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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2005When CEOs Are Paid for Bad Performance (gsb.stanford.edu)
90 points | 1 year ago with 104 comments
2007Would You Bet $100M on Your Pet Programming Language? (prog21.dadgum.com)
90 points | 10 years ago with 78 comments
2007Accomplish more by doing less (calnewport.com)
90 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments
2008Group theoretical methods in machine learning (people.cs.uchicago.edu)
90 points | 7 years ago with 5 comments
2009Linux Kernel Modules in Haskell (tommd.wordpress.com)
90 points | 11 years ago with 48 comments
2009The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor (scientificamerican.com)
90 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments
2000A Dao of Web Design (alistapart.com)
89 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2002A Gentle Introduction to Ted Nelson's ZigZag Structure (nongnu.org)
89 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2002The Design of the NetBSD I/O Subsystems (arxiv.org)
89 points | 3 years ago with 2 comments
2003Creating a Computer Science Canon (l3d.cs.colorado.edu)
89 points | 7 years ago with 31 comments
2005Make a Pseudoscope (pseudoscope.blogspot.com)
89 points | 6 years ago with 27 comments
2005A new project: multi-track audio editing (1014.org)
89 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments
2005Lisp: A Cult I Almost Joined (fluff.info)
89 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 43 comments
2006The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond (philosophynow.org)
89 points | 6 years ago with 166 comments
2006The future will have to wait (longnow.org)
89 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments
2007The Billionaire Next Door (dmagazine.com)
89 points | 5 years ago with 58 comments
2007Recommended path to read the Lua source code by the author of LuaJIT (reddit.com)
89 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2008Blogging Like a Hacker (tom.preston-werner.com)
89 points | 1 year ago with 38 comments
2008Project VGA – Home of the Low Budget, Open Source, VGA Compatible Card (wacco.mveas.com)
89 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2008Better than Free (kk.org)
89 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 20 comments
2008Writing a compiler in Ruby, bottom up (hokstad.com)
89 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments
2008Who are the Japanese? (discovermagazine.com)
89 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments
2001A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System (inference.phy.cam.ac.uk)
88 points | 10 years ago with 28 comments
2002An Introduction to Tensors for Students of Physics and Engineering (grc.nasa.gov)
88 points | 10 years ago with 21 comments
2003Why is a registry file called a “hive”? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
88 points | 2 years ago with 104 comments
2003A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (gwern.net)
88 points | 4 years ago with 14 comments
2003C++: Is It Really a Cruel Joke? (webhome.phy.duke.edu)
88 points | 6 years ago with 148 comments
2004Who owns the fish? A Common Lisp solution to "Einstein's Riddle" (weitz.de)
88 points | 10 years ago with 22 comments
2004Why was cycling not included in the ancient Olympics? (web.stanford.edu)
88 points | 3 years ago with 108 comments
2006Internet in Paradise (100r.co)
88 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2007The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (lambdassociates.org)
88 points | 13 years ago with 38 comments
2007Ancient Islamic Penrose Tiles (sciencenews.org)
88 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
2007When did Maytag go bad? (automaticwasher.org)
88 points | 3 years ago with 167 comments
2008Japanese peer-to-peer (jmoiron.net)
88 points | 11 years ago with 32 comments
2008Zipf's Law (plus.maths.org)
88 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2008Where Do People Draw Lines? (gfx.cs.princeton.edu)
88 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments
2009Benefits of Napping in Healthy Adults (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
88 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2009Your body wasn’t built to last: Math of human mortality (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
88 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2009Fully Countering Trusting Trust Through Diverse Double-Compiling (dwheeler.com)
88 points | 8 years ago with 53 comments
2009Attacked from Within (atdt.freeshell.org)
88 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 13 comments
2009The unspoken truth about managing geeks (computerworld.com)
88 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
2009How To Be a Consultant, a freelancer or an independent contractor (jacquesmattheij.com)
88 points | 13 years ago with 7 comments
2000The AdaOS Operating System (web.archive.org)
87 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments
2001Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server In-Game Protocol Design (developer.valvesoftware.com)
87 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2002The Law of Leaky Abstractions (joelonsoftware.com)
87 points | 11 years ago with 31 comments
2003Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (swans.com)
87 points | 4 years ago with 166 comments
2003It Can Be Done (multicians.org)
87 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2003The Origin of Mass (web.mit.edu)
87 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments
2004The Stick of Jan Sloot (spronck.net)
87 points | 1 year ago with 46 comments
2004How to Write a Pac-Man Game in JavaScript (masswerk.at)
87 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments
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