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| Articles written in 2016 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2016 | | Why I Don't Like Golang (teamten.com) |
| 527 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 215 comments |
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| 2016 | | When negotiating a price, never bid with a round number (hbswk.hbs.edu) |
| 522 points | 2 years ago with 239 comments |
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| 2016 | | Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (yosefk.com) |
| 517 points | 3 years ago with 196 comments |
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| 2016 | | Art student’s 407-piece hand-carved wooden clock (ablogtowatch.com) |
| 512 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2016 | | I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (blog.haschek.at) |
| 508 points | 5 years ago with 174 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Linux scheduler: A decade of wasted cores (blog.acolyer.org) |
| 494 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why can’t women get pregnant without the menstrual cycle? (quora.com) |
| 488 points | 6 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 2016 | | Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (blog.zamzar.com) |
| 488 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 189 comments |
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| 2016 | | A comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (unicodepowersymbol.com) |
| 488 points | 5 years ago with 186 comments |
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| 2016 | | Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (blog.burntsushi.net) |
| 487 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 187 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (bunniefoo.com) |
| 485 points | 5 years ago with 192 comments |
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| 2016 | | Xz format considered inadequate for long-term archiving (nongnu.org) |
| 483 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 2016 | | The memory models that underlie programming languages (canonical.org) |
| 481 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2016 | | The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product managers (qz.com) |
| 479 points | 6 years ago with 351 comments |
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| 2016 | | So You Want to Learn Physics (susanjfowler.com) |
| 478 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2016 | | How I Almost Destroyed a £50M War Plane and the Normalisation of Deviance (fastjetperformance.com) |
| 473 points | 5 years ago with 181 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to get the most out of next year (alexvermeer.com) |
| 473 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to rapidly improve at any programming language (cbui.dev) |
| 468 points | 3 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 2016 | | Giraffes Added to the Endangered Species List (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 465 points | 6 years ago with 191 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (quora.com) |
| 465 points | 5 years ago with 229 comments |
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| 2016 | | Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (thelegalartist.com) |
| 459 points | 2 years ago with 306 comments |
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| 2016 | | I could do that in a weekend (danluu.com) |
| 459 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2016 | | Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (github.com) |
| 451 points | 5 years ago with 198 comments |
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| 2016 | | Teaching C (blog.regehr.org) |
| 446 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2016 | | Your Idea Is Brilliant, Your Idea Is Worthless (stonemaiergames.com) |
| 440 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2016 | | Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (science.org) |
| 437 points | 3 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 2016 | | Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (ezali.substack.com) |
| 434 points | 1 year ago with 131 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Zen of Erlang (ferd.ca) |
| 428 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2016 | | Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (geon.github.io) |
| 428 points | 4 years ago with 181 comments |
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| 2016 | | What’s a fire and why does it burn? (qchu.wordpress.com) |
| 423 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2016 | | Don't Design Your Emails (gkogan.co) |
| 420 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why Learn Awk? (blog.jpalardy.com) |
| 420 points | 5 years ago with 235 comments |
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| 2016 | | Shitlist Driven Development (sirupsen.com) |
| 414 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 2016 | | Oh shit, git (ohshitgit.com) |
| 412 points | 5 years ago with 272 comments |
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| 2016 | | Excess management is costing the U.S. $3T per year (hbr.org) |
| 411 points | 2 years ago with 375 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (medium.com) |
| 411 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (blog.thermoworks.com) |
| 410 points | 3 years ago with 301 comments |
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| 2016 | | Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack? (blog.unity.com) |
| 409 points | 3 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 2016 | | Photographer sues Getty Images for $1B for being billed for her own photo (latimes.com) |
| 402 points | 4 years ago with 120 comments |
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| 2016 | | JSON as configuration files: please don’t (arp242.net) |
| 401 points | 5 years ago with 426 comments |
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| 2016 | | GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (about.gitlab.com) |
| 401 points | 6 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2016 | | Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform (fs.blog) |
| 397 points | 5 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2016 | | The greatest sales deck I've ever seen (medium.com) |
| 395 points | 6 years ago with 163 comments |
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| 2016 | | Attrs – the Python library everyone needs (glyph.twistedmatrix.com) |
| 395 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2016 | | Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript (eev.ee) |
| 393 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 215 comments |
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| 2016 | | Does a compiler use all x86 instructions? (pepijndevos.nl) |
| 381 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2016 | | I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know (tech.davis-hansson.com) |
| 380 points | 1 year ago with 159 comments |
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| 2016 | | We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (devonzuegel.com) |
| 380 points | 6 years ago with 335 comments |
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| 2016 | | So you think you know C? (wordsandbuttons.online) |
| 378 points | 5 years ago with 322 comments |
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| 2016 | | Drop Table “Companies”;– LTD (find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk) |
| 377 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 79 comments |
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