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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2009Cloudflare Beta (projecthoneypot.org)
139 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments
2001Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work (businessweek.com)
138 points | 14 years ago with 57 comments
2002Rubbish (wweek.com)
138 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments
2003Understanding Image Sharpness (normankoren.com)
138 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2004What colour are your bits? (ansuz.sooke.bc.ca)
138 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 24 comments
2005Lost in the Meritocracy (theatlantic.com)
138 points | 11 years ago with 61 comments
2005Programming with Punched Cards (columbia.edu)
138 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 4 comments
2007The art of sharpening pencils (matthewjamestaylor.com)
138 points | 2 years ago with 25 comments
2007Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (greem.co.uk)
138 points | 1 year ago with 49 comments
2007Sleep and Mortality: A Population-Based 22-Year Follow-Up Study (fermatslibrary.com)
138 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments
2009How I Hire Programmers (aaronsw.com)
138 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments
2009The Strangest Book on the Theory of Computation (recursed.blogspot.com)
138 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2000Basics of Concrete Barriers (highways.dot.gov)
137 points | 2 years ago with 79 comments
2005Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable (pmi.org)
137 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2007A Visual, Intuitive Guide to Imaginary Numbers (betterexplained.com)
137 points | 6 years ago with 76 comments
2007How to hire the best people you've ever worked with (pmarchive.com)
137 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments
2008“Exhalation” by Ted Chiang (lightspeedmagazine.com)
137 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments
2002The IPv6 mess (cr.yp.to)
136 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 129 comments
2004Consider the Lobster (gourmet.com)
136 points | 10 years ago with 48 comments
2006Loopless Code (jsoftware.com)
136 points | 3 years ago with 129 comments
2007The origin of circuits (damninteresting.com)
136 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 25 comments
2007Jewish Calendar Demystified (stevemorse.org)
136 points | 2 years ago with 90 comments
2009Be sceptical of your own work (terrytao.wordpress.com)
136 points | 1 year ago with 39 comments
2002HyperCard: What Could Have Been (wired.com)
135 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments
2005Ideas for Startups (paulgraham.com)
135 points | 8 years ago with 52 comments
2005How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days (gamasutra.com)
135 points | 8 years ago with 48 comments
2005Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom (damninteresting.com)
135 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments
2009The Mathematics of the Rubik’s Cube (web.mit.edu)
135 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2009JPL Institutional Coding Standard for the C Programming Language (lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov)
135 points | 5 years ago with 79 comments
2000The Evolution of Operating Systems (brinch-hansen.net)
134 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2002Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler (bellard.org)
134 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments
2003Kansas is Flatter Than a Pancake (usu.edu)
134 points | 3 years ago with 54 comments
2006Ten Commandments of How to Write an IMAP Client (washington.edu)
134 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2006Andrew Mason asking for advice on "selling a website idea" (sitepoint.com)
134 points | 11 years ago with 24 comments
2006PC Assembly Book (pacman128.github.io)
134 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
2007What things cost in Ancient Rome (constantinethegreatcoins.com)
134 points | 2 years ago with 69 comments
2000Scooping the Loop Snooper (lel.ed.ac.uk)
133 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2000So you want to contact Brian Eno? (music.hyperreal.org)
133 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments
2004The Graphing Calculator Story (nucalc.com)
133 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2005How to identify and misidentify a brown recluse spider (spiders.ucr.edu)
133 points | 2 years ago with 114 comments
2005Paul Graham Is Wrong (aaronsw.com)
133 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments
2005TCP Performance problems related to Nagle’s Algorithm and Delayed ACK (stuartcheshire.org)
133 points | 4 years ago with 32 comments
2006Brain researcher hacks Who Wants to be a Millionaire using memory tricks (seedmagazine.com)
133 points | 15 years ago with 19 comments
2006The Unix spirit set free: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (docs.huihoo.com)
133 points | 10 years ago with 80 comments
2008My Job Interview at Google (catonmat.net)
133 points | 4 years ago with 155 comments
2000Inventing an Operation to Solve x^x = y (mathforum.org)
132 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments
2000The wet bird (oyonale.com)
132 points | 1 year ago with 33 comments
2000Paul Erdős (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)
132 points | 3 years ago with 81 comments
2003The -a to -z of Command-Line Options (catb.org)
132 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments
2003P-Values are not Error Probabilities (uv.es)
132 points | 9 years ago with 35 comments
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