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