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Articles written 2010 to 2019 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2010Fuck the Super Game Boy (loveconquersallgam.es)
262 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 39 comments
2010'All I wanted to do is build a house' (beta.theglobeandmail.com)
262 points | 7 years ago with 244 comments
2011Clean Up Your Mess – A Guide to Visual Design for Everyone (visualmess.com)
262 points | 9 years ago with 111 comments
2013135M messages a second between processes in Java (psy-lob-saw.blogspot.com)
262 points | 8 years ago with 157 comments
2014I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (nautil.us)
262 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments
2014Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
262 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments
2015Motors for Makers: A Guide to Steppers, Servos, and Other Electrical Machines (motorsformakers.com)
262 points | 1 year ago with 99 comments
2011The boy who stole Half Life 2 source code (eurogamer.net)
261 points | 10 years ago with 153 comments
2013GameBoy CPU Manual (realboyemulator.files.wordpress.com)
261 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
2013Commit often, perfect later, publish once: Git best practices (sethrobertson.github.io)
261 points | 3 years ago with 111 comments
2014Java for Everything (teamten.com)
261 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 246 comments
2010Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (mitpress.mit.edu)
260 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments
2012Whats thw crazyest thing ur goats have eaten? (thegoatspot.net)
260 points | 5 years ago with 67 comments
20133D Lightning (calculatedimages.blogspot.com)
260 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2015Railway-Oriented Programming (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
260 points | 6 years ago with 160 comments
2010Git for Computer Scientists (eagain.net)
259 points | 3 years ago with 101 comments
2013Adult immune systems ‘remember’ germs to which they’ve never been exposed (med.stanford.edu)
259 points | 4 years ago with 99 comments
2013A little-known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations (hamberg.no)
259 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2015The time it takes to change the time (blog.poormansmath.net)
259 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2015What happens behind the scenes when we type www.google.com in a browser? (github.com)
259 points | 5 years ago with 76 comments
2015I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (sigbus.info)
259 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2015Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (theatlantic.com)
259 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 63 comments
2010If money doesn't make you happy, you probably aren't spending it right (wjh.harvard.edu)
258 points | 10 years ago with 143 comments
2010Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (science.org)
258 points | 2 years ago with 75 comments
2012Network programming with Go (jannewmarch.gitbooks.io)
258 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments
2013Writing a full-text search engine using Bloom filters (stavros.io)
258 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2014Diplomacy: The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (grantland.com)
257 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 87 comments
2014The Lava Layer Anti-Pattern (mikehadlow.blogspot.com)
257 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 61 comments
2011Magnesium and major depression (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
256 points | 5 years ago with 228 comments
2012Feelings of guilt may signal leadership potential (gsb.stanford.edu)
256 points | 2 years ago with 71 comments
2013How I Used Eve Online to Predict the Great Recession (gamasutra.com)
256 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 105 comments
2014Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun (realclearscience.com)
256 points | 5 years ago with 200 comments
2014SBCL: Assembly code breadboard (pvk.ca)
256 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 4 comments
2014Why squared error? (benkuhn.net)
256 points | 8 years ago with 99 comments
2014Applying to PhD Programs in Computer Science (cs.cmu.edu)
256 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 101 comments
2015Trident whistleblower: nuclear 'disaster waiting to happen' (wikileaks.org)
256 points | 7 years ago with 96 comments
2015Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (blog.burntsushi.net)
256 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments
2015Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (jonathas.com)
256 points | 7 years ago with 281 comments
2015Can People Choose to Change Their Personality Traits? (internal.psychology.illinois.edu)
256 points | 6 years ago with 115 comments
2010Ways to break your systems code using volatile (blog.regehr.org)
255 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 62 comments
2011SamyGO: Open-Source Firmware for Samsung TVs (samygo.tv)
255 points | 4 years ago with 72 comments
2013The Shape of Rome (exurbe.com)
255 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 14 comments
2015The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman (priceonomics.com)
255 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 303 comments
2015Rust Koans (users.rust-lang.org)
255 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments
2010Why I stopped reading HN (sealedabstract.com)
254 points | 4 years ago with 289 comments
2011What is energy, actually? (jancovici.com)
254 points | 4 years ago with 267 comments
2012The true power of regular expressions (nikic.github.io)
254 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 38 comments
2012The Matrix Cookbook (math.uwaterloo.ca)
254 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2012Y Not – Adventures in Functional Programming (confreaks.com)
254 points | 10 years ago with 14 comments
2013How can you be fooled by the U+202E trick? (galogetlatorre.blogspot.com)
254 points | 2 years ago with 140 comments
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