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| Articles written in 2001 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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2001 | | 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (gamedeveloper.com) |
| 593 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 179 comments |
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2001 | | History of T (paulgraham.com) |
| 413 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 22 comments |
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2001 | | David Horne's 1K Chess on the ZX81 (thad.frogley.info) |
| 380 points | 9 years ago with 147 comments |
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2001 | | Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (chrisdone.com) |
| 375 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 116 comments |
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2001 | | Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player (nytimes.com) |
| 343 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 234 comments |
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2001 | | 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (gamasutra.com) |
| 343 points | 6 years ago with 95 comments |
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2001 | | Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties? (stallman.org) |
| 338 points | 11 years ago with 119 comments |
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2001 | | Is your son a computer hacker? (wh0rd.ca) |
| 320 points | 3 years ago with 235 comments |
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2001 | | Tiny-C Compiler (iro.umontreal.ca) |
| 307 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 66 comments |
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2001 | | Java's Cover (paulgraham.com) |
| 301 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 122 comments |
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2001 | | Wikipedia is up (web.archive.org) |
| 291 points | 3 years ago with 198 comments |
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2001 | | Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (web.archive.org) |
| 264 points | 3 years ago with 132 comments |
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2001 | | Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips (greenharbor.com) |
| 262 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 120 comments |
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2001 | | The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer (willamette.edu) |
| 258 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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2001 | | Introduction to TCP and Sockets (scottklement.com) |
| 258 points | 2 years ago with 27 comments |
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2001 | | Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (projecteuclid.org) |
| 254 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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2001 | | Don't allow animated favicons (bugzilla.mozilla.org) |
| 254 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 84 comments |
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2001 | | Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 249 points | 7 years ago with 57 comments |
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2001 | | The world's most toxic value system (uwgb.edu) |
| 242 points | 7 years ago with 193 comments |
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2001 | | Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 237 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 148 comments |
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2001 | | How to Criticize Computer Scientists (cs.purdue.edu) |
| 232 points | 3 years ago with 101 comments |
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2001 | | Advanced Linux Programming – book with free PDF (advancedlinuxprogramming.com) |
| 229 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments |
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2001 | | Your face is not a bar code: arguments against automatic face recognition (pages.gseis.ucla.edu) |
| 229 points | 3 years ago with 73 comments |
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2001 | | Too Much Calculus – Gilbert Strang (www-math.mit.edu) |
| 214 points | 9 years ago with 134 comments |
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2001 | | An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 202 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 116 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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2001 | | Handbook of Applied Cryptography (cacr.uwaterloo.ca) |
| 196 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 17 comments |
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2001 | | Introduction to the Fourier transform for image processing (cs.unm.edu) |
| 195 points | 1 year ago with 29 comments |
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2001 | | Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (homepage.ntlworld.com) |
| 192 points | 10 years ago with 30 comments |
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2001 | | Advanced Linux Programming (mentorembedded.github.io) |
| 183 points | 1 year ago with 40 comments |
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2001 | | Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering (kictanet.or.ke) |
| 178 points | 9 years ago with 73 comments |
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2001 | | Creating Windows XP Icons (msdn.microsoft.com) |
| 178 points | 5 years ago with 85 comments |
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2001 | | Should I replace my 56k modem with a 28.8K Modem? (forums.anandtech.com) |
| 176 points | 1 year ago with 140 comments |
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2001 | | An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (ycombinator.com) |
| 175 points | 11 years ago with 54 comments |
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2001 | | Stanford CS Education Library (cslibrary.stanford.edu) |
| 172 points | 5 years ago with 13 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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2001 | | A History of Lua (lua.org) |
| 165 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 119 comments |
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2001 | | NES Game Genie Technical Notes (tuxnes.sourceforge.net) |
| 164 points | 2 years ago with 55 comments |
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2001 | | In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 163 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 112 comments |
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2001 | | Lisp in Web-Based Applications (lib.store.yahoo.net) |
| 158 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 35 comments |
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2001 | | enron :: discover the power of WHY (enroncorp.com) |
| 151 points | 1 year ago with 71 comments |
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2001 | | "I can't do math" (faculty.umf.maine.edu) |
| 149 points | 11 years ago with 132 comments |
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2001 | | 1% the Code (colorforth.com) |
| 143 points | 8 years ago with 152 comments |
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2001 | | Typecasting: The Use and Misuse of Period Typography in Movies (marksimonson.com) |
| 143 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments |
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2001 | | Unix System Programming with Standard ML (mlton.org) |
| 142 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments |
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2001 | | MacOS X 10.1 (toastytech.com) |
| 142 points | 1 year ago with 180 comments |
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2001 | | Eighteenth Century English mail hacks (deadmedia.org) |
| 141 points | 6 years ago with 36 comments |
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2001 | | Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work (businessweek.com) |
| 138 points | 14 years ago with 57 comments |
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2001 | | The Roots of Lisp (paulgraham.com) |
| 124 points | 4 years ago with 90 comments |
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2001 | | Monadic I/O and Unix shell programming (okmij.org) |
| 121 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 10 comments |
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