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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 | 4 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 | 3 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 | 3 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 | 4 years ago with 21 comments | 
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| 2017 |  | Octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 280 points | 2 years 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 | 4 years ago with 225 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | Successful BBQ pork butt and brisket is science  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 238 points | 4 years ago with 150 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | How hackers abused satellites to stay under the radar  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 232 points | 8 years ago with 60 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | FBI would rather prosecutors drop cases than disclose stingray details  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 230 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 196 points | 6 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 | 3 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 | 7 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 | 2 years 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 | 3 years ago with 84 comments | 
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| 2019 |  | Remembering the best shareware-era DOS games that time forgot  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 128 points | 3 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 | 9 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 | 5 years ago with 88 comments | 
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| 2019 |  | How fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 117 points | 2 years ago with 72 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | 30-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 115 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | A relatively easy to understand primer on elliptic curve cryptography  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 113 points | 9 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 | 4 years ago with 21 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The Linux graphics stack from X to Wayland  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 111 points | 9 years ago with 94 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | I requested my photographs from the Department of Homeland Security  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 107 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” asks Goldman Sachs  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 104 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Thank you for calling tech support, now please die  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 95 points | 7 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 | 2 years 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 | 3 years ago with 33 comments | 
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| 2000 |  | The PlayStation2 vs. the PC  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 91 points | 11 years ago with 41 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | When mechanical analog computers ruled the waves  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 90 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 15 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | A history of the Amiga – The demo scene  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 88 points | 10 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 | 3 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 | 4 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 | 10 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 | 6 years ago with 9 comments | 
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| 2019 |  | The Gerrymandering game that puts the fun in undermining democracy  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 75 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | How Disney built and programmed an animatronic president  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 75 points | 6 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 | 7 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 | 10 years ago with 62 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Heinlein and Clarke discuss the Moon landings as they happen  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 71 points | 7 years ago with 25 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | The long-term effects of ugly political discussions on Facebook  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 70 points | 9 years ago with 76 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 69 points | 5 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 | 11 years ago with 22 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | I work in DOS for a day  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 64 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments | 
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| 2017 |  | Goop offers case study on how to sell snake oil  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 63 points | 6 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 | 3 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 | 6 years ago with 35 comments | 
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| 2017 |  | An unpaid UK researcher saved the Japanese seaweed industry  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 61 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments | 
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| 1999 |  | RISC vs. CISC: The Post-RISC Era  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 61 points | 2 years ago with 56 comments | 
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| 2019 |  | NYC’s competitive slotcar racing scene  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 60 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Tripping through IBM’s astonishingly insane 1937 corporate songbook  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 59 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments | 
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