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| The best articles from lwn.net, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2000 | | The curse of the gifted programmer (lwn.net) |
| 381 points | 9 years ago with 166 comments |
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| 2007 | | What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 (lwn.net) |
| 332 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2004 | | In emergency cases a passenger was selected and thrown out of the plane (lwn.net) |
| 329 points | 11 years ago with 115 comments |
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| 2000 | | I Don't Like Debuggers (lwn.net) |
| 274 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 239 comments |
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| 2016 | | Function multi-versioning in GCC 6 (lwn.net) |
| 238 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 8 comments |
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| 2017 | | LuaTeX Comes of Age (lwn.net) |
| 212 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2009 | | Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app code “just work” (lwn.net) |
| 195 points | 5 years ago with 110 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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| 2010 | | Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs (lwn.net) |
| 167 points | 3 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2001 | | RMS on the Ogg Vorbis license (lwn.net) |
| 165 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2011 | | Object-oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel (lwn.net) |
| 149 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2016 | | A Linux-powered microwave oven (lwn.net) |
| 136 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2015 | | How programs get run: ELF binaries (lwn.net) |
| 129 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2008 | | The source of the e1000e corruption bug (lwn.net) |
| 114 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2018 | | Archiving Web Sites (lwn.net) |
| 112 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2013 | | Go and Rust – objects without class (lwn.net) |
| 105 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Programming Talent Myth (lwn.net) |
| 98 points | 6 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 2009 | | POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES (lwn.net) |
| 97 points | 1 year ago with 71 comments |
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| 2008 | | Booting Linux in five seconds (lwn.net) |
| 92 points | 2 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 2016 | | Time to move to C11 atomics? (lwn.net) |
| 90 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2015 | | Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC (lwn.net) |
| 80 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2014 | | The glibc s390 ABI break (lwn.net) |
| 72 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2017 | | Three new FOSS umbrella organizations in Europe (lwn.net) |
| 70 points | 5 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2019 | | Why printk() is so complicated, and how to fix it (lwn.net) |
| 69 points | 3 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2017 | | An Introduction to the BPF Compiler Collection (lwn.net) |
| 65 points | 5 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2016 | | The perils of federated protocols (lwn.net) |
| 62 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2011 | | Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives (lwn.net) |
| 62 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2012 | | Betrayed by a bitfield (lwn.net) |
| 62 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2004 | | Linus on kernel management style (lwn.net) |
| 60 points | 13 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2006 | | Crash-only software: More than meets the eye (lwn.net) |
| 59 points | 2 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2007 | | It's totally reasonable to chalk it up to cosmic rays (lwn.net) |
| 54 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2007 | | The many faces of fsck (lwn.net) |
| 50 points | 1 year ago with 27 comments |
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| 2019 | | Linux virtio without the “virt” (lwn.net) |
| 46 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1998 | | Linux Weekly News (lwn.net) |
| 43 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2007 | | For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (lwn.net) |
| 32 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2017 | | HarfBuzz brings professional typography to the desktop (lwn.net) |
| 15 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2009 | | A tempest in a TTY pot (lwn.net) |
| 13 points | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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