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