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| Articles written in 2000 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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2000 | | Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 1655 points | 1 year ago with 498 comments |
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2000 | | Curse Of The Gifted (vanadac.com) |
| 875 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 356 comments |
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2000 | | Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (cgl.uwaterloo.ca) |
| 753 points | 7 years ago with 133 comments |
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2000 | | Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (cs.otago.ac.nz) |
| 656 points | 5 years ago with 380 comments |
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2000 | | The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (bbsdocumentary.com) |
| 552 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 122 comments |
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2000 | | You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (nngroup.com) |
| 523 points | 5 years ago with 107 comments |
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2000 | | Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (pages.cs.wisc.edu) |
| 459 points | 1 year ago with 77 comments |
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2000 | | Why soda bottles have gaps in their threads (madsci.org) |
| 406 points | 3 years ago with 127 comments |
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2000 | | Lisp as an Alternative to Java (norvig.com) |
| 383 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 108 comments |
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2000 | | The curse of the gifted programmer (lwn.net) |
| 381 points | 8 years ago with 166 comments |
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2000 | | Paul Graham on SICP (amazon.com) |
| 380 points | 6 years ago with 133 comments |
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2000 | | Productivity and the Workweek (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 345 points | 5 years ago with 228 comments |
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2000 | | Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (sean-crist.com) |
| 316 points | 11 years ago with 206 comments |
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2000 | | Quake's 3-D Engine: The Big Picture by Michael Abrash (bluesnews.com) |
| 292 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments |
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2000 | | Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (theanarchistlibrary.org) |
| 286 points | 4 years ago with 812 comments |
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2000 | | PoW gets his life back after 55 years (theguardian.com) |
| 285 points | 1 year ago with 103 comments |
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2000 | | The Two Cultures of Mathematics (dpmms.cam.ac.uk) |
| 283 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 69 comments |
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2000 | | Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconstitutional (abcnews.go.com) |
| 279 points | 4 years ago with 97 comments |
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2000 | | I Don't Like Debuggers (lwn.net) |
| 274 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 239 comments |
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2000 | | Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (theatlantic.com) |
| 264 points | 7 years ago with 180 comments |
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2000 | | Olbers’ Paradox: Why Is the Sky Dark at Night? (amnh.org) |
| 264 points | 8 years ago with 143 comments |
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2000 | | Courtney Love does the math (salon.com) |
| 251 points | 13 years ago with 66 comments |
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2000 | | Interview with the authors of C, C++ and Java (gotw.ca) |
| 237 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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2000 | | Coroutines in C (chiark.greenend.org.uk) |
| 230 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 1 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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2000 | | Amazon: Ponzi Scheme or Wal-Mart of the Web? (slate.com) |
| 225 points | 13 years ago with 81 comments |
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2000 | | Cargo Cult Software Engineering (stevemcconnell.com) |
| 213 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments |
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2000 | | Python for Lisp Programmers (norvig.com) |
| 211 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 65 comments |
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2000 | | Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (harmful.cat-v.org) |
| 209 points | 3 years ago with 278 comments |
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2000 | | The Passport Payment (web.archive.org) |
| 209 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments |
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2000 | | Basics of Compiler Design (hjemmesider.diku.dk) |
| 207 points | 4 years ago with 34 comments |
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2000 | | The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (web.archive.org) |
| 201 points | 3 years ago with 98 comments |
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2000 | | A Few Rules for Predicting the Future (web.archive.org) |
| 196 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments |
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2000 | | Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging networks (iowastatedaily.com) |
| 180 points | 3 years ago with 180 comments |
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2000 | | Windows: A software engineering odyssey (usenix.org) |
| 176 points | 1 year ago with 99 comments |
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2000 | | BANCStar (web.archive.org) |
| 175 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments |
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2000 | | Courtney Love does the math (salon.com) |
| 175 points | 12 years ago with 36 comments |
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2000 | | Things You Should Never Do, Part I (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 174 points | 11 years ago with 154 comments |
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2000 | | What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (crummy.com) |
| 171 points | 5 years ago with 107 comments |
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2000 | | Lynn Conway's Story (ai.eecs.umich.edu) |
| 169 points | 1 year ago with 40 comments |
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2000 | | What You'll Need to Know in 2020 That You Don't Know Now (discovermagazine.com) |
| 168 points | 4 years ago with 147 comments |
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2000 | | Tips from the Pragmatic Programmer (pragprog.com) |
| 165 points | 8 years ago with 72 comments |
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2000 | | Paul Graham reviews Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (amazon.com) |
| 155 points | 11 years ago with 101 comments |
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2000 | | Lisp can be “hard” real time [pdf] (franz.com) |
| 154 points | 2 years ago with 114 comments |
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2000 | | Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach (people.math.wisc.edu) |
| 153 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments |
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2000 | | The Great Tree-List Recursion Problem (cslibrary.stanford.edu) |
| 153 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 19 comments |
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2000 | | Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System (snap.stanford.edu) |
| 152 points | 5 years ago with 71 comments |
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2000 | | Proofs are Programs – 19th Century Logic and 21st Century Computing (homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk) |
| 152 points | 7 years ago with 77 comments |
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2000 | | The Irregular Verbs (pinker.wjh.harvard.edu) |
| 150 points | 9 years ago with 69 comments |
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2000 | | The Great Renaming 1985 – 1988 (livinginternet.info) |
| 149 points | 1 year ago with 36 comments |
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