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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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| 2007 | | How Shor's Algorithm works (scottaaronson.com) |
| 293 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2000 | | Quake's 3-D Engine: The Big Picture by Michael Abrash (bluesnews.com) |
| 292 points | 4 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2002 | | The rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab (flownet.com) |
| 292 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 142 comments |
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| 2003 | | UTF-8 history (cl.cam.ac.uk) |
| 292 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 2001 | | Wikipedia is up (web.archive.org) |
| 291 points | 3 years ago with 198 comments |
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| 2003 | | The Art of Picking Intel Registers (swansontec.com) |
| 291 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2003 | | The horror of blimps (boards.straightdope.com) |
| 289 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2009 | | LaTeX Coffee Stains (hanno-rein.de) |
| 288 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2000 | | Are you an anarchist? The answer may surprise you (theanarchistlibrary.org) |
| 286 points | 4 years ago with 812 comments |
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| 2005 | | Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1% (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 286 points | 13 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2000 | | PoW gets his life back after 55 years (theguardian.com) |
| 285 points | 1 year ago with 103 comments |
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| 2007 | | Game Theory (oyc.yale.edu) |
| 285 points | 3 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2000 | | The Two Cultures of Mathematics (dpmms.cam.ac.uk) |
| 283 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2004 | | Do It (folklore.org) |
| 283 points | 2 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2006 | | Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (norvig.com) |
| 282 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2006 | | Every time we lift a pallet from the shipping room, the server times out (reddit.com) |
| 281 points | 8 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2000 | | Court rules that barring high IQs for cops is not unconstitutional (abcnews.go.com) |
| 279 points | 4 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2002 | | Linus Torvalds on Garbage Collection (gcc.gnu.org) |
| 279 points | 13 years ago with 204 comments |
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| 2005 | | We Are Sorry to Inform You (fang.ece.ufl.edu) |
| 279 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2008 | | Cities and Ambition (paulgraham.com) |
| 278 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2007 | | Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (gnu.org) |
| 277 points | 5 years ago with 399 comments |
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| 2008 | | How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (tom.preston-werner.com) |
| 276 points | 11 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2009 | | Nobody wants to read your shit (stevenpressfield.com) |
| 276 points | 5 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2005 | | The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (nickbostrom.com) |
| 275 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2000 | | I Don't Like Debuggers (lwn.net) |
| 274 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 239 comments |
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| 2007 | | I Think You're Fat (esquire.com) |
| 274 points across 2 posts | 13 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 2009 | | Climbing the wrong hill (cdixon.org) |
| 273 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2002 | | Computers Without Clocks – Ivan Sutherland (cs.virginia.edu) |
| 272 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2008 | | I fell in love with an assassin (independent.co.uk) |
| 272 points | 7 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2002 | | Linked List Problems (cslibrary.stanford.edu) |
| 271 points | 7 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2006 | | Number systems of the world, sorted by complexity of counting (sf.airnet.ne.jp) |
| 271 points | 6 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 2009 | | Aaron Swartz's Thoughts on djb (aaronsw.com) |
| 271 points | 9 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 2004 | | ABI vs. API (lists.debian.org) |
| 268 points | 8 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2006 | | Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (ronpatrickstuff.com) |
| 268 points | 1 year ago with 135 comments |
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| 2006 | | Finger Trees: A Simple General-Purpose Data Structure (staff.city.ac.uk) |
| 267 points | 8 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2009 | | The /bin/true Command and Copyright (trillian.mit.edu) |
| 267 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2003 | | Bill Gates on Windows Usability (twitter.com) |
| 266 points | 5 years ago with 225 comments |
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| 2002 | | How to find hidden cameras (tentacle.franken.de) |
| 265 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2007 | | Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (dheera.net) |
| 265 points | 10 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2009 | | Choice of search engine on Android nuked by “Anonymous Coward” (android.googlesource.com) |
| 265 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2000 | | Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (theatlantic.com) |
| 264 points | 7 years ago with 180 comments |
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| 2000 | | Olbers’ Paradox: Why Is the Sky Dark at Night? (amnh.org) |
| 264 points | 8 years ago with 143 comments |
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| 2001 | | Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (web.archive.org) |
| 264 points | 3 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2003 | | Transiting the Suez Canal in a Private Sailboat (sailsafely.com) |
| 264 points | 3 years ago with 216 comments |
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| 2008 | | My experiment with smart drugs (johannhari.com) |
| 264 points | 14 years ago with 142 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (steveblank.com) |
| 264 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 198 comments |
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| 2006 | | Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (files.eric.ed.gov) |
| 263 points | 4 years ago with 249 comments |
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| 2006 | | An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu) |
| 263 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2001 | | Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips (greenharbor.com) |
| 262 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 120 comments |
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| 2009 | | What Chinese looks, feels and sounds like when you're from Korea or Japan (pagef30.com) |
| 262 points | 4 years ago with 183 comments |
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