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Articles written 2000 to 2009 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2002A guide on how to be a Programmer (github.com)
207 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2005What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (newyorker.com)
207 points | 8 years ago with 58 comments
2006Refuse to be terrorized (wired.com)
207 points | 13 years ago with 83 comments
2006Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
207 points across 3 posts | 11 years ago with 47 comments
2003Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (web.archive.org)
205 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments
2004EA: The Human Story (ea-spouse.livejournal.com)
205 points | 2 years ago with 132 comments
2008Very Long-Term Backup (longnow.org)
205 points | 1 year ago with 139 comments
2008RIP Good Times (articles.sequoiacap.com)
205 points | 2 years ago with 216 comments
2008Git from the Bottom Up (jwiegley.github.io)
205 points | 3 years ago with 15 comments
2009Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (wisdomandwonder.com)
205 points | 7 years ago with 97 comments
2006F (nsl.com)
204 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 56 comments
2009Existential Depression in Gifted Children and Adults (hoagiesgifted.org)
204 points | 8 years ago with 128 comments
2009Baker's Math (thefreshloaf.com)
204 points | 2 years ago with 113 comments
2007Write a rapid prototype first (terrytao.wordpress.com)
203 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments
2007CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (yarchive.net)
203 points | 11 years ago with 95 comments
2001An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (spectrum.ieee.org)
202 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 116 comments
2007Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (lowendmac.com)
202 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2009All or something (37signals.com)
202 points | 12 years ago with 64 comments
2000The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (web.archive.org)
201 points | 4 years ago with 98 comments
2001Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened (web.mit.edu)
201 points | 10 years ago with 50 comments
2003First atomic clock wristwatch (leapsecond.com)
201 points | 4 years ago with 91 comments
2003Why Nerds Are Unpopular (paulgraham.com)
201 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2009Fixing Unix/Linux/Posix Filenames (dwheeler.com)
201 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 96 comments
2003Why dolphins are deep thinkers (theguardian.com)
200 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 64 comments
2007Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation (norvig.com)
200 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2008Life and How to Survive It (mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com)
200 points | 14 years ago with 27 comments
2009The C language is purely functional (conal.net)
200 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 31 comments
2009Work less, get more done: Analytics for maximizing productivity (kalzumeus.com)
200 points | 1 year ago with 116 comments
2009Visualizing Bayes Theorem (oscarbonilla.com)
200 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 21 comments
2002Non-PhotoRealistic Quake (research.cs.wisc.edu)
199 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
2003The Art of Powerful Questions (umanitoba.ca)
199 points | 4 years ago with 14 comments
2004Nuclear power is the only green solution (jameslovelock.org)
199 points | 5 years ago with 372 comments
2006Do What You Love and Starve? (martynemko.com)
199 points | 6 years ago with 98 comments
2008Scanning books at 250 pages a minute (k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
199 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments
2009The SO_LINGER page, or: why is my TCP not reliable (blog.netherlabs.nl)
199 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 8 comments
2005Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (joelonsoftware.com)
198 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 97 comments
2006Why the internet only just works (fermatslibrary.com)
198 points | 8 years ago with 84 comments
2007When That Guy Died on My Show (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
198 points | 6 years ago with 61 comments
2007$1 Unistroke Recognizer (depts.washington.edu)
198 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments
2008NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (ntrs.nasa.gov)
198 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments
2008Australia's weird little time zone (howderfamily.com)
198 points | 2 years ago with 97 comments
2002“The effects of lifelong exposure to a perverse contingency” (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
197 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments
2007Gamma error in picture scaling (4p8.com)
197 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 32 comments
2007Sergey Brin: The Facebook phenomenon is a problem (twitter.com)
197 points | 2 years ago with 185 comments
2009Consciousness and Anaesthesia (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
197 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 173 comments
2000A Few Rules for Predicting the Future (web.archive.org)
196 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments
2001Handbook of Applied Cryptography (cacr.uwaterloo.ca)
196 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2006APL – A Glimpse of Heaven (vector.org.uk)
196 points | 5 years ago with 93 comments
2006Mistakes That Kill Startups (paulgraham.com)
196 points | 4 years ago with 96 comments
2008Sand won't save you this time (blogs.sciencemag.org)
196 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments
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