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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2002How I lost my faith in Lisp (groups.google.com)
96 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2003What Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode (joelonsoftware.com)
96 points | 11 years ago with 33 comments
2004Type Systems (lucacardelli.name)
96 points | 7 years ago with 56 comments
2005Fantastic Mr. Fox (granta.com)
96 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2006Herb Kelleher: Manage in Good Times So You'll Do Well in the Bad Times (gsb.stanford.edu)
96 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments
2006Optimization: An Introduction (www3.imperial.ac.uk)
96 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2007The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory (wired.com)
96 points | 11 years ago with 72 comments
20073-D Depth Reconstruction from a Single Still Image (cs.cornell.edu)
96 points | 8 years ago with 28 comments
2007Artificial Intelligence with Erlang: The Domain of Relatives (erlangcentral.org)
96 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments
2009How Did Things Ever Get This Good? (prog21.dadgum.com)
96 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2009The coolest way to generate combinations (sciencedirect.com)
96 points | 2 years ago with 7 comments
2001Third Base – Ternary Notation (web.williams.edu)
95 points | 10 years ago with 30 comments
2002The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems (arxiv-vanity.com)
95 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2003Almost Too Beautiful (cnvill.net)
95 points | 11 years ago with 47 comments
2003How to Read a Textbook (cuesta.edu)
95 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments
2004Most of us won't be inventing little languages (slesinsky.org)
95 points | 1 year ago with 87 comments
2004Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times (blog.mozilla.org)
95 points | 2 years ago with 123 comments
2005My Time with Richard Feynman (backchannel.com)
95 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
2005Clustering of Time Series Subsequences Is Meaningless (cs.ucr.edu)
95 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments
2005It's the cities, stupid – Jane Jacobs' macroeconomics (zompist.com)
95 points | 9 years ago with 26 comments
2005Why GNU/Linux Viruses are fairly uncommon (gnu.org)
95 points | 4 years ago with 67 comments
2007AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance (wired.com)
95 points | 11 years ago with 13 comments
2007From Father to Son, Last Words to Live by (nytimes.com)
95 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments
2008Disciplined Minds (fromthearchives.blogspot.com)
95 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2008The Making Of Dwarf Fortress (gamasutra.com)
95 points | 13 years ago with 7 comments
2008The tiniest C sort function? (cs.dartmouth.edu)
95 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2008Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism (blog.codinghorror.com)
95 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2009Summary of Donella Meadows' “Thinking in Systems” (consciouscapitalism.typepad.com)
95 points | 8 years ago with 25 comments
2009E. W. Dijkstra Archive: “Why is software so expensive?” (cs.utexas.edu)
95 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments
2009The HTML5 drag and drop disaster (quirksmode.org)
95 points | 10 years ago with 71 comments
2009“To a Top Scientist at Woomera Rocket Range, South Australia” (lettersofnote.com)
95 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments
2001The Beauty of Programming (bowdoin.edu)
94 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
2002Not the comp.text.sgml FAQ (flightlab.com)
94 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments
2002Some Funny Things Happened on the Way to the Moon (fermatslibrary.com)
94 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments
2003The ELF Virus Writing Howto (linuxsecurity.com)
94 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2006Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (steve-yegge.blogspot.de)
94 points | 11 years ago with 67 comments
2006Three States and a Plan: The A.I. of F.E.A.R (alumni.media.mit.edu)
94 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 24 comments
2007A Story of Surveillance (washingtonpost.com)
94 points | 11 years ago with 21 comments
2007Shorting Home Equity Mezzanine Tranches (static1.squarespace.com)
94 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments
2008The Tunguska Mystery 100 Years Later (scientificamerican.com)
94 points | 1 year ago with 74 comments
2008How to write untestable code (testing.googleblog.com)
94 points | 2 years ago with 80 comments
2008Blogging Like a Hacker (tom.preston-werner.com)
94 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments
2008Microsoft Bob Taking Up Space (technet.microsoft.com)
94 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments
2008The Erlang Rationale (drive.google.com)
94 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments
2009The Safe C Library (drdobbs.com)
94 points | 7 years ago with 108 comments
2009A New Form of Social Withdrawal in Japan: A Review of ‘Hikikomori’ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
94 points | 7 years ago with 69 comments
2002NASA's Through-Hole Workmanship Req (workmanship.nasa.gov)
93 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2005Threads Cannot Be Implemented as a Library (cs.nyu.edu)
93 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2005The Hacker's Diet (fourmilab.ch)
93 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments
2005Good and Bad Procrastination (paulgraham.com)
93 points | 2 years ago with 41 comments
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