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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2006Tcl the misunderstood (antirez.com)
181 points | 12 years ago with 108 comments
2007Cats Cannot Taste Sweets (scientificamerican.com)
181 points | 5 years ago with 156 comments
2000Napster.com banned at some universities for clogging networks (iowastatedaily.com)
180 points | 3 years ago with 180 comments
2002The Etherkiller and Friends (fiftythree.org)
180 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2006We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow (frank.geekheim.de)
180 points | 10 years ago with 196 comments
2008The Tripartite Identity Pattern (habitatchronicles.com)
180 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2008Towards Moore's Law Software (moserware.com)
180 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments
2009Rules of Spycraft (oss.net)
180 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 62 comments
2004How a Swedish engineer saved a once-in-a-lifetime mission to Titan (spectrum.ieee.org)
179 points | 10 years ago with 47 comments
2005A View of Mathematics (alainconnes.org)
179 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments
2006Ssss: Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme (point-at-infinity.org)
179 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 41 comments
2007Cocoa Touch apps (twitter.com)
179 points | 3 years ago with 71 comments
2001Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering (kictanet.or.ke)
178 points | 9 years ago with 73 comments
2001Creating Windows XP Icons (msdn.microsoft.com)
178 points | 6 years ago with 85 comments
2004Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel (informatimago.com)
178 points | 8 years ago with 62 comments
2005The Psychology of Human Misjudgment (web.archive.org)
178 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments
2003Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker (twitter.com)
177 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 64 comments
2008Top Algorithms in Data Mining (cs.uvm.edu)
177 points | 10 years ago with 43 comments
2009Linear algebra for game developers – Part 1 (blog.wolfire.com)
177 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments
2009The Emacs Calculator (nullprogram.com)
177 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments
2000Windows: A software engineering odyssey (usenix.org)
176 points | 1 year ago with 99 comments
2001Should I replace my 56k modem with a 28.8K Modem? (forums.anandtech.com)
176 points | 1 year ago with 140 comments
2003Turn your PC upside down to boot into Linux (mini-itx.com)
176 points | 9 years ago with 68 comments
2007Bayes' rule in Haskell (randomhacks.net)
176 points | 11 years ago with 77 comments
2008Let over Lambda – Common Lisp Book (letoverlambda.com)
176 points | 5 years ago with 97 comments
2009The History of Random.org (random.org)
176 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2000BANCStar (web.archive.org)
175 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments
2000Courtney Love does the math (salon.com)
175 points | 13 years ago with 36 comments
2001An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (ycombinator.com)
175 points | 11 years ago with 54 comments
2003Dune: The Battle for Arrakis – Extended Reference (ledmeister.com)
175 points | 4 years ago with 110 comments
2003A guide to pricing and hedging (ieor.columbia.edu)
175 points | 5 years ago with 80 comments
2004The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com)
175 points | 4 years ago with 169 comments
2007How Hash Algorithms Work (metamorphosite.com)
175 points | 8 years ago with 58 comments
2007Whoever does not understand Lisp is doomed to reinvent it (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
175 points | 8 years ago with 229 comments
2008Why There Aren't More Googles (paulgraham.com)
175 points | 4 years ago with 160 comments
2000Things You Should Never Do, Part I (joelonsoftware.com)
174 points | 11 years ago with 154 comments
2005Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (zedshaw.com)
174 points | 15 years ago with 116 comments
2007Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (schneier.com)
174 points | 12 years ago with 93 comments
2008REST Anti-Patterns (infoq.com)
174 points | 7 years ago with 112 comments
2009Bryan Cantrill interviews Arthur Whitney (queue.acm.org)
174 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2004A DIY Cruise Missile (interestingprojects.com)
173 points | 5 years ago with 103 comments
2005Design and Implementation of a Win32 Text Editor (catch22.net)
173 points | 8 years ago with 51 comments
2006The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy (scienceblogs.com)
173 points | 13 years ago with 127 comments
2006How to be interesting (russelldavies.typepad.com)
173 points | 13 years ago with 33 comments
2001Stanford CS Education Library (cslibrary.stanford.edu)
172 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2002Reading Mathematics (math.cornell.edu)
172 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
2003AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software WASTE (web.archive.org)
172 points | 1 year ago with 115 comments
2007Career Advice from Scott Adams (dilbertblog.typepad.com)
172 points | 9 years ago with 89 comments
2009Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (bloomberg.com)
172 points | 9 years ago with 163 comments
2000What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (crummy.com)
171 points | 6 years ago with 107 comments
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