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| Articles written in 2003 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2003 | | Calculus for Beginners and Artists (www-math.mit.edu) |
| 836 points | 5 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 2003 | | Essential C (cslibrary.stanford.edu) |
| 696 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2003 | | Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (vole.wtf) |
| 565 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 137 comments |
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| 2003 | | Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu) |
| 558 points | 6 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 2003 | | Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” (purl.org) |
| 512 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 292 comments |
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| 2003 | | “A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 507 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 227 comments |
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| 2003 | | Internet Archive gets DMCA exemption to help archive vintage software (archive.org) |
| 470 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 44 comments |
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| 2003 | | Simpsons Hit and Run source code (github.com) |
| 467 points | 1 year ago with 164 comments |
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| 2003 | | An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (web.mit.edu) |
| 457 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2003 | | UTF-8 history (cl.cam.ac.uk) |
| 292 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 2003 | | The Art of Picking Intel Registers (swansontec.com) |
| 291 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2003 | | The horror of blimps (boards.straightdope.com) |
| 289 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2003 | | Bill Gates on Windows Usability (twitter.com) |
| 266 points | 5 years ago with 225 comments |
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| 2003 | | Transiting the Suez Canal in a Private Sailboat (sailsafely.com) |
| 264 points | 3 years ago with 216 comments |
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| 2003 | | The Problem of Thinking Too Much (statweb.stanford.edu) |
| 255 points | 5 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2003 | | The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (doc.cat-v.org) |
| 244 points | 3 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2003 | | Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (inference.org.uk) |
| 234 points | 1 year ago with 30 comments |
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| 2003 | | Microsoft execs on Apple's music store (twitter.com) |
| 226 points | 1 year ago with 170 comments |
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| 2003 | | Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet "Ginger" (hbswk.hbs.edu) |
| 224 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2003 | | The Spoon Theory (butyoudontlooksick.com) |
| 223 points | 3 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 2003 | | Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (theregister.co.uk) |
| 215 points | 4 years ago with 180 comments |
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| 2003 | | An Introduction to Probabilistic Graphical Models (people.eecs.berkeley.edu) |
| 214 points | 7 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2003 | | How do food manufacturers calculate the calorie count of packaged foods? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 214 points | 8 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 2003 | | A Brief History of ClarisWorks (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 213 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2003 | | Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (web.archive.org) |
| 205 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2003 | | First atomic clock wristwatch (leapsecond.com) |
| 201 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2003 | | Why Nerds Are Unpopular (paulgraham.com) |
| 201 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2003 | | Why dolphins are deep thinkers (theguardian.com) |
| 200 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2003 | | The Art of Powerful Questions (umanitoba.ca) |
| 199 points | 4 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2003 | | A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (web.archive.org) |
| 193 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2003 | | The Development of the C Language (cm.bell-labs.co) |
| 191 points | 1 year ago with 24 comments |
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| 2003 | | Why events are a bad idea for high-concurrency servers (people.eecs.berkeley.edu) |
| 187 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2003 | | The Making Of Dust (johnsto.co.uk) |
| 186 points | 6 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2003 | | Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker (twitter.com) |
| 177 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 64 comments |
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| 2003 | | Turn your PC upside down to boot into Linux (mini-itx.com) |
| 176 points | 8 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2003 | | Dune: The Battle for Arrakis – Extended Reference (ledmeister.com) |
| 175 points | 4 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2003 | | A guide to pricing and hedging (ieor.columbia.edu) |
| 175 points | 5 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2003 | | AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software WASTE (web.archive.org) |
| 172 points | 1 year ago with 115 comments |
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| 2003 | | Jacksonpollock.org (jacksonpollock.org) |
| 165 points | 4 years ago with 151 comments |
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| 2003 | | Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (lists.kde.org) |
| 165 points | 11 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2003 | | How to Write Unmaintainable Code (github.com) |
| 164 points | 4 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 2003 | | How to make a complete map of every thought you think (users.speakeasy.net) |
| 161 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2003 | | Lindows 4.0 (baturin.org) |
| 159 points | 1 year ago with 148 comments |
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| 2003 | | Ashby's book "Introduction to Cybernetics" (pespmc1.vub.ac.be) |
| 154 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments |
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| 2003 | | Ian Knot (fieggen.com) |
| 151 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2003 | | Principles of the American Cargo Cult (web.archive.org) |
| 151 points | 5 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2003 | | Origins and History of Unix, 1969-1995 (catb.org) |
| 147 points | 7 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2003 | | Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (demarcken.org) |
| 146 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2003 | | Geek Social Fallacies (plausiblydeniable.com) |
| 145 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2003 | | John Carmack's adolescent years (books.google.com) |
| 144 points | 9 years ago with 77 comments |
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