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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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| 2001 | | 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (gamasutra.com) |
| 343 points | 5 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2004 | | Why don't I take military funding? (web.eecs.umich.edu) |
| 343 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 2009 | | An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus (wraabe.wordpress.com) |
| 343 points | 5 years ago with 90 comments |
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| 2009 | | How to be a consultant, a freelancer, or an independent contractor (jacquesmattheij.com) |
| 343 points | 10 months ago with 163 comments |
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| 2007 | | “Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from userland code” (marc.info) |
| 342 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 118 comments |
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| 2006 | | The Nature of Lisp (defmacro.org) |
| 340 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2002 | | My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (gnu.org) |
| 339 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2001 | | Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties? (stallman.org) |
| 338 points | 10 years ago with 119 comments |
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| 2005 | | 43 km line of sight with USB WiFi stick (qsl.net) |
| 338 points | 2 years ago with 165 comments |
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| 2006 | | The Rule of Silence (linfo.org) |
| 338 points | 7 years ago with 310 comments |
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| 2004 | | Saving Lives (folklore.org) |
| 336 points | 8 months ago with 312 comments |
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| 2006 | | Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (kempa.com) |
| 336 points | 7 months ago with 165 comments |
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| 2008 | | So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (varnish-cache.org) |
| 335 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2009 | | Divisibility by 7 is a Walk on a Graph (blog.tanyakhovanova.com) |
| 335 points | 8 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (petersmagnusson.org) |
| 334 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2007 | | What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 (lwn.net) |
| 332 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2005 | | The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (nickbostrom.com) |
| 331 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2009 | | Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 330 points | 4 years ago with 293 comments |
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| 2004 | | In emergency cases a passenger was selected and thrown out of the plane (lwn.net) |
| 329 points | 10 years ago with 115 comments |
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| 2009 | | Fuck the Cloud (ascii.textfiles.com) |
| 325 points | 8 years ago with 219 comments |
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| 2007 | | The Rule of 72 (betterexplained.com) |
| 323 points | 7 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2006 | | The Windows Shutdown crapfest (moishelettvin.blogspot.com) |
| 322 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2005 | | Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (defacto2.net) |
| 321 points | 1 year ago with 221 comments |
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| 2001 | | Is your son a computer hacker? (wh0rd.ca) |
| 320 points | 3 years ago with 235 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Python Paradox (paulgraham.com) |
| 318 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 268 comments |
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| 2000 | | Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (sean-crist.com) |
| 316 points | 11 years ago with 206 comments |
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| 2004 | | I'm OK, the bull is dead (computerworld.com) |
| 315 points | 9 months ago with 173 comments |
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| 2004 | | What happens when patients find out how good their doctors are? (newyorker.com) |
| 314 points | 6 years ago with 224 comments |
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| 2005 | | Return of the Mac (paulgraham.com) |
| 313 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 181 comments |
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| 2007 | | Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (robwalling.com) |
| 313 points | 5 years ago with 222 comments |
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| 2009 | | A beginner's guide to Big O notation (rob-bell.net) |
| 312 points | 8 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2007 | | Shor, I’ll do it (scottaaronson.blog) |
| 308 points | 1 year ago with 48 comments |
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| 2001 | | Tiny-C Compiler (iro.umontreal.ca) |
| 307 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 66 comments |
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| 2006 | | A CD Spectrometer (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 307 points across 3 posts | 8 months ago with 47 comments |
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| 2007 | | My National Security Letter Gag Order (washingtonpost.com) |
| 307 points | 13 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (theamericanscholar.org) |
| 307 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 206 comments |
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| 2004 | | TheFacebook.com’s darker side (web.archive.org) |
| 306 points | 7 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2007 | | Introduction to Operating System Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs (lsub.org) |
| 306 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2009 | | Startups in 13 Sentences (paulgraham.com) |
| 306 points | 7 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2002 | | A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (dwheeler.com) |
| 304 points | 3 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2004 | | Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (slate.com) |
| 302 points | 7 years ago with 168 comments |
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| 2001 | | Java's Cover (paulgraham.com) |
| 301 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 122 comments |
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| 2008 | | Linux is not about choice (redhat.com) |
| 301 points | 11 years ago with 230 comments |
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| 2008 | | Operating System Development Series (brokenthorn.com) |
| 300 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2009 | | New York Times Election Day Crossword (crosswordunclued.com) |
| 300 points | 10 months ago with 44 comments |
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| 2009 | | 37signals valuation tops $100 billion after bold VC investment (37signals.com) |
| 300 points | 10 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 2004 | | How real are real numbers? (arxiv.org) |
| 299 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2008 | | Jeff Varasano's NY Pizza Recipe (varasanos.com) |
| 299 points | 2 years ago with 202 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (steveblank.com) |
| 299 points across 3 posts | 5 months ago with 3 comments |
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| 2009 | | Damn Cool Algorithms: Log structured storage (blog.notdot.net) |
| 296 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments |
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