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| Articles written in 2017 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2017 | | Filing taxes could be free & simple. H&R Block & Intuit lobby against it (propublica.org) |
| 2200 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 2017 | | $1 Microcontrollers (jaycarlson.net) |
| 2104 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2017 | | Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (twitter.com) |
| 1928 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 193 comments |
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| 2017 | | Reality has a surprising amount of detail (johnsalvatier.org) |
| 1883 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 136 comments |
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| 2017 | | Against an increasingly user-hostile web (neustadt.fr) |
| 1769 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2017 | | The world in which IPv6 was a good design (apenwarr.ca) |
| 1643 points across 7 posts | 1 year ago with 294 comments |
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| 2017 | | You Are Not Google (blog.bradfieldcs.com) |
| 1623 points | 5 years ago with 572 comments |
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| 2017 | | Advanced Data Structures (courses.csail.mit.edu) |
| 1314 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2017 | | How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos (thehustle.co) |
| 1186 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 261 comments |
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| 2017 | | Things we finally know about network queues (apenwarr.ca) |
| 1148 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2017 | | Thank You, Firebug (getfirebug.com) |
| 1070 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2017 | | Keyboard Latency (danluu.com) |
| 1059 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2017 | | Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C (cstack.github.io) |
| 993 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2017 | | EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (engadget.com) |
| 987 points | 3 years ago with 351 comments |
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| 2017 | | From Nand to Tetris (nand2tetris.org) |
| 953 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 173 comments |
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| 2017 | | Computer Graphics from Scratch (gabrielgambetta.com) |
| 947 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2017 | | Build Your Own Text Editor (viewsourcecode.org) |
| 945 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2017 | | SeaGlass: City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection (seaglass.cs.washington.edu) |
| 923 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 61 comments |
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| 2017 | | How to Study Mathematics (math.uh.edu) |
| 909 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2017 | | Things Every Hacker Once Knew (catb.org) |
| 907 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 191 comments |
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| 2017 | | How discord stores billions of messages (discord.com) |
| 900 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (journals.uchicago.edu) |
| 874 points | 4 years ago with 369 comments |
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| 2017 | | Routing History of AS15562 (stat.ripe.net) |
| 870 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Line of Death (textslashplain.com) |
| 868 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2017 | | Hexing the Technical Interview (aphyr.com) |
| 866 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2017 | | Stupid Security Things (troyhunt.com) |
| 857 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 2017 | | Reversing the Technical Interview (aphyr.com) |
| 849 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2017 | | The limitations of deep learning (blog.keras.io) |
| 846 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 18 comments |
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| 2017 | | The worst volume control UI in the world (uxdesign.cc) |
| 785 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 477 comments |
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| 2017 | | Time.gif (hookrace.net) |
| 777 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2017 | | The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (gizmodo.com) |
| 749 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 171 comments |
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| 2017 | | “Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (theregister.co.uk) |
| 746 points | 5 years ago with 395 comments |
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| 2017 | | Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 741 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (quora.com) |
| 734 points | 4 years ago with 661 comments |
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| 2017 | | Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly (blog.chromium.org) |
| 725 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2017 | | Remove my password from lists so hackers won't be able to hack me (github.com) |
| 724 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2017 | | CPU branch prediction evolution over years (danluu.com) |
| 719 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 70 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Lisp Curse (winestockwebdesign.com) |
| 715 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2017 | | Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple. But H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against It (propublica.org) |
| 708 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (blog.discord.com) |
| 696 points | 3 years ago with 368 comments |
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| 2017 | | CAPTCHAs don’t prove you’re human – they prove you’re American (shkspr.mobi) |
| 696 points | 4 years ago with 679 comments |
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| 2017 | | Software Engineering at Google (arxiv.org) |
| 685 points | 5 years ago with 309 comments |
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| 2017 | | Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls (blog.packagecloud.io) |
| 666 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 63 comments |
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| 2017 | | Magit, the magical Git interface (emacsair.me) |
| 658 points | 3 years ago with 344 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why Japan's rail workers can't stop pointing at things (atlasobscura.com) |
| 654 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2017 | | Terminal Latency (danluu.com) |
| 651 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2017 | | Org Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (karl-voit.at) |
| 631 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game (theverge.com) |
| 628 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2017 | | I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (huffpost.com) |
| 617 points | 5 years ago with 443 comments |
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| 2017 | | Please, enough with the dead butterflies (emilydamstra.com) |
| 614 points | 3 years ago with 210 comments |
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