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| Articles written in 2016 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2016 | | Sunset Geometry (shapeoperator.com) |
| 242 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2016 | | Physically Based Rendering: From theory to implementation (pbr-book.org) |
| 242 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2016 | | Furiosa's Cat Feeder (blondihacks.com) |
| 242 points | 2 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2016 | | 16 bytes of Python that compile to 32 terabytes of bytecode (codegolf.stackexchange.com) |
| 241 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2016 | | Fuck You Startup World (medium.com) |
| 240 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber (nautil.us) |
| 240 points | 6 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 2016 | | Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (nautil.us) |
| 240 points | 6 years ago with 197 comments |
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| 2016 | | Ableton Connection Kit (ableton.com) |
| 239 points | 5 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (arxiv.org) |
| 239 points | 6 years ago with 318 comments |
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| 2016 | | Function multi-versioning in GCC 6 (lwn.net) |
| 238 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 8 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to do distributed locking (martin.kleppmann.com) |
| 238 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 16 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Problem with ‘5 Whys’ (qualitysafety.bmj.com) |
| 237 points | 5 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2016 | | Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in U.S. (hopkinsmedicine.org) |
| 236 points | 2 years ago with 215 comments |
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| 2016 | | Feathered dinosaur tail found in amber (bbc.com) |
| 236 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning wick (atlasobscura.com) |
| 235 points | 3 years ago with 185 comments |
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| 2016 | | Carl Braun on communicating like a grown-up (fs.blog) |
| 235 points | 1 year ago with 50 comments |
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| 2016 | | I don't like computers (happyassassin.net) |
| 234 points | 2 years ago with 248 comments |
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| 2016 | | Pigeon Towers: A Low-Tech Alternative to Synthetic Fertilizers (notechmagazine.com) |
| 234 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2016 | | Startup Financial Modeling: What is a Financial Model? (mathventurepartners.com) |
| 229 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2016 | | Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming (cs.wheaton.edu) |
| 229 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Evolution of C Programming Practices: A Study of Unix (www2.dmst.aueb.gr) |
| 229 points | 6 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2016 | | New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity (quantamagazine.org) |
| 229 points | 5 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2016 | | When Kodak Accidentally Discovered A-Bomb Testing (popularmechanics.com) |
| 228 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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| 2016 | | If I Sleep for an Hour, 30 People Will Die (nytimes.com) |
| 227 points | 5 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2016 | | 400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ (bbc.com) |
| 227 points | 3 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to read a mathematics textbook (drmaciver.com) |
| 226 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2016 | | Anti-If: The missing patterns (code.joejag.com) |
| 223 points | 6 years ago with 229 comments |
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| 2016 | | A Swedish skier was basically frozen, but lived (atlasobscura.com) |
| 223 points | 2 years ago with 129 comments |
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| 2016 | | Functional programming is not popular because it is weird (probablydance.com) |
| 223 points | 3 years ago with 508 comments |
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| 2016 | | Multi-Layer Dictionary (learnthesewordsfirst.com) |
| 222 points | 5 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2016 | | Show HN: The operating system I built as my high school project (github.com) |
| 220 points | 5 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2016 | | It's normal to play the same song over and over again (kqed.org) |
| 220 points | 2 years ago with 186 comments |
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| 2016 | | What Ever Happened to Scandium Bike Frames? (bikeblogordie.com) |
| 218 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2016 | | OpenBSD: Why and How (sivers.org) |
| 218 points | 5 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 2016 | | Typography is impossible (medium.engineering) |
| 217 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2016 | | The most important thing to understand about queues (blog.danslimmon.com) |
| 217 points | 2 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 2016 | | Entropy explained, with sheep (aatishb.com) |
| 216 points | 4 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2016 | | Sugar lobby paid scientists to blur sugar's role in heart disease (theguardian.com) |
| 211 points | 7 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (bradcypert.com) |
| 211 points | 5 years ago with 194 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions (blog.robertelder.org) |
| 209 points | 4 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2016 | | “Evidence-based medicine has been hijacked”: John Ioannidis (retractionwatch.com) |
| 209 points | 5 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2016 | | Associations of Cognitive Function with Carbon Dioxide and Ventilation (dash.harvard.edu) |
| 209 points | 5 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2016 | | The New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments (atlasobscura.com) |
| 209 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2016 | | Offshoring roulette: lessons from outsourcing (troyhunt.com) |
| 207 points | 4 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 2016 | | Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him (theverge.com) |
| 207 points | 1 year ago with 34 comments |
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| 2016 | | Thanks to Don Bateman, airplanes don't crash into mountains anymore (bloomberg.com) |
| 207 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 67 comments |
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| 2016 | | Open Source Storage Server: 60 Hard Drives 480TB Storage (backblaze.com) |
| 206 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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| 2016 | | An Italian Region Where Co-Ops Produce a Third of GDP (yesmagazine.org) |
| 206 points | 6 years ago with 119 comments |
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| 2016 | | Cracking the Adventure Time Cipher (aaronrandall.com) |
| 206 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2016 | | Homebuilt pickups: How underage teens skirt the law to drive in Sweden (hemmings.com) |
| 205 points | 3 years ago with 237 comments |
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