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| The best articles from arstechnica.com, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2019 | | Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (arstechnica.com) |
| 797 points | 3 years ago with 424 comments |
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| 2019 | | Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years (arstechnica.com) |
| 780 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 2018 | | Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain (arstechnica.com) |
| 690 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 15 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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| 2017 | | Octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia (arstechnica.com) |
| 280 points | 1 year ago with 168 comments |
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| 2019 | | Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code (arstechnica.com) |
| 245 points | 3 years ago with 225 comments |
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| 2018 | | Successful BBQ pork butt and brisket is science (arstechnica.com) |
| 238 points | 3 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 2015 | | How hackers abused satellites to stay under the radar (arstechnica.com) |
| 232 points | 7 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2015 | | FBI would rather prosecutors drop cases than disclose stingray details (arstechnica.com) |
| 230 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2011 | | Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (arstechnica.com) |
| 196 points | 5 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2019 | | 16-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes (arstechnica.com) |
| 191 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2013 | | The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an industry (arstechnica.com) |
| 152 points | 6 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2012 | | Reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular (arstechnica.com) |
| 136 points | 1 year ago with 40 comments |
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| 2019 | | EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight (arstechnica.com) |
| 129 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2019 | | Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot (arstechnica.com) |
| 128 points | 2 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2013 | | Your USB cable, the spy: the NSA’s catalog of surveillance magic (arstechnica.com) |
| 123 points | 8 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2013 | | Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2 (arstechnica.com) |
| 123 points | 4 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 2019 | | How fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (arstechnica.com) |
| 117 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments |
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| 2012 | | 30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web (arstechnica.com) |
| 115 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2013 | | A relatively easy to understand primer on elliptic curve cryptography (arstechnica.com) |
| 113 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2016 | | Gus Grissom taught NASA a hard lesson: “You can hurt yourself in the ocean” (arstechnica.com) |
| 111 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Linux graphics stack from X to Wayland (arstechnica.com) |
| 111 points | 8 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 2015 | | I requested my photographs from the Department of Homeland Security (arstechnica.com) |
| 107 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2018 | | “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” asks Goldman Sachs (arstechnica.com) |
| 104 points | 3 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2015 | | Thank you for calling tech support, now please die (arstechnica.com) |
| 95 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2019 | | Watching a “language” develop when kids can’t speak to each other (arstechnica.com) |
| 92 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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| 2016 | | Worms or bust: The story of Britain’s most tenacious indie games company (arstechnica.com) |
| 92 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2000 | | The PlayStation2 vs. the PC (arstechnica.com) |
| 91 points | 10 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2014 | | When mechanical analog computers ruled the waves (arstechnica.com) |
| 90 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2013 | | A history of the Amiga – The demo scene (arstechnica.com) |
| 88 points | 9 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2017 | | Build, gather, brawl, repeat: The history of real-time strategy games (arstechnica.com) |
| 84 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2017 | | It’s always windy somewhere: Balancing renewable energy in Europe (arstechnica.com) |
| 80 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2013 | | How NASA brought the F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life (arstechnica.com) |
| 80 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2014 | | Before Silicon Valley got nasty the Pirates of Analog Alley fought it out (arstechnica.com) |
| 76 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Gerrymandering game that puts the fun in undermining democracy (arstechnica.com) |
| 75 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2014 | | How Disney built and programmed an animatronic president (arstechnica.com) |
| 75 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2016 | | Compared to paper towel, Dyson hand dryers blow 1300x as many viral germs (arstechnica.com) |
| 74 points | 6 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2012 | | Military's 15-year quest for perfect radio is a blueprint for failing big (arstechnica.com) |
| 73 points | 9 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2016 | | Heinlein and Clarke discuss the Moon landings as they happen (arstechnica.com) |
| 71 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2014 | | The long-term effects of ugly political discussions on Facebook (arstechnica.com) |
| 70 points | 8 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2018 | | The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective (arstechnica.com) |
| 69 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2010 | | Accuracy takes power: a 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator (arstechnica.com) |
| 64 points | 10 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2014 | | I work in DOS for a day (arstechnica.com) |
| 64 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2017 | | Goop offers case study on how to sell snake oil (arstechnica.com) |
| 63 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2016 | | ZFS: The other new Apple file system that almost was–until it wasn’t (arstechnica.com) |
| 62 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2015 | | Bikes, bowling balls, and the balancing act that is modern recycling (arstechnica.com) |
| 61 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2017 | | An unpaid UK researcher saved the Japanese seaweed industry (arstechnica.com) |
| 61 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1999 | | RISC vs. CISC: The Post-RISC Era (arstechnica.com) |
| 61 points | 1 year ago with 56 comments |
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| 2019 | | NYC’s competitive slotcar racing scene (arstechnica.com) |
| 60 points | 3 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2014 | | Tripping through IBM’s astonishingly insane 1937 corporate songbook (arstechnica.com) |
| 59 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments |
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