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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2004Switcher (folklore.org)
162 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments
2004Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones? (9p.io)
162 points | 5 years ago with 219 comments
2005AMD Killed the Itanium (utcc.utoronto.ca)
162 points | 1 year ago with 236 comments
2007The “bicameral mind” 30 years on (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
162 points | 2 years ago with 101 comments
2008Why Apple Chose Clang (opensource.apple.com)
162 points | 4 years ago with 122 comments
2009Design of LuaJIT 2.0 (lua-users.org)
162 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2003How to make a complete map of every thought you think (users.speakeasy.net)
161 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 27 comments
2006Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained (rgoarchitects.com)
161 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2007The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (marktarver.com)
161 points | 1 year ago with 130 comments
2008Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network (web.mit.edu)
161 points | 7 years ago with 154 comments
2008Dynamic Languages Strike Back (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
161 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 43 comments
2004Soviet Moon Images (mentallandscape.com)
160 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2004Writing your own search engine is hard (queue.acm.org)
160 points | 2 years ago with 79 comments
2005The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe (historytoday.com)
160 points | 8 years ago with 159 comments
2006Bloomberg Runs on 25M lines of Fortran (etrading.wordpress.com)
160 points | 9 years ago with 149 comments
2008Unix Toolbox (cb.vu)
160 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2002A Mathematician’s Lament (maa.org)
159 points | 7 years ago with 27 comments
2003Lindows 4.0 (baturin.org)
159 points | 1 year ago with 148 comments
2004Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (web.archive.org)
159 points | 2 years ago with 182 comments
2007We built a secret apartment in the mall (trummerkind.com)
159 points | 2 years ago with 37 comments
2009Qian Xuesen dies at 98; Co-Founder of JPL and China's space program (latimes.com)
159 points | 11 years ago with 84 comments
2001Lisp in Web-Based Applications (lib.store.yahoo.net)
158 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 35 comments
2007Bjarne Stroustrup: “I Did It for You All” (harmful.cat-v.org)
158 points | 3 years ago with 111 comments
2008What If Time Really Exists? (arxiv.org)
158 points | 8 years ago with 204 comments
2008Who ordered memory fences on an x86? (bartoszmilewski.com)
158 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 25 comments
2009How and Why Athletes Go Broke (si.com)
158 points | 6 years ago with 262 comments
2009Plain English explanation of Big O? (stackoverflow.com)
158 points | 11 years ago with 24 comments
2009User interface design timeframes: from 0.1 seconds to 10 years (nngroup.com)
158 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 56 comments
2009Summary of all the MIT Introduction to Algorithms lectures (catonmat.net)
158 points | 4 years ago with 9 comments
2002Internet Explorer is EVIL! (toastytech.com)
157 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 66 comments
2002The Abolition of Work (theanarchistlibrary.org)
157 points | 4 years ago with 221 comments
2005McCarthy's Ambiguous Operator (randomhacks.net)
157 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2005Why most published research findings are false (journals.plos.org)
157 points | 2 years ago with 80 comments
2006“The default name prefix is changed to be ‘sqlite’ spelled backwards” (github.com)
157 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2006An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (schemeworkshop.org)
157 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
2006Why Can't Database Tables Index Themselves? (blog.codinghorror.com)
157 points | 2 years ago with 119 comments
2008My experiment with smart drugs (johannhari.com)
157 points | 10 years ago with 128 comments
2008Six Principles for Making New Things (paulgraham.com)
157 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2009Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font (sensi.org)
157 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 32 comments
2005Maze Design (cgl.uwaterloo.ca)
156 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2005Practical Common Lisp (gigamonkeys.com)
156 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 43 comments
2006Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (ronpatrickstuff.com)
156 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2007The home computer as a cultural object is physically vanishing (contemporary-home-computing.org)
156 points | 3 years ago with 187 comments
2008Fire the workaholics (37signals.com)
156 points | 13 years ago with 75 comments
2008Late Bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? (newyorker.com)
156 points | 10 years ago with 67 comments
2000Paul Graham reviews Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (amazon.com)
155 points | 11 years ago with 101 comments
2002How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (samizdat.mines.edu)
155 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 6 comments
2004100 Parking Tickets (100parkingtickets.com)
155 points | 1 year ago with 130 comments
2007Boycott Numerical Recipes (mingus.as.arizona.edu)
155 points | 2 years ago with 107 comments
2008The forbidden railway: Vienna – Pyongyang (vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com)
155 points | 8 years ago with 29 comments
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