|
| Articles written in 2008 that Hacker News still talks about. |
|
| Go back or forward one year. See all articles from 2000 to 2009. |
|
| 2008 | | Why to start a startup in a bad economy (paulgraham.com) |
| 1311 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 223 comments |
|
| 2008 | | To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (wired.com) |
| 955 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 110 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Print this file, your printer will jam (nedbatchelder.com) |
| 740 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 208 comments |
|
| 2008 | | A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (prog21.dadgum.com) |
| 676 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 179 comments |
|
| 2008 | | History of the browser user-agent string (webaim.org) |
| 669 points across 4 posts | 5 years ago with 23 comments |
|
| 2008 | | NirSoft Freeware (nirsoft.net) |
| 625 points | 6 years ago with 232 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (news.cnet.com) |
| 592 points | 11 years ago with 299 comments |
|
| 2008 | | You weren't meant to have a boss (paulgraham.com) |
| 524 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 165 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (bitcoin.org) |
| 516 points | 6 years ago with 385 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Low-level is easy (yosefk.com) |
| 480 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 24 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (web.media.mit.edu) |
| 476 points | 8 years ago with 167 comments |
|
| 2008 | | "Secret" History of Silicon Valley (steveblank.com) |
| 460 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 48 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone. (halfhalf.posterous.com) |
| 459 points | 12 years ago with 103 comments |
|
| 2008 | | 1k True Fans (kk.org) |
| 450 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 139 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Shouting in the Datacenter (youtube.com) |
| 444 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 47 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 393 points | 8 years ago with 227 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Introduction to Differential Equations (tutorial.math.lamar.edu) |
| 388 points | 6 years ago with 88 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Books Programmers Don't Really Read (billthelizard.com) |
| 375 points | 8 years ago with 159 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Trolls (paulgraham.com) |
| 360 points | 12 years ago with 303 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Jeff Varasano's Famous New York Pizza Recipe (varasanos.com) |
| 350 points | 7 years ago with 145 comments |
|
| 2008 | | So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (varnish-cache.org) |
| 335 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 11 comments |
|
| 2008 | | The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (theamericanscholar.org) |
| 307 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 206 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Linux is not about choice (redhat.com) |
| 301 points | 11 years ago with 230 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Operating System Development Series (brokenthorn.com) |
| 300 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 36 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Jeff Varasano's NY Pizza Recipe (varasanos.com) |
| 299 points | 3 years ago with 202 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Cities and Ambition (paulgraham.com) |
| 278 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 58 comments |
|
| 2008 | | How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (tom.preston-werner.com) |
| 276 points | 11 years ago with 89 comments |
|
| 2008 | | I fell in love with an assassin (independent.co.uk) |
| 272 points | 7 years ago with 76 comments |
|
| 2008 | | My experiment with smart drugs (johannhari.com) |
| 264 points | 14 years ago with 142 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Extruding Ice from Steel Fences and Pipes with Diurnal Freeze/Thaw (my.ilstu.edu) |
| 261 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments |
|
| 2008 | | L-theanine, a constituent in tea, and its effect on mental state (apjcn.nhri.org.tw) |
| 260 points | 6 years ago with 158 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Why it is important that software projects fail (berglas.org) |
| 258 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 72 comments |
|
| 2008 | | How does database indexing work? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 252 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments |
|
| 2008 | | How can C Programs be so Reliable? (tratt.net) |
| 251 points | 10 years ago with 221 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Project from Hell (projectfailures.wordpress.com) |
| 249 points | 6 years ago with 148 comments |
|
| 2008 | | What's the difference between the com and exe extensions? (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) |
| 246 points | 7 years ago with 89 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Common shell script mistakes (pixelbeat.org) |
| 246 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
|
| 2008 | | The TTY Demystified (linusakesson.net) |
| 244 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 22 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (reuters.com) |
| 243 points | 3 years ago with 219 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (old.ycombinator.com) |
| 242 points | 6 years ago with 176 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Want to Write a Compiler? Read These Two Papers (prog21.dadgum.com) |
| 237 points | 8 years ago with 70 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Git is as revolutionary as Unix pipes (apenwarr.ca) |
| 235 points | 13 years ago with 55 comments |
|
| 2008 | | The “high-level CPU” challenge (yosefk.com) |
| 229 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 127 comments |
|
| 2008 | | What does "HREF" stand for? (tomayko.com) |
| 219 points | 11 years ago with 49 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Association between muscular strength and mortality in men (bmj.com) |
| 218 points | 11 years ago with 199 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Vx32: Portable, efficient, safe user-space execution of untrusted x86 code (pdos.csail.mit.edu) |
| 210 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 23 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Mona Lisa in 50 polygons, using a genetic algorithm (rogeralsing.com) |
| 209 points | 11 years ago with 53 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Using Programming Language Concepts to Teach General Thinking Skills (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 208 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments |
|
| 2008 | | Very Long-Term Backup (longnow.org) |
| 205 points | 1 year ago with 139 comments |
|
| 2008 | | RIP Good Times (articles.sequoiacap.com) |
| 205 points | 2 years ago with 216 comments |
|
|
| More |
