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| Articles written in 2014 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2014 | | The Internet I Knew (flowerhack.dreamwidth.org) |
| 200 points | 6 years ago with 115 comments |
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| 2014 | | Ed is the standard text editor (wiki.c2.com) |
| 200 points | 2 years ago with 119 comments |
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| 2014 | | Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (news.usc.edu) |
| 199 points | 8 years ago with 171 comments |
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| 2014 | | Averages Can Be Misleading: Try a Percentile (elastic.co) |
| 199 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2014 | | Terry Gilliam on his techniques for Monty Python animations (openculture.com) |
| 199 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2014 | | How Not to Learn Cryptography (esl.cs.brown.edu) |
| 199 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2014 | | What cold showers and exercise have in common (gettingstronger.org) |
| 198 points | 8 years ago with 135 comments |
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| 2014 | | How I Lost My $50k Twitter Username (medium.com) |
| 198 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why is everyone so busy? (economist.com) |
| 198 points | 6 years ago with 142 comments |
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| 2014 | | Circuit building: stop using antique parts (sensitiveresearch.com) |
| 197 points | 7 years ago with 165 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why now is the best time to study quantum computing (arxiv.org) |
| 195 points | 8 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2014 | | Layman's Guide to Elliptic-Curve Digital Signatures (royalfork.org) |
| 194 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2014 | | Profits Without Prosperity (hbr.org) |
| 194 points | 7 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 2014 | | How misaligning data can increase performance by reducing cache misses (danluu.com) |
| 192 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Long Way Round (lapsedhistorian.com) |
| 191 points | 7 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2014 | | Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing (pages.tacc.utexas.edu) |
| 191 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2014 | | A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub (cacm.acm.org) |
| 189 points | 7 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2014 | | Typography of 2001: A Space Odyssey (typesetinthefuture.com) |
| 189 points | 3 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2014 | | Norris Numbers – Walls you hit in program size (teamten.com) |
| 189 points | 6 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2014 | | CS 281B: Statistical Learning Theory (people.eecs.berkeley.edu) |
| 188 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2014 | | Let’s build a browser engine (limpet.net) |
| 188 points | 5 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2014 | | Doing Business in Japan (kalzumeus.com) |
| 185 points | 8 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why we write elementary apps in Vala (blog.elementary.io) |
| 185 points | 2 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2014 | | So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (drinks.seriouseats.com) |
| 185 points | 4 years ago with 286 comments |
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| 2014 | | I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop what you are doing (reddit.com) |
| 185 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2014 | | RSA chief believed cryptographers’ warnings on Dual EC DRBG lacked merit (jeffreycarr.blogspot.com) |
| 185 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2014 | | Everything is broken (medium.com) |
| 185 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2014 | | The control group is out of control (slatestarcodex.com) |
| 184 points | 2 years ago with 174 comments |
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| 2014 | | The End of Retirement (harpers.org) |
| 184 points | 3 years ago with 325 comments |
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| 2014 | | Long-Chain Omega-3 Fatty Acids Improve Brain Function, Structure in Older Adults (academic.oup.com) |
| 184 points | 2 years ago with 160 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973 (priceonomics.com) |
| 184 points | 4 years ago with 208 comments |
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| 2014 | | Computer Science Illustrated (csillustrated.berkeley.edu) |
| 184 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2014 | | Chemical space is really big (chemistryworld.com) |
| 183 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2014 | | What every programmer should know about solid-state drives (codecapsule.com) |
| 182 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2014 | | How Your Brain Decides Without You (nautil.us) |
| 182 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2014 | | Original source of `(seed * 9301 and 49297) % 233280` random algorithm? (softwareengineering.stackexchange.com) |
| 182 points | 2 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2014 | | Induction of self awareness in dreams through low current stimulation (nature.com) |
| 181 points | 6 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2014 | | Chinese Number Websites: The Secret Meaning of URLs (newrepublic.com) |
| 181 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2014 | | Incenser, or how NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables (electrospaces.net) |
| 180 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why programming is difficult (joearms.github.io) |
| 180 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2014 | | Speeding up this site by 50x (danluu.com) |
| 180 points | 2 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2014 | | Middle name initials enhance evaluations of intellectual performance (onlinelibrary.wiley.com) |
| 179 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2014 | | x86 is Turing-complete with no registers (mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com) |
| 179 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 48 comments |
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| 2014 | | Lime Text – Open Source Sublime Text alternative (limetext.org) |
| 178 points | 8 years ago with 180 comments |
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| 2014 | | Wirecutter CEO Sells Top Reviews for Kickbacks (xdesk.com) |
| 177 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2014 | | Tips for Reading Code (wiki.c2.com) |
| 177 points | 7 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2014 | | Searching 20 GB/sec: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms (blog.scalyr.com) |
| 177 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2014 | | Mystery Signal from a Helicopter (windytan.com) |
| 177 points | 1 year ago with 28 comments |
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| 2014 | | Context switch logging with the Windows Event Tracing API (mollyrocket.com) |
| 177 points | 8 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Design of SQLite4 (sqlite.org) |
| 176 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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