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| Articles written in 2008 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2008 | | Spore Prototypes (spore.com) |
| 105 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2008 | | Atomic John: Truck driver uncovers secrets about first nuclear bombs (newyorker.com) |
| 104 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2008 | | Star Trek 1971 Text Game (codeproject.com) |
| 104 points | 10 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2008 | | Why monads have not taken the Common Lisp world by storm (marijnhaverbeke.nl) |
| 104 points | 10 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2008 | | Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code (angg.twu.net) |
| 104 points | 4 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2008 | | Selection bias and bombers (johndcook.com) |
| 103 points | 10 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Art of Unix Programming (catb.org) |
| 103 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2008 | | Get specific (sivers.org) |
| 102 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2008 | | "Maxwell's equations of software" examined (righto.com) |
| 102 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2008 | | Implementing strcmp, strlen, and strstr using SSE 4.2 instructions (strchr.com) |
| 101 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2008 | | Linear Circuit Design Handbook (analog.com) |
| 101 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Innumeracy of Intellectuals (scienceblogs.com) |
| 101 points | 12 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2008 | | Assertions in Production Code? (drdobbs.com) |
| 100 points | 6 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2008 | | Lua's Development Style (lua-users.org) |
| 100 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2008 | | How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem undecidable (ebiquity.umbc.edu) |
| 99 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2008 | | Ooh Ooh My Turn Why Lisp? (smuglispweeny.blogspot.com) |
| 99 points | 8 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 2008 | | Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 99 points | 8 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2008 | | Is it possible to write games like Pac-Man in a functional language? (prog21.dadgum.com) |
| 98 points | 1 year ago with 144 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Y Combinator (mvanier.livejournal.com) |
| 98 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2008 | | Computation and State Machines (research.microsoft.com) |
| 97 points | 8 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2008 | | Drawing an elephant with four complex parameters (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 97 points | 6 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2008 | | Disciplined Minds (fromthearchives.blogspot.com) |
| 95 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Making Of Dwarf Fortress (gamasutra.com) |
| 95 points | 13 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2008 | | The tiniest C sort function? (cs.dartmouth.edu) |
| 95 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2008 | | Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism (blog.codinghorror.com) |
| 95 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Tunguska Mystery 100 Years Later (scientificamerican.com) |
| 94 points | 1 year ago with 74 comments |
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| 2008 | | How to write untestable code (testing.googleblog.com) |
| 94 points | 2 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2008 | | Blogging Like a Hacker (tom.preston-werner.com) |
| 94 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2008 | | Microsoft Bob Taking Up Space (technet.microsoft.com) |
| 94 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Erlang Rationale (drive.google.com) |
| 94 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2008 | | LispMe – the Scheme system for PalmOS (lispme.de) |
| 93 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2008 | | Start a side project, says GitHub founder (gist.github.com) |
| 92 points | 5 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2008 | | Booting Linux in five seconds (lwn.net) |
| 92 points | 2 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Neanderthal correlation (nature.com) |
| 92 points | 10 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2008 | | Mistakes companies make with their online communities (computerworld.com) |
| 91 points | 2 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2008 | | Linus Torvalds on the "security circus" (lkml.org) |
| 91 points | 13 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2008 | | Distributed Hash Table Protocol (bittorrent.org) |
| 91 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2008 | | Group theoretical methods in machine learning (people.cs.uchicago.edu) |
| 90 points | 7 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2008 | | Blogging Like a Hacker (tom.preston-werner.com) |
| 89 points | 1 year ago with 38 comments |
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| 2008 | | Project VGA – Home of the Low Budget, Open Source, VGA Compatible Card (wacco.mveas.com) |
| 89 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2008 | | Better than Free (kk.org) |
| 89 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 20 comments |
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| 2008 | | Writing a compiler in Ruby, bottom up (hokstad.com) |
| 89 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2008 | | Who are the Japanese? (discovermagazine.com) |
| 89 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2008 | | Japanese peer-to-peer (jmoiron.net) |
| 88 points | 11 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2008 | | Zipf's Law (plus.maths.org) |
| 88 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2008 | | Where Do People Draw Lines? (gfx.cs.princeton.edu) |
| 88 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2008 | | A logarithmic image transformation (josleys.com) |
| 87 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2008 | | Late Bloomers: Why Do We Equate Genius with Precocity? (newyorker.com) |
| 87 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2008 | | Brian's Rules for Writing Cross Platform 'C' Code (ski-epic.com) |
| 87 points | 10 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 2008 | | Two Dots Too Many (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu) |
| 86 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments |
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