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| The best articles from en.wikipedia.org, according to Hacker News. |
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| Change the ?site URL parameter to try it on any other website. Or click the domain shown after each post title. |
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| 2017 | | Wikipedia Has Cancer (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 528 points | 4 years ago with 310 comments |
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| 1976 | | The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 255 points | 3 years ago with 158 comments |
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| 1979 | | Vela incident (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 233 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 54 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Goiânia Accident (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 205 points | 3 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 2011 | | Norwegian butter crisis (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 176 points | 9 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 1559 | | Netherlandish Proverbs (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 166 points | 9 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1969 | | I Am Sitting in a Room (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 134 points | 11 months ago with 21 comments |
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| 1937 | | The Nature of the Firm (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 132 points | 2 years ago with 56 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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| 1994 | | Pentium floating-point division bug (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 111 points | 1 year ago with 62 comments |
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| 1989 | | Tiananmen Square: Protests and Massacre (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 105 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 1962 | | Operation Northwoods: CIA false-flag op against American citizens (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 98 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1998 | | Swatch Internet Time (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 86 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2010 | | Andrews and Arnold is xkcd 806-compliant (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 85 points | 10 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1857 | | US time zones (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 81 points | 9 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 1971 | | Project Cybersyn (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 70 points | 10 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 1996 | | Apple Pippin (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 68 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1945 | | As We May Think (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 67 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2005 | | The High Cost of Free Parking (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 67 points | 1 year ago with 94 comments |
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| 1959 | | There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 67 points | 9 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2008 | | Observations on Wikipedia Behavior (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 61 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1974 | | The Conversation (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 57 points | 11 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2010 | | A History of the World in 100 Objects (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 53 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1993 | | Microsoft Creative Writer (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 51 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1972 | | Great Grain Robbery (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 47 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1355 | | St Scholastica Day Riot (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 39 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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| 1925 | | Mammonart. An Essay on Economic Interpretation (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 36 points | 1 year ago with 11 comments |
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| 1989 | | Atari STacy (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 30 points | 1 year ago with 12 comments |
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| 2006 | | Guy Goma (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 28 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2010 | | Wikipedia: Articles for Deletion/Minecraft (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 28 points | 11 months ago with 15 comments |
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| 1878 | | Salem Witchcraft Trial (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 18 points | 1 year ago with 11 comments |
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| 1676 | | Rømer's determination of the speed of light (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 18 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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