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| Articles written in 2015 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2015 | | Building Better Interfaces with SVG (slides.com) |
| 429 points | 7 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2015 | | Experts once predicted that Americans would face excess leisure time (newyorker.com) |
| 427 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 352 comments |
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| 2015 | | 14,000x Speedup (james.hiebert.name) |
| 424 points | 3 years ago with 228 comments |
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| 2015 | | How to get better at painting without painting anything (learning-to-see.co.uk) |
| 423 points | 2 years ago with 166 comments |
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| 2015 | | How to Be Someone People Love to Talk To (time.com) |
| 423 points | 7 years ago with 197 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Raft Consensus Algorithm (raft.github.io) |
| 423 points across 2 posts | 7 months ago with 76 comments |
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| 2015 | | Building a vision of life without work (livingafi.com) |
| 419 points | 2 years ago with 421 comments |
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| 2015 | | Why I Am a Sociomediapath (nealstephenson.com) |
| 418 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2015 | | I tried to buy an actual barrel of crude oil (bloomberg.com) |
| 413 points | 4 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 2015 | | The days are long but the decades are short (blog.samaltman.com) |
| 411 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 83 comments |
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| 2015 | | Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (automatetheboringstuff.com) |
| 407 points | 4 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2015 | | Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (npr.org) |
| 404 points | 3 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2015 | | Extracting the private key from a TREZOR with an oscilloscope (jochen-hoenicke.de) |
| 399 points | 5 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 2015 | | Useless Use of "dd" (vidarholen.net) |
| 390 points | 1 year ago with 252 comments |
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| 2015 | | Principal Component Analysis explained visually (setosa.io) |
| 387 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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| 2015 | | C Runtime Overhead (ryanhileman.info) |
| 385 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2015 | | Why Use ECC? (danluu.com) |
| 379 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2015 | | German traffic light stays red for 28 years (thelocal.de) |
| 374 points | 7 years ago with 295 comments |
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| 2015 | | Why physicists still use Fortran (moreisdifferent.com) |
| 373 points | 6 years ago with 293 comments |
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| 2015 | | How to undo almost anything with Git (github.blog) |
| 372 points | 4 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2015 | | In Japan, small children take the subway and run errands alone (citylab.com) |
| 372 points | 6 years ago with 240 comments |
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| 2015 | | Increased rates of myopia linked to reduced time outside, studies suggest (nature.com) |
| 371 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2015 | | Six works of Computer Science-Fiction (blog.fogus.me) |
| 371 points | 4 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Art of Electronics (artofelectronics.net) |
| 370 points | 4 months ago with 97 comments |
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| 2015 | | Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues (setosa.io) |
| 369 points | 5 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2015 | | Sitting and standing at work (ergo.human.cornell.edu) |
| 366 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 130 comments |
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| 2015 | | A CEO's Guide to Emacs (blog.fugue.co) |
| 364 points | 6 years ago with 172 comments |
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| 2015 | | Gitlet.js – Git implemented in 1k lines of JavaScript (gitlet.maryrosecook.com) |
| 361 points | 3 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2015 | | Home-Built Scanning Tunneling Microscope (dberard.com) |
| 361 points | 3 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2015 | | Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention (nautil.us) |
| 359 points | 6 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2015 | | Markov chain Monte Carlo without the bullshit (jeremykun.com) |
| 357 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 52 comments |
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| 2015 | | 600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (blog.jayway.com) |
| 357 points | 4 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 2015 | | Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Overflow (i-programmer.info) |
| 356 points | 5 years ago with 280 comments |
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| 2015 | | The True Size of Africa (kai.sub.blue) |
| 355 points | 2 years ago with 219 comments |
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| 2015 | | NSA Owns Everything (blog.thinkst.com) |
| 355 points | 3 years ago with 248 comments |
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| 2015 | | 6 days to change 1 line of code (edw519.posthaven.com) |
| 353 points | 9 months ago with 243 comments |
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| 2015 | | Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to the Young: “Learn to Be Alone” (openculture.com) |
| 349 points | 4 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2015 | | Apple Lightning Connector Serial Access (ramtin-amin.fr) |
| 342 points | 5 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2015 | | An ffmpeg and SDL Tutorial (dranger.com) |
| 340 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 20 comments |
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| 2015 | | CPython internals: A ten-hour codewalk through the Python interpreter (youtube.com) |
| 338 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2015 | | 40k-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found (digitaljournal.com) |
| 338 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2015 | | What computer and software is used by the Falcon 9? (space.stackexchange.com) |
| 338 points | 3 years ago with 156 comments |
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| 2015 | | Having Alzheimer’s at 38 (site.macleans.ca) |
| 337 points | 5 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2015 | | Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 (anders.unix.se) |
| 337 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 189 comments |
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| 2015 | | Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (cryptomuseum.com) |
| 331 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 31 comments |
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| 2015 | | Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially (newyorker.com) |
| 329 points | 6 years ago with 245 comments |
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| 2015 | | How to navigate directories faster with Bash (mhoffman.github.io) |
| 329 points | 3 years ago with 172 comments |
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| 2015 | | The poor, misunderstood innerText (perfectionkills.com) |
| 328 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 28 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Next 50 Years of Databases (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 327 points | 4 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2015 | | The origin of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover art (blogs.scientificamerican.com) |
| 326 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 41 comments |
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