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Articles written in 2007 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2007Chernobyl Fungus Feeds On Radiation (scienceagogo.com)
99 points | 10 years ago with 53 comments
2007My Son Won't Do His Homework (talentism.com)
98 points | 10 years ago with 119 comments
2007The Science of Sword-Swallowing (twistedphysics.typepad.com)
98 points | 1 year ago with 34 comments
2007The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (idlewords.com)
97 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 40 comments
2007Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (bloomberg.com)
97 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 12 comments
200715B More Reasons to Worry About Facebook (allthingsd.com)
97 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments
2007The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory (wired.com)
96 points | 10 years ago with 72 comments
20073-D Depth Reconstruction from a Single Still Image (cs.cornell.edu)
96 points | 8 years ago with 28 comments
2007Artificial Intelligence with Erlang: The Domain of Relatives (erlangcentral.org)
96 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments
2007AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance (wired.com)
95 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments
2007From Father to Son, Last Words to Live by (nytimes.com)
95 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments
2007A Story of Surveillance (washingtonpost.com)
94 points | 10 years ago with 21 comments
2007Shorting Home Equity Mezzanine Tranches (static1.squarespace.com)
94 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments
2007An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech (mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk)
93 points | 3 years ago with 27 comments
2007Size isn't everything for the modest creator of SQLite (theguardian.com)
92 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
2007Rich Programmer Food (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
92 points | 7 years ago with 72 comments
2007What actually happens when you plug in a USB device? (technovelty.org)
92 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments
2007How to get people to work on your project (somethingsimilar.com)
91 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments
2007Would You Bet $100M on Your Pet Programming Language? (prog21.dadgum.com)
90 points | 9 years ago with 78 comments
2007Accomplish more by doing less (calnewport.com)
90 points | 1 year ago with 59 comments
2007The Billionaire Next Door (dmagazine.com)
89 points | 5 years ago with 58 comments
2007Recommended path to read the Lua source code by the author of LuaJIT (reddit.com)
89 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
2007The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (lambdassociates.org)
88 points | 12 years ago with 38 comments
2007Ancient Islamic Penrose Tiles (sciencenews.org)
88 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments
2007When did Maytag go bad? (automaticwasher.org)
88 points | 2 years ago with 167 comments
2007Linkers, part 1 (airs.com)
87 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2007A Prayer for Archimedes (sciencenews.org)
87 points | 7 years ago with 33 comments
2007The Theory of Concatenative Combinators (tunes.org)
86 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments
2007Quantum mechanics and Tomb Raider (terrytao.wordpress.com)
86 points | 1 year ago with 17 comments
2007One woman can’t have a baby in nine months (gigamonkeys.wordpress.com)
86 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments
2007Why Mathematics is Boring (math.ucr.edu)
86 points | 2 years ago with 124 comments
2007Thinking about Thinking (the-programmers-stone.com)
85 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments
2007I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails (oreillynet.com)
84 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 17 comments
2007Copyright vs. Copyleft (gnu.org)
84 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments
2007Chemical weapons dumped in the Baltic sea (mir.gdynia.pl)
83 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments
2007R.I.P. Macromedia FreeHand (losingfight.com)
83 points | 9 months ago with 77 comments
2007How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students (papers.ssrn.com)
83 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2007Is anyone still using assembly language? You betcha (eetimes.com)
82 points | 1 year ago with 119 comments
200750 years of Fortran at CERN (cerncourier.com)
82 points | 8 years ago with 52 comments
2007A practitioner’s guide to hedonism (1843magazine.com)
81 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2007Was the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s first computer? (newyorker.com)
80 points | 5 years ago with 56 comments
2007Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (youtube.com)
80 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments
2007Solaris by Stanislaw Lem on BBC 4 Radio Full-Cast Drama (youtube.com)
80 points | 1 year ago with 17 comments
2007Building a Hacker Space (events.ccc.de)
79 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments
2007Introduction to Microcontrollers (ti.tuwien.ac.at)
79 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments
2007The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (idlewords.com)
79 points | 8 years ago with 28 comments
2007Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music (web.archive.org)
79 points | 2 years ago with 27 comments
2007The Checklist (newyorker.com)
78 points | 12 years ago with 25 comments
2007Building a Self-Healing Operating System (choices.cs.illinois.edu)
78 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2007Learning from the Enemy: The Gunman Project (nsa.gov)
78 points | 8 years ago with 43 comments
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