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| Articles written in 2016 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2016 | | H.264 is Magic (sidbala.com) |
| 2637 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 219 comments |
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| 2016 | | Life Is Short (paulgraham.com) |
| 2385 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 289 comments |
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| 2016 | | Immersive Linear Algebra (immersivemath.com) |
| 2284 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 2016 | | Blocklist of all Facebook domains (github.com) |
| 1898 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2016 | | Click (clickclickclick.click) |
| 1802 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2016 | | Electron is flash for the desktop (josephg.com) |
| 1664 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 183 comments |
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| 2016 | | 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat (npr.org) |
| 1606 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2016 | | Beautiful Racket (beautifulracket.com) |
| 1605 points across 7 posts | 3 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Wrong Abstraction (sandimetz.com) |
| 1588 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2016 | | Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (gkbrk.com) |
| 1544 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 179 comments |
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| 2016 | | Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side (idontplaydarts.com) |
| 1485 points across 6 posts | 2 years ago with 185 comments |
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| 2016 | | Programmer Moneyball (danluu.com) |
| 1365 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2016 | | What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (aeon.co) |
| 1327 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 396 comments |
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| 2016 | | Things you notice when you quit the news (raptitude.com) |
| 1240 points | 3 years ago with 695 comments |
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| 2016 | | Music theory for nerds (eev.ee) |
| 1129 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 300 comments |
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| 2016 | | Signs you’re working in a feature factory (cutle.fish) |
| 1002 points | 5 years ago with 281 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Talk (smbc-comics.com) |
| 983 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2016 | | Linux containers in 500 lines of code (blog.lizzie.io) |
| 956 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2016 | | IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (rogerschank.com) |
| 904 points | 7 years ago with 435 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (nngroup.com) |
| 865 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2016 | | Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (cbc.ca) |
| 862 points | 6 years ago with 289 comments |
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| 2016 | | A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (github.com) |
| 859 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why does calloc exist? (vorpus.org) |
| 855 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 163 comments |
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| 2016 | | Permission.site (permission.site) |
| 853 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2016 | | Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes (mzucker.github.io) |
| 843 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2016 | | HN: The Good Parts (danluu.com) |
| 770 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2016 | | Bicycles from Sketches (gianlucagimini.it) |
| 759 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2016 | | Let's code a TCP/IP stack (saminiir.com) |
| 727 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2016 | | The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (qz.com) |
| 718 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 255 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why SQLite succeeded as a database (changelog.com) |
| 716 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to Read a Paper (blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca) |
| 715 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2016 | | Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise (hbr.org) |
| 691 points | 4 years ago with 203 comments |
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| 2016 | | How These Things Work – A book about CS from first principles (reasonablypolymorphic.com) |
| 688 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2016 | | Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (cbc.ca) |
| 677 points | 7 years ago with 306 comments |
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| 2016 | | Work only 3 hours a day, but everyday (plumshell.com) |
| 646 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2016 | | In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (adamhooper.medium.com) |
| 642 points | 3 years ago with 344 comments |
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| 2016 | | I'm a fucking webmaster (justinjackson.ca) |
| 640 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 222 comments |
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| 2016 | | Computer Science from the Bottom Up (bottomupcs.com) |
| 618 points | 5 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2016 | | PID Without a PhD (wescottdesign.com) |
| 612 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2016 | | Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 611 points | 4 years ago with 399 comments |
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| 2016 | | I’m a very slow thinker (sivers.org) |
| 604 points | 7 years ago with 224 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (cacm.acm.org) |
| 603 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2016 | | Sam Altman's Manifest Destiny (newyorker.com) |
| 603 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 40 comments |
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| 2016 | | Useful Mental Models (defmacro.org) |
| 586 points | 7 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2016 | | Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (gwan.com) |
| 569 points | 7 years ago with 333 comments |
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| 2016 | | Diablo (Pitch from 1994) (graybeardgames.com) |
| 560 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2016 | | Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study (washingtonpost.com) |
| 558 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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| 2016 | | Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released (files.scene.org) |
| 551 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why does my SSH private key still work after changing some bytes? (crypto.stackexchange.com) |
| 549 points | 2 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2016 | | I'm a very slow thinker (sive.rs) |
| 537 points | 2 years ago with 258 comments |
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