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|  | Articles written in 2004 that Hacker News still talks about. | 
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| 2004 |  | In Praise of Lectures  (dpmms.cam.ac.uk) | 
|  | 59 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 8 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Judy Arrays  (judy.sourceforge.net) | 
|  | 59 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Design Your Own Database  (dartmouth.edu) | 
|  | 59 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Compiler Construction Using Flex and Bison  (research.microsoft.com) | 
|  | 59 points | 10 years ago with 0 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Elevator Control Panels  (www2.isye.gatech.edu) | 
|  | 59 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | The Energy Cost of Electric and Human-Powered Bicycles  (ebikes.ca) | 
|  | 58 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Why don't we use functional programming languages more?  (tratt.net) | 
|  | 57 points | 15 years ago with 31 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | WordPress was b2/cafelog  (cafelog.com) | 
|  | 57 points | 9 years ago with 32 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Real wireframe teapot mounted inside a Commodore Pet display  (vimeo.com) | 
|  | 56 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Linux Filesystem Hierarchy  (tldp.org) | 
|  | 56 points | 1 year ago with 55 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Sexual Economics [pdf]  (assets.csom.umn.edu) | 
|  | 55 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Why type systems are interesting  (lambda-the-ultimate.org) | 
|  | 55 points | 12 years ago with 19 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Corporate Gibberish Generator  (andrewdavidson.com) | 
|  | 55 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Lock-Free Data Structures  (drdobbs.com) | 
|  | 55 points | 11 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | The Tunnel of Samos  (fermatslibrary.com) | 
|  | 54 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | The US Sabotaged a USSR Natural Gas Pipeline in 1982  (smh.com.au) | 
|  | 53 points | 3 years ago with 20 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Why Specs Matter  (web.archive.org) | 
|  | 53 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Survival in the first hours of the Cenozoic  (uahost.uantwerpen.be) | 
|  | 53 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | How long does your nanosleep() really sleep?  (dragonflybsd.org) | 
|  | 53 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Hacking Perl in Nightclubs  (perl.com) | 
|  | 52 points | 3 years ago with 18 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Why Learning Assembly Language Is Still a Good Idea  (onlamp.com) | 
|  | 52 points | 12 years ago with 48 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | The Haskell Road to Logic, Math and Programming  (fldit-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de) | 
|  | 52 points | 11 years ago with 16 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Cal 9 1752  (susam.net) | 
|  | 52 points | 2 years ago with 22 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | They Came. They Sawed  (texasmonthly.com) | 
|  | 51 points | 11 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | What Colour are your bits?  (ansuz.sooke.bc.ca) | 
|  | 51 points | 10 years ago with 34 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Lifestyle, Inc.  (plope.com) | 
|  | 50 points | 10 years ago with 4 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Commodore/MOS KIM-1  (dunfield.classiccmp.org) | 
|  | 49 points | 1 year ago with 12 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot  (paper-dragon.com) | 
|  | 49 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Pixel interpolation methods in ImageMagick  (imagemagick.org) | 
|  | 48 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Assembly Optimization Tips  (mark.masmcode.com) | 
|  | 48 points | 2 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | DHTML Lemmings in JavaScript  (elizium.nu) | 
|  | 47 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Diary of a Disaster: General Magic Goes Poof  (grosen.dk) | 
|  | 47 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | The Sun is more active now than over the last 8000 years  (mpg.de) | 
|  | 47 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Understanding Virtual Memory  (redhat.com) | 
|  | 47 points | 11 years ago with 7 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Pitfalls of self-guided science  (pubs.acs.org) | 
|  | 46 points | 9 years ago with 4 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits  (nytimes.com) | 
|  | 46 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Weather Forecasting Tricks Series: Timing a Front  (theweatherprediction.com) | 
|  | 45 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | The Tools of Technomadics  (microship.com) | 
|  | 45 points | 11 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Introduction to J Programming Language  (kukuruku.co) | 
|  | 45 points | 10 years ago with 26 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | All About Erasure Codes  (web.eecs.utk.edu) | 
|  | 44 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Home Built Laser Projector  (elm-chan.org) | 
|  | 44 points | 11 years ago with 15 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | You Had Me, And You Lost Me: Why I don't read Megatokyo  (websnark.com) | 
|  | 44 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Installing Linux on a Dead Badger  (strangehorizons.com) | 
|  | 44 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | The economics of the Internet backbone  (ideas.repec.org) | 
|  | 44 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | The 90 minute Scheme to C compiler  (churchturing.org) | 
|  | 43 points | 9 years ago with 3 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Functional Pearl: I am not a Number – I am a Free Variable  (cs.ru.nl) | 
|  | 43 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Design Issues for Foreign Function Interfaces  (web.archive.org) | 
|  | 43 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | Viaweb FAQ  (paulgraham.com) | 
|  | 42 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | The Causes and Consequences of Distinctly Black Names  (pricetheory.uchicago.edu) | 
|  | 42 points | 10 years ago with 22 comments | 
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| 2004 |  | The Word "Hacker"  (paulgraham.com) | 
|  | 42 points across 2 posts | 12 years ago with 9 comments | 
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