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Articles written in 2005 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2005/bin/false is not security (semicomplete.com)
110 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments
2005What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (newyorker.com)
110 points | 14 years ago with 13 comments
2005How to Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML (hsivonen.fi)
107 points | 8 years ago with 244 comments
2005Bit gold (unenumerated.blogspot.co.uk)
107 points | 10 years ago with 88 comments
2005Tantrums as Status Symbols (marginalrevolution.com)
106 points | 8 years ago with 59 comments
2005Event Sourcing (martinfowler.com)
105 points | 3 years ago with 88 comments
2005Don’t Take My Folders Away: Organizing Personal Info to Get Things Done (digital.lib.washington.edu)
104 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments
2005The C-- Language Specification (cs.tufts.edu)
103 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2005Elements of Dance Etiquette (utdallas.edu)
102 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 20 comments
2005History's Worst Software Bugs (archive.wired.com)
102 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments
2005Pissed off about functional programming (perlmonks.org)
102 points | 10 years ago with 61 comments
2005X86-64 machine level programming [pdf] (ecee.colorado.edu)
101 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
2005How to Become an Independent Programmer in Just 1068 Days (gusmueller.com)
100 points | 15 years ago with 5 comments
2005GNU Pascal (gnu-pascal.de)
99 points | 1 year ago with 121 comments
2005The Art of Metaprogramming (ibm.com)
99 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2005Quines: self-replicating programs (madore.org)
99 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 28 comments
2005Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work (legacy.igda.org)
97 points | 10 years ago with 57 comments
2005Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You (eff.org)
97 points | 9 years ago with 49 comments
2005A Short Talk about Richard Feynman (stephenwolfram.com)
97 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments
2005Fantastic Mr. Fox (granta.com)
96 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2005My Time with Richard Feynman (backchannel.com)
95 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
2005Clustering of Time Series Subsequences Is Meaningless (cs.ucr.edu)
95 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments
2005It's the cities, stupid – Jane Jacobs' macroeconomics (zompist.com)
95 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
2005Why GNU/Linux Viruses are fairly uncommon (gnu.org)
95 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments
2005Threads Cannot Be Implemented as a Library (cs.nyu.edu)
93 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2005The Hacker's Diet (fourmilab.ch)
93 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments
2005Good and Bad Procrastination (paulgraham.com)
93 points | 2 years ago with 41 comments
2005A brief history of microprogramming (people.cs.clemson.edu)
92 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2005Sometimes We Suck (blog.flickr.net)
92 points | 2 years ago with 7 comments
2005My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey (npr.org)
92 points | 1 year ago with 74 comments
2005Sinclair Zx Spectrum: absolutely better than Commodore 64 (alfonsomartone.itb.it)
91 points | 5 years ago with 74 comments
2005David Foster Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Speech (web.archive.org)
90 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments
2005When CEOs Are Paid for Bad Performance (gsb.stanford.edu)
90 points | 1 year ago with 104 comments
2005Make a Pseudoscope (pseudoscope.blogspot.com)
89 points | 6 years ago with 27 comments
2005A new project: multi-track audio editing (1014.org)
89 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments
2005Lisp: A Cult I Almost Joined (fluff.info)
89 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 43 comments
2005Why no Easter Eggs? (web.archive.org)
87 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments
2005Every character has a story: U+213a (rotated Q) (web.archive.org)
86 points | 4 years ago with 34 comments
2005Fictional peer reviews rejecting famous papers (th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de)
86 points | 12 years ago with 51 comments
2005tcpcp - passing TCP connections between hosts (tcpcp.sourceforge.net)
85 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2005Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (blogs.law.harvard.edu)
82 points | 15 years ago with 46 comments
200564-bit unix timestamp is not supported in MySQL functions (bugs.mysql.com)
82 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments
2005Linus Torvalds's first public mention of git (lkml.iu.edu)
80 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments
2005Theory and Techniques of Compiler Construction (ethoberon.ethz.ch)
80 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments
2005The Opium of the Intellectuals (newcriterion.com)
79 points | 6 years ago with 46 comments
2005The Million Dollar Homepage (milliondollarhomepage.com)
78 points | 11 years ago with 82 comments
2005Growing Music: musical interpretations of L-Systems (www-users.cs.york.ac.uk)
78 points | 4 years ago with 10 comments
2005A Mac For Mick (folklore.org)
78 points | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2005Mouth gestures and their meanings around the world (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
77 points | 1 year ago with 26 comments
2005PM at Microsoft (blogs.msdn.com)
77 points | 10 years ago with 44 comments
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