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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2008Why Doesn't Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero? (codinghorror.com)
117 points | 11 years ago with 96 comments
2009An Explanation of Cricket (cs.purdue.edu)
117 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments
2009Advanced Programming Languages (matt.might.net)
117 points | 2 years ago with 98 comments
2000Lifespan depends on month of birth (pnas.org)
116 points | 10 years ago with 55 comments
2001Rob Pike - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy [pdf] (herpolhode.com)
116 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2008Revisiting the Intel 432 (dtrace.org)
116 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2009Classification of the Principal Programming Paradigms (info.ucl.ac.be)
116 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
2009Math for Machine Learning (umiacs.umd.edu)
116 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments
2009Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise (pnas.org)
116 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2000Down From the Top of Its Game: The Story of Infocom, Inc (web.mit.edu)
115 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 32 comments
2001Mega-dose vitamin C in treatment of the common cold (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
115 points | 1 year ago with 111 comments
2004How I Explained REST to My Wife (tomayko.com)
115 points | 11 years ago with 51 comments
2005The free lunch is over: a fundamental turn toward concurrency in software (gotw.ca)
115 points | 3 years ago with 97 comments
2007Please think architecture (lists.freebsd.org)
115 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2008Gin, television, and social surplus, or, “looking for the mouse” (gist.github.com)
115 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments
2009How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
115 points | 7 years ago with 75 comments
2009An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (ft.com)
115 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments
2009Writing English as a Second Language (theamericanscholar.org)
115 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 11 comments
2001The History of OS/2 (landley.net)
114 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 50 comments
2001Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument (pigdog.org)
114 points | 14 years ago with 21 comments
2001Lisp Machine Inc. K-machine (fare.tunes.org)
114 points | 6 years ago with 74 comments
2004Repairing a Bent Trombone Slide (oberloh.com)
114 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments
2004The Worst Interface Ever: The Self-Destruct Switch (asktog.com)
114 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments
2007Ray-Strips: A Compact Mesh Representation for Interactive Ray Tracing (gamma.cs.unc.edu)
114 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2008Man builds working computer inside LittleBigPlanet video game (youtube.com)
114 points | 14 years ago with 10 comments
2008Apple2fpga: Reconstructing an Apple II+ on an FPGA (cs.columbia.edu)
114 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments
2008The source of the e1000e corruption bug (lwn.net)
114 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
2009Git from the Bottom Up (ftp.newartisans.com)
114 points | 9 years ago with 25 comments
2001Id as Super-Ego: The Creation of Duke Nukem 3D (fabiensanglard.net)
113 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments
2002The Real Heroes Are Dead (newyorker.com)
113 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2002The Video Game Software Wizardry of Id (spectrum.ieee.org)
113 points | 7 years ago with 32 comments
2003Destruction of Nuclear Bombs Using Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Beam (arxiv.org)
113 points | 4 years ago with 85 comments
2005Statistical Data Mining Tutorials (autonlab.org)
113 points | 11 years ago with 2 comments
2005Ten Rules for Web Startups (evhead.com)
113 points across 2 posts | 13 years ago with 6 comments
2006Shop Class as Soulcraft (thenewatlantis.com)
113 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2006IKEA: Flat-pack accounting (economist.com)
113 points | 15 years ago with 31 comments
2006The Management Myth (theatlantic.com)
113 points | 15 years ago with 22 comments
2008A mixed-format, mixed-architecture, mixed-sided diskette (trixter.oldskool.org)
113 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments
2001Why TCP over TCP is a bad idea (sites.inka.de)
112 points | 4 years ago with 68 comments
2001Using BeOS on a Power Mac (lowendmac.com)
112 points | 3 years ago with 76 comments
2001The analog computer for the Nike missile system (ed-thelen.org)
112 points | 1 year ago with 42 comments
2002Tree.h in OpenBSD: dependency-free intrusive binary tree (github.com)
112 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments
2004Alan Kay – The center of “Why”? (vpri.org)
112 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments
2004Firefox 1.0 New York Times ad (scribd.com)
112 points | 1 year ago with 69 comments
2004How To Make Wealth (paulgraham.com)
112 points | 14 years ago with 32 comments
2005Beginners Guide to Linkers (lurklurk.org)
112 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2006Mark 1 Forth Computer (aholme.co.uk)
112 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments
2006How not to Pitch To Y Combinator (damienkatz.net)
112 points | 14 years ago with 22 comments
2006Dave Prosser's C Preprocessing Algorithm (spinellis.gr)
112 points | 4 years ago with 6 comments
2006Emacs Modernization: Simple Changes Emacs Should Adopt (ergoemacs.org)
112 points | 3 years ago with 169 comments
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