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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2007Three typefaces for mathematics (ultrasparky.org)
149 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments
2009A Unix Utility to Know About: lsof (catonmat.net)
149 points | 8 years ago with 53 comments
2009Ignore Sunk Costs (seths.blog)
149 points | 5 years ago with 98 comments
2000Courtney Love does the math (salon.com)
148 points | 14 years ago with 56 comments
2000CIA Analyst Training Handbook (cryptome.org)
148 points | 11 years ago with 23 comments
2004No, that dot in the domain name of the URL is not a mistake (jdebp.info.)
148 points | 5 years ago with 80 comments
2006Gödel and the limits of logic (plus.maths.org)
148 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments
2006HashLife: An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time (drdobbs.com)
148 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 4 comments
2007Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (viemu.com)
148 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 123 comments
2008What happens when you add a new teller? (johndcook.com)
148 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 29 comments
2009The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. – San Francisco (sfweekly.com)
148 points | 12 years ago with 121 comments
2009A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat (catonmat.net)
148 points | 11 years ago with 36 comments
2009The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur (kauffman.org)
148 points | 12 years ago with 106 comments
2009C’s Biggest Mistake (digitalmars.com)
148 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 96 comments
2002Why GNU su does not support the `wheel' group (ftp.gnu.org)
147 points | 1 year ago with 141 comments
2002Kit Kat Conspiracy (everything2.com)
147 points | 10 years ago with 164 comments
2002Types and Programming Languages (mitpress.mit.edu)
147 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments
2003Origins and History of Unix, 1969-1995 (catb.org)
147 points | 7 years ago with 36 comments
2005Peer-to-Peer Communication Across Network Address Translators (brynosaurus.com)
147 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 45 comments
2006Destroy All Monsters: A Journey into the Caverns of Dungeons and Dragons (believermag.com)
147 points | 7 years ago with 49 comments
2007Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable version of DR-DOS (msfn.org)
147 points | 3 years ago with 52 comments
2007The “bicameral mind” 30 years on: A reappraisal of Jaynes’ hypothesis (functionalneurology.com)
147 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments
2007Derivatives of Regular Expressions (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
147 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments
2009My favorite liar (zenmoments.org)
147 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2009The Life of a Cherry Drying Pilot (aneclecticmind.com)
147 points | 5 years ago with 96 comments
2009“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (europe.theoildrum.com)
147 points | 6 years ago with 91 comments
2003Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (demarcken.org)
146 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2004Google’s Secret and Linear Algebra (verso.mat.uam.es)
146 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2004Letter to Pixar President Ed Catmull [pdf] (alvyray.com)
146 points | 1 year ago with 61 comments
2004It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (paradise.caltech.edu)
146 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments
2005At the Blackboard: Kurt Vonnegut diagrams the shapes of stories (laphamsquarterly.org)
146 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2005A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy [pdf] (gwern.net)
146 points | 1 year ago with 53 comments
2006List of price of medieval items (medieval.ucdavis.edu)
146 points | 7 years ago with 48 comments
2008Airliner Repair, 24/7 Boeing’s traveling fix-it team (smithsonianmag.com)
146 points | 1 year ago with 96 comments
2008Orangutan from Borneo photographed using a spear tool to fish (primatology.net)
146 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2009Influenza A (H1N1) – How many bits does it take to kill a human? (bunniestudios.com)
146 points | 7 years ago with 29 comments
2009Super Resolution from a Single Image (wisdom.weizmann.ac.il)
146 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments
2009The Art of Kimchi (saveur.com)
146 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments
2009The joy of index cards (nickpage.co.uk)
146 points | 6 years ago with 65 comments
2000Unix Wars (livinginternet.com)
145 points | 4 years ago with 87 comments
2000Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (wired.com)
145 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2002Security in Plan 9 (9p.io)
145 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments
2003Geek Social Fallacies (plausiblydeniable.com)
145 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2004Great Hacker != Great Hire (ericsink.com)
145 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 104 comments
2007There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (terrytao.wordpress.com)
145 points | 2 years ago with 89 comments
2007Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic elements (pa3fwm.nl)
145 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments
2008What Sucks About Erlang (damienkatz.net)
145 points | 6 years ago with 103 comments
2008Differential Forms and Integration (math.ucla.edu)
145 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments
2009Exploding Software-Engineering Myths (research.microsoft.com)
145 points | 9 years ago with 87 comments
2003John Carmack's adolescent years (books.google.com)
144 points | 10 years ago with 77 comments
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