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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2009What a Real Train System Looks Like (newworldeconomics.com)
240 points | 6 years ago with 199 comments
2002The Antidesktop (web.archive.org)
238 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2000Interview with the authors of C, C++ and Java (gotw.ca)
237 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments
2001Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (joelonsoftware.com)
237 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 148 comments
2008Want to Write a Compiler? Read These Two Papers (prog21.dadgum.com)
237 points | 9 years ago with 70 comments
2009Amish Hackers (kk.org)
237 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 61 comments
2007Bizarro World: World Record Tetris (boston.com)
236 points | 10 years ago with 75 comments
2009On Being Smart (sma.epfl.ch)
236 points | 9 years ago with 130 comments
2009Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (gamesfromwithin.com)
236 points | 3 years ago with 359 comments
2002Engineering Pornography (jwz.org)
235 points | 12 years ago with 77 comments
2005Does Visual Studio rot the mind? (charlespetzold.com)
235 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 143 comments
2007Scroogled (scroogle.org)
235 points | 13 years ago with 80 comments
2008Git is as revolutionary as Unix pipes (apenwarr.ca)
235 points | 13 years ago with 55 comments
2009PSD is not my favourite file format (github.com)
235 points | 4 years ago with 103 comments
2003Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (inference.org.uk)
234 points | 1 year ago with 30 comments
2004It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (paradise.caltech.edu)
234 points | 7 years ago with 87 comments
2009Not Lisp again (funcall.blogspot.sg)
234 points | 11 years ago with 175 comments
2009Growing a Compiler (cs.dartmouth.edu)
234 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments
2004It's Charisma, Stupid (paulgraham.com)
233 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 48 comments
2007The Strange Story of Dual_EC_DRBG – suspected NSA backdoor (schneier.com)
233 points | 11 years ago with 75 comments
2009Mathematics for Physics (goldbart.gatech.edu)
233 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2001How to Criticize Computer Scientists (cs.purdue.edu)
232 points | 3 years ago with 101 comments
2005Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (scs.stanford.edu)
232 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments
2007Zoomquilt 2 (zoomquilt2.com)
231 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments
2007What's all this fuss about Erlang? (pragprog.com)
231 points | 8 years ago with 188 comments
2000Coroutines in C (chiark.greenend.org.uk)
230 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments
2000A vi-centric family tree of editors (web.mit.edu)
229 points | 8 years ago with 90 comments
2001Advanced Linux Programming – book with free PDF (advancedlinuxprogramming.com)
229 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments
2001Your face is not a bar code: arguments against automatic face recognition (pages.gseis.ucla.edu)
229 points | 3 years ago with 73 comments
2006The tragic birth of FM radio (damninteresting.com)
229 points | 2 years ago with 65 comments
2008The “high-level CPU” challenge (yosefk.com)
229 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 127 comments
2009What is your favorite C programming trick? (stackoverflow.com)
229 points | 4 years ago with 180 comments
2005Practicing Programming (sites.google.com)
228 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 12 comments
2006How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (aaronsw.com)
228 points | 11 years ago with 164 comments
2006The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (vqronline.org)
228 points | 2 years ago with 177 comments
2007PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum (scottaaronson.com)
228 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 51 comments
2009I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement (nobelprize.org)
227 points | 7 years ago with 212 comments
2003Microsoft execs on Apple's music store (twitter.com)
226 points | 1 year ago with 170 comments
2005K (archive.vector.org.uk)
226 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2007End Software Patents (endsoftpatents.org)
226 points | 5 years ago with 198 comments
2000Amazon: Ponzi Scheme or Wal-Mart of the Web? (slate.com)
225 points | 13 years ago with 81 comments
2004Do the simplest thing that can possibly work (twasink.net)
225 points | 1 year ago with 89 comments
2003Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet "Ginger" (hbswk.hbs.edu)
224 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 48 comments
2006I survived the “Destroying Angel” (blog.mycology.cornell.edu)
224 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 4 comments
2002Some things every C programmer should know about C (web.archive.org)
223 points | 5 years ago with 108 comments
2002Homebrew CPU Home Page (homebrewcpu.com)
223 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2003The Spoon Theory (butyoudontlooksick.com)
223 points | 4 years ago with 128 comments
2006Hell is a multi-threaded C++ program (codemines.blogspot.com)
223 points | 7 years ago with 122 comments
2009Why we don't use Galileo's last name (slate.com)
223 points | 5 years ago with 169 comments
2009The Egg (galactanet.com)
223 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments
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