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Articles written in 2008 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2008Git from the Bottom Up (jwiegley.github.io)
205 points | 2 years ago with 15 comments
2008Life and How to Survive It (mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com)
200 points | 13 years ago with 27 comments
2008Scanning books at 250 pages a minute (k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
199 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
2008NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (ntrs.nasa.gov)
198 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments
2008Australia's weird little time zone (howderfamily.com)
198 points | 1 year ago with 97 comments
2008Sand won't save you this time (blogs.sciencemag.org)
196 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
2008Let's build an MP3-decoder (blog.bjrn.se)
193 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
2008Learning Advanced JavaScript (ejohn.org)
192 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments
2008Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (clojure.org)
190 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments
2008What to Know Before Debating Type Systems (cdsmith.wordpress.com)
190 points | 4 years ago with 131 comments
2008My Favorite Liar (overcomingbias.com)
189 points | 1 year ago with 76 comments
2008Learn You a Haskell for Great Good (learnyouahaskell.com)
189 points | 9 years ago with 120 comments
2008Why the Mythbusters won't do RFID (youtube.com)
188 points | 13 years ago with 60 comments
2008The TTY Demystified (linusakesson.net)
187 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments
2008The Algorithm Design Manual (algorist.com)
186 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2008What is Hindley-Milner and why is it cool? (codecommit.com)
185 points | 6 years ago with 46 comments
2008GnuTLS considered harmful (openldap.org)
185 points | 10 years ago with 115 comments
2008I Still Use Windows 95 (web.archive.org)
184 points | 11 months ago with 307 comments
2008A ToC of Ian Lance Taylor’s 20-part Linkers essay (lwn.net)
182 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2008The Tripartite Identity Pattern (habitatchronicles.com)
180 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2008Towards Moore's Law Software (moserware.com)
180 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 7 comments
2008Top Algorithms in Data Mining (cs.uvm.edu)
177 points | 10 years ago with 43 comments
2008Let over Lambda – Common Lisp Book (letoverlambda.com)
176 points | 5 years ago with 97 comments
2008Why There Aren't More Googles (paulgraham.com)
175 points | 3 years ago with 160 comments
2008REST Anti-Patterns (infoq.com)
174 points | 6 years ago with 112 comments
2008The forbidden railway: Vienna - Pyongyang (vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.de)
170 points | 11 years ago with 34 comments
2008The Narcissism of Small Code Differences (raganwald.com)
170 points | 10 years ago with 126 comments
2008Ten Years of Purely Functional Data Structures (okasaki.blogspot.ru)
170 points | 10 years ago with 24 comments
2008How Computers Boot Up (manybutfinite.com)
168 points | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2008Sand won’t save you this time (science.org)
168 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments
2008The New Old Way of Learning Languages (theamericanscholar.org)
166 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 38 comments
2008Why Apple Chose Clang (opensource.apple.com)
162 points | 3 years ago with 122 comments
2008Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network (web.mit.edu)
161 points | 6 years ago with 154 comments
2008Dynamic Languages Strike Back (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
161 points across 3 posts | 9 months ago with 43 comments
2008Unix Toolbox (cb.vu)
160 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2008What If Time Really Exists? (arxiv.org)
158 points | 7 years ago with 204 comments
2008Who ordered memory fences on an x86? (bartoszmilewski.com)
158 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2008My experiment with smart drugs (johannhari.com)
157 points | 9 years ago with 128 comments
2008Six Principles for Making New Things (paulgraham.com)
157 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2008Fire the workaholics (37signals.com)
156 points | 12 years ago with 75 comments
2008Late Bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? (newyorker.com)
156 points | 9 years ago with 67 comments
2008The forbidden railway: Vienna – Pyongyang (vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com)
155 points | 8 years ago with 29 comments
2008I'm going to scale my foot up your ass (widgetsandshit.com)
155 points | 1 year ago with 90 comments
2008Laid off (expatsoftware.com)
154 points | 7 years ago with 131 comments
2008Honda Needs a Tune-Up (davidsd.org)
154 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 2 comments
2008The Yamaha NS10 Story (soundonsound.com)
154 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 57 comments
2008What’s Wrong with “Multiplication Is Repeated Addition”? (denisegaskins.com)
152 points | 3 years ago with 417 comments
2008My Road to Erlang (prog21.dadgum.com)
152 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2008Why browse the Web in Emacs? (sachachua.com)
152 points | 9 years ago with 85 comments
2008The Best Investment Advice You'll Never Get (modernluxury.com)
151 points | 9 years ago with 124 comments
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