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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 | | Extruding Ice from Steel Fences and Pipes with Diurnal Freeze/Thaw (my.ilstu.edu) |
| 261 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2002 | | The IBM Black Team (t3.org) |
| 260 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2004 | | If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (jasonbock.net) |
| 260 points | 7 years ago with 118 comments |
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| 2006 | | Why sqlite3 temp files were renamed 'etilqs_*' (github.com) |
| 260 points | 1 year ago with 104 comments |
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| 2007 | | Resistor Noise Can Be Deafening, and Hard to Reduce (analog.com) |
| 260 points | 3 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2008 | | L-theanine, a constituent in tea, and its effect on mental state (apjcn.nhri.org.tw) |
| 260 points | 6 years ago with 158 comments |
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| 2009 | | Conflating pointers with arrays: C's biggest mistake? (digitalmars.com) |
| 260 points | 6 years ago with 254 comments |
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| 2006 | | Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (googleresearch.blogspot.com) |
| 259 points across 3 posts | 10 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2001 | | The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer (willamette.edu) |
| 258 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2001 | | Introduction to TCP and Sockets (scottklement.com) |
| 258 points | 2 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2008 | | Why it is important that software projects fail (berglas.org) |
| 258 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2009 | | Apple’s Mistake (paulgraham.com) |
| 258 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 261 comments |
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| 2004 | | How Intelligent Are Cats? (messybeast.com) |
| 257 points | 2 years ago with 281 comments |
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| 2003 | | The Problem of Thinking Too Much (statweb.stanford.edu) |
| 255 points | 5 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2006 | | In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (nytimes.com) |
| 255 points | 7 years ago with 197 comments |
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| 2001 | | Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (projecteuclid.org) |
| 254 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2001 | | Don't allow animated favicons (bugzilla.mozilla.org) |
| 254 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2002 | | How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| 254 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2007 | | Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (fliptomato.wordpress.com) |
| 254 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2009 | | Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (popularmechanics.com) |
| 254 points | 3 years ago with 210 comments |
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| 2002 | | Yahoo admits mangling e-mail (news.bbc.co.uk) |
| 252 points | 2 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2008 | | How does database indexing work? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 252 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2009 | | Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (codersatwork.com) |
| 252 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 32 comments |
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| 2000 | | Courtney Love does the math (salon.com) |
| 251 points | 13 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2006 | | My First BillG Review (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 251 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 153 comments |
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| 2008 | | How can C Programs be so Reliable? (tratt.net) |
| 251 points | 11 years ago with 221 comments |
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| 2001 | | Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 249 points | 7 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2008 | | Project from Hell (projectfailures.wordpress.com) |
| 249 points | 6 years ago with 148 comments |
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| 2004 | | ZFS 128 bit storage: Are you high? (blogs.oracle.com) |
| 248 points | 6 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 2004 | | “We Are Morons” – A quick look at the Win2k source (atdt.freeshell.org) |
| 246 points | 6 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2008 | | What's the difference between the com and exe extensions? (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) |
| 246 points | 7 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2008 | | Common shell script mistakes (pixelbeat.org) |
| 246 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2009 | | Dice-O-Matic hopper and elevator (gamesbyemail.com) |
| 246 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2009 | | Can I Talk to that William Fellow? He was so Helpful (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) |
| 246 points | 7 years ago with 126 comments |
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| 2009 | | How to Write Your Own Compiler (staff.polito.it) |
| 246 points | 7 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2009 | | Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (arxiv.org) |
| 245 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2003 | | The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (doc.cat-v.org) |
| 244 points | 3 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2007 | | Risk Everything (web.archive.org) |
| 244 points | 2 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2008 | | The TTY Demystified (linusakesson.net) |
| 244 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2007 | | Goto (beej.us) |
| 243 points | 3 years ago with 201 comments |
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| 2008 | | Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (reuters.com) |
| 243 points | 3 years ago with 219 comments |
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| 2001 | | The world's most toxic value system (uwgb.edu) |
| 242 points | 7 years ago with 193 comments |
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| 2002 | | Minimalism: Practical Guide to Writing Less Code (two-sdg.demon.co.uk) |
| 242 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2005 | | Sleeve cap ease is bogus (fashion-incubator.com) |
| 242 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2008 | | Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (old.ycombinator.com) |
| 242 points | 6 years ago with 176 comments |
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| 2007 | | The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen (pbs.org) |
| 241 points | 11 years ago with 237 comments |
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| 2004 | | Magician-turned-mathematician uncovers bias in coin flipping (news.stanford.edu) |
| 240 points | 4 years ago with 120 comments |
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| 2005 | | Ontology Is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (shirky.com) |
| 240 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2006 | | The management myth (theatlantic.com) |
| 240 points | 8 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2007 | | The Sun seen through the Earth in “neutrino light” (strangepaths.com) |
| 240 points | 4 years ago with 117 comments |
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