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| Articles written in 2008 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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2008 | | Architecture of Lisp Machines (cs.utah.edu) |
| 150 points | 3 years ago with 57 comments |
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2008 | | What happens when you add a new teller? (johndcook.com) |
| 148 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 29 comments |
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2008 | | Airliner Repair, 24/7 Boeing’s traveling fix-it team (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 146 points | 1 year ago with 96 comments |
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2008 | | Orangutan from Borneo photographed using a spear tool to fish (primatology.net) |
| 146 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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2008 | | What Sucks About Erlang (damienkatz.net) |
| 145 points | 6 years ago with 103 comments |
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2008 | | Differential Forms and Integration (math.ucla.edu) |
| 145 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments |
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2008 | | Why Japan Didn’t Create the iPod (blog.gatunka.com) |
| 142 points | 3 years ago with 132 comments |
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2008 | | The Little Manual of API Design (www4.in.tum.de) |
| 142 points | 9 years ago with 25 comments |
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2008 | | Rent-a-coder hilarity (blog.willbenton.com) |
| 140 points | 11 years ago with 131 comments |
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2008 | | “Exhalation” by Ted Chiang (lightspeedmagazine.com) |
| 137 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments |
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2008 | | My Job Interview at Google (catonmat.net) |
| 133 points | 4 years ago with 155 comments |
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2008 | | Brain foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 132 points | 7 years ago with 27 comments |
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2008 | | From Mr Average to Superman: Craig Davidson's account of using steroids (theguardian.com) |
| 130 points | 11 years ago with 101 comments |
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2008 | | First recorded usage of “hacker” (manybutfinite.com) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments |
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2008 | | Oven Stoves and Heat Walls (lowtechmagazine.com) |
| 128 points | 3 years ago with 104 comments |
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2008 | | Taboo Your Words (lesswrong.com) |
| 128 points | 11 years ago with 49 comments |
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2008 | | Building Robust Systems (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 6 comments |
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2008 | | Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (iquilezles.org) |
| 128 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments |
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2008 | | Grass makes better ethanol than corn does (scientificamerican.com) |
| 128 points | 1 year ago with 164 comments |
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2008 | | How does the calculator percent key work? (blogs.msdn.com) |
| 128 points | 9 years ago with 57 comments |
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2008 | | The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (brucefwebster.com) |
| 127 points | 4 years ago with 127 comments |
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2008 | | Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof (perlmonks.org) |
| 125 points | 11 years ago with 38 comments |
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2008 | | Copy-protection for vinyl in the 1970s (currybet.net) |
| 124 points | 3 years ago with 78 comments |
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2008 | | Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (scientificamerican.com) |
| 124 points | 1 year ago with 353 comments |
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2008 | | In Memory of Jesse Helms and the Condom on His House (poz.com) |
| 123 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments |
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2008 | | USB Made Simple (usbmadesimple.co.uk) |
| 121 points | 1 year ago with 42 comments |
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2008 | | Tom’s Essay (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com) |
| 120 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 14 comments |
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2008 | | Using uninitialized memory for fun and profit (research.swtch.com) |
| 118 points | 1 year ago with 65 comments |
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2008 | | At Home with Down Syndrome (thenewatlantis.com) |
| 118 points | 3 years ago with 138 comments |
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2008 | | What If I Don't Actually Like My Users? (ozlabs.org) |
| 117 points | 8 years ago with 51 comments |
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2008 | | Leveling-Up in Heroes of Might and Magic III (cs.virginia.edu) |
| 117 points | 7 years ago with 35 comments |
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2008 | | The Sheep Incident (damninteresting.com) |
| 117 points | 1 year ago with 35 comments |
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2008 | | Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero? (codinghorror.com) |
| 117 points | 11 years ago with 96 comments |
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2008 | | Revisiting the Intel 432 (dtrace.org) |
| 116 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 15 comments |
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2008 | | Gin, television, and social surplus, or, “looking for the mouse” (gist.github.com) |
| 115 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments |
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2008 | | Man builds working computer inside LittleBigPlanet video game (youtube.com) |
| 114 points | 14 years ago with 10 comments |
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2008 | | Apple2fpga: Reconstructing an Apple II+ on an FPGA (cs.columbia.edu) |
| 114 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments |
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2008 | | The source of the e1000e corruption bug (lwn.net) |
| 114 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments |
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2008 | | A mixed-format, mixed-architecture, mixed-sided diskette (trixter.oldskool.org) |
| 113 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments |
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2008 | | Cargo Cult Agile (jamesshore.com) |
| 111 points | 7 years ago with 109 comments |
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2008 | | Oh, Go Ahead, Overthink FizzBuzz (chalain.livejournal.com) |
| 110 points | 9 years ago with 58 comments |
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2008 | | Map Design – a guide to good looking maps (orienteering.asn.au) |
| 110 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments |
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2008 | | Apple removes $1k featureless iPhone application (latimesblogs.latimes.com) |
| 109 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments |
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2008 | | They told you not to reply (voices.washingtonpost.com) |
| 107 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments |
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2008 | | EFF's “Yellow Dots of Mystery” (eff.org) |
| 107 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments |
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2008 | | “Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape (blog.rjmetrics.com) |
| 106 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments |
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2008 | | A Brief History of Lisp Machines (andromeda.com) |
| 106 points | 7 years ago with 93 comments |
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2008 | | What on earth possessed me... (fontforge.github.io) |
| 105 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments |
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2008 | | Tunguska: Ternary Computer Emulator (tunguska.sourceforge.net) |
| 105 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments |
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2008 | | Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans (abcnews.go.com) |
| 105 points | 11 years ago with 11 comments |
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