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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2009Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (reuters.com)
108 points | 9 years ago with 96 comments
2000Signal Processing for Everyone (www-math.mit.edu)
107 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2000Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant (doc.cat-v.org)
107 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 43 comments
2001The Cornell Note-taking System (lsc.cornell.edu)
107 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
2003How to Index Anything (linuxjournal.com)
107 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2005How to Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML (hsivonen.fi)
107 points | 8 years ago with 244 comments
2005Bit gold (unenumerated.blogspot.co.uk)
107 points | 11 years ago with 88 comments
2006Why Systems Programmers Still Use C (bitc-lang.org)
107 points | 12 years ago with 63 comments
2007A History of Erlang (dl.acm.org)
107 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments
2008They told you not to reply (voices.washingtonpost.com)
107 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments
2008EFF's “Yellow Dots of Mystery” (eff.org)
107 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments
2009Godson-3: A Scalable Multicore RISC Processor with x86 Emulation (computer.org)
107 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments
2009Technology is Heroin (whattofix.com)
107 points | 11 years ago with 25 comments
2000Achieving full-motion video on the Nintendo 64 (ultra64.ca)
106 points | 4 years ago with 29 comments
2003Patterns for personal web sites (rdrop.com)
106 points | 1 year ago with 20 comments
2005Tantrums as Status Symbols (marginalrevolution.com)
106 points | 8 years ago with 59 comments
2006My baby, the finite state machine (blogs.msdn.com)
106 points | 13 years ago with 17 comments
2007A Short Course in Thinking About Thinking (edge.org)
106 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments
2007A Case of the MUMPS (thedailywtf.com)
106 points | 1 year ago with 109 comments
2008“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape (blog.rjmetrics.com)
106 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments
2008A Brief History of Lisp Machines (andromeda.com)
106 points | 7 years ago with 93 comments
2009It's easy to underprice your product (venturehacks.com)
106 points | 1 year ago with 40 comments
2000WLW: 700 kHz, 500 kW, 100% modulation, no limiter (ominous-valve.com)
105 points | 8 years ago with 25 comments
2002Shelling Out: The Origins of Money (nakamotoinstitute.org)
105 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 28 comments
2005Event Sourcing (martinfowler.com)
105 points | 3 years ago with 88 comments
2006My favourite interview question (weblog.raganwald.com)
105 points | 10 years ago with 95 comments
2008What on earth possessed me... (fontforge.github.io)
105 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2008Tunguska: Ternary Computer Emulator (tunguska.sourceforge.net)
105 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments
2008Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans (abcnews.go.com)
105 points | 11 years ago with 11 comments
2008Spore Prototypes (spore.com)
105 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2009Why TV Lost (paulgraham.com)
105 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 132 comments
2002The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (nber.org)
104 points | 6 years ago with 99 comments
2003A beginners guide to Esperanto (theguardian.com)
104 points | 2 years ago with 109 comments
2004NASA Software Safety Guidebook (hq.nasa.gov)
104 points | 8 years ago with 38 comments
2005Don’t Take My Folders Away: Organizing Personal Info to Get Things Done (digital.lib.washington.edu)
104 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments
2007Upside-Down-Ternet (ex-parrot.com)
104 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 9 comments
2007How Good Was Napoleon? (historytoday.com)
104 points | 10 years ago with 79 comments
2008Atomic John: Truck driver uncovers secrets about first nuclear bombs (newyorker.com)
104 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2008Star Trek 1971 Text Game (codeproject.com)
104 points | 10 years ago with 34 comments
2008Why monads have not taken the Common Lisp world by storm (marijnhaverbeke.nl)
104 points | 10 years ago with 49 comments
2008Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code (angg.twu.net)
104 points | 4 years ago with 53 comments
2009The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown (wired.com)
104 points | 5 years ago with 32 comments
2009Why Twitter is a Big Deal (paulgraham.com)
104 points | 11 years ago with 43 comments
2009Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right (news.cnet.com)
104 points | 12 years ago with 70 comments
2000Learning the Language of Mathematics (wac.colostate.edu)
103 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments
2003Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma: systematic review (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
103 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 24 comments
2005The C-- Language Specification (cs.tufts.edu)
103 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2006Customizing the Cocoa Text System (hcs.harvard.edu)
103 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments
2006The Management Myth (theatlantic.com)
103 points | 14 years ago with 32 comments
2007What’s Your Permanent Age? (dilbertblog.typepad.com)
103 points | 13 years ago with 37 comments
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