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| Articles written in 2015 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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2015 | | A 1950s proposal to nuke Alaska (atlasobscura.com) |
| 139 points | 4 years ago with 144 comments |
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2015 | | Babies On Display: When a Hospital Couldn't Save Them, a Sideshow Did (npr.org) |
| 139 points | 7 years ago with 45 comments |
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2015 | | Your live coding demo is boring me (inconshreveable.com) |
| 138 points | 6 years ago with 88 comments |
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2015 | | The high-frequency trading arms race: frequent batch auctions (academic.oup.com) |
| 138 points | 3 years ago with 87 comments |
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2015 | | State considered harmful: A proposal for a stateless laptop (blog.invisiblethings.org) |
| 138 points | 6 years ago with 65 comments |
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2015 | | The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (atlasobscura.com) |
| 138 points | 3 years ago with 111 comments |
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2015 | | Bubble talk (blog.samaltman.com) |
| 138 points | 5 years ago with 78 comments |
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2015 | | The life-changing love of Paul Dirac (theconversation.com) |
| 137 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments |
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2015 | | PANDAS revives the debate about the immune system and mental illness (nautil.us) |
| 137 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments |
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2015 | | Vim Cheat Sheet (vimsheet.com) |
| 137 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments |
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2015 | | Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks (theatlantic.com) |
| 136 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments |
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2015 | | The Missing 11th of the Month (drhagen.com) |
| 136 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments |
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2015 | | How was the size of Earth first measured? (stardate.org) |
| 136 points | 1 year ago with 111 comments |
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2015 | | The Alternate Universe of Soviet Arcade Games (atlasobscura.com) |
| 136 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments |
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2015 | | On the Beauty of Python's ExitStack (rath.org) |
| 135 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments |
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2015 | | Unit testing a TCP stack (snellman.net) |
| 135 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments |
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2015 | | Impulsive Rich Kid, Impulsive Poor Kid (priceonomics.com) |
| 135 points | 7 years ago with 64 comments |
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2015 | | Half of us have quit our job because of a bad boss (fortune.com) |
| 135 points | 5 years ago with 75 comments |
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2015 | | How the World's Most Difficult Bouldering Problems Get Made (outsideonline.com) |
| 135 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments |
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2015 | | A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (nautil.us) |
| 135 points | 4 years ago with 66 comments |
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2015 | | A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing (arxiv.org) |
| 134 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments |
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2015 | | Learning Python for Social Scientists (nealcaren.github.io) |
| 134 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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2015 | | Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD? (unix.stackexchange.com) |
| 134 points | 4 years ago with 154 comments |
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2015 | | Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate (web.archive.org) |
| 134 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments |
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2015 | | Clojure Newbie Guide (clojurenewbieguide.com) |
| 134 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments |
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2015 | | The Coverage of Theranos Is Utter Bullshit (thehustle.co) |
| 133 points | 3 years ago with 92 comments |
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2015 | | Relax for the Same Result (sivers.org) |
| 132 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments |
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2015 | | Maslow's Pyramid of Code Review (dein.fr) |
| 132 points | 4 years ago with 82 comments |
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2015 | | Why Frames Tilt Forward (chcollins.com) |
| 131 points | 1 year ago with 47 comments |
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2015 | | Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile (theguardian.com) |
| 131 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments |
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2015 | | I created a $350M software company knowing nothing about software (techcrunch.com) |
| 131 points | 3 years ago with 63 comments |
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2015 | | The Most Misread Poem in America (theparisreview.org) |
| 131 points | 6 years ago with 67 comments |
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2015 | | Norway convinced Japan to love salmon sushi (npr.org) |
| 130 points | 2 years ago with 110 comments |
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2015 | | The Repeated Deaths of OOP (loup-vaillant.fr) |
| 130 points | 3 years ago with 212 comments |
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2015 | | A Renaissance painting reveals how breeding changed watermelons (vox.com) |
| 130 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments |
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2015 | | Learn the workings of Git, not just the commands (developer.ibm.com) |
| 130 points | 3 years ago with 94 comments |
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2015 | | Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into laptops by hiding it in the BIOS (theregister.co.uk) |
| 130 points | 5 years ago with 85 comments |
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2015 | | How programs get run: ELF binaries (lwn.net) |
| 129 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments |
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2015 | | What ever happened to webrings? (hover.blog) |
| 129 points | 2 years ago with 111 comments |
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2015 | | The man who tried to redeem the world with logic (nautil.us) |
| 129 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments |
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2015 | | Let’s Build a Web Server, Part 1 (ruslanspivak.com) |
| 128 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments |
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2015 | | Dead millionaire convinced dozens of women to have as many babies as possible (fivethirtyeight.com) |
| 128 points | 4 years ago with 114 comments |
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2015 | | A step by step backpropagation example (mattmazur.com) |
| 128 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments |
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2015 | | The Origin of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Album Cover Art (kottke.org) |
| 128 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments |
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2015 | | The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson (arxiv.org) |
| 128 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments |
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2015 | | Becoming a Lawyer Without Going to Law School (priceonomics.com) |
| 128 points | 7 years ago with 92 comments |
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2015 | | Smart kids should skip high school (sonyaellenmann.com) |
| 128 points | 3 years ago with 186 comments |
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2015 | | The First Computers in East Africa and what became of them (owaahh.com) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 9 comments |
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2015 | | The strange case of ICMP Type 69 on Linux (blog.benjojo.co.uk) |
| 127 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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2015 | | What can a technologist do about climate change? (worrydream.com) |
| 127 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 56 comments |
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