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| Articles written in 2008 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2008 | | Virding's First Rule of Programming (rvirding.blogspot.com) |
| 58 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2008 | | Telescope Rule (wiki.c2.com) |
| 58 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2008 | | Uranium Chemistry (carlwillis.wordpress.com) |
| 57 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2008 | | I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing (nickbostrom.com) |
| 57 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2008 | | Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof (perlmonks.org) |
| 57 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2008 | | Heroku founder Adam Wiggins: Speculating Sucks (adam.heroku.com) |
| 56 points | 14 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2008 | | A Scheme syntax-rules primer (willdonnelly.net) |
| 56 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2008 | | Why is nobody using SSL client certificates? (pilif.github.io) |
| 56 points | 9 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Sac State 8008: The First Full-Fledged Microcomputer (digibarn.com) |
| 55 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2008 | | Since SVN revision r4027 source code is personally insulting me (bugs.debian.org) |
| 55 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2008 | | Luck in Wesnoth: Rationale (forums.wesnoth.org) |
| 54 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2008 | | Microkernels vs. hypervisors (ok-labs.com) |
| 54 points | 10 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2008 | | Programmer's Competency Matrix for SDE hiring parameters (sijinjoseph.netlify.app) |
| 54 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2008 | | Little Known Hacker News (techcrunch.com) |
| 54 points | 14 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Origins of the <blink> tag (montulli.org) |
| 53 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2008 | | Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion: Ion and Hall Thrusters (descanso.jpl.nasa.gov) |
| 53 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2008 | | Magic Bitboards: Finding all valid bishop moves in a 64-bit multiply (chessprogramming.wikispaces.com) |
| 53 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2008 | | MP3 vs. AAC vs. FLAC vs. CD (stereophile.com) |
| 53 points | 1 year ago with 117 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Hidden Cost of Smart Drugs (scienceblogs.com) |
| 52 points | 14 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Brickyard Summer of 1957 (brickcollecting.com) |
| 52 points | 3 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2008 | | Succincter (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 52 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2008 | | Music: A Mathematical Offering (homepages.abdn.ac.uk) |
| 51 points | 4 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2008 | | Happy 60th Birthday to the Transistor (shuttersparks.net) |
| 51 points | 3 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2008 | | Operating system research – 16 years perspective (vyodaiken.com) |
| 51 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2008 | | Why CPU Frequency Stalled (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 51 points | 8 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2008 | | Windows for Submarines (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) |
| 51 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Running Novelist (newyorker.com) |
| 51 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 5 comments |
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| 2008 | | Quantum Computing Through Quaternions (ejtp.com) |
| 51 points | 5 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2008 | | iPhone Doomed to Failure (networkworld.com) |
| 50 points | 1 year ago with 66 comments |
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| 2008 | | Birth Control Pills Affect Women's Taste in Men (scientificamerican.com) |
| 50 points | 14 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2008 | | Debunking the tragedy of the commons (climateandcapitalism.com) |
| 50 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2008 | | An Implementation of J – Incunabulum (jsoftware.com) |
| 50 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Art of Nomography (myreckonings.com) |
| 49 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2008 | | Quantity Always Trumps Quality (codinghorror.com) |
| 49 points | 13 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2008 | | Cryogenically frozen RAM bypasses disk encryption methods (zdnet.com) |
| 49 points | 8 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2008 | | Bonneville can be a tough place (saltflats.com) |
| 49 points | 4 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2008 | | Some Notes on Christopher Alexander (zeta.math.utsa.edu) |
| 49 points | 4 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2008 | | A Geometrically Natural Uncomputable Function (xorshammer.com) |
| 49 points | 2 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2008 | | Nissan vs. Nissan (digest.com) |
| 48 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Simple Truth (yudkowsky.net) |
| 48 points | 12 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2008 | | Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections (win.tue.nl) |
| 48 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2008 | | Sitting straight 'bad for backs' (news.bbc.co.uk) |
| 48 points | 11 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2008 | | Good Software Takes 10 Years to Make (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 47 points | 3 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2008 | | Non-Euclidean Geometry Online: A Guide to Resources (pi.math.cornell.edu) |
| 47 points | 1 year ago with 7 comments |
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| 2008 | | Airliner Repair, 24/7 (airspacemag.com) |
| 47 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2008 | | Dataflow computers: Their history and future (csrl.unt.edu) |
| 47 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2008 | | First number not in Google? (godplaysdice.blogspot.com) |
| 46 points | 10 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2008 | | American Murder Mystery (theatlantic.com) |
| 46 points | 14 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2008 | | Two Arms and a Head (2arms1head.com) |
| 46 points | 3 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2008 | | Leslie Lamport: Computer Science and State Machines (research.microsoft.com) |
| 46 points | 9 years ago with 14 comments |
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