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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2007Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (prog21.dadgum.com)
112 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 144 comments
2009Fravia’s web-searching lore (search.lores.eu)
112 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2009Are pointers and arrays equivalent in C? (eli.thegreenplace.net)
112 points | 9 years ago with 64 comments
2001The Spanish cooking oil scandal (theguardian.com)
111 points | 8 years ago with 65 comments
2002Yahoo admits mangling e-mail (web.archive.org)
111 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments
2002Security in Plan 9 (css.csail.mit.edu)
111 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
2003The Art of Unix Programming (arp242.net)
111 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2004Is Design Dead? (martinfowler.com)
111 points | 1 year ago with 114 comments
2004Great Programmers (bramcohen.livejournal.com)
111 points | 10 years ago with 28 comments
2005Why I hate frameworks (benjismith.net)
111 points | 14 years ago with 54 comments
2005A unified theory of VC suckage (paulgraham.com)
111 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments
2006How to Do What You Love (paulgraham.com)
111 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2007A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins (codinghorror.com)
111 points | 11 years ago with 13 comments
2007Mocks Aren't Stubs (martinfowler.com)
111 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 29 comments
2008Cargo Cult Agile (jamesshore.com)
111 points | 7 years ago with 109 comments
2009Drug Companies and Doctors: A Story of Corruption (nybooks.com)
111 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
2000Courtney Love does the math (salon.com)
110 points | 11 years ago with 49 comments
2002Make figures and presentations that are friendly to Colorblind people (jfly.uni-koeln.de)
110 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2005They Called It LISP for a Reason: List Processing (gigamonkeys.com)
110 points | 2 years ago with 86 comments
2005Native Intelligence (smithsonianmag.com)
110 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 2 comments
2005/bin/false is not security (semicomplete.com)
110 points | 7 years ago with 64 comments
2005What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (newyorker.com)
110 points | 14 years ago with 13 comments
2006NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls (usatoday30.usatoday.com)
110 points | 11 years ago with 14 comments
2007How Useful Is Tufte for Making Maps? (makingmaps.net)
110 points | 7 years ago with 36 comments
2008Oh, Go Ahead, Overthink FizzBuzz (chalain.livejournal.com)
110 points | 9 years ago with 58 comments
2008Map Design – a guide to good looking maps (orienteering.asn.au)
110 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2009The Strong Free Will Theorem (ams.org)
110 points | 6 years ago with 114 comments
2009Anatomy of a Program in Memory (manybutfinite.com)
110 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2009Git Submodules: Adding, Using, Removing, Updating (chrisjean.com)
110 points | 3 years ago with 94 comments
2009Mental fatigue impairs physical performance in humans (jap.physiology.org)
110 points | 9 years ago with 56 comments
2009Index cards are pretty cool (theguardian.com)
110 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2000Prolog.c: a simple Prolog interpreter written in 200 LOC of C++ (cl.cam.ac.uk)
109 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
2001How spies are caught (wrc.noaa.gov)
109 points | 3 years ago with 95 comments
2002“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful (meyerweb.com)
109 points | 1 year ago with 108 comments
2003Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (inference.phy.cam.ac.uk)
109 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments
2008Apple removes $1k featureless iPhone application (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
109 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments
2009NASA Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India's Vanishing Water (nasa.gov)
109 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments
2009Understanding Clojure's PersistentVector implementation (blog.higher-order.net)
109 points | 8 years ago with 1 comments
2009Recreating the THX Deep Note (earslap.com)
109 points | 1 year ago with 27 comments
2001UUCP must stay; Fetchmail sucks (docs.freebsd.org)
108 points | 4 years ago with 76 comments
2002MinUnit – A minimal unit testing framework for C (jera.com)
108 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments
2003Linux (urbandictionary.com)
108 points | 8 years ago with 42 comments
2004The trip to federal prison from court to your new bed (prisontalk.com)
108 points | 10 years ago with 43 comments
2006OCaml for the Skeptical: OCaml in a Nutshell (www2.lib.uchicago.edu)
108 points | 4 years ago with 69 comments
2007Thoughts on the Social Graph (bradfitz.com)
108 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2007History of Symbolics Lisp Machines (danluu.com)
108 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2007Weird and Innovative Chips (cpushack.com)
108 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2007Scroogled (blogoscoped.com)
108 points | 12 years ago with 26 comments
2009Why Are Carrots Orange? It Is Political (nextnature.net)
108 points | 9 years ago with 37 comments
2009The case for working with your hands (nytimes.com)
108 points | 5 years ago with 59 comments
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