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| Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| Go back or forward one decade. Go to the previous century. |
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| 2005 | | Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (lists.warhead.org.uk) |
| 610 points across 6 posts | 2 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2001 | | 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (gamedeveloper.com) |
| 593 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 179 comments |
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| 2008 | | Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (news.cnet.com) |
| 592 points | 11 years ago with 299 comments |
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| 2006 | | Far Cry 1.34 source code (archive.org) |
| 585 points | 1 year ago with 304 comments |
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| 2009 | | Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (sivers.org) |
| 581 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 2005 | | Google Mars (google.com) |
| 574 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 80 comments |
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| 2007 | | Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (theguardian.com) |
| 571 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2003 | | Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (vole.wtf) |
| 565 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 137 comments |
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| 2009 | | Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know (info.ucl.ac.be) |
| 565 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2003 | | Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu) |
| 558 points | 6 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 2006 | | Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (math.dartmouth.edu) |
| 558 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2009 | | What I've Learned from Hacker News (paulgraham.com) |
| 553 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2000 | | The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (bbsdocumentary.com) |
| 552 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2002 | | Why Russians do not smile (chicagomaroon.com) |
| 548 points | 3 years ago with 481 comments |
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| 2009 | | What typing ^D does on Unix (utcc.utoronto.ca) |
| 536 points | 8 years ago with 156 comments |
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| 2005 | | So you want to be a consultant? (unixwiz.net) |
| 527 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2006 | | Tcl the Misunderstood (antirez.com) |
| 527 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2005 | | Why I Hate Frameworks (fredrikholmqvist.com) |
| 525 points | 3 years ago with 295 comments |
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| 2008 | | You weren't meant to have a boss (paulgraham.com) |
| 524 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 165 comments |
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| 2000 | | You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (nngroup.com) |
| 523 points | 5 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 2002 | | Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu) |
| 523 points | 10 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 2004 | | Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (imaginary.org) |
| 521 points | 3 years ago with 318 comments |
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| 2008 | | Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (bitcoin.org) |
| 516 points | 7 years ago with 385 comments |
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| 2007 | | Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (damtp.cam.ac.uk) |
| 514 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 2003 | | Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” (purl.org) |
| 512 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 292 comments |
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| 2007 | | How Not to Die (paulgraham.com) |
| 508 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 130 comments |
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| 2003 | | “A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 507 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 227 comments |
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| 2002 | | Wi Flag (asheron.fandom.com) |
| 501 points | 1 year ago with 205 comments |
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| 2005 | | Rewriting Reddit (aaronsw.com) |
| 499 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2007 | | Holding a Program in One's Head (paulgraham.com) |
| 483 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2009 | | Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (drdobbs.com) |
| 482 points | 7 years ago with 305 comments |
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| 2008 | | Low-level is easy (yosefk.com) |
| 480 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2009 | | Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto (ecorenovator.org) |
| 477 points | 2 years ago with 246 comments |
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| 2008 | | Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (web.media.mit.edu) |
| 476 points | 9 years ago with 167 comments |
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| 2003 | | Internet Archive gets DMCA exemption to help archive vintage software (archive.org) |
| 470 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 44 comments |
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| 2006 | | Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (regex.info) |
| 468 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2003 | | Simpsons Hit and Run source code (github.com) |
| 467 points | 1 year ago with 164 comments |
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| 2009 | | A home microhydro plant (ludens.cl) |
| 464 points | 5 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2005 | | Bit Twiddling Hacks (graphics.stanford.edu) |
| 462 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2008 | | "Secret" History of Silicon Valley (steveblank.com) |
| 460 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2000 | | Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (pages.cs.wisc.edu) |
| 459 points | 1 year ago with 77 comments |
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| 2008 | | Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone. (halfhalf.posterous.com) |
| 459 points | 12 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 2003 | | An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (web.mit.edu) |
| 457 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2004 | | Ten predictions (sites.google.com) |
| 457 points | 11 years ago with 309 comments |
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| 2005 | | BSD vs. Linux (over-yonder.net) |
| 457 points | 8 years ago with 356 comments |
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| 2006 | | How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (coding.derkeiler.com) |
| 454 points | 6 years ago with 419 comments |
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| 2002 | | Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web (pespmc1.vub.ac.be) |
| 453 points across 9 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments |
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| 2002 | | “Design Patterns” Aren't (perl.plover.com) |
| 451 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 2008 | | 1k True Fans (kk.org) |
| 450 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2005 | | Being Poor (whatever.scalzi.com) |
| 449 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 216 comments |
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