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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2003The Clock (techno-logic-art.com)
144 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
2006How JPEG actually works (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
144 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2006A book list for OS kernel developers and device driver writers (jdebp.eu.)
144 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2006The “C Is Efficient” Language Fallacy (scienceblogs.com)
144 points | 8 years ago with 102 comments
2006Why I often implement things from scratch (armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com)
144 points | 4 years ago with 144 comments
2006RSS Autodiscovery (rssboard.org)
144 points | 1 year ago with 46 comments
2007Loudness (chicagomasteringservice.com)
144 points | 7 years ago with 82 comments
2009Detexify: LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition (detexify.kirelabs.org)
144 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments
2009Lambda Calculus Examples (ics.uci.edu)
144 points | 3 years ago with 18 comments
2009The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (ubiquity.acm.org)
144 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 59 comments
2000Red Hat Is Not Linux (web.archive.org)
143 points | 1 year ago with 184 comments
20011% the Code (colorforth.com)
143 points | 9 years ago with 152 comments
2001Typecasting: The Use and Misuse of Period Typography in Movies (marksimonson.com)
143 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments
2002Hypercomputation: Computing more than the Turing machine (arxiv.org)
143 points | 7 years ago with 70 comments
2005Ten Rules for Web Startups (evhead.com)
143 points | 10 years ago with 11 comments
2006Web designers should get good training in typography (ia.net)
143 points | 1 year ago with 100 comments
2006A Note to Google Users on Net Neutrality, by Eric Schmidt (google.com)
143 points | 14 years ago with 33 comments
2006Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
143 points | 4 years ago with 69 comments
2006Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code (pixelscommander.com)
143 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2007Introduction to the Common Language Runtime (github.com)
143 points | 9 years ago with 61 comments
2009A Visual Overview of Typography (thinkingwithtype.com)
143 points | 4 years ago with 9 comments
2009Letter from the grave (newyorker.com)
143 points | 11 years ago with 39 comments
200990% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (theonion.com)
143 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments
2001Unix System Programming with Standard ML (mlton.org)
142 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments
2001MacOS X 10.1 (toastytech.com)
142 points | 1 year ago with 180 comments
2003Simpson Fan Grows Tomacco (simpsonsarchive.com)
142 points | 1 year ago with 98 comments
2003Do Teachers Need to Include the History of Mathematics in Their Teaching? (researchgate.net)
142 points | 8 years ago with 114 comments
2004Unix on a PDP-11 emulator on the Game Boy Advance (kernelthread.com)
142 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 5 comments
2005Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (fermatslibrary.com)
142 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2007What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
142 points | 8 years ago with 43 comments
2007A Computer Scientist's guide to cell biology (cs.cmu.edu)
142 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments
2008Why Japan Didn’t Create the iPod (blog.gatunka.com)
142 points | 3 years ago with 132 comments
2008The Little Manual of API Design (www4.in.tum.de)
142 points | 9 years ago with 25 comments
2009Antivirus Software Pioneer John McAfee Loses Fortune (abcnews.go.com)
142 points | 13 years ago with 57 comments
2009What is the best way to programatically detect porn images? (stackoverflow.com)
142 points | 11 years ago with 104 comments
2001Eighteenth Century English mail hacks (deadmedia.org)
141 points | 6 years ago with 36 comments
2005Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (lists.warhead.org.uk)
141 points | 10 years ago with 47 comments
2006Pork's Dirty Secret (rollingstone.com)
141 points | 14 years ago with 103 comments
2007The Foundations of Mathematics (math.wisc.edu)
141 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2007Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters (weblog.raganwald.com)
141 points | 10 years ago with 34 comments
2009Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why (wired.com)
141 points | 13 years ago with 60 comments
2002Deming's Red Bead Experiment (maaw.info)
140 points | 2 years ago with 64 comments
2003The Internet is Shit (internetisshit.org)
140 points | 10 years ago with 82 comments
2004Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (econstor.eu)
140 points | 5 years ago with 139 comments
2005Summary: $200B Broadband Scandal (newnetworks.com)
140 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments
2008Rent-a-coder hilarity (blog.willbenton.com)
140 points | 11 years ago with 131 comments
2009LavaBit's Architecture (possibility.com)
140 points | 11 years ago with 57 comments
2005Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (randomhacks.net)
139 points | 8 years ago with 113 comments
2005Logarithmic Maps of the Universe (astro.princeton.edu)
139 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2009How do trains stay on track? (materials.mcmaster.ca)
139 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments
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