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| The best articles from web.mit.edu, 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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| 2002 | | Can’t send email more than 500 miles (web.mit.edu) |
| 1158 points | 7 months ago with 195 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Unix-Haters Handbook (web.mit.edu) |
| 824 points across 4 posts | 5 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 2003 | | An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (web.mit.edu) |
| 457 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1998 | | How Complex Systems Fail (web.mit.edu) |
| 255 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2000 | | A vi-centric family tree of editors (web.mit.edu) |
| 229 points | 7 years ago with 90 comments |
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| 1982 | | Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (web.mit.edu) |
| 207 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2001 | | Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened (web.mit.edu) |
| 201 points | 9 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1990 | | Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (web.mit.edu) |
| 180 points | 4 months ago with 52 comments |
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| 2008 | | Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network (web.mit.edu) |
| 161 points | 6 years ago with 154 comments |
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| 2002 | | How complex systems fail (web.mit.edu) |
| 154 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1977 | | Applied Mathematical Programming (web.mit.edu) |
| 142 points | 7 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1988 | | Designing an Authentication System: A Dialogue in Four Scenes (web.mit.edu) |
| 141 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1979 | | How to Share a Secret [pdf] (web.mit.edu) |
| 140 points | 1 year ago with 35 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube (web.mit.edu) |
| 135 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1975 | | On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B (web.mit.edu) |
| 133 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2000 | | Down From the Top of Its Game: The Story of Infocom, Inc (web.mit.edu) |
| 115 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1960 | | Cyborgs and Space (web.mit.edu) |
| 102 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1984 | | The 2 Sigma Problem (web.mit.edu) |
| 94 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2001 | | Measures of Complexity: A non-exhaustive list (web.mit.edu) |
| 92 points | 7 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1998 | | “Devil Girl from Mars”: Why I Write Science Fiction (web.mit.edu) |
| 92 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2001 | | Symbolics, Inc.: A failure of heterogeneous engineering (web.mit.edu) |
| 90 points | 3 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2001 | | Mathematical Theory of Claude Shannon (web.mit.edu) |
| 90 points | 8 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2003 | | The Origin of Mass (web.mit.edu) |
| 87 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2003 | | Understanding, finding, and eliminating ground loops (web.mit.edu) |
| 79 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2010 | | Explained: The Shannon Limit (web.mit.edu) |
| 79 points | 11 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1995 | | Counterintuitive Behavior of Social Systems (web.mit.edu) |
| 61 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1992 | | The Beer Game (web.mit.edu) |
| 58 points | 1 year ago with 28 comments |
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| 2001 | | Review of “The Fabric of Reality” by David Deutsch (web.mit.edu) |
| 55 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2003 | | The xine hacker's guide (web.mit.edu) |
| 50 points | 1 year ago with 24 comments |
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| 1940 | | Science and Linguistics (web.mit.edu) |
| 43 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1996 | | Ricardo's Difficult Idea by Paul Krugman (web.mit.edu) |
| 41 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Spread of Feynman Diagrams in the USA, Japan, and the USSR (web.mit.edu) |
| 41 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments |
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