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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2006The great Polish Sea or We forgot Poland (devblogs.microsoft.com)
132 points | 1 year ago with 31 comments
2007Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock (theguardian.com)
132 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments
2008Brain foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
132 points | 7 years ago with 27 comments
2009Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (infoq.com)
132 points | 13 years ago with 3 comments
2009Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (math.ucr.edu)
132 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments
2004Third-polarizing-filter experiment demystified (alienryderflex.com)
131 points | 2 years ago with 86 comments
2004Why doesn't Windows recognize a USB device plugged into another port? (blogs.msdn.com)
131 points | 9 years ago with 152 comments
2005Minesweeper: Advanced Tactics (nothings.org)
131 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2005Most Published Research Findings Are False (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
131 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2005The Feynman File (discovermagazine.com)
131 points | 11 years ago with 9 comments
2006Why We Banned Legos (rethinkingschools.org)
131 points | 2 years ago with 408 comments
2009Why MIT uses Python instead of Scheme for its undergraduate CS program (cemerick.com)
131 points | 6 years ago with 136 comments
2009Co-routines as an alternative to state machines (eli.thegreenplace.net)
131 points | 10 years ago with 69 comments
2000When Radiohead sampled Paul Lansky (paul.mycpanel.princeton.edu)
130 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments
2003Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (gutenberg.org)
130 points | 1 year ago with 58 comments
2003A Sudden Illness (newyorker.com)
130 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
2006Do Portia Spiders Have a Mind? (dichotomistic.com)
130 points | 8 years ago with 53 comments
2007Software Is Hard (gamearchitect.net)
130 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
2007So You Think You Have a Power Law (bactra.org)
130 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments
2007Man discovers that his wife is the best Tetris player (archive.boston.com)
130 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
2008From Mr Average to Superman: Craig Davidson's account of using steroids (theguardian.com)
130 points | 11 years ago with 101 comments
2009The B Lane Swimmer (holly.witteman.ca)
130 points | 1 year ago with 33 comments
2003Printing and binding your own books and manuals (uazu.net)
129 points | 7 years ago with 31 comments
2004My First Death Threat (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
129 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments
2004A pair of dice which never roll 7 (chiark.greenend.org.uk)
129 points | 3 years ago with 53 comments
2006Copy What You Like (paulgraham.com)
129 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments
2006Object-Relational Mapping Is the Vietnam of Computer Science (blogs.tedneward.com)
129 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 5 comments
2006Twttr sketch (flickr.com)
129 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2009Restaurant prices in the 19th and 20th centuries (restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com)
129 points | 3 years ago with 112 comments
2000Instinctive sleeping and resting postures: an anthropological study (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
128 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments
2000Things You Should Never Do (joelonsoftware.com)
128 points | 4 years ago with 83 comments
2004Ruby Hacking Guide (ruby-hacking-guide.github.io)
128 points | 1 year ago with 39 comments
2004The Hipster PDA (43folders.com)
128 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 64 comments
2004Great Works in Programming Languages (cis.upenn.edu)
128 points | 2 years ago with 45 comments
2004The Art of Unix Usability (catb.org)
128 points | 10 years ago with 27 comments
2005Don't Shave That Yak (seths.blog)
128 points | 5 years ago with 81 comments
2006The sad truth about depressive realism (researchgate.net)
128 points | 8 years ago with 122 comments
2007Apollo 13: the Towing Invoice (web.archive.org)
128 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2008First recorded usage of “hacker” (manybutfinite.com)
128 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2008Oven Stoves and Heat Walls (lowtechmagazine.com)
128 points | 3 years ago with 104 comments
2008Taboo Your Words (lesswrong.com)
128 points | 11 years ago with 49 comments
2008Building Robust Systems (groups.csail.mit.edu)
128 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2008Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (iquilezles.org)
128 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2008Grass makes better ethanol than corn does (scientificamerican.com)
128 points | 1 year ago with 164 comments
2008How does the calculator percent key work? (blogs.msdn.com)
128 points | 9 years ago with 57 comments
2009What does the “pipe” value mean in the output of “ping”? (web.archive.org)
128 points | 1 year ago with 24 comments
2004“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (twitter.com)
127 points | 3 years ago with 219 comments
2005Michael Crichton: Why Speculate? (larvatus.com)
127 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 75 comments
2005Why I hate frameworks (discuss.joelonsoftware.com)
127 points | 8 years ago with 65 comments
2006Strategies of Human Mating (weimag.ch)
127 points | 8 years ago with 72 comments
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