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 | Articles written in 2013 that Hacker News still talks about. | 
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| 2013 |  | Why the Brain Needs More Downtime  (scientificamerican.com) | 
 | 436 points | 8 years ago with 106 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | On Hacking MicroSD Cards  (bunniestudios.com) | 
 | 431 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 18 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Let Postgres Do the Work  (sorentwo.com) | 
 | 420 points | 8 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 | 5 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 | 8 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 | 3 years ago with 271 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | 90% of Python in 90 Minutes  (slideshare.net) | 
 | 411 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Bugger: Maybe the real state secret is spies aren't good at their jobs  (bbc.co.uk) | 
 | 408 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 90 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | From novice to master, and back again  (blog.djmnet.org) | 
 | 406 points | 3 years ago with 143 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | What if I were 1% charged?  (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com) | 
 | 405 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 136 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | The $12 “Gongkai” Phone  (bunniestudios.com) | 
 | 390 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 43 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang  (blogs.lse.ac.uk) | 
 | 386 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 120 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Do Things that Don't Scale  (paulgraham.com) | 
 | 386 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 31 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show  (washingtonpost.com) | 
 | 386 points | 9 years ago with 172 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Man makes money from cold calls with his own higher-rate phone number  (bbc.com) | 
 | 384 points | 6 years ago with 133 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Stop Reading News  (fs.blog) | 
 | 382 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 108 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project  (harthur.wordpress.com) | 
 | 352 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 366 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way  (arxiv.org) | 
 | 351 points | 8 years ago with 204 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to replace every year  (ilyabirman.net) | 
 | 349 points | 3 years ago with 185 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Don’t go to art school  (medium.com) | 
 | 346 points | 9 years ago with 198 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | No Hello  (nohello.com) | 
 | 345 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 67 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Death Metal English  (invisibleoranges.com) | 
 | 345 points | 2 years ago with 100 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Urban Dictionary on Hacker News  (urbandictionary.com) | 
 | 342 points | 4 years ago with 183 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | My favorite Erlang program  (joearms.github.io) | 
 | 335 points | 2 years ago with 117 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | How to lose $172k per second for 45 minutes  (sweetness.hmmz.org) | 
 | 327 points | 6 years ago with 166 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC  (docpop.org) | 
 | 326 points | 2 years ago with 73 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Never use MongoDB  (sarahmei.com) | 
 | 325 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 141 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | An F-117 pilot and the officer who shot him down meet, 15 years later   (rd.com) | 
 | 324 points | 4 years ago with 168 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls  (bookofhook.blogspot.com) | 
 | 319 points | 7 years ago with 84 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Why are free proxies free?  (blog.haschek.at) | 
 | 319 points | 10 years ago with 82 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | A practical introduction to functional programming  (maryrosecook.com) | 
 | 319 points | 8 years ago with 151 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Stacksort – Searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them  (gkoberger.github.io) | 
 | 318 points | 7 years ago with 79 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Set Theory and Algebra in CS: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling  (pdfs.semanticscholar.org) | 
 | 317 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Unraveling the linothorax mystery, or how linen armor came to dominate our lives  (jhupress.wordpress.com) | 
 | 317 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 71 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | How to get your first ten customers  (danshipper.com) | 
 | 314 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained  (hyperstealth.com) | 
 | 311 points | 3 years ago with 297 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments  (bookofbadarguments.com) | 
 | 307 points | 8 years ago with 102 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations  (web.archive.org) | 
 | 307 points | 3 years ago with 268 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | My favorite Erlang Program  (joearms.github.io) | 
 | 306 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 19 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy  (medium.com) | 
 | 305 points | 10 years ago with 335 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Explain like I’m 5: Kerberos  (roguelynn.com) | 
 | 305 points | 8 years ago with 92 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time  (cam.ac.uk) | 
 | 299 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 45 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger  (twitter.com) | 
 | 299 points | 3 years ago with 237 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003  (freedom-to-tinker.com) | 
 | 298 points | 5 years ago with 141 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less  (science.org) | 
 | 297 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Hacker News Comments I'm tired of Seeing  (righto.com) | 
 | 294 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands  (mattbruenig.com) | 
 | 293 points | 3 years ago with 120 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | My Hardest Bug Ever  (gamedeveloper.com) | 
 | 288 points | 2 years ago with 126 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Pixels Don’t Care  (warpspire.com) | 
 | 287 points | 8 years ago with 99 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures  (adit.io) | 
 | 284 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 112 comments | 
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