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| Articles written in 2018 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2018 | | Richard Feynman’s Integral Trick (cantorsparadise.com) |
| 267 points | 2 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2018 | | Reverse engineering the rendering of The Witcher 3 (astralcode.blogspot.com) |
| 263 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2018 | | What I learned in two years of moving government forms online (medium.com) |
| 262 points | 3 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2018 | | Rethinking GPS: Engineering next-gen location at Uber (uber.com) |
| 261 points | 1 year ago with 62 comments |
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| 2018 | | Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human immune system (journals.plos.org) |
| 259 points | 2 years ago with 229 comments |
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| 2018 | | A secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT (cake.co) |
| 257 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2018 | | The rise of universities’ diversity bureaucrats (economist.com) |
| 257 points | 1 year ago with 338 comments |
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| 2018 | | Consistency Models (jepsen.io) |
| 255 points across 3 posts | 6 months ago with 0 comments |
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| 2018 | | IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (cnn.com) |
| 254 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 375 comments |
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| 2018 | | Faster neural networks straight from JPEG (uber.com) |
| 253 points | 9 months ago with 102 comments |
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| 2018 | | Why SQLite does not use Git (sqlite.org) |
| 252 points | 2 years ago with 356 comments |
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| 2018 | | We use too many damn modals (modalzmodalzmodalz.com) |
| 252 points | 3 years ago with 119 comments |
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| 2018 | | Classical data structures that can outperform learned indexes (dawn.cs.stanford.edu) |
| 252 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2018 | | Repeat yourself, do more than one thing, and rewrite everything (programmingisterrible.com) |
| 249 points | 1 year ago with 114 comments |
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| 2018 | | Google can use Bluetooth to track phones even with Bluetooth turned off (qz.com) |
| 247 points | 4 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2018 | | Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (educationpost.org) |
| 247 points | 4 years ago with 342 comments |
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| 2018 | | Common Lisp Quick Reference (clqr.boundp.org) |
| 247 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 32 comments |
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| 2018 | | The mystery of why one ant species goes after larger foes (nationalgeographic.com) |
| 246 points | 3 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 2018 | | Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated (blog.farhan.codes) |
| 245 points | 4 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2018 | | Google AMP Can Go To Hell (polemicdigital.com) |
| 244 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2018 | | Peter Norvig's Economic Simulation (github.com) |
| 242 points | 4 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2018 | | What interns wrought at Jane Street (blog.janestreet.com) |
| 242 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 8 comments |
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| 2018 | | I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon (theatlantic.com) |
| 240 points | 3 years ago with 275 comments |
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| 2018 | | No one is certain what Roman bronze dodecahedrons were used for (mentalfloss.com) |
| 240 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 207 comments |
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| 2018 | | How to Collaborate with People You Don’t Like (hbr.org) |
| 239 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2018 | | World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (theguardian.com) |
| 238 points | 3 years ago with 407 comments |
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| 2018 | | The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (medium.com) |
| 238 points | 4 years ago with 212 comments |
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| 2018 | | Successful BBQ pork butt and brisket is science (arstechnica.com) |
| 238 points | 3 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 2018 | | John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++ (sevangelatos.com) |
| 237 points | 1 year ago with 171 comments |
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| 2018 | | The untold origin story of eBay that I lived (cake.co) |
| 237 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2018 | | Fermentation and Daily Life (notechmagazine.com) |
| 237 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 12 comments |
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| 2018 | | Cement is the source of 8% of the world's CO2 emissions (bbc.com) |
| 236 points | 3 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 2018 | | Introduction to Locality-Sensitive Hashing (tylerneylon.com) |
| 236 points | 1 year ago with 36 comments |
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| 2018 | | Truck Art in Pakistan (mymodernmet.com) |
| 235 points | 3 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 2018 | | Staying awake to treat depression (mosaicscience.com) |
| 234 points | 3 years ago with 120 comments |
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| 2018 | | Important women in CS who aren't Grace Hopper (hillelwayne.com) |
| 232 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2018 | | Socat – A utility for data transfer between two addresses (copyconstruct.medium.com) |
| 230 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2018 | | To build truly intelligent machines, teach them cause and effect (quantamagazine.org) |
| 229 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 50 comments |
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| 2018 | | Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (marckhoury.github.io) |
| 229 points | 11 months ago with 59 comments |
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| 2018 | | The Psychedelic Inspiration for Hypercard (mondo2000.com) |
| 229 points | 3 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2018 | | How to Download Live Images from Government Weather Satellites (hackernoon.com) |
| 229 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2018 | | Guide to Firefox Containers (thechiefmeat.com) |
| 226 points | 2 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2018 | | How Does an Intel Processor Boot? (binarydebt.wordpress.com) |
| 226 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments |
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| 2018 | | Reversing Lens-Induced Myopia (losetheglasses.org) |
| 226 points | 1 year ago with 97 comments |
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| 2018 | | Dutch town installs bat-friendly red LED street lights (electronics360.globalspec.com) |
| 225 points | 11 months ago with 175 comments |
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| 2018 | | Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”? (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 224 points | 4 years ago with 506 comments |
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| 2018 | | Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (randomascii.wordpress.com) |
| 224 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2018 | | SMT Solving on an iPhone (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 224 points | 3 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 2018 | | Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (sciencedirect.com) |
| 224 points | 2 years ago with 269 comments |
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| 2018 | | OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world – then it all went wrong (theverge.com) |
| 223 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments |
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