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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 | 7 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2013 | | On Hacking MicroSD Cards (bunniestudios.com) |
| 431 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2013 | | Let Postgres Do the Work (sorentwo.com) |
| 420 points | 7 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 | 4 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 | 7 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 | 2 years ago with 271 comments |
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| 2013 | | 90% of Python in 90 Minutes (slideshare.net) |
| 411 points across 2 posts | 3 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 | 4 years ago with 90 comments |
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| 2013 | | From novice to master, and back again (blog.djmnet.org) |
| 406 points | 2 years ago with 143 comments |
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| 2013 | | What if I were 1% charged? (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com) |
| 405 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2013 | | The $12 “Gongkai” Phone (bunniestudios.com) |
| 390 points across 2 posts | 6 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 | 3 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2013 | | NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show (washingtonpost.com) |
| 386 points | 8 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 | 5 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2013 | | Stop Reading News (fs.blog) |
| 382 points across 2 posts | 3 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 | 7 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 | 2 years ago with 185 comments |
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| 2013 | | Don’t go to art school (medium.com) |
| 346 points | 8 years ago with 198 comments |
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| 2013 | | No Hello (nohello.com) |
| 345 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2013 | | Death Metal English (invisibleoranges.com) |
| 345 points | 1 year ago with 100 comments |
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| 2013 | | Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (urbandictionary.com) |
| 342 points | 3 years ago with 183 comments |
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| 2013 | | My favorite Erlang program (joearms.github.io) |
| 335 points | 1 year ago with 117 comments |
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| 2013 | | How to lose $172k per second for 45 minutes (sweetness.hmmz.org) |
| 327 points | 5 years ago with 166 comments |
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| 2013 | | Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC (docpop.org) |
| 326 points | 1 year ago with 73 comments |
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| 2013 | | Never use MongoDB (sarahmei.com) |
| 325 points across 2 posts | 3 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 | 3 years ago with 168 comments |
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| 2013 | | Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (bookofhook.blogspot.com) |
| 319 points | 6 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2013 | | Why are free proxies free? (blog.haschek.at) |
| 319 points | 9 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2013 | | A practical introduction to functional programming (maryrosecook.com) |
| 319 points | 7 years ago with 151 comments |
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| 2013 | | Stacksort – Searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them (gkoberger.github.io) |
| 318 points | 6 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 | 6 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 | 2 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2013 | | How to get your first ten customers (danshipper.com) |
| 314 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2013 | | U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (hyperstealth.com) |
| 311 points | 2 years ago with 297 comments |
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| 2013 | | An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (bookofbadarguments.com) |
| 307 points | 7 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 | 2 years ago with 268 comments |
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| 2013 | | My favorite Erlang Program (joearms.github.io) |
| 306 points across 2 posts | 2 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 | 9 years ago with 335 comments |
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| 2013 | | Explain like I’m 5: Kerberos (roguelynn.com) |
| 305 points | 7 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 | 3 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2013 | | Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (twitter.com) |
| 299 points | 2 years ago with 237 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (freedom-to-tinker.com) |
| 298 points | 4 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 | 2 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 | 1 year ago with 12 comments |
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| 2013 | | Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (mattbruenig.com) |
| 293 points | 2 years ago with 120 comments |
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| 2013 | | My Hardest Bug Ever (gamedeveloper.com) |
| 288 points | 1 year ago with 126 comments |
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| 2013 | | Pixels Don’t Care (warpspire.com) |
| 287 points | 7 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2013 | | Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (adit.io) |
| 284 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 112 comments |
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