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| Articles written in 2017 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2017 | | History of Alice and Bob (cryptocouple.com) |
| 306 points across 3 posts | 4 months ago with 34 comments |
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| 2017 | | Depressed People See the World More Realistically (vice.com) |
| 303 points | 4 years ago with 292 comments |
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| 2017 | | Assume Positive Intent (rickmanelius.com) |
| 302 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2017 | | Specter – Clojure API for immutable programming (nathanmarz.com) |
| 297 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2017 | | Thousand year-old windmills in Iran (blog.longnow.org) |
| 296 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2017 | | Seneca on The Shortness of Time (fs.blog) |
| 296 points | 4 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2017 | | How I found a bug in Intel Skylake processors (gallium.inria.fr) |
| 295 points | 2 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture (currentaffairs.org) |
| 295 points across 4 posts | 5 months ago with 10 comments |
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| 2017 | | Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Strategies (hbr.org) |
| 290 points | 4 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2017 | | To Message Bus or Not: Distributed Systems Design (netlify.com) |
| 290 points | 4 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2017 | | 2D Liquid Simulator with Cellular Automaton (jgallant.com) |
| 289 points | 1 year ago with 68 comments |
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| 2017 | | A friendly web development tutorial for complete beginners (internetingishard.com) |
| 288 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2017 | | Floating point visually explained (fabiensanglard.net) |
| 288 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2017 | | Aphex Twin Speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (item.warp.net) |
| 288 points | 5 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Death Star and the Final Trench Run (fxrant.blogspot.com) |
| 286 points | 5 months ago with 131 comments |
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| 2017 | | A study of musical scales (ianring.com) |
| 284 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2017 | | Portal for Apple II (deater.net) |
| 284 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2017 | | Bose headphones spy on listeners: lawsuit (reuters.com) |
| 283 points | 4 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Beirut Bank Job (darknetdiaries.com) |
| 280 points | 3 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2017 | | Octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia (arstechnica.com) |
| 280 points | 11 months ago with 168 comments |
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| 2017 | | CSS Utility Classes and “Separation of Concerns” (adamwathan.me) |
| 280 points | 4 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2017 | | House Address “Twins” Proximity (paulplowman.com) |
| 279 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 40 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic (brandur.org) |
| 278 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2017 | | The logic behind Google rejecting Max Howell, the author of Homebrew (quora.com) |
| 278 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Tech of Pixar: Piper (fxguide.com) |
| 278 points | 4 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2017 | | Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 271 points | 2 years ago with 243 comments |
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| 2017 | | The StingRay Is Why the 4th Amendment Was Written (fee.org) |
| 269 points | 4 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 2017 | | Coroutine Theory (lewissbaker.github.io) |
| 268 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2017 | | Feynman’s Breakthrough, Disregard Others (stepsandleaps.wordpress.com) |
| 267 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2017 | | Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections (bmj.com) |
| 267 points | 4 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 2017 | | Skype contact lists may have been exposed (steverrobbins.com) |
| 266 points | 5 years ago with 129 comments |
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| 2017 | | Git Commands Explained with Cats (girliemac.com) |
| 266 points | 2 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2017 | | How many users block Google analytics? (blog.wesleyac.com) |
| 265 points | 4 years ago with 234 comments |
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| 2017 | | Things I wish I’d known before fulltime RVing (wheelingit.us) |
| 265 points | 10 months ago with 362 comments |
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| 2017 | | Desolate English path has killed more than 100 people (bbc.com) |
| 264 points | 3 years ago with 130 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why JWTs Suck as Session Tokens (developer.okta.com) |
| 264 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 82 comments |
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| 2017 | | Enough with the Dead Butterflies (emilydamstra.com) |
| 263 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2017 | | Blind software development at 450 words per minute (vincit.fi) |
| 262 points | 4 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2017 | | Greg (blog.samaltman.com) |
| 262 points | 5 months ago with 121 comments |
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| 2017 | | What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (etherrotmutex.blogspot.com) |
| 261 points | 1 year ago with 162 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (newyorker.com) |
| 260 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2017 | | You are not Google (blog.bradfieldcs.com) |
| 259 points | 2 years ago with 170 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Dutch East India Co was richer than Apple, Google, Facebook combined (dutchreview.com) |
| 259 points | 5 years ago with 154 comments |
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| 2017 | | A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard (bloomberg.com) |
| 259 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2017 | | Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (theguardian.com) |
| 259 points | 3 years ago with 178 comments |
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| 2017 | | How the self-esteem craze took over America (thecut.com) |
| 259 points | 3 years ago with 229 comments |
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| 2017 | | Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (ehneilsen.net) |
| 258 points | 3 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2017 | | JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption is a bad standard (paragonie.com) |
| 257 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (allthatsinteresting.com) |
| 257 points | 2 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2017 | | EU Buried $400k Study Showing Piracy Have Almost No Effect on Sales (techdirt.com) |
| 257 points | 2 years ago with 121 comments |
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