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| The best articles from web.stanford.edu, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2015 | | I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (web.stanford.edu) |
| 766 points | 3 years ago with 347 comments |
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| 1995 | | Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (web.stanford.edu) |
| 423 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 234 comments |
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| 1990 | | The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat (web.stanford.edu) |
| 231 points | 1 year ago with 91 comments |
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| 2002 | | Tips for Success in Undergraduate Math Courses (web.stanford.edu) |
| 190 points | 8 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 1999 | | African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes (web.stanford.edu) |
| 156 points | 8 years ago with 249 comments |
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| 2014 | | Passive radiative cooling below ambient airtemperature under direct sun (web.stanford.edu) |
| 145 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2014 | | Open Decision-Making (web.stanford.edu) |
| 139 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1992 | | The Birth of Prolog (web.stanford.edu) |
| 133 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2019 | | Disintermediating friends: Online dating displaces other ways of meeting (web.stanford.edu) |
| 108 points | 3 years ago with 152 comments |
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| 2015 | | Mathematical Foundations of Computing (web.stanford.edu) |
| 103 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2009 | | Information, Physics and Computation (web.stanford.edu) |
| 100 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1999 | | African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes (web.stanford.edu) |
| 99 points | 7 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Challenges of Operating a Computing Cloud and Charging for Its Use (web.stanford.edu) |
| 92 points | 5 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1978 | | Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (web.stanford.edu) |
| 91 points | 9 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2004 | | Why was cycling not included in the ancient Olympics? (web.stanford.edu) |
| 88 points | 3 years ago with 108 comments |
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| 2009 | | History of Tcl (web.stanford.edu) |
| 86 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2014 | | Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup (web.stanford.edu) |
| 78 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1987 | | Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program [pdf] (web.stanford.edu) |
| 76 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2000 | | The Fortran I Compiler (web.stanford.edu) |
| 71 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1983 | | The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce (web.stanford.edu) |
| 70 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1962 | | Augmenting Human Intellect (web.stanford.edu) |
| 67 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2014 | | Hidden Markov Models (web.stanford.edu) |
| 66 points | 8 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1983 | | On the cognitive effects of learning computer programming (web.stanford.edu) |
| 66 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2013 | | Unix for Poets (web.stanford.edu) |
| 63 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2016 | | Italian Pronunciation: A Primer for Singers (web.stanford.edu) |
| 61 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1989 | | Can computers cope with human races? (web.stanford.edu) |
| 60 points | 3 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 1990 | | Why Aren't Operating Systems Getting Faster as Fast as Hardware? (web.stanford.edu) |
| 55 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2007 | | Product/Market Fit (web.stanford.edu) |
| 44 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1979 | | Design Considerations for an Anthropophilic Computer (web.stanford.edu) |
| 11 points | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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