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| Articles written in 2004 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2004 | | It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (paradise.caltech.edu) |
| 146 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2004 | | Great Hacker != Great Hire (ericsink.com) |
| 145 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 2004 | | Unix on a PDP-11 emulator on the Game Boy Advance (kernelthread.com) |
| 142 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2004 | | Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (econstor.eu) |
| 140 points | 5 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2004 | | What colour are your bits? (ansuz.sooke.bc.ca) |
| 138 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2004 | | Consider the Lobster (gourmet.com) |
| 136 points | 11 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Graphing Calculator Story (nucalc.com) |
| 133 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2004 | | Third-polarizing-filter experiment demystified (alienryderflex.com) |
| 131 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2004 | | Why doesn't Windows recognize a USB device plugged into another port? (blogs.msdn.com) |
| 131 points | 10 years ago with 152 comments |
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| 2004 | | My First Death Threat (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) |
| 129 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2004 | | A pair of dice which never roll 7 (chiark.greenend.org.uk) |
| 129 points | 3 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2004 | | Ruby Hacking Guide (ruby-hacking-guide.github.io) |
| 128 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Hipster PDA (43folders.com) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2004 | | Great Works in Programming Languages (cis.upenn.edu) |
| 128 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Art of Unix Usability (catb.org) |
| 128 points | 10 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2004 | | “I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (twitter.com) |
| 127 points | 4 years ago with 219 comments |
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| 2004 | | Citizen Kubrick (theguardian.com) |
| 125 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2004 | | The first image on the very first Macintosh (folklore.org) |
| 124 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2004 | | Attacked By Thugs (idlewords.com) |
| 123 points | 11 years ago with 115 comments |
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| 2004 | | The x86 architecture is the weirdo (devblogs.microsoft.com) |
| 121 points | 3 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2004 | | 42.zip (unforgettable.dk) |
| 120 points | 11 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2004 | | Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's official HOSTS.TXT (iconia.com) |
| 120 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2004 | | Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit (eaipatterns.com) |
| 119 points | 12 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2004 | | A quick look at the Win2k source (kuro5hin.org) |
| 119 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2004 | | Busy Being Born (folklore.org) |
| 117 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2004 | | How I Explained REST to My Wife (tomayko.com) |
| 115 points | 12 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2004 | | Repairing a Bent Trombone Slide (oberloh.com) |
| 114 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Worst Interface Ever: The Self-Destruct Switch (asktog.com) |
| 114 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2004 | | Alan Kay – The center of “Why”? (vpri.org) |
| 112 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2004 | | Firefox 1.0 New York Times ad (scribd.com) |
| 112 points | 2 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2004 | | How To Make Wealth (paulgraham.com) |
| 112 points | 14 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2004 | | Is Design Dead? (martinfowler.com) |
| 111 points | 2 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 2004 | | Great Programmers (bramcohen.livejournal.com) |
| 111 points | 11 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2004 | | The trip to federal prison from court to your new bed (prisontalk.com) |
| 108 points | 11 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2004 | | NASA Software Safety Guidebook (hq.nasa.gov) |
| 104 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2004 | | First, Do No Harm: A Hippocratic Oath for Software Developers (queue.acm.org) |
| 101 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2004 | | Freak waves spotted from space (news.bbc.co.uk) |
| 101 points | 13 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2004 | | Real-Time Programming (www2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de) |
| 99 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2004 | | Consider the Lobster (columbia.edu) |
| 99 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2004 | | FedEx vs. UPS: opposing models in the delivery business raise questions (braunconsulting.com) |
| 98 points | 8 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2004 | | Type Systems (lucacardelli.name) |
| 96 points | 8 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2004 | | Most of us won't be inventing little languages (slesinsky.org) |
| 95 points | 2 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2004 | | Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times (blog.mozilla.org) |
| 95 points | 3 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 2004 | | Demoscene (demoscene.info) |
| 92 points | 1 year ago with 38 comments |
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| 2004 | | Nitric oxide inhibits the replication cycle of SARS coronavirus (jvi.asm.org) |
| 92 points | 5 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2004 | | Working at Microsoft (qbrundage.com) |
| 92 points | 10 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2004 | | Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (static.usenix.org) |
| 90 points | 12 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2004 | | Who owns the fish? A Common Lisp solution to "Einstein's Riddle" (weitz.de) |
| 88 points | 11 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2004 | | Why was cycling not included in the ancient Olympics? (web.stanford.edu) |
| 88 points | 4 years ago with 108 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Stick of Jan Sloot (spronck.net) |
| 87 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments |
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