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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2007Intel in Macs (apple.com)
222 points | 4 years ago with 136 comments
2009How we made GitHub fast (github.com)
222 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2009Head-On Crash: 2009 Chevrolet Malibu vs. 1959 Bel Air (thecarconnection.com)
222 points | 2 years ago with 211 comments
2007Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (pmarchive.com)
221 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 9 comments
2006Eating less and more than needed on alternate days prolongs life (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
220 points | 7 years ago with 123 comments
2006GUI Architectures (martinfowler.com)
219 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 28 comments
2006A bad citizen in Javaland (darrenhobbs.com)
219 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments
2008What does "HREF" stand for? (tomayko.com)
219 points | 11 years ago with 49 comments
2002Why Software Should Be Free (gnu.org)
218 points | 4 years ago with 143 comments
2007Top ten algorithms in data mining (some-docs.googlecode.com)
218 points | 12 years ago with 41 comments
2008Association between muscular strength and mortality in men (bmj.com)
218 points | 11 years ago with 199 comments
2009Suicide Linux (qntm.org)
218 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 170 comments
2004The Graphing Calculator Story (pacifict.com)
217 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 15 comments
2006The DOOM 3 Network Architecture (fabiensanglard.net)
217 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments
2009ldd arbitrary code execution (catonmat.net)
217 points | 1 year ago with 85 comments
2005The Mathematics Autodidact’s Aid (ams.org)
216 points | 7 years ago with 47 comments
2003Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (theregister.co.uk)
215 points | 4 years ago with 180 comments
2006LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (archive.wired.com)
215 points | 10 years ago with 215 comments
2001Too Much Calculus – Gilbert Strang (www-math.mit.edu)
214 points | 9 years ago with 134 comments
2002Secret Service Interrogation of Wozniak (archive.woz.org)
214 points | 9 years ago with 101 comments
2003An Introduction to Probabilistic Graphical Models (people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
214 points | 7 years ago with 35 comments
2003How do food manufacturers calculate the calorie count of packaged foods? (scientificamerican.com)
214 points | 8 years ago with 150 comments
2007What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (akkadia.org)
214 points | 5 years ago with 97 comments
2007Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. (michaelpollan.com)
214 points | 8 years ago with 179 comments
2000Cargo Cult Software Engineering (stevemcconnell.com)
213 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments
2002If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (sellsbrothers.com)
213 points | 3 years ago with 199 comments
2003A Brief History of ClarisWorks (groups.csail.mit.edu)
213 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2007The Axiom of Choice Is Wrong (cornellmath.wordpress.com)
213 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 149 comments
2007MySpace, Skype announce partnership (msnbc.msn.com)
213 points | 13 years ago with 45 comments
2009Anatomy of a Program in Memory (duartes.org)
212 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 5 comments
2009OpenSSL is written by monkeys (peereboom.us)
212 points | 10 years ago with 180 comments
2009Robert Sapolsky on Depression (robertsapolskyrocks.com)
212 points | 3 years ago with 123 comments
2000Python for Lisp Programmers (norvig.com)
211 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 65 comments
2005Top colleges should select randomly from a pool of ‘good enough’ (chronicle.com)
211 points | 4 years ago with 297 comments
2007Address to the American Psychological Association on Men (denisdutton.com)
211 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 81 comments
2009HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (news.ycombinator.com)
211 points | 3 years ago with 140 comments
2007The secret Thinkpad powerbutton code to bring dead laptops back to life (masnick.com)
210 points | 3 years ago with 76 comments
2007Architecture of a Database System (db.cs.berkeley.edu)
210 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2008Vx32: Portable, efficient, safe user-space execution of untrusted x86 code (pdos.csail.mit.edu)
210 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 23 comments
2000Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (harmful.cat-v.org)
209 points | 3 years ago with 278 comments
2000The Passport Payment (web.archive.org)
209 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments
2007Tree traversal without recursion: the tree as a state machine (plasmasturm.org)
209 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments
2008Mona Lisa in 50 polygons, using a genetic algorithm (rogeralsing.com)
209 points | 12 years ago with 53 comments
2009The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wrong (stackoverflow.blog)
209 points | 3 years ago with 447 comments
2009Why Is C Faster Than Java (marc.info)
209 points | 3 years ago with 366 comments
2005Google Will Eat Itself (gwei.org)
208 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments
2007Market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure (pmarchive.com)
208 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 127 comments
2008Using Programming Language Concepts to Teach General Thinking Skills (people.csail.mit.edu)
208 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments
2009Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts (scientificamerican.com)
208 points | 8 years ago with 133 comments
2000Basics of Compiler Design (hjemmesider.diku.dk)
207 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments
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