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| Articles written in 2005 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2005 | | NewOS (newos.org) |
| 978 points across 8 posts | 8 months ago with 9 comments |
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| 2005 | | BBS: The Documentary (bbsdocumentary.com) |
| 727 points across 3 posts | 3 months ago with 59 comments |
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| 2005 | | How to be more productive (aaronsw.com) |
| 698 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments |
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| 2005 | | Why I Hate Frameworks (factoryfactoryfactory.net) |
| 662 points | 9 months ago with 392 comments |
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| 2005 | | Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (lists.warhead.org.uk) |
| 610 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 56 comments |
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| 2005 | | Google Mars (google.com) |
| 574 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 80 comments |
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| 2005 | | So you want to be a consultant? (unixwiz.net) |
| 527 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 42 comments |
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| 2005 | | Why I Hate Frameworks (fredrikholmqvist.com) |
| 525 points | 2 years ago with 295 comments |
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| 2005 | | Rewriting Reddit (aaronsw.com) |
| 499 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2005 | | Bit Twiddling Hacks (graphics.stanford.edu) |
| 462 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 24 comments |
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| 2005 | | BSD vs. Linux (over-yonder.net) |
| 457 points | 7 years ago with 356 comments |
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| 2005 | | Being Poor (whatever.scalzi.com) |
| 449 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 216 comments |
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| 2005 | | The six dumbest ideas in computer security (ranum.com) |
| 421 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 196 comments |
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| 2005 | | Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (twitter.com) |
| 405 points | 2 years ago with 248 comments |
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| 2005 | | Google Will Eat Itself (gwei.org) |
| 390 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 131 comments |
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| 2005 | | Naked shorting: The curious incident of the shares that didn't exist (euromoney.com) |
| 359 points | 3 years ago with 298 comments |
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| 2005 | | 43 km line of sight with USB WiFi stick (qsl.net) |
| 338 points | 2 years ago with 165 comments |
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| 2005 | | The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (nickbostrom.com) |
| 331 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2005 | | Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (defacto2.net) |
| 321 points | 1 year ago with 221 comments |
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| 2005 | | Return of the Mac (paulgraham.com) |
| 313 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 181 comments |
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| 2005 | | Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1% (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 286 points | 13 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2005 | | We Are Sorry to Inform You (fang.ece.ufl.edu) |
| 279 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 50 comments |
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| 2005 | | The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (nickbostrom.com) |
| 275 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 73 comments |
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| 2005 | | Sleeve cap ease is bogus (fashion-incubator.com) |
| 242 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2005 | | Ontology Is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (shirky.com) |
| 240 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2005 | | Does Visual Studio rot the mind? (charlespetzold.com) |
| 235 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 143 comments |
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| 2005 | | Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (scs.stanford.edu) |
| 232 points | 4 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2005 | | Practicing Programming (sites.google.com) |
| 228 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2005 | | K (archive.vector.org.uk) |
| 226 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2005 | | The Mathematics Autodidact’s Aid (ams.org) |
| 216 points | 7 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2005 | | Top colleges should select randomly from a pool of ‘good enough’ (chronicle.com) |
| 211 points | 3 years ago with 297 comments |
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| 2005 | | Google Will Eat Itself (gwei.org) |
| 208 points | 4 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2005 | | What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (newyorker.com) |
| 207 points | 7 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2005 | | Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 198 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 97 comments |
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| 2005 | | The Origin of CAR and CDR in Lisp (iwriteiam.nl) |
| 186 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2005 | | Why Plan 9 is not dead yet and what we can learn from it (cs.unm.edu) |
| 184 points | 9 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2005 | | NP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality (arxiv.org) |
| 182 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2005 | | Why is the DOS path character "\"? (web.archive.org) |
| 182 points | 3 years ago with 158 comments |
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| 2005 | | A View of Mathematics (alainconnes.org) |
| 179 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2005 | | The Psychology of Human Misjudgment (web.archive.org) |
| 178 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2005 | | Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (zedshaw.com) |
| 174 points | 14 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2005 | | Design and Implementation of a Win32 Text Editor (catch22.net) |
| 173 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2005 | | Forgotten Language: Jorf could have been Python or Ruby (ralsina.me) |
| 170 points | 8 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2005 | | Accelerando (antipope.org) |
| 169 points | 1 year ago with 81 comments |
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| 2005 | | A Rocket to Nowhere (idlewords.com) |
| 164 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2005 | | This Is Water (fs.blog) |
| 163 points | 2 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2005 | | AMD Killed the Itanium (utcc.utoronto.ca) |
| 162 points | 1 year ago with 236 comments |
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| 2005 | | The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe (historytoday.com) |
| 160 points | 8 years ago with 159 comments |
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| 2005 | | McCarthy's Ambiguous Operator (randomhacks.net) |
| 157 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2005 | | Why most published research findings are false (journals.plos.org) |
| 157 points | 1 year ago with 80 comments |
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