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| Articles written in 2013 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2013 | | Hacker News Parody Thread (bradconte.com) |
| 1618 points across 2 posts | 6 months ago with 328 comments |
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| 2013 | | How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (propublica.org) |
| 1249 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 253 comments |
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| 2013 | | Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (ourway.keybase.pub) |
| 1060 points | 4 years ago with 161 comments |
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| 2013 | | English has been my pain for 15 years (antirez.com) |
| 887 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 266 comments |
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| 2013 | | Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (coding2learn.org) |
| 867 points across 4 posts | 3 months ago with 28 comments |
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| 2013 | | Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (npr.org) |
| 865 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 167 comments |
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| 2013 | | Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different (randomwire.com) |
| 806 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 102 comments |
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| 2013 | | A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (minimizedistraction.com) |
| 740 points | 1 year ago with 271 comments |
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| 2013 | | The shittiest project I ever worked on (blog.plover.com) |
| 732 points | 4 years ago with 296 comments |
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| 2013 | | Hexagonal Grids (redblobgames.com) |
| 705 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2013 | | Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (somethingsimilar.com) |
| 702 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2013 | | Scar tissues make relationships wear out (gist.github.com) |
| 690 points | 3 days ago with 190 comments |
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| 2013 | | Paper Airplane Designs (foldnfly.com) |
| 689 points across 2 posts | 10 months ago with 96 comments |
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| 2013 | | Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big (chrisstucchio.com) |
| 688 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 352 comments |
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| 2013 | | “Just remove the duck” (rachelbythebay.com) |
| 682 points | 8 years ago with 327 comments |
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| 2013 | | Avoid Else, Return Early (blog.timoxley.com) |
| 682 points | 5 years ago with 578 comments |
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| 2013 | | Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (bbc.com) |
| 676 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 165 comments |
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| 2013 | | Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords (blog.dustinkirkland.com) |
| 667 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2013 | | JVM Internals (blog.jamesdbloom.com) |
| 664 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 126 comments |
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| 2013 | | How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 652 points | 6 years ago with 138 comments |
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| 2013 | | Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (dkriesel.com) |
| 645 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 184 comments |
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| 2013 | | Pixar's Rules of Storytelling (aerogrammestudio.com) |
| 630 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2013 | | Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go (andrewkelley.me) |
| 621 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2013 | | How Doctors Die (saturdayeveningpost.com) |
| 601 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 319 comments |
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| 2013 | | T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (github.com) |
| 595 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2013 | | Long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by prototaxites (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 584 points across 2 posts | 1 month ago with 240 comments |
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| 2013 | | Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (audioasylum.com) |
| 575 points across 2 posts | 2 months ago with 746 comments |
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| 2013 | | Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests” (istacee.wordpress.com) |
| 550 points | 6 years ago with 354 comments |
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| 2013 | | A Primer on Bézier Curves (pomax.github.io) |
| 547 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Theoretical Minimum (theoreticalminimum.com) |
| 545 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 24 comments |
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| 2013 | | A Buddhist monk confronts Japan's suicide culture (newyorker.com) |
| 543 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2013 | | Snowflake macro photography (chaoticmind75.blogspot.com) |
| 517 points | 5 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2013 | | Computer Science from the Bottom Up (bottomupcs.com) |
| 516 points | 6 years ago with 156 comments |
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| 2013 | | Git Koans (stevelosh.com) |
| 492 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2013 | | Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (camdavidsonpilon.github.io) |
| 474 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2013 | | Use long flags when scripting (changelog.com) |
| 468 points | 2 years ago with 189 comments |
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| 2013 | | Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had the highest sound quality (discuss.systems) |
| 468 points | 2 months ago with 617 comments |
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| 2013 | | Please don't say just hello in chat (nohello.net) |
| 461 points | 2 years ago with 350 comments |
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| 2013 | | System design and the cost of architectural complexity (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 459 points | 1 month ago with 165 comments |
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| 2013 | | Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (computerhistory.org) |
| 457 points | 5 years ago with 200 comments |
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| 2013 | | Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10k jobs per second (gist.github.com) |
| 445 points | 3 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 2013 | | Kill Sticky Headers (alisdair.mcdiarmid.org) |
| 443 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2013 | | Google Web Designer (google.com) |
| 437 points | 6 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 2013 | | Why the Brain Needs More Downtime (scientificamerican.com) |
| 436 points | 5 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2013 | | On Hacking MicroSD Cards (bunniestudios.com) |
| 431 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2013 | | Let Postgres Do the Work (sorentwo.com) |
| 420 points | 6 years ago with 202 comments |
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| 2013 | | For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off from All Human Contact (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 417 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2013 | | Fourier transform – A math tool used in optics, MP3s, JPEGs and more (nautil.us) |
| 417 points | 6 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2013 | | How a middle aged CS major debunked a classic positive psychology finding (narratively.com) |
| 414 points | 1 year ago with 271 comments |
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| 2013 | | 90% of Python in 90 Minutes (slideshare.net) |
| 411 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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