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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2009A tutorial on active learning (hunch.net)
85 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments
2009Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (wired.com)
85 points | 1 year ago with 78 comments
2002Origin Of The Abbreviation I18n (i18nguy.com)
84 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 28 comments
2003The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview (karmak.org)
84 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments
2004Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (svn.torproject.org)
84 points | 6 years ago with 71 comments
2007I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails (oreillynet.com)
84 points across 2 posts | 12 years ago with 17 comments
2007Copyright vs. Copyleft (gnu.org)
84 points | 4 years ago with 84 comments
2008“Assault on Reason” Endangers Democracy (npr.org)
84 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments
2008The Year of Dressing Formally (chronicle.com)
84 points | 11 years ago with 113 comments
2008Understanding What It's Like to Program in Forth (prog21.dadgum.com)
84 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments
2009How London buses are numbered (markhadfield.typepad.com)
84 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2009J Has the Best Development Environment (prog21.dadgum.com)
84 points | 10 years ago with 41 comments
2009Entitlement issues (journal.neilgaiman.com)
84 points | 2 years ago with 184 comments
2002A gentle introduction to the FFT (earlevel.com)
83 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments
2004My quest for the perfect window manager (ironphoenix.org)
83 points | 2 years ago with 146 comments
2006Learning Python and Haskell has not improved my programming (lukeplant.me.uk)
83 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2007Chemical weapons dumped in the Baltic sea (mir.gdynia.pl)
83 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments
2007R.I.P. Macromedia FreeHand (losingfight.com)
83 points | 1 year ago with 77 comments
2007How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students (papers.ssrn.com)
83 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2008If You Liked This, You're Sure to Love That (nytimes.com)
83 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2008World's Oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC (reuters.com)
83 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments
2008Computation and State Machines (lamport.azurewebsites.net)
83 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2008Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competitors Nearby (mindyourdecisions.com)
83 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments
2009Freeman Dyson takes on the climate establishment (e360.yale.edu)
83 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments
2009Tail calls, tailrec and trampolines (blog.richdougherty.com)
83 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments
2000The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments (usenix.org)
82 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2000BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code (salon.com)
82 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments
2002Reforming the Mathematical Language of Physics (geocalc.clas.asu.edu)
82 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 20 comments
2003Joel on The Absolute Minimum Every Developer Must Know About Unicode (joelonsoftware.com)
82 points across 3 posts | 9 years ago with 1 comments
2004The Story of Audion (panic.com)
82 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 7 comments
2005Business schools redefine hacking to “stuff that a 7-year-old could do” (blogs.law.harvard.edu)
82 points | 15 years ago with 46 comments
200564-bit unix timestamp is not supported in MySQL functions (bugs.mysql.com)
82 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments
2006A student's guide to startups (paulgraham.com)
82 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 35 comments
2007Is anyone still using assembly language? You betcha (eetimes.com)
82 points | 2 years ago with 119 comments
200750 years of Fortran at CERN (cerncourier.com)
82 points | 9 years ago with 52 comments
2008dd – Destroyer of Disks (noah.org)
82 points | 9 years ago with 58 comments
2008Done, and Gets Things Smart (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
82 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments
2008Who Is This “Licklider” Guy? (moserware.com)
82 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2008How MOS 6502 Illegal Opcodes Work (pagetable.com)
82 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2009Time management trips I learned from years of hating Tim Ferriss (blog.penelopetrunk.com)
82 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2009Is Food the New Sex? (hoover.org)
82 points | 10 years ago with 81 comments
2009Proquints: Identifiers That Are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable (arxiv.org)
82 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments
2000Self-Determination: The Tyranny of Freedom (swarthmore.edu)
81 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments
2000Theft of the Mona Lisa (pbs.org)
81 points | 1 year ago with 45 comments
2002The geeks who saved Usenet (salon.com)
81 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2003The Earthsea Trilogy (dannyreviews.com)
81 points | 1 year ago with 86 comments
2003The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (inf.ed.ac.uk)
81 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2004A conversation with Alan Kay (doc.ic.ac.uk)
81 points | 12 years ago with 10 comments
2004The Structure and Interpretation of the Computer Science Curriculum (cs.brown.edu)
81 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2004Life on a neutron star (daviddarling.info)
81 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments

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