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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2002Table-oriented programming (oocities.org)
122 points | 8 years ago with 64 comments
2006The Development of Chez Scheme (cs.indiana.edu)
122 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 21 comments
2006Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work (cogtech.usc.edu)
122 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2009The Most Shameful RPG Dice (toplessrobot.com)
122 points | 2 years ago with 104 comments
2009Java’s Forgotten Forebear (spectrum.ieee.org)
122 points | 6 years ago with 80 comments
20004MB Laptop How-To: How to put a “grown-up” Linux on a small-spec laptop (tldp.org)
121 points | 7 years ago with 92 comments
2001Monadic I/O and Unix shell programming (okmij.org)
121 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2002Water drinking acutely improves orthostatic tolerance in healthy subjects (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
121 points | 3 years ago with 68 comments
2002Norvig's Law (norvig.com)
121 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments
2003Domain Logic and SQL (martinfowler.com)
121 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments
2004The x86 architecture is the weirdo (devblogs.microsoft.com)
121 points | 2 years ago with 81 comments
2007Never use a warning when you mean undo (alistapart.com)
121 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments
2008USB Made Simple (usbmadesimple.co.uk)
121 points | 1 year ago with 42 comments
2009Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down (chronicle.com)
121 points | 9 years ago with 33 comments
200442.zip (unforgettable.dk)
120 points | 10 years ago with 49 comments
2004Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's official HOSTS.TXT (iconia.com)
120 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments
2005What’s expected of us (nature.com)
120 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments
2005Cannabinoids promote neuron growth and have antidepressant-like effects (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
120 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2006The truth about Lisp (secretgeek.net)
120 points | 8 years ago with 155 comments
2008Tom’s Essay (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
120 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 14 comments
2009UEFI Programming – First Steps (x86asm.net)
120 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2009The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (web.archive.org)
120 points | 9 years ago with 14 comments
2001Confessions of a Car Salesman (edmunds.com)
119 points | 10 years ago with 52 comments
2002Acne Vulgaris: A Disease of Western Civilization (jamanetwork.com)
119 points | 7 years ago with 164 comments
2002Fire and Motion (joelonsoftware.com)
119 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2002The fastest and shortest algorithm for all well-defined problems (researchgate.net)
119 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments
2004Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit (eaipatterns.com)
119 points | 11 years ago with 36 comments
2004A quick look at the Win2k source (kuro5hin.org)
119 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 0 comments
2006Time Travel (scottaaronson.com)
119 points | 5 years ago with 82 comments
2006Amazon EC2 Beta (aws.amazon.com)
119 points | 8 years ago with 68 comments
2006APL – A Glimpse of Heaven (archive.vector.org.uk)
119 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 6 comments
2006What Gives Gold that Mellow Glow? (fourmilab.ch)
119 points | 11 years ago with 23 comments
2007HTML Design Principles (w3.org)
119 points | 1 year ago with 41 comments
2009Original Hacker News Source Code (github.com)
119 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2009Why do so many people move to the Falkland Islands? (slate.com)
119 points | 3 years ago with 216 comments
2001Atari Vax Mail, Memos and Status Reports: 1982-1992 (jmargolin.com)
118 points | 9 years ago with 33 comments
2003Will Coke Dissolve a Nail? (joshmadison.com)
118 points | 8 years ago with 99 comments
2005Why Reddit switched to Python (blog.reddit.com)
118 points | 12 years ago with 42 comments
2006The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (codinghorror.com)
118 points | 11 years ago with 27 comments
2008Using uninitialized memory for fun and profit (research.swtch.com)
118 points | 1 year ago with 65 comments
2008At Home with Down Syndrome (thenewatlantis.com)
118 points | 3 years ago with 138 comments
2009Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (infoq.com)
118 points | 10 years ago with 21 comments
2000Is_computer_on_fire() (everything2.com)
117 points | 10 years ago with 56 comments
2002URL obfuscation (pc-help.org)
117 points | 7 years ago with 25 comments
2004Busy Being Born (folklore.org)
117 points | 3 years ago with 25 comments
2005Cool Science Tricks (daveroot.neocities.org)
117 points | 1 year ago with 9 comments
2005The Dome: A simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics (sites.pitt.edu)
117 points | 1 year ago with 119 comments
2008What If I Don't Actually Like My Users? (ozlabs.org)
117 points | 8 years ago with 51 comments
2008Leveling-Up in Heroes of Might and Magic III (cs.virginia.edu)
117 points | 7 years ago with 35 comments
2008The Sheep Incident (damninteresting.com)
117 points | 1 year ago with 35 comments
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