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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 |  | Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm?  (conal.net) | 
 | 253 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 82 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | JMAP: A better way to email  (blog.fastmail.com) | 
 | 253 points | 8 years ago with 51 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | FBI testimony on hair analysis contained errors in 90% of cases  (fbi.gov) | 
 | 253 points | 3 years ago with 73 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Main is usually a function. So then when is it not?  (jroweboy.github.io) | 
 | 253 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 47 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas  (paulgraham.com) | 
 | 252 points | 8 years ago with 245 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Why I Love Coding  (henrikwarne.com) | 
 | 252 points | 4 years ago with 118 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’  (seveninchesofyourtime.com) | 
 | 252 points | 3 years ago with 207 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies  (bbc.com) | 
 | 252 points | 6 years ago with 66 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Learning how to write a 3D engine from scratch in C#, TypeScript or JavaScript  (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) | 
 | 251 points | 9 years ago with 36 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you’ve never heard of  (righto.com) | 
 | 251 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' forums  (issendai.com) | 
 | 251 points | 3 years ago with 201 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | I opened a link some random person sent me and I got raided  (blog.haschek.at) | 
 | 251 points | 5 years ago with 170 comments | 
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| 2010 |  | Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture  (highscalability.com) | 
 | 250 points | 6 years ago with 119 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | R, the master troll of statistical languages  (talyarkoni.org) | 
 | 250 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 148 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Man who created own credit card sues bank for not sticking to terms  (telegraph.co.uk) | 
 | 250 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 2 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused  (j2kun.svbtle.com) | 
 | 250 points | 9 years ago with 145 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The German School of Lisp  (blog.fogus.me) | 
 | 249 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 72 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | An Engineer’s Guide to Stock Options  (blog.alexmaccaw.com) | 
 | 249 points | 4 years ago with 99 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Not-so-secret atomic tests: Why the photographic film industry knew  (imaging-resource.com) | 
 | 249 points | 9 years ago with 77 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Tetrachromats: people who see colors invisible to most of us  (bbc.com) | 
 | 249 points | 5 years ago with 221 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Study finds walking improves creativity  (news.stanford.edu) | 
 | 249 points | 4 years ago with 72 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x  (nginx.com) | 
 | 249 points | 8 years ago with 56 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Crockford on JSON license  (gist.github.com) | 
 | 248 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Mathematics I Use  (pub.gajendra.net) | 
 | 248 points | 7 years ago with 42 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Duck Duck Go: Illusion of Privacy  (etherrag.blogspot.com) | 
 | 248 points | 8 years ago with 123 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Yahoo Logo ASCII Animation in 462 bytes of C  (a1k0n.net) | 
 | 247 points | 10 years ago with 41 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | How MIT Students Won $8M in the Massachusetts Lottery  (newsfeed.time.com) | 
 | 247 points | 10 years ago with 204 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Fatigue Is a Brain-Derived Emotion that Regulates to Ensure Protection  (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) | 
 | 247 points | 9 years ago with 98 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals  (theguardian.com) | 
 | 247 points | 9 years ago with 209 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | My Hardest Bug Ever  (gamasutra.com) | 
 | 247 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 7 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Clifford Algebra: A visual introduction  (slehar.wordpress.com) | 
 | 247 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 24 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition  (redbook.io) | 
 | 247 points | 8 years ago with 42 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Computer science as a lost art  (rubyhacker.com) | 
 | 247 points | 7 years ago with 141 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | The Curse of Smart People  (apenwarr.ca) | 
 | 246 points | 8 years ago with 153 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings  (kunststube.net) | 
 | 245 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 57 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice  (robert.ocallahan.org) | 
 | 245 points | 8 years ago with 254 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads  (slobc.org) | 
 | 244 points | 9 years ago with 73 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | A collection of things that are Turing-complete by accident  (beza1e1.tuxen.de) | 
 | 244 points | 7 years ago with 63 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | My favorite Erlang Program  (joearms.github.io) | 
 | 244 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 38 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | The Night Watch  (scholar.harvard.edu) | 
 | 244 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Clojure for the Brave and True  (braveclojure.com) | 
 | 244 points | 8 years ago with 99 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more  (vox.com) | 
 | 244 points | 6 years ago with 293 comments | 
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| 2010 |  | An employee whose job was to be sacked  (henrytapper.com) | 
 | 243 points | 7 years ago with 161 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | The Screwed-O-Meter  (rachelbythebay.com) | 
 | 243 points | 2 years ago with 124 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Introduction to Reinforcement Learning  (deepmind.com) | 
 | 243 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | The Future of Programming  (worrydream.com) | 
 | 242 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 66 comments | 
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| 2010 |  | More Dirty Coding Tricks from Game Developers  (gamasutra.com) | 
 | 241 points | 10 years ago with 134 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete  (toothycat.net) | 
 | 241 points | 7 years ago with 115 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science  (cacm.acm.org) | 
 | 241 points | 4 years ago with 167 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | A South Vietnamese Air Force Officer and a Crazy Carrier Landing  (tacairnet.com) | 
 | 241 points | 7 years ago with 67 comments | 
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