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 | Articles written in 2016 that Hacker News still talks about. | 
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| 2016 |  | Britain spied on the CEO of OVH  (lemonde.fr) | 
 | 49 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Lambda Tutorial  (nyu.edu) | 
 | 48 points | 5 years ago with 1 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Code of Merit: A meritocratic approach to project management  (github.com) | 
 | 48 points | 7 years ago with 85 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Backpack X-Ray Machine  (adammunich.com) | 
 | 48 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | The Challenge of Flying Below Sea Level  (avgeekery.com) | 
 | 48 points | 3 years ago with 20 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | MusicNet  (homes.cs.washington.edu) | 
 | 48 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | A Pamphlet against R: Computational Intelligence in Guile Scheme  (panicz.github.io) | 
 | 48 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Inductor resonance and self-resonance experiments  (g3ynh.info) | 
 | 48 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Don't use the greater-than sign in programming  (llewellynfalco.blogspot.com) | 
 | 48 points | 6 years ago with 94 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Everyone used to raise hogs  (lithub.com) | 
 | 48 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Should this paper in psychological science be retracted?  (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu) | 
 | 48 points | 2 years ago with 67 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | One programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code  (qz.com) | 
 | 48 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Why are GPUs well-suited for deep learning?  (quora.com) | 
 | 48 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Argh-P-M – Dissecting the RPM file format  (blog.bethselamin.de) | 
 | 48 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Poutine Dynamics  (erudit.org) | 
 | 47 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Interactive Interpreter Undo  (ballingt.com) | 
 | 47 points | 5 years ago with 1 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | The Age of the Wordless Logo  (theatlantic.com) | 
 | 47 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | On the Homogenizing Dangers of Easily Translated Literature  (lithub.com) | 
 | 47 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Landmark study on the replicability of psychological science overturned [pdf]  (projects.iq.harvard.edu) | 
 | 47 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Denied Breaks, U.S. Poultry Workers Wear Diapers on the Job  (bloomberg.com) | 
 | 46 points | 7 years ago with 42 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Polymorphic Encryption Algorithms  (pelock.com) | 
 | 46 points | 6 years ago with 0 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Venus flytraps count electrical impulses to induce the digestive process  (theatlantic.com) | 
 | 46 points | 2 years ago with 7 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | New DNA analysis shows how cats spread around the world  (smithsonianmag.com) | 
 | 46 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Bing Crosby and the Tape Revolution  (theaudiophileman.com) | 
 | 46 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Burritos and Acrobat  (plinth.org) | 
 | 46 points | 4 years ago with 2 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | To Craunch the Marmoset  (sesquiotic.com) | 
 | 45 points | 3 years ago with 9 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Warmux – An old Worms clone project  (github.com) | 
 | 45 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | The Russian “Firehose of Falsehood” Propaganda Model  (rand.org) | 
 | 45 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | A course that has brought women even with men on a spatial cognition test  (nautil.us) | 
 | 45 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Study tracks how we decide which groups to join  (ox.ac.uk) | 
 | 45 points | 2 years ago with 17 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | The Average Webpage Is Now the Size of the Original Doom  (wired.com) | 
 | 45 points | 2 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | What Makes People Feel Upbeat at Work  (newyorker.com) | 
 | 45 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Anthony Levandowski to Larry Page: Google's self-driving project is broken  (twitter.com) | 
 | 45 points | 4 years ago with 73 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Das Steingeschöpf  (strangehorizons.com) | 
 | 45 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature  (genomebiology.biomedcentral.com) | 
 | 45 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Social media is killing discourse because it’s too much like TV  (technologyreview.com) | 
 | 45 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable?  (nautil.us) | 
 | 44 points | 7 years ago with 35 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | The worst thing I read this year, and what it taught me  (ethanzuckerman.com) | 
 | 44 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | 'I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad'  (theguardian.com) | 
 | 44 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Dwarf Fortress' creator on how he's 42% towards simulating existence  (pcgamer.com) | 
 | 44 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | AirPods Are Disposable and Hard to Recycle  (ifixit.org) | 
 | 44 points | 6 years ago with 68 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Building Fizzbuzz in Fractran from the Bottom Up  (malisper.me) | 
 | 44 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | I bought some awful light bulbs so you don't have to  (mjg59.dreamwidth.org) | 
 | 44 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Exploring calling conventions with x86 assembly  (apoorvaj.io) | 
 | 44 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep  (longnow.org) | 
 | 44 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | “Too Cheap to Meter”: A History of the Phrase  (public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov) | 
 | 44 points | 6 years ago with 46 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Popcorn Lung: A Dangerous Risk of Flavored E-Cigarettes  (lung.org) | 
 | 44 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Ethereum is Doomed  (nakamotoinstitute.org) | 
 | 44 points | 6 years ago with 121 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Research into the reasons for trepanation  (bbc.com) | 
 | 44 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 9 comments | 
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| 2016 |  | Walking through doorways causes forgetting  (journals.sagepub.com) | 
 | 43 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments | 
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