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| Articles written in 2016 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2016 | | Walking While Black (lithub.com) |
| 282 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to pass a programming interview (triplebyte.com) |
| 282 points | 5 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 2016 | | Glass discs that can store 360TB and remain intact for billions of years (disclose.tv) |
| 281 points | 5 years ago with 240 comments |
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| 2016 | | Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking (propublica.org) |
| 280 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2016 | | 500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (blog.leahhanson.us) |
| 280 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2016 | | MIT OCW: Statistics for Applications (ocw.mit.edu) |
| 278 points | 4 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to Be a Stoic (newyorker.com) |
| 277 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2016 | | Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (monterail.com) |
| 276 points | 3 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2016 | | How we built Uber Engineering's highest query-per-second service using Go (eng.uber.com) |
| 276 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2016 | | Go best practices, six years in (peter.bourgon.org) |
| 274 points | 6 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2016 | | When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (thestar.com) |
| 273 points | 4 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2016 | | How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (archive.cancerworld.net) |
| 272 points | 3 years ago with 291 comments |
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| 2016 | | Knowledge Extraction from Unstructured Texts (blog.heuritech.com) |
| 272 points | 5 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2016 | | Calculating the mean of a list of numbers (hypothesis.works) |
| 271 points | 5 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 2016 | | Memory Allocators 101 – Write a simple memory allocator (arjunsreedharan.org) |
| 271 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2016 | | Rescuing vintage arcade video games from an abandoned ship (arcadeblogger.com) |
| 270 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2016 | | Google, the Stupidity Amplifier (gregegan.net) |
| 270 points | 4 years ago with 187 comments |
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| 2016 | | The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (scottaaronson.blog) |
| 270 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 94 comments |
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| 2016 | | My life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century dream (salon.com) |
| 269 points | 6 years ago with 167 comments |
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| 2016 | | Docker Considered Harmful (catern.com) |
| 268 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to become a bank (bankofengland.co.uk) |
| 268 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2016 | | World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly (gdatasoftware.com) |
| 266 points | 6 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2016 | | Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (megaprocessor.com) |
| 266 points | 3 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2016 | | Progress – A Tool to Monitor Progress for Commands in Linux (tecmint.com) |
| 263 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2016 | | Stop Using JWT for Sessions (cryto.net) |
| 263 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2016 | | Say no to Venn diagrams when explaining SQL joins (blog.jooq.org) |
| 262 points | 6 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2016 | | Survey of scientists sheds light on reproducibility crisis (nature.com) |
| 262 points | 5 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why 23.976 and not 24 FPS? (cinematography.com) |
| 262 points | 2 years ago with 154 comments |
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| 2016 | | Great AA Alkaline Battery Test (goughlui.com) |
| 262 points | 3 years ago with 194 comments |
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| 2016 | | Boris Yeltsin's visit to a suburban Houston supermarket in 1989 (beelineblogger.blogspot.com) |
| 261 points | 2 years ago with 355 comments |
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| 2016 | | 3D reproduction of TSA Master keys (github.com) |
| 261 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2016 | | We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle for freedom (linuxjournal.com) |
| 261 points | 2 years ago with 254 comments |
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| 2016 | | Tokyo's audiophile venues (residentadvisor.net) |
| 260 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work (journals.plos.org) |
| 259 points | 5 years ago with 183 comments |
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| 2016 | | We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews (blog.interviewing.io) |
| 258 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 259 comments |
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| 2016 | | The LaTeX fetish (danielallington.net) |
| 257 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 249 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why “children,” not “childs”? (grammarphobia.com) |
| 257 points | 6 years ago with 240 comments |
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| 2016 | | TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (vox.com) |
| 254 points | 1 year ago with 443 comments |
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| 2016 | | A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M Users on Amazon's AWS (highscalability.com) |
| 253 points | 6 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2016 | | Superintelligence: An idea that eats smart people (idlewords.com) |
| 251 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 359 comments |
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| 2016 | | Stopping the RSI pain that almost destroyed my programming career (codewithoutrules.com) |
| 251 points | 6 years ago with 225 comments |
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| 2016 | | Should you be scared of Unix signals? (jvns.ca) |
| 251 points | 1 year ago with 145 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Double Entry Counting Method (beancount.github.io) |
| 249 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2016 | | So you want to be a compiler wizard (belkadan.com) |
| 247 points | 4 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2016 | | Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro (blog.pinboard.in) |
| 246 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2016 | | You Are Not ‘Behind’ (zackkanter.com) |
| 245 points | 3 years ago with 205 comments |
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| 2016 | | Welcome to the land that no country wants: Bir Tawil (theguardian.com) |
| 245 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2016 | | The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol (minnpost.com) |
| 245 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2016 | | In MySQL, don’t use “utf8”, use “utf8mb4” (medium.com) |
| 244 points | 6 years ago with 160 comments |
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| 2016 | | Learning Technical Writing Using the Engineering Method (cs.tufts.edu) |
| 243 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments |
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