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| Articles written in 2016 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2016 | | A Linux-powered microwave oven (lwn.net) |
| 136 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2016 | | We’re happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a fancier DBMS (beets.io) |
| 136 points | 6 years ago with 118 comments |
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| 2016 | | American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth (theatlantic.com) |
| 135 points | 6 years ago with 168 comments |
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| 2016 | | Jennicam: The first woman to stream her life on the internet (bbc.com) |
| 135 points | 5 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Fall of Eclipse (movingfulcrum.com) |
| 135 points | 6 years ago with 148 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why Did San Francisco Schools Stop Teaching Algebra in Middle School? (priceonomics.com) |
| 134 points | 5 years ago with 267 comments |
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| 2016 | | Microservices – Please, Don’t (riak.com) |
| 134 points | 2 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2016 | | Tesla Autopilot retrofit on a classic P85 (skie.net) |
| 134 points | 6 years ago with 165 comments |
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| 2016 | | So, you’ve been challenged to a duel. What are the rules? (blogs.loc.gov) |
| 134 points | 1 year ago with 134 comments |
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| 2016 | | Introduction to Calculus (arachnoid.com) |
| 134 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2016 | | Mount Athos, the “Autonomous Monastic State” of Greece (cntraveler.com) |
| 134 points | 3 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 2016 | | Dagoba: an in-memory graph database (aosabook.org) |
| 133 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Deadlock Empire: A game that teaches locking and concurrency (deadlockempire.github.io) |
| 133 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2016 | | Examples of ImageMagick Usage (imagemagick.org) |
| 133 points | 4 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2016 | | GitHub Audio (github.audio) |
| 133 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why airplane windows have round corners (jasonlefkowitz.net) |
| 133 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2016 | | How many x86 instructions are there? (fgiesen.wordpress.com) |
| 132 points | 3 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2016 | | Writing Linux Modules in Ada (nihamkin.com) |
| 132 points | 1 year ago with 83 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Tragic Story of Vernon and Oswald (chrisgliddon.com) |
| 132 points | 3 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2016 | | Adventure in Prolog Tutorial (amzi.com) |
| 131 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2016 | | Attacking Ruby on Rails applications (phrack.org) |
| 131 points | 4 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2016 | | Could we reboot a modern civilization without fossil fuels? (aeon.co) |
| 131 points | 4 years ago with 194 comments |
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| 2016 | | What Defcon Sounds Like: Skyking Emergency Action Messages (specialcollections.radio) |
| 131 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2016 | | Fuck Your 90 Day Exercise Window (zachholman.com) |
| 129 points | 5 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to get started with DJing (medium.com) |
| 129 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2016 | | Excessive Consumption Limits Creativity (medium.com) |
| 128 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin (newyorker.com) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 59 comments |
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| 2016 | | Wheat’s Evil Twin Has Been Intoxicating Humans for Centuries (atlasobscura.com) |
| 128 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2016 | | Thawing permafrost is destroying Arctic cities (theguardian.com) |
| 128 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2016 | | Invent More, Toil Less (usenix.org) |
| 128 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2016 | | Things I did wrong as a professor (matt-welsh.blogspot.com) |
| 128 points | 7 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2016 | | Scientific Papers That Were Rejected Before Going on to Win a Nobel Prize (sciencealert.com) |
| 127 points | 5 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2016 | | Fork() without exec() is dangerous in large programs (evanjones.ca) |
| 127 points | 2 years ago with 135 comments |
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| 2016 | | Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music (academic.oup.com) |
| 127 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2016 | | No One Wanted A&W's Third-Pound Burger (mentalfloss.com) |
| 126 points | 3 years ago with 261 comments |
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| 2016 | | I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (benjiweber.co.uk) |
| 126 points | 2 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2016 | | On Digital Minimalsim (calnewport.com) |
| 125 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2016 | | About 40% of economics experiments fail replication survey (sciencemag.org) |
| 125 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2016 | | A Perfectly Cromulent Word (merriam-webster.com) |
| 125 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2016 | | An introduction to libuv (nikhilm.github.io) |
| 125 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2016 | | How MSG Got a Bad Rap (fivethirtyeight.com) |
| 124 points | 5 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why did a humpback whale save a seal's life? (sciencemag.org) |
| 124 points | 5 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2016 | | My diatribe against “skeptics” (johnhorgan.org) |
| 124 points | 1 year ago with 201 comments |
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| 2016 | | Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (eng.uber.com) |
| 124 points | 3 years ago with 129 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Weirdness of Kentucky Route Zero (blog.joshhaas.com) |
| 124 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2016 | | The GPL-Violations.org Project (gpl-violations.org) |
| 123 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2016 | | Principles of Distributed Computing (disco.ethz.ch) |
| 123 points | 2 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2016 | | CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (nobi.com) |
| 122 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2016 | | Leslie Nielsen’s career got serious when he got the chance to lighten up (melmagazine.com) |
| 122 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2016 | | How to Grow a Three Sisters Garden (nativeseeds.org) |
| 122 points | 1 year ago with 56 comments |
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