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| Articles written in 2017 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2017 | | IBM and the Holocaust (blogs.oregonstate.edu) |
| 219 points | 5 years ago with 120 comments |
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| 2017 | | Tell Me More, Nginx (honeycomb.io) |
| 218 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2017 | | How individual contributors get stuck (elidedbranches.com) |
| 217 points | 2 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2017 | | A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (elpais.com) |
| 216 points | 5 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2017 | | More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass (journals.plos.org) |
| 216 points | 2 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 2017 | | How to Build an Exchange (janestreet.com) |
| 216 points | 2 years ago with 119 comments |
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| 2017 | | How to Do Nothing (medium.com) |
| 215 points | 5 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2017 | | We Become What We Behold (ncase.itch.io) |
| 215 points | 2 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2017 | | Is Matter Conscious? (nautil.us) |
| 215 points | 6 years ago with 266 comments |
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| 2017 | | Apple’s $9 engineering marvel no one wants (misfra.me) |
| 214 points | 6 years ago with 253 comments |
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| 2017 | | How do managers get stuck? (elidedbranches.com) |
| 213 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2017 | | Who Did This? (etymonline.com) |
| 213 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2017 | | LuaTeX Comes of Age (lwn.net) |
| 212 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2017 | | Kolmogorov Complicity and the Parable of Lightning (slatestarcodex.com) |
| 212 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2017 | | Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview (smalldata.tech) |
| 211 points | 5 years ago with 108 comments |
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| 2017 | | Surviving the desert by building a motorcycle from a broken car? (historygarage.com) |
| 211 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2017 | | Amount of work that once bought an hour of light now buys 51 years of it (washingtonpost.com) |
| 210 points | 1 year ago with 328 comments |
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| 2017 | | Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (stackoverflow.blog) |
| 210 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 259 comments |
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| 2017 | | Million WebSockets and Go (gbws.io) |
| 210 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2017 | | Joy.js – make happy little programs (ncase.me) |
| 209 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2017 | | Floating Point Visually Explained (fabiensanglard.net) |
| 206 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2017 | | Twelve LaTeX packages to get your paper accepted (andreas-zeller.blogspot.com) |
| 205 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2017 | | Secret colours of the Commodore 64 (aaronbell.com) |
| 205 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2017 | | A 2,500-mile radius in Asia contains half the world's population (cntraveler.com) |
| 205 points | 5 years ago with 209 comments |
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| 2017 | | Where do type systems come from? (blog.felipe.rs) |
| 205 points | 3 years ago with 185 comments |
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| 2017 | | Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right? (benbernardblog.com) |
| 204 points | 5 years ago with 125 comments |
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| 2017 | | What happened to Google's effort to scan university library books? (edsurge.com) |
| 204 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2017 | | Success stories are propaganda (martinweigel.org) |
| 204 points | 2 years ago with 159 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Wave that changed the world (paloaltoonline.com) |
| 203 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2017 | | Falsehoods programmers believe about time (infiniteundo.com) |
| 202 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2017 | | Oldest Viable Laptop (geoff.greer.fm) |
| 202 points | 6 years ago with 287 comments |
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| 2017 | | As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do (economist.com) |
| 201 points | 5 years ago with 336 comments |
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| 2017 | | My Python testing style guide (blog.thea.codes) |
| 201 points | 4 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2017 | | Patents are out of control, and they’re hurting innovation (learnliberty.org) |
| 201 points | 3 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2017 | | Lost languages discovered in the oldest continuously run libraries (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 201 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2017 | | A Norwegian town built a giant mirror to deflect the sun (bbc.com) |
| 199 points | 5 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2017 | | The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture (minnie.tuhs.org) |
| 198 points | 2 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Three Bay Areas (thebolditalic.com) |
| 198 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2017 | | How does a relational database work? (coding-geek.com) |
| 198 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2017 | | How to start a successful freelance business as a software developer (nickjanetakis.com) |
| 198 points | 3 years ago with 153 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why Programming Is Hard to Fundamentally Improve (aidancunniffe.com) |
| 197 points | 4 years ago with 172 comments |
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| 2017 | | Michael Lewis and the parable of the lucky man taking the extra cookie (kottke.org) |
| 196 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2017 | | Fireflies (ncase.me) |
| 196 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2017 | | The relationship between mindset and age (aging.nautil.us) |
| 195 points | 4 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks (sciphijournal.org) |
| 195 points | 1 year ago with 253 comments |
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| 2017 | | Canada is the world’s newest tax haven (projects.thestar.com) |
| 195 points | 5 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 2017 | | Directly converting CO2 into a gasoline fuel (nature.com) |
| 193 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2017 | | One of the greatest science fiction magazines is now available online (theverge.com) |
| 193 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Koh-i-Noor diamond, and why the British won’t give it back (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 191 points | 2 years ago with 297 comments |
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| 2017 | | From “Hello World” to VP of Engineering at Reddit (blog.devcolor.org) |
| 191 points | 6 years ago with 100 comments |
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