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Articles written in 2013 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2013How Boomboxes Got Badass (collectorsweekly.com)
118 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments
2013Slashdot founder Rob Malda on why there won’t be another Hacker News (washingtonpost.com)
118 points | 1 year ago with 131 comments
2013Beautiful maths simplification: quaternion from two vectors (lolengine.net)
118 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2013Unix for Poets (cs.upc.edu)
118 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
2013Mark Twain playing with electricity in Nikola Tesla's lab in 1894 (openculture.com)
117 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2013Why is quicksort better than other sorting algorithms in practice? (cs.stackexchange.com)
117 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments
2013What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Hear a Reconstruction (openculture.com)
117 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments
2013How to Rebuild an Attention Span (theatlantic.com)
117 points | 9 years ago with 45 comments
2013China Is Engineering Genius Babies (vice.com)
116 points | 7 years ago with 135 comments
2013Eight low-tech ways to keep cool in a heatwave (bbc.co.uk)
116 points | 6 years ago with 144 comments
2013Aizuchi: Does your listening make Japanese people uncomfortable? (tofugu.com)
116 points | 2 years ago with 93 comments
2013Hey programmers, we need to talk (sealedabstract.com)
115 points | 7 years ago with 49 comments
2013Go, D, Erlang and C in real life: MQTT broker implementation shootout (atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com)
115 points | 9 years ago with 49 comments
2013C++ Exceptions: Under the Hood (monkeywritescode.blogspot.com)
115 points | 3 years ago with 111 comments
2013Gut Feelings: Bacteria and the Brain (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
115 points | 8 years ago with 54 comments
2013Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisional organization (jasoncrawford.org)
114 points | 5 years ago with 92 comments
2013H5N1 (blog.samaltman.com)
114 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments
2013Emacs Live (overtone.github.io)
114 points | 8 years ago with 43 comments
2013A Soviet scientist dreamed of melting the Arctic with a 55 mile dam (vice.com)
114 points | 2 years ago with 104 comments
2013Caffeine's Smarter Sibling: An Experience with Modafinil (erowid.org)
113 points | 2 years ago with 173 comments
2013How to Name a Baby (waitbutwhy.com)
113 points | 6 years ago with 108 comments
2013A relatively easy to understand primer on elliptic curve cryptography (arstechnica.com)
113 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments
2013USPS Discrimination Against Atheism? A Study by Atheist Shoes (atheistberlin.com)
113 points | 8 years ago with 87 comments
2013Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live (nautil.us)
113 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments
2013Depression Part Two (hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com)
113 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments
2013JavaScript Promises Discussion: Make Them Monadic? (github.com)
113 points | 6 years ago with 76 comments
2013Computer Stupidities (rinkworks.com)
112 points | 5 years ago with 78 comments
2013A Fossilized Blood-Engorged Mosquito Is Found for the First Time Ever (smithsonianmag.com)
112 points | 2 years ago with 65 comments
2013Why hardware development is hard, part 1: Verilog is weird (danluu.com)
112 points | 8 years ago with 112 comments
2013Why Online Dating Sucks for Men (alternet.org)
112 points | 7 years ago with 133 comments
2013All IP addresses are equal? “Dot-zero” addresses are less equal (labs.ripe.net)
112 points | 1 year ago with 135 comments
2013The Single Rotation rule: simple and rich reversible cellular automaton (dmishin.blogspot.com)
112 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2013Adaptive Hardware: Context Aware Interfaces (microsoft.com)
111 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments
2013The Night Watch (usenix.org)
111 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments
2013The Darker Side of Aaron Swartz (newyorker.com)
111 points | 2 years ago with 162 comments
2013Selling to the Fortune 500, Government, and Other Lovecraftian Horrors (training.kalzumeus.com)
111 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2013OS X and the Unremovable File (galvanist.com)
111 points | 9 years ago with 41 comments
2013Aristotle’s (apocryphal) advice to Alexander the Great on Persian elites (purplemotes.net)
111 points | 9 years ago with 47 comments
2013Fish oil supplements linked to prostate cancer (nhs.uk)
111 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments
2013Parsing C++ is literally undecidable (blog.reverberate.org)
111 points | 5 years ago with 142 comments
2013Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning: A Detailed Tutorial (ufldl.stanford.edu)
110 points | 8 years ago with 3 comments
2013Wounds taking weeks to heal on skin disappear in a week inside the mouth (nytimes.com)
110 points | 6 years ago with 85 comments
2013I took the $300k (boundary.com)
110 points | 9 years ago with 68 comments
2013Slow ideas (newyorker.com)
110 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2013Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits (changelog.com)
109 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments
2013How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (yosefk.com)
109 points | 9 years ago with 107 comments
2013Everything You Wanted to Know About Synchronization (sigops.org)
109 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments
2013How to Advertise on a Porn Website (blog.eat24.com)
109 points | 9 years ago with 24 comments
2013Bloom Filters by Example (llimllib.github.io)
109 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2013Browser History (madhatted.com)
109 points | 8 years ago with 49 comments
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