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| Articles written in 2017 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2017 | | Why are mathematicians so bad at arithmetic? (mathwithbaddrawings.com) |
| 109 points | 3 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2017 | | Stop Equating “Science” with Truth (slate.com) |
| 108 points | 3 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2017 | | From zero to hero: contributing to open source (miparnisariblog.wordpress.com) |
| 108 points | 3 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Viterbi Algorithm at 50 (viterbischool.usc.edu) |
| 108 points | 2 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2017 | | Visions of Alt-Berlin in “Man in the High Castle” (mitsap.medium.com) |
| 108 points | 4 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2017 | | What was the original reason for the design of AT&T assembly syntax? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 108 points | 4 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2017 | | Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead (blog.filippo.io) |
| 107 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2017 | | UV B LEDs More Effective in Producing Vitamin D3 in Human Skin (nature.com) |
| 107 points | 4 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2017 | | Diabetes Drug Metformin Reduces All-Cause Mortality and Diseases of Aging (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 107 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2017 | | An Algorithmic Solution to Insomnia (ilya.sukhar.com) |
| 106 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Serial-Killer Detector (newyorker.com) |
| 106 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2017 | | Writing a Linux Debugger (blog.tartanllama.xyz) |
| 106 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2017 | | My life with Oliver Sacks: ‘The most unusual person I had ever known’ (theguardian.com) |
| 105 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2017 | | Cognitive psychology findings that passed a stringent replicability test (digest.bps.org.uk) |
| 105 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2017 | | Some Were Meant For C (cs.kent.ac.uk) |
| 105 points | 4 years ago with 186 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned (atlasobscura.com) |
| 105 points | 4 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 2017 | | Structure of recent philosophy (homepage.univie.ac.at) |
| 105 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2017 | | Alice and Bob: A History of the World’s Most Famous Cryptographic Couple (cryptocouple.com) |
| 104 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2017 | | SimCities and SimCrises (molleindustria.org) |
| 104 points | 4 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2017 | | A FactoryFactoryFactory in Production (stevenheidel.medium.com) |
| 104 points | 2 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2017 | | USB-C Easy Bake Oven (reclaimerlabs.com) |
| 104 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2017 | | On the trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'evaporated people' (time.com) |
| 104 points | 2 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Iceland got teens to say no to drugs (theatlantic.com) |
| 103 points | 5 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 2017 | | Aristotle influenced the computer (theatlantic.com) |
| 103 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2017 | | De-anonymizing programmers from binaries (arxiv.org) |
| 103 points | 3 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2017 | | Let's stop building APIs around a network hack (apisyouwonthate.com) |
| 103 points | 4 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 2017 | | Efficiency eludes the construction industry (economist.com) |
| 103 points | 4 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2017 | | The brain's 7D sandcastles could be the key to consciousness (newscientist.com) |
| 102 points | 5 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Norvig – Chomsky debate (web.cse.ohio-state.edu) |
| 102 points | 2 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2017 | | Tupolev Tu-144: The Soviets' doomed rival to Concorde (edition.cnn.com) |
| 101 points | 4 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2017 | | Which cyclist hill descent position is superior? (linkedin.com) |
| 101 points | 5 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2017 | | Calculating Position from Raw GPS Data (telesens.co) |
| 101 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2017 | | Metaballs (varun.ca) |
| 101 points | 2 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2017 | | Sattolo's Algorithm (danluu.com) |
| 100 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2017 | | 99% code coverage (rachelcarmena.github.io) |
| 100 points | 6 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2017 | | Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photos of Japanese American Internment Camps (anchoreditions.com) |
| 100 points | 6 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2017 | | Scientific integrity in a climate of perverse incentives and competition (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 100 points | 3 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2017 | | PulseAudio Under the Hood (gavv.github.io) |
| 100 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2017 | | Cadkey or Catia? Boeing’s Billion-Dollar 3D CAD Mistake (tecnetinc.com) |
| 99 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2017 | | Known anomalies in Unicode character names (unicode.org) |
| 99 points | 5 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2017 | | Addiction to ideas (colleenrobb.com) |
| 99 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2017 | | Clues That Neanderthals Didn't Know How to Make Fire (theatlantic.com) |
| 99 points | 5 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 2017 | | YouTube autoplay gave a lost Japanese classic new life (dazeddigital.com) |
| 99 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Atari created the Star Wars arcade game (arcadeblogger.com) |
| 99 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2017 | | Solid: Data ownership as well as improved privacy (solid.mit.edu) |
| 99 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2017 | | 'The Restaurant of Order Mistakes' Employs Waiters With Dementia (spoon-tamago.com) |
| 99 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2017 | | How to clear a path through 60 feet of snow, Japanese style (atlasobscura.com) |
| 99 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2017 | | Libc on macOS invokes Perl as a subprocess for string processing (twitter.com) |
| 98 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2017 | | In every country people think others are less happy than they themselves say (ourworldindata.org) |
| 98 points | 2 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Health Hazards of Plug-In Air Fresheners (indoordoctor.com) |
| 98 points | 4 years ago with 98 comments |
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