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| Articles written in 2016 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2016 | | 1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness as much as 3x aerobics (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 375 points | 2 years ago with 490 comments |
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| 2016 | | Simpson’s Paradox (forrestthewoods.com) |
| 370 points | 5 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2016 | | Game Critic Uses Workaround for YouTube's Copyright System (kotaku.com) |
| 369 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2016 | | Clifford Stoll beat the Russians, then made useless, wondrous objects (alumni.berkeley.edu) |
| 366 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 154 comments |
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| 2016 | | Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (programmingisterrible.com) |
| 365 points | 4 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2016 | | Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger (erlang-in-anger.com) |
| 359 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2016 | | I turned down $500k, pissed off my investors, and shut down my startup (disruptingjapan.com) |
| 359 points | 2 years ago with 141 comments |
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| 2016 | | How is bamboo lumber made? (bambooimport.com) |
| 356 points | 3 years ago with 222 comments |
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| 2016 | | The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (atlasobscura.com) |
| 353 points | 3 years ago with 365 comments |
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| 2016 | | We do not use foreign keys (github.com) |
| 349 points | 5 years ago with 320 comments |
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| 2016 | | Antenna Theory (antenna-theory.com) |
| 345 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2016 | | What does any of this have to do with physics? (nautil.us) |
| 344 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 170 comments |
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| 2016 | | Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? (what-if.xkcd.com) |
| 340 points | 6 years ago with 269 comments |
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| 2016 | | Be kind (briangilham.com) |
| 338 points | 6 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2016 | | You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (physiqonomics.com) |
| 338 points | 2 years ago with 463 comments |
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| 2016 | | Car Hacker's Handbook (opengarages.org) |
| 337 points | 6 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2016 | | What does it feel like to do maths? (plus.maths.org) |
| 327 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2016 | | The differences between tinkering and research (togelius.blogspot.com) |
| 324 points | 6 years ago with 129 comments |
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| 2016 | | Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7 (simonschreibt.de) |
| 323 points | 3 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2016 | | Jo – a shell command to create JSON (jpmens.net) |
| 323 points | 2 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 2016 | | Releasing an indie game on 3 consoles at once and failing financially (juicybeast.com) |
| 322 points | 1 year ago with 271 comments |
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| 2016 | | Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (mobile.nytimes.com) |
| 319 points | 6 years ago with 262 comments |
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| 2016 | | Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (news.ycombinator.com) |
| 318 points | 4 years ago with 257 comments |
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| 2016 | | Raytracing in One Weekend (raytracing.github.io) |
| 316 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2016 | | Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful (medium.com) |
| 315 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2016 | | tcpdump is amazing (jvns.ca) |
| 314 points | 1 year ago with 83 comments |
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| 2016 | | Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (vox.com) |
| 313 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 195 comments |
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| 2016 | | John Carmack on shorter work weeks (news.ycombinator.com) |
| 309 points | 1 year ago with 431 comments |
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| 2016 | | The code I’m still ashamed of (freecodecamp.org) |
| 306 points | 4 years ago with 172 comments |
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| 2016 | | Writing An Interpreter In Go (interpreterbook.com) |
| 305 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2016 | | NY Man Arrested for Cutting Wires to Red Light Cameras (newsmaven.io) |
| 301 points | 6 years ago with 165 comments |
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| 2016 | | Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Consensus (stellar.org) |
| 301 points | 7 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (photographyinsider.info) |
| 299 points | 1 year ago with 203 comments |
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| 2016 | | Caltech glassblower's retirement has scientists sighing (beta.latimes.com) |
| 299 points | 6 years ago with 216 comments |
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| 2016 | | Laws of Showrunning (okbjgm.weebly.com) |
| 297 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2016 | | Titanpointe: The NSA’s spy hub in New York, hidden in plain sight (theintercept.com) |
| 296 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2016 | | A Famous Photo of Chernobyl’s Most Dangerous Radioactive Material (atlasobscura.com) |
| 295 points | 5 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2016 | | Burnout and the Brain (psychologicalscience.org) |
| 294 points | 5 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 2016 | | CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (slashgeek.net) |
| 293 points | 5 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (gnu.org) |
| 293 points | 6 years ago with 213 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Typography of Blade Runner (typesetinthefuture.com) |
| 292 points | 5 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 2016 | | Four common mistakes in audio development (atastypixel.com) |
| 291 points | 5 years ago with 143 comments |
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| 2016 | | 1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images (nypl.org) |
| 289 points | 3 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2016 | | Dallas Has Now Lost 82 Cases Against Robert Groden (dallasobserver.com) |
| 289 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2016 | | DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (bigmessowires.com) |
| 288 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack? (jvns.ca) |
| 287 points | 4 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 2016 | | Optimizing Things in the USSR (chris-said.io) |
| 287 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 200 comments |
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| 2016 | | Algorithm No One Knows About (getkerf.wordpress.com) |
| 286 points | 5 years ago with 190 comments |
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| 2016 | | Signaling in tech is some fucked up shit (daiyi.co) |
| 286 points | 6 years ago with 194 comments |
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| 2016 | | Don’t pay for 95% (5kids1condo.com) |
| 282 points | 4 years ago with 432 comments |
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