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|  | The best articles from cs.utexas.edu, according to Hacker News. | 
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| 1982 |  | Why numbering should start at zero  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 439 points across 4 posts | 5 years ago with 220 comments | 
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| 1973 |  | A Parable by Dijkstra  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 296 points | 7 years ago with 102 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | A Short Introduction to the Art of Programming  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 296 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments | 
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| 1978 |  | On the foolishness of “natural language programming”  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 258 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 63 comments | 
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| 2018 |  | SMT Solving on an iPhone  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 224 points | 5 years ago with 149 comments | 
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| 1972 |  | The Humble Programmer  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 150 points | 12 years ago with 59 comments | 
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| 1986 |  | You and Your Research  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 132 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments | 
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| 1988 |  | Dijkstra: On the cruelty of really teaching computer science  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 111 points | 11 years ago with 61 comments | 
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| 1989 |  | By way of introduction – EWD 1041  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 97 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments | 
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| 2009 |  | E. W. Dijkstra Archive: “Why is software so expensive?”  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 95 points | 10 years ago with 63 comments | 
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| 1997 |  | A Simple Scheme Compiler  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 91 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments | 
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| 1991 |  | The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 80 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments | 
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| 1989 |  | On hygiene, intellectual and otherwise  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 78 points | 8 years ago with 20 comments | 
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| 1978 |  | Truisms  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 74 points | 5 years ago with 43 comments | 
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| 1994 |  | "What society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil"  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 73 points | 14 years ago with 27 comments | 
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| 1985 |  | On anthropomorphism in science  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 70 points | 8 years ago with 62 comments | 
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| 2001 |  | Dijkstra: My Recollections of Operating System Design  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 65 points | 9 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Validating SSL Certificates in Non-Browser Software  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 62 points | 6 years ago with 27 comments | 
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| 1975 |  | How do we tell truths that might hurt?  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 60 points | 5 years ago with 73 comments | 
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| 1988 |  | On the cruelty of really teaching computer science  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 59 points | 10 years ago with 23 comments | 
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| 1982 |  | There is no ‘royal road’ to geometry  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 49 points | 3 years ago with 2 comments | 
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| 1985 |  | E.W.Dijkstra Archive: Interview  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 48 points | 11 years ago with 24 comments | 
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| 1999 |  | Computer Science vs. Computing Science  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 42 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments | 
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