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| Articles written in 2014 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2014 | | Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (blog.pivotal.io) |
| 159 points | 7 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2014 | | X to Close – The origins of the use of [x] in UI design. (medium.com) |
| 159 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 82 comments |
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| 2014 | | Back to the Future: Unix Wildcards Gone Wild (defensecode.com) |
| 158 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2014 | | Understanding SAT by Implementing a Simple SAT Solver in Python (sahandsaba.com) |
| 158 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Man Who Made the UK Say “I’m Sorry for What We Did to Turing” (backchannel.com) |
| 157 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2014 | | Write your own Virtual CPU in C++ (megalomaniacbore.blogspot.com) |
| 156 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2014 | | C++ the Good Parts (infoq.com) |
| 156 points | 4 years ago with 246 comments |
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| 2014 | | Filthy surgical instruments: a threat in America's operating rooms (publicintegrity.org) |
| 155 points | 5 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why ContentEditable Is Terrible, Or: How the Medium Editor Works (medium.com) |
| 155 points | 8 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2014 | | Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 (raymii.org) |
| 155 points | 1 year ago with 88 comments |
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| 2014 | | John Carmack .plan Archive (github.com) |
| 153 points | 8 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2014 | | Build a Working Game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life (codegolf.stackexchange.com) |
| 153 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2014 | | Concorde ‘B’ (heritageconcorde.com) |
| 153 points | 4 years ago with 218 comments |
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| 2014 | | Clojure Compilation (blog.ndk.io) |
| 153 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat: The Economics of Open Source (a16z.com) |
| 153 points | 6 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2014 | | So you want to write a type checker (languagengine.co) |
| 152 points | 7 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2014 | | Implementing a Principal Component Analysis In Python (sebastianraschka.com) |
| 151 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2014 | | Ten years ago they beat MIT. Today, it's complicated (azcentral.com) |
| 151 points | 8 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2014 | | USPS loses millions each year on local delivery of mail from abroad (washingtonpost.com) |
| 151 points | 7 years ago with 161 comments |
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| 2014 | | Visualising High Frequency Trading in Bitcoin (parasec.net) |
| 150 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why Elixir (theerlangelist.com) |
| 150 points | 7 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2014 | | Just what does “code as data” mean anyway? (adambard.com) |
| 149 points | 6 years ago with 171 comments |
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| 2014 | | Learn C and build your own Lisp (buildyourownlisp.com) |
| 149 points | 1 year ago with 43 comments |
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| 2014 | | Unix Domain Sockets vs Loopback TCP Sockets (nicisdigital.wordpress.com) |
| 149 points | 1 year ago with 75 comments |
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| 2014 | | Feynman Algorithm (wiki.c2.com) |
| 149 points | 7 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2014 | | BLAKE2: “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” Than MD5 (leastauthority.com) |
| 149 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2014 | | An ingenious vintage German cycle map (blog.systemed.net) |
| 149 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2014 | | Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985 (studioforcreativeinquiry.org) |
| 148 points | 6 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2014 | | Systems Past: software innovations we actually use (davidad.github.io) |
| 148 points | 7 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2014 | | How Water Heaters Have Evolved into Grid-Scale Energy-Storage Devices (esource.com) |
| 147 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 2014 | | Accidental Pinhole and Pinspeck Cameras (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 147 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (medium.com) |
| 147 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2014 | | Gauss’s “Remarkable Theorem” and the best way to hold a pizza slice (aatishb.com) |
| 147 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2014 | | That famous Pixar lunch of 1994 (gointothestory.blcklst.com) |
| 147 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2014 | | Designing and building an FPGA sprite-based graphics accelerator (andybrown.me.uk) |
| 146 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2014 | | Passive radiative cooling below ambient airtemperature under direct sun (web.stanford.edu) |
| 145 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2014 | | Unofficial Guide to Datomic Internals (tonsky.me) |
| 145 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Drugging of the American Boy (esquire.com) |
| 145 points | 6 years ago with 151 comments |
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| 2014 | | Applied Thinking for Intelligence Analysis: A Guide for Practitioners (airpower.airforce.gov.au) |
| 145 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2014 | | I missed Nim (goran.krampe.se) |
| 143 points | 8 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 2014 | | Watching Larry Ellison Become Larry Ellison (steveblank.com) |
| 143 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2014 | | Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return? (stephanpastis.wordpress.com) |
| 143 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Ghost in the MP3 (theghostinthemp3.com) |
| 142 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2014 | | Leslie Lamport Tells Mathematicians How to Write Proofs (blogs.scientificamerican.com) |
| 142 points | 6 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2014 | | IBM Blue Lightning: World’s Fastest 386? (os2museum.com) |
| 142 points | 1 year ago with 38 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why I am betting on Julia (evanmiller.org) |
| 142 points | 8 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2014 | | Apple’s First Phone, from 1983, Never Made It to Market (lowendmac.com) |
| 141 points | 8 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2014 | | Facts about smell (alicebartlett.co.uk) |
| 141 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2014 | | Redshift – A better flux program for Linux (techblog.jeppson.org) |
| 141 points | 6 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2014 | | Seven databases in seven weeks (db.cs.cmu.edu) |
| 140 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments |
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