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| Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| Go back or forward one decade. Go to the previous century. |
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| 2008 | | Shouting in the Datacenter (youtube.com) |
| 444 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2004 | | Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (poignant.guide) |
| 440 points | 4 years ago with 201 comments |
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| 2007 | | Microsoft Is Dead (paulgraham.com) |
| 440 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2006 | | The $25B eigenvector (rose-hulman.edu) |
| 438 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2007 | | Fark redesign is now live (fark.com) |
| 430 points | 1 year ago with 466 comments |
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| 2007 | | Beej's Guide to C Programming (beej.us) |
| 427 points | 7 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2005 | | The six dumbest ideas in computer security (ranum.com) |
| 421 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 196 comments |
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| 2007 | | Work Hard (terrytao.wordpress.com) |
| 416 points | 3 years ago with 188 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (ribbonfarm.com) |
| 416 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 2009 | | Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (beej.us) |
| 415 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 29 comments |
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| 2001 | | History of T (paulgraham.com) |
| 413 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 22 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Remarkable Number 1/89 (www2.math.ou.edu) |
| 413 points | 4 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 2006 | | Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 409 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 146 comments |
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| 2002 | | Nothing like this will be built again (antipope.org) |
| 408 points | 3 years ago with 259 comments |
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| 2000 | | Why soda bottles have gaps in their threads (madsci.org) |
| 406 points | 3 years ago with 127 comments |
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| 2005 | | Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (twitter.com) |
| 405 points | 3 years ago with 248 comments |
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| 2007 | | I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (qntm.org) |
| 401 points | 3 years ago with 158 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics (math.vanderbilt.edu) |
| 400 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2008 | | Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 393 points | 8 years ago with 227 comments |
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| 2006 | | Why sqlite3 temp files were renamed 'etilqs_*' (github.com) |
| 392 points | 1 year ago with 138 comments |
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| 2005 | | Google Will Eat Itself (gwei.org) |
| 390 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 131 comments |
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| 2008 | | Introduction to Differential Equations (tutorial.math.lamar.edu) |
| 388 points | 6 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 2009 | | “Facebook turned me down” (twitter.com) |
| 388 points | 10 years ago with 191 comments |
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| 2006 | | “Illegal” Lego Builds (bramlambrecht.com) |
| 387 points | 5 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2006 | | How to Destroy the Earth (qntm.org) |
| 385 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2000 | | Lisp as an Alternative to Java (norvig.com) |
| 383 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 108 comments |
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| 2000 | | The curse of the gifted programmer (lwn.net) |
| 381 points | 8 years ago with 166 comments |
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| 2000 | | Paul Graham on SICP (amazon.com) |
| 380 points | 6 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2001 | | David Horne's 1K Chess on the ZX81 (thad.frogley.info) |
| 380 points | 9 years ago with 147 comments |
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| 2001 | | Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (chrisdone.com) |
| 375 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2008 | | Books Programmers Don't Really Read (billthelizard.com) |
| 375 points | 8 years ago with 159 comments |
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| 2007 | | Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (twitter.com) |
| 368 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 44 comments |
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| 2007 | | Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste (scientificamerican.com) |
| 368 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2009 | | A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms (blog.rongarret.info) |
| 362 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 172 comments |
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| 2008 | | Trolls (paulgraham.com) |
| 360 points | 13 years ago with 303 comments |
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| 2005 | | Naked shorting: The curious incident of the shares that didn't exist (euromoney.com) |
| 359 points | 3 years ago with 298 comments |
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| 2007 | | Seemingly impossible functional programs (math.andrej.com) |
| 359 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2009 | | Quant Job Interview Questions (math.kent.edu) |
| 358 points | 8 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 2009 | | Intel's "cripple AMD" function (agner.org) |
| 356 points | 11 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2009 | | How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing (radian.org) |
| 354 points | 13 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2004 | | Soviet Venus Images (mentallandscape.com) |
| 350 points | 3 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2006 | | Busy Person Patterns (hillside.net) |
| 350 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2008 | | Jeff Varasano's Famous New York Pizza Recipe (varasanos.com) |
| 350 points | 7 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 2007 | | How to Write a Spelling Corrector (norvig.com) |
| 349 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2009 | | LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (gist.github.com) |
| 349 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 64 comments |
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| 2009 | | Linux ate my RAM (linuxatemyram.com) |
| 348 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 167 comments |
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| 2009 | | An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (web.archive.org) |
| 347 points | 5 years ago with 129 comments |
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| 2000 | | Productivity and the Workweek (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 345 points | 5 years ago with 228 comments |
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| 2006 | | MP3 for Image Compression (keyj.emphy.de) |
| 344 points | 7 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2001 | | Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player (nytimes.com) |
| 343 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 234 comments |
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