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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 | 2 years 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 | 6 years ago with 253 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet  (ourway.keybase.pub) | 
 | 1060 points | 6 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 | 3 years 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 | 2 years ago with 28 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep  (npr.org) | 
 | 865 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 167 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Project managers, ducks, and dogs marking territory  (rachelbythebay.com) | 
 | 811 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 57 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different  (randomwire.com) | 
 | 806 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 102 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention  (minimizedistraction.com) | 
 | 740 points | 4 years ago with 271 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | “Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robust and reliable  (redsymbol.net) | 
 | 739 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 142 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | The shittiest project I ever worked on  (blog.plover.com) | 
 | 732 points | 6 years ago with 296 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Hexagonal Grids  (redblobgames.com) | 
 | 705 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 74 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods  (somethingsimilar.com) | 
 | 702 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 8 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Scar tissues make relationships wear out  (gist.github.com) | 
 | 695 points | 2 years ago with 190 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Paper Airplane Designs  (foldnfly.com) | 
 | 689 points across 2 posts | 3 years 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 | 8 years ago with 352 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements  (amusingplanet.com) | 
 | 685 points | 2 years ago with 407 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Avoid Else, Return Early  (blog.timoxley.com) | 
 | 682 points | 7 years ago with 578 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes  (bbc.com) | 
 | 676 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 165 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Xerox scanners randomly alter numbers in scanned documents  (dkriesel.com) | 
 | 673 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 60 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords  (blog.dustinkirkland.com) | 
 | 667 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 124 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | JVM Internals  (blog.jamesdbloom.com) | 
 | 664 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 126 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | How are zlib, gzip and Zip related?  (stackoverflow.com) | 
 | 652 points | 9 years ago with 138 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Mistakes in the Design of CSS  (wiki.csswg.org) | 
 | 636 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 142 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier  (theguardian.com) | 
 | 632 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 254 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Pixar's Rules of Storytelling  (aerogrammestudio.com) | 
 | 630 points across 2 posts | 7 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 | 8 years ago with 44 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | How Doctors Die  (saturdayeveningpost.com) | 
 | 601 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 319 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system  (theguardian.com) | 
 | 601 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 124 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree  (github.com) | 
 | 595 points | 5 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 | 2 years 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 years 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 | 8 years ago with 354 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | A Primer on Bézier Curves  (pomax.github.io) | 
 | 547 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 34 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | The Theoretical Minimum  (theoreticalminimum.com) | 
 | 545 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 24 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | A Buddhist monk confronts Japan's suicide culture  (newyorker.com) | 
 | 543 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 44 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors  (righto.com) | 
 | 531 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 105 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Snowflake macro photography  (chaoticmind75.blogspot.com) | 
 | 517 points | 8 years ago with 67 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Computer Science from the Bottom Up  (bottomupcs.com) | 
 | 516 points | 8 years ago with 156 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Git Koans  (stevelosh.com) | 
 | 492 points across 3 posts | 4 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 | 7 years ago with 36 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Use long flags when scripting  (changelog.com) | 
 | 468 points | 5 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 years ago with 617 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Please don't say just hello in chat  (nohello.net) | 
 | 461 points | 4 years ago with 350 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | System design and the cost of architectural complexity  (dspace.mit.edu) | 
 | 459 points | 2 years ago with 165 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code  (computerhistory.org) | 
 | 457 points | 7 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 | 5 years ago with 137 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Kill Sticky Headers  (alisdair.mcdiarmid.org) | 
 | 443 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 81 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Stop Reading News  (fs.blog) | 
 | 439 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 61 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Google Web Designer  (google.com) | 
 | 437 points | 8 years ago with 149 comments | 
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