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