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| Articles written in 2008 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2008 | | Clojure Rationale (clojure.org) |
| 86 points | 1 year ago with 51 comments |
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| 2008 | | I can't believe I'm praising Tcl (yosefk.com) |
| 86 points | 1 year ago with 52 comments |
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| 2008 | | Examining the Legendary Hurd Kernel (informit.com) |
| 86 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2008 | | How to Reverse-Engineer a Satellite TV Smart Card (wired.com) |
| 85 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Complete Guide to All the Taquerias of Redwood City, v2.0 (emeraldlake.com) |
| 85 points | 1 year ago with 34 comments |
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| 2008 | | Heroku founder Adam Wiggins: The Legacy of the Self-Made Man (adam.heroku.com) |
| 85 points | 14 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2008 | | Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa (economist.com) |
| 85 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2008 | | “Assault on Reason” Endangers Democracy (npr.org) |
| 84 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Year of Dressing Formally (chronicle.com) |
| 84 points | 11 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 2008 | | Understanding What It's Like to Program in Forth (prog21.dadgum.com) |
| 84 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2008 | | If You Liked This, You're Sure to Love That (nytimes.com) |
| 83 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2008 | | World's Oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC (reuters.com) |
| 83 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2008 | | Computation and State Machines (lamport.azurewebsites.net) |
| 83 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2008 | | Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competitors Nearby (mindyourdecisions.com) |
| 83 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2008 | | dd – Destroyer of Disks (noah.org) |
| 82 points | 9 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2008 | | Done, and Gets Things Smart (steve-yegge.blogspot.com) |
| 82 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2008 | | Who Is This “Licklider” Guy? (moserware.com) |
| 82 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2008 | | How MOS 6502 Illegal Opcodes Work (pagetable.com) |
| 82 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2008 | | PAL Colour Recovery from black-and-white ‘telerecordings’ (techmind.org) |
| 81 points | 2 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2008 | | Japan Fights Crowds of Crows (nytimes.com) |
| 81 points | 6 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2008 | | Vegetable Oil for Lubricating Chainsaws (fs.fed.us) |
| 81 points | 3 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2008 | | How Ruby on Rails Could Be Much Better (dreamhost.com) |
| 81 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2008 | | A Field Guide to Genetic Programming (libros.metabiblioteca.org:8080) |
| 80 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2008 | | What does I/O bound mean? (erikengbrecht.blogspot.com) |
| 79 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2008 | | Paul Dirac: The Mozart of Science (ias.edu) |
| 79 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2008 | | Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong (scottaaronson.com) |
| 79 points | 12 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2008 | | Don’t Hash Secrets (benlog.com) |
| 78 points | 11 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2008 | | Where are they? Why I hope the search for ET life finds nothing (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 78 points | 6 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2008 | | Analog's answer to FPGA opens field to masses (eetimes.com) |
| 78 points | 10 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Acid3 Test (acid3.acidtests.org) |
| 78 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2008 | | Wasabi fire alarm a lifesaver for the deaf (reuters.com) |
| 78 points | 4 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2008 | | America’s First Amphetamine Epidemic 1929–1971 (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 77 points | 5 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2008 | | Let Over Lambda (letoverlambda.com) |
| 77 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2008 | | Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn (slideshare.net) |
| 77 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2008 | | Welcome to C-- (cs.tufts.edu) |
| 76 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2008 | | Up and Then Down: The lives of elevators (newyorker.com) |
| 76 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2008 | | If-statements in Smalltalk (pozorvlak.livejournal.com) |
| 76 points | 7 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2008 | | Now 0-for-3, SpaceX's Elon Musk Vows to Make Orbit (wired.com) |
| 75 points | 12 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2008 | | Programming Book Profits (johnresig.com) |
| 75 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2008 | | Rapid Note-Taking with the Morse Code Method (calnewport.com) |
| 75 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2008 | | Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (vidarholen.net) |
| 74 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Technical Evolution of Vannevar Bush’s Memex (digitalhumanities.org) |
| 74 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2008 | | Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (ams.org) |
| 74 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2008 | | Consistency: How to defeat the purpose of IEEE floating point (yosefk.com) |
| 73 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Moratorium on US Medical School Enrollment from 1980 to 2005 (amjmed.com) |
| 73 points | 2 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 2008 | | Defender of the Favicon (p01.org) |
| 73 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2008 | | What it means to be a hacker (nettime.org) |
| 73 points | 14 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2008 | | A Practical Computer Science Primer (learn-cs.pbworks.com) |
| 73 points | 11 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2008 | | Alex Payne - Rules for Computing Happiness (al3x.net) |
| 73 points | 13 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2008 | | Coding Horror: The Magpie Developer (codinghorror.com) |
| 72 points | 11 years ago with 73 comments |
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