 7 years ago with 206 comments
2017Death by 1000 layers: the perils of over-abstraction in Java (quantcast.com)
185 points | 4 years ago with 209 comments
2013CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran (foreignpolicy.com)
185 points | 7 years ago with 78 comments
2008What is Hindley-Milner and why is it cool? (codecommit.com)
185 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments
2015Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days (ds26gte.github.io)
185 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments
2018Why Clojure? (briansunter.com)
185 points | 4 years ago with 216 comments
2014So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (drinks.seriouseats.com)
185 points | 5 years ago with 286 comments
2008GnuTLS considered harmful (openldap.org)
185 points | 11 years ago with 115 comments
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