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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2007Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds (wired.com)
127 points | 11 years ago with 46 comments
2007Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known and Loved (billbuxton.com)
127 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 0 comments
2007Stuff (paulgraham.com)
127 points | 12 years ago with 94 comments
2008The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (brucefwebster.com)
127 points | 4 years ago with 127 comments
2009Laws of Fun (lesswrong.com)
127 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2009You can't parse [X]HTML with regex (stackoverflow.com)
127 points | 3 years ago with 130 comments
2009Worst Puzzle Ever (blog.rongarret.info)
127 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2000Lisp as an Alternative to Java (flownet.com)
126 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 21 comments
2002Table Oriented Programming (web.archive.org)
126 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments
2002Esoteric Topics in Computer Programming (web.archive.org)
126 points | 8 years ago with 87 comments
2003Why Lisp Will Never Win (perl.plover.com)
126 points | 13 years ago with 100 comments
2003The Future of Computing: Logic or Biology (lamport.azurewebsites.net)
126 points | 6 years ago with 47 comments
2005Seiko 80s Computer Watches (pocketcalculatorshow.com)
126 points | 8 years ago with 37 comments
2007Homeland security reaches the anus (thelancet.com)
126 points | 2 years ago with 45 comments
2007Scalable Bloom Filters (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
126 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2009Jan Koum promoting WhatsApp in the Flyertalk forum (flyertalk.com)
126 points | 10 years ago with 24 comments
2009Stanford scholar gets six-figure settlement from James Joyce Estate (news.stanford.edu)
126 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments
2003Vertigo – a public domain 3D flight simulator (stjerneskud.info)
125 points | 4 years ago with 91 comments
2004Citizen Kubrick (theguardian.com)
125 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 7 comments
2005The Emacs Problem (sites.google.com)
125 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 14 comments
2005The Calculus Trap (artofproblemsolving.com)
125 points | 5 years ago with 58 comments
2005Windows 1.0 and the Applications of Tomorrow (charlespetzold.com)
125 points | 10 years ago with 64 comments
2006“Startup Names” by Paul Graham (aux.messymatters.com)
125 points | 10 years ago with 65 comments
2008Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof (perlmonks.org)
125 points | 11 years ago with 38 comments
2001The Roots of Lisp (paulgraham.com)
124 points | 5 years ago with 90 comments
2004The first image on the very first Macintosh (folklore.org)
124 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments
2005Just another Apollo? Part two (thespacereview.com)
124 points | 2 years ago with 118 comments
2005All 16,777,216 RGB colours (davidnaylor.org)
124 points | 3 years ago with 76 comments
2005Why I Hate Frameworks (discuss.joelonsoftware.com)
124 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 62 comments
2006Users protest over 'creepy' Facebook update (theregister.co.uk)
124 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2006Java call stack – from HTTP upto JDBC as a picture (ptrthomas.wordpress.com)
124 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2007Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours (en.wikibooks.org)
124 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2008Copy-protection for vinyl in the 1970s (currybet.net)
124 points | 3 years ago with 78 comments
2008Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (scientificamerican.com)
124 points | 1 year ago with 353 comments
2009All about Linux signals (linuxprogrammingblog.com)
124 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2009Body by Victoria (hackerfactor.com)
124 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments
2000QuickCheck: A Lightweight Tool for Random Testing of Haskell Programs (cs.tufts.edu)
123 points | 8 years ago with 38 comments
2003Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
123 points | 7 years ago with 116 comments
2004Attacked By Thugs (idlewords.com)
123 points | 10 years ago with 115 comments
2005Wendy Carlos on Bob Moog (wendycarlos.com)
123 points | 3 years ago with 57 comments
2006NYC Fire Department Forcible Entry Manual (brothersinbattlellc.com)
123 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments
2006Styling with Classy CSS (thedailywtf.com)
123 points | 1 year ago with 66 comments
2007My Life Countdown (kk.org)
123 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments
2007The Art of Programming Contest (comp.nus.edu.sg)
123 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
2007Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (bloomberg.com)
123 points | 10 years ago with 125 comments
2008In Memory of Jesse Helms and the Condom on His House (poz.com)
123 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
2009Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (johndcook.com)
123 points | 13 years ago with 76 comments
2009U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry (reuters.com)
123 points | 2 years ago with 305 comments
2000“I Don't Like Your Examples” (archive.oreilly.com)
122 points | 7 years ago with 85 comments
2000Bentley Railbike (rrbike.freeservers.com)
122 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments
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