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| Articles written 2010 to 2019 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| Go back or forward one decade. Go to the previous century. |
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| 2010 | | Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (lists.busybox.net) |
| 2163 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 231 comments |
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| 2014 | | WiFi: “beamforming” only begins to describe it (apenwarr.ca) |
| 1913 points across 8 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments |
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| 2011 | | Gobs of data (go.dev) |
| 1878 points across 10 posts | 4 months ago with 58 comments |
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| 2010 | | Why take a compiler course? (blog.regehr.org) |
| 1745 points across 9 posts | 1 year ago with 114 comments |
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| 2010 | | Land of Lisp (landoflisp.com) |
| 1703 points across 7 posts | 2 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2013 | | Hacker News Parody Thread (bradconte.com) |
| 1618 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 328 comments |
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| 2015 | | Bocker: Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (github.com) |
| 1571 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 116 comments |
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| 2011 | | A brief rant on the future of interaction design (worrydream.com) |
| 1468 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 132 comments |
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| 2015 | | The hardest program I've ever written (journal.stuffwithstuff.com) |
| 1408 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2014 | | Don't End the Week with Nothing (training.kalzumeus.com) |
| 1299 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments |
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| 2015 | | Working quickly is more important than it seems (jsomers.net) |
| 1297 points across 3 posts | 10 months ago with 180 comments |
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| 2012 | | Basic Social Skills Guide (improveyoursocialskills.com) |
| 1291 points | 4 years ago with 409 comments |
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| 2015 | | You can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off (twitter.com) |
| 1269 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 7 comments |
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| 2014 | | Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (adamdrake.com) |
| 1259 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 2015 | | Monolith First (martinfowler.com) |
| 1250 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 340 comments |
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| 2013 | | How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (propublica.org) |
| 1249 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 253 comments |
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| 2010 | | Why GNU grep is fast (lists.freebsd.org) |
| 1246 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 61 comments |
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| 2014 | | Markov Chains Explained Visually (setosa.io) |
| 1198 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Lost Art of C Structure Packing (catb.org) |
| 1142 points across 7 posts | 2 years ago with 153 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (nytimes.com) |
| 1086 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 315 comments |
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| 2014 | | There Are Only Four Billion Floats–So Test Them All (randomascii.wordpress.com) |
| 1082 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 64 comments |
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| 2013 | | Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (ourway.keybase.pub) |
| 1060 points | 4 years ago with 161 comments |
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| 2014 | | Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day (righto.com) |
| 1046 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 378 comments |
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| 2015 | | Johnny Decimal: A System to Organize Projects (johnnydecimal.com) |
| 1041 points across 3 posts | 7 months ago with 117 comments |
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| 2010 | | Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (shadyurl.com) |
| 1037 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 52 comments |
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| 2014 | | Web Design: The First 100 Years (idlewords.com) |
| 1016 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2015 | | The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (vitavonni.de) |
| 1001 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2012 | | Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index (swtch.com) |
| 999 points across 8 posts | 1 year ago with 16 comments |
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| 2014 | | How to assess the quality of garments (anuschkarees.com) |
| 991 points | 4 years ago with 287 comments |
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| 2014 | | How do I draw a pair of buttocks? (mathematica.stackexchange.com) |
| 986 points | 1 year ago with 185 comments |
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| 2015 | | I fear App Review is getting too powerful (judiciary.house.gov) |
| 985 points | 3 years ago with 357 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (slate.com) |
| 977 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 733 comments |
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| 2010 | | Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity (rumorsontheinternets.org) |
| 962 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 2010 | | Learn Just a Little Awk (gregable.com) |
| 961 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2012 | | Do things, tell people (carl.flax.ie) |
| 954 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 2014 | | If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (joshworth.com) |
| 945 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 107 comments |
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| 2015 | | How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (freedom-to-tinker.com) |
| 933 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2015 | | Don’t Use VPN Services (gist.github.com) |
| 922 points across 6 posts | 8 months ago with 59 comments |
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| 2010 | | Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (news.ycombinator.com) |
| 908 points | 4 years ago with 437 comments |
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| 2015 | | A Constructive Look at TempleOS (codersnotes.com) |
| 907 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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| 2013 | | English has been my pain for 15 years (antirez.com) |
| 887 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 266 comments |
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| 2011 | | Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (kalzumeus.com) |
| 885 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2012 | | Photos Always Pointing at the Pointer (pointerpointer.com) |
| 879 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 106 comments |
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| 2013 | | Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (coding2learn.org) |
| 867 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 28 comments |
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| 2013 | | Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (npr.org) |
| 865 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 167 comments |
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| 2015 | | Windows 98 icons are great (alexmeub.com) |
| 865 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 318 comments |
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| 2014 | | All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (theguardian.com) |
| 826 points | 3 years ago with 446 comments |
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| 2012 | | A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (queue.acm.org) |
| 812 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2013 | | Project managers, ducks, and dogs marking territory (rachelbythebay.com) |
| 811 points across 2 posts | 5 months ago with 57 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (rexegg.com) |
| 809 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 191 comments |
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