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| Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2006 | | Diamonds Suck (diamondssuck.com) |
| 1779 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2009 | | A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages (james-iry.blogspot.com) |
| 1765 points across 9 posts | 9 months ago with 64 comments |
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| 2009 | | I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived (uss-la-ca135.org) |
| 1657 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 257 comments |
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| 2000 | | Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 1655 points | 6 months ago with 498 comments |
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| 2002 | | Forgotten Employee (sites.google.com) |
| 1490 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 124 comments |
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| 2009 | | Keep Your Identity Small (paulgraham.com) |
| 1415 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 162 comments |
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| 2004 | | You can't tell people anything (habitatchronicles.com) |
| 1381 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 182 comments |
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| 2009 | | Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (georgehart.com) |
| 1351 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 2008 | | Why to start a startup in a bad economy (paulgraham.com) |
| 1311 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 223 comments |
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| 2002 | | Can’t send email more than 500 miles (web.mit.edu) |
| 1158 points | 7 months ago with 195 comments |
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| 2009 | | “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (bugs.launchpad.net) |
| 996 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 207 comments |
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| 2005 | | NewOS (newos.org) |
| 978 points across 8 posts | 8 months ago with 9 comments |
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| 2007 | | ‘I've got nothing to hide’ and other misunderstandings of privacy (papers.ssrn.com) |
| 960 points across 5 posts | 8 months ago with 260 comments |
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| 2008 | | To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (wired.com) |
| 955 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2009 | | Not Lisp again (funcall.blogspot.com) |
| 915 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2009 | | Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (improvingsoftware.com) |
| 910 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 430 comments |
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| 2004 | | Zoomquilt (zoomquilt.org) |
| 878 points | 3 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2000 | | Curse Of The Gifted (vanadac.com) |
| 875 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 356 comments |
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| 2009 | | How not to sort by average rating (evanmiller.org) |
| 858 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2009 | | Start all of your commands with a comma (rhodesmill.org) |
| 845 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 121 comments |
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| 2009 | | There Is No Speed Limit (sivers.org) |
| 837 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2003 | | Calculus for Beginners and Artists (www-math.mit.edu) |
| 836 points | 4 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 2009 | | Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (link.springer.com) |
| 830 points | 6 months ago with 235 comments |
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| 2006 | | How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (downes.ca) |
| 827 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2009 | | The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (moserware.com) |
| 821 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2006 | | Dennis Ritchie Home Page (bell-labs.com) |
| 817 points across 12 posts | 2 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2000 | | Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (cgl.uwaterloo.ca) |
| 753 points | 7 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2004 | | Should I just stop attempting to make these trivial patches? (lkml.org) |
| 752 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2008 | | Print this file, your printer will jam (nedbatchelder.com) |
| 740 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 208 comments |
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| 2005 | | BBS: The Documentary (bbsdocumentary.com) |
| 727 points across 3 posts | 3 months ago with 59 comments |
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| 2009 | | A stick figure guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (moserware.com) |
| 725 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2004 | | What You Can't Say (paulgraham.com) |
| 706 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 194 comments |
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| 2009 | | Maker's schedule, Manager's schedule (paulgraham.com) |
| 706 points across 6 posts | 9 months ago with 72 comments |
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| 2005 | | How to be more productive (aaronsw.com) |
| 698 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments |
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| 2003 | | Essential C (cslibrary.stanford.edu) |
| 696 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2009 | | Linus’s rules on keeping Git history clean (mail-archive.com) |
| 688 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2008 | | A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (prog21.dadgum.com) |
| 676 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 179 comments |
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| 2009 | | There’s no speed limit (sive.rs) |
| 670 points | 1 year ago with 276 comments |
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| 2008 | | History of the browser user-agent string (webaim.org) |
| 669 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2005 | | Why I Hate Frameworks (factoryfactoryfactory.net) |
| 662 points | 9 months ago with 392 comments |
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| 2000 | | Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (cs.otago.ac.nz) |
| 656 points | 5 years ago with 380 comments |
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| 2007 | | A regular expression to check for prime numbers (noulakaz.net) |
| 655 points across 2 posts | 10 months ago with 97 comments |
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| 2007 | | Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (elbruz.org) |
| 645 points | 1 year ago with 254 comments |
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| 2006 | | I Hate the News (aaronsw.com) |
| 643 points across 4 posts | 9 months ago with 93 comments |
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| 2007 | | Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (cia.gov) |
| 635 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2006 | | The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (teslamotors.com) |
| 631 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 194 comments |
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| 2008 | | NirSoft Freeware (nirsoft.net) |
| 625 points | 6 years ago with 232 comments |
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| 2009 | | Papers every developer should read at least twice (michaelfeathers.silvrback.com) |
| 623 points | 2 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2009 | | Oberon (ignorethecode.net) |
| 618 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 143 comments |
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| 2002 | | The case of the 500-mile email (ibiblio.org) |
| 614 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 93 comments |
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