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| Classic articles that get frequently reposted on Hacker News. |
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| 1996 | | How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (gwern.net) |
| 207 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 2006 | | Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp (steve-yegge.blogspot.com) |
| 207 points across 3 posts | 11 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1999 | | Practical file system design with the Be File System (nobius.org) |
| 205 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2014 | | How to Ask Questions the Smart Way (catb.org) |
| 204 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments |
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| 1960 | | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (dartmouth.edu) |
| 202 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2003 | | Why Nerds Are Unpopular (paulgraham.com) |
| 201 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2009 | | The C language is purely functional (conal.net) |
| 200 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2015 | | Safe Native Code (joeduffyblog.com) |
| 200 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 5 comments |
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| 2003 | | Why dolphins are deep thinkers (theguardian.com) |
| 200 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2014 | | How I Lost My $50k Twitter Username (medium.com) |
| 198 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2018 | | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences (extremelearning.com.au) |
| 190 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1998 | | Data Structures for Text Sequences (cs.unm.edu) |
| 189 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 2015 | | Why It’s OK to Block Ads (blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk) |
| 188 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 2007 | | Jonesforth – A sometimes minimal Forth compiler and tutorial (github.com) |
| 186 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2014 | | Everything is broken (medium.com) |
| 185 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1947 | | The Mathematician (www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk) |
| 184 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2007 | | Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast (swtch.com) |
| 182 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2008 | | A ToC of Ian Lance Taylor’s 20-part Linkers essay (lwn.net) |
| 182 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2019 | | Plundervolt (plundervolt.com) |
| 181 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Birth of ZFS (youtube.com) |
| 179 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Design of SQLite4 (sqlite.org) |
| 176 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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| 1972 | | Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (wheels.org) |
| 175 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1986 | | No Silver Bullet (worrydream.com) |
| 175 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1984 | | The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (downlode.org) |
| 170 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2012 | | Engelbart's Violin (loper-os.org) |
| 168 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Canon Cat: The Writing Information Appliance (canoncat.org) |
| 168 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1962 | | Augmenting Human Intellect (dougengelbart.org) |
| 167 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2017 | | What makes a good REPL? (vvvvalvalval.github.io) |
| 167 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1996 | | A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (eff.org) |
| 167 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2012 | | Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs (blog.regehr.org) |
| 166 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Dangerous Power of Crowds (newyorker.com) |
| 165 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (blogs.scientificamerican.com) |
| 162 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2008 | | Dynamic Languages Strike Back (steve-yegge.blogspot.com) |
| 161 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 43 comments |
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| 2011 | | A trip through the Graphics Pipeline (fgiesen.wordpress.com) |
| 159 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2018 | | Parsing series of integers with SIMD (0x80.pl) |
| 158 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2008 | | Honda Needs a Tune-Up (davidsd.org) |
| 154 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2018 | | The BEAM needs an APL-y language (medium.com) |
| 154 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments |
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| 2010 | | State of Text Rendering (behdad.org) |
| 151 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2004 | | A Conversation with Alan Kay (queue.acm.org) |
| 150 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1976 | | The Early Development of Programming Languages (bitsavers.trailing-edge.com) |
| 150 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2018 | | Becoming a Magician (autotranslucence.wordpress.com) |
| 150 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2013 | | Things I Won’t Work With: Dimethylcadmium (blogs.sciencemag.org) |
| 149 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1928 | | On Being the Right Size (irl.cs.ucla.edu) |
| 148 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1994 | | Callbacks in C++ using template functors (tutok.sk) |
| 144 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2018 | | How To Remember Anything Forever-ish (ncase.me) |
| 141 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1999 | | Parsing Expressions by Recursive Descent (engr.mun.ca) |
| 141 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2018 | | Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier (arxiv.org) |
| 140 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2005 | | Programming with Punched Cards (columbia.edu) |
| 138 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2013 | | The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu) |
| 135 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 7 comments |
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| 1859 | | Pig War (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 130 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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