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| The best articles from stackoverflow.com, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2013 | | How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 652 points | 8 years ago with 138 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 329 points | 7 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 324 points | 8 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2013 | | Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Python? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 268 points | 4 years ago with 217 comments |
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| 2012 | | Sorting 1M 8-digit numbers in 1 MB of RAM (stackoverflow.com) |
| 266 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2008 | | How does database indexing work? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 252 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2009 | | What is your favorite C programming trick? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 229 points | 4 years ago with 180 comments |
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| 2010 | | Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 212 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 2011 | | “Unexplainable” core dump (stackoverflow.com) |
| 193 points | 2 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 188 points | 11 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2009 | | Plain English explanation of Big O? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 158 points | 11 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2011 | | What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 157 points | 11 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2009 | | What is the best way to programatically detect porn images? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 142 points | 11 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 2009 | | You can't parse [X]HTML with regex (stackoverflow.com) |
| 127 points | 3 years ago with 130 comments |
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| 2017 | | What was the original reason for the design of AT&T assembly syntax? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 108 points | 3 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why is subtracting these two times in 1927 giving a strange result? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 108 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 83 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2010 | | We have an employee whose last name is Null (stackoverflow.com) |
| 72 points | 11 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2011 | | How do I find Waldo with Mathematica? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 69 points | 9 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2016 | | SSE code 6 times slower without VZEROUPPER on Skylake (stackoverflow.com) |
| 65 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2008 | | What is a y-combinator? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 60 points | 11 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2009 | | What is the case against F#? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 59 points | 3 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 2012 | | How to split a string into an array in Bash? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 59 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2013 | | How can you program if you're blind? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 58 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2015 | | Rust – How do I create a global, mutable singleton? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 53 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2010 | | What is the theoretical maximum number of open TCP connections? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 46 points | 11 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why does subtracting these two times give a strange result? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 41 points | 11 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2015 | | Why is zero not falsy in Clojure? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 40 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2016 | | ARM Linux executable mysteriously runs on x86_64 (stackoverflow.com) |
| 14 points | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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