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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2008I'm going to scale my foot up your ass (widgetsandshit.com)
155 points | 1 year ago with 90 comments
2009Users Rationally Rejecting Security Advice (schneier.com)
155 points | 9 years ago with 91 comments
2000Lisp can be “hard” real time [pdf] (franz.com)
154 points | 2 years ago with 114 comments
2002How complex systems fail (web.mit.edu)
154 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2003Ashby's book "Introduction to Cybernetics" (pespmc1.vub.ac.be)
154 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2006Ruby in Twenty Minutes (ruby-lang.org)
154 points | 5 years ago with 112 comments
2008Laid off (expatsoftware.com)
154 points | 8 years ago with 131 comments
2008Honda Needs a Tune-Up (davidsd.org)
154 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2008The Yamaha NS10 Story (soundonsound.com)
154 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 57 comments
2009Starting your own bank is laborious but profitable (wealthmanagement.com)
154 points | 6 years ago with 155 comments
2009DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show (nytimes.com)
154 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2009Acetaminophen and the War on Drugs (paleonu.com)
154 points | 13 years ago with 58 comments
2000Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach (people.math.wisc.edu)
153 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments
2000The Great Tree-List Recursion Problem (cslibrary.stanford.edu)
153 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2006Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across life course (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
153 points | 1 year ago with 194 comments
2006If you want to be rich, first stop being so frightened (timesonline.co.uk)
153 points | 15 years ago with 109 comments
2006NYC Fire Department forcible entry reference guide [pdf] (ia800207.us.archive.org)
153 points | 2 years ago with 42 comments
2006We Tried Baseball and It Didn't Work (ronjeffries.com)
153 points | 3 years ago with 118 comments
2000Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System (snap.stanford.edu)
152 points | 6 years ago with 71 comments
2000Proofs are Programs – 19th Century Logic and 21st Century Computing (homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk)
152 points | 8 years ago with 77 comments
2002Don't Trust Google (idlewords.com)
152 points | 10 years ago with 83 comments
2002A Mathematician’s Lament (maa.org)
152 points | 11 years ago with 119 comments
2005The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web (webtypography.net)
152 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments
2005My coffeehouse nightmare (slate.com)
152 points | 7 years ago with 113 comments
2006Don't forget randomness is still just a hypothesis (nature.com)
152 points | 5 years ago with 129 comments
2008What’s Wrong with “Multiplication Is Repeated Addition”? (denisegaskins.com)
152 points | 3 years ago with 417 comments
2008My Road to Erlang (prog21.dadgum.com)
152 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments
2008Why browse the Web in Emacs? (sachachua.com)
152 points | 10 years ago with 85 comments
2009Reasonable Person Principle (cs.cmu.edu)
152 points | 3 years ago with 109 comments
2001enron :: discover the power of WHY (enroncorp.com)
151 points | 1 year ago with 71 comments
2003Ian Knot (fieggen.com)
151 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments
2003Principles of the American Cargo Cult (web.archive.org)
151 points | 5 years ago with 56 comments
2004A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection (cs.virginia.edu)
151 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
2006The halting problem is decidable on a set of asymptotic probability one (projecteuclid.org)
151 points | 1 year ago with 119 comments
2007“Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (theoryofconstraints.blogspot.com)
151 points | 2 years ago with 77 comments
2008The Best Investment Advice You'll Never Get (modernluxury.com)
151 points | 10 years ago with 124 comments
2000The Irregular Verbs (pinker.wjh.harvard.edu)
150 points | 10 years ago with 69 comments
2004A Conversation with Alan Kay (queue.acm.org)
150 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 21 comments
2006The Last Great Steam Car (damninteresting.com)
150 points | 9 years ago with 46 comments
2008Architecture of Lisp Machines (cs.utah.edu)
150 points | 3 years ago with 57 comments
2009Gresham’s Law: Bad Drives Out Good as Time Passes (fs.blog)
150 points | 4 years ago with 110 comments
2009Origins of Python's “Functional” Features (python-history.blogspot.com)
150 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 34 comments
2009A Practical Guide to Correctly Troubleshooting with Traceroute (nanog.org)
150 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
2000The Great Renaming 1985 – 1988 (livinginternet.info)
149 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments
2000How to play the guitar by ear, for mathematicians and physicists (foundationwebsite.org)
149 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments
2001"I can't do math" (faculty.umf.maine.edu)
149 points | 11 years ago with 132 comments
2005A Letter from _why (aberant.tumblr.com)
149 points | 2 years ago with 72 comments
2006Inside the Linux boot process (ibm.com)
149 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2007The Checklist (newyorker.com)
149 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2007The U.S. Census Bureau Gave Up Names of Japanese-Americans in WWII (scientificamerican.com)
149 points | 8 years ago with 83 comments
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