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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2007The Dark Side of C++ (fefe.de)
171 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 52 comments
2009colorForth (colorforth.github.io)
171 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 54 comments
2009Books of a Highly Effective Programmer (blog.fogus.me)
171 points | 12 years ago with 35 comments
2009Teaching Concurrency (research.microsoft.com)
171 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2005Forgotten Language: Jorf could have been Python or Ruby (ralsina.me)
170 points | 9 years ago with 69 comments
2006Early Retirement (philip.greenspun.com)
170 points | 3 years ago with 296 comments
2008The forbidden railway: Vienna - Pyongyang (vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.de)
170 points | 12 years ago with 34 comments
2008The Narcissism of Small Code Differences (raganwald.com)
170 points | 11 years ago with 126 comments
2008Ten Years of Purely Functional Data Structures (okasaki.blogspot.ru)
170 points | 11 years ago with 24 comments
2000Lynn Conway's Story (ai.eecs.umich.edu)
169 points | 1 year ago with 40 comments
2005Accelerando (antipope.org)
169 points | 2 years ago with 81 comments
2007Introduction to Hacking PostgreSQL (neilconway.org)
169 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2009Extinct goat was cold-blooded (phys.org)
169 points | 1 year ago with 99 comments
2009The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? (econ.ucsb.edu)
169 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 108 comments
2000What You'll Need to Know in 2020 That You Don't Know Now (discovermagazine.com)
168 points | 4 years ago with 147 comments
2004Stolen from Apple (folklore.org)
168 points | 1 year ago with 44 comments
2004The Canon Cat: The Writing Information Appliance (canoncat.org)
168 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 42 comments
2008How Computers Boot Up (manybutfinite.com)
168 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2008Sand won’t save you this time (science.org)
168 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2009Typing the Letters A-E-S Into Your Code (chargen.matasano.com)
168 points | 10 years ago with 63 comments
2009Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (raphkoster.com)
168 points | 4 years ago with 172 comments
2002Cityspeak from Blade Runner (brmovie.com)
167 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments
2009Why Google Employees Quit (techcrunch.com)
167 points | 9 years ago with 101 comments
2002Why Wolfram Mathematica did not use Lisp (ymeme.com)
166 points | 9 years ago with 140 comments
2004A Short Introduction to the Lambda Calculus (cs.bham.ac.uk)
166 points | 8 years ago with 18 comments
2006Rules for Writing Safety Critical Code (spinroot.com)
166 points | 8 years ago with 81 comments
2008The New Old Way of Learning Languages (theamericanscholar.org)
166 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 38 comments
2000Tips from the Pragmatic Programmer (pragprog.com)
165 points | 8 years ago with 72 comments
2001RMS on the Ogg Vorbis license (lwn.net)
165 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 82 comments
2001A History of Lua (lua.org)
165 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 119 comments
2003Jacksonpollock.org (jacksonpollock.org)
165 points | 4 years ago with 151 comments
2003Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer (lists.kde.org)
165 points | 12 years ago with 51 comments
2006Argentina on Two Steaks a Day (idlewords.com)
165 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 4 comments
2009My $3.3M Mistake (sivers.org)
165 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments
2009Yakhchal: Ancient Refrigerators (eartharchitecture.org)
165 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments
2009Sugar, acid and teeth (dbskeptic.com)
165 points | 12 years ago with 102 comments
2001NES Game Genie Technical Notes (tuxnes.sourceforge.net)
164 points | 2 years ago with 55 comments
2003How to Write Unmaintainable Code (github.com)
164 points | 4 years ago with 85 comments
2005A Rocket to Nowhere (idlewords.com)
164 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2007Kelly Criterion (r6.ca)
164 points | 6 years ago with 96 comments
2007Self-Control Relies on Glucose as a Limited Energy Source (fermatslibrary.com)
164 points | 7 years ago with 113 comments
2009The $300M Button (articles.uie.com)
164 points | 8 years ago with 72 comments
2009Things I Won't Work With: Thioacetone (science.org)
164 points | 1 year ago with 75 comments
2009NASA Open Sources Apollo 11 Code (apcmag.com)
164 points | 10 years ago with 36 comments
2001In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome (joelonsoftware.com)
163 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 112 comments
2002Levels of code in Forth programming (ultratechnology.com)
163 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
2005This Is Water (fs.blog)
163 points | 3 years ago with 75 comments
2006Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (ai.googleblog.com)
163 points | 2 years ago with 193 comments
2006So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (varnish-cache.org)
163 points | 3 years ago with 102 comments
2007'Snowdrift' game tops 'Prisoner's Dilemma' in explaining cooperation (phys.org)
163 points | 7 years ago with 115 comments
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