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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 |  | Magnus Carlsen – “I am chaotic and lazy”  (en.chessbase.com) | 
 | 240 points | 10 years ago with 87 comments | 
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| 2010 |  | Everything you need to know about pointers in C  (boredzo.org) | 
 | 240 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 24 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | FAQs: Why we don’t have them  (gds.blog.gov.uk) | 
 | 240 points | 3 years ago with 190 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s  (nytimes.com) | 
 | 240 points | 9 years ago with 174 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Public Must Fight against Prism and Tempora Surveillance  (spiegel.de) | 
 | 240 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Google's CardDAV server isn't standards compliant  (evertpot.com) | 
 | 240 points | 7 years ago with 62 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Disaster planning for regular folks  (lcamtuf.coredump.cx) | 
 | 240 points | 3 years ago with 134 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | We Should All Have Something to Hide  (thoughtcrime.org) | 
 | 239 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly  (smithsonianmag.com) | 
 | 239 points | 2 years ago with 158 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | `three = 1` in the Linux sourcecode  (github.com) | 
 | 239 points | 4 years ago with 101 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Researchers use light to coax stem cells to repair teeth  (seas.harvard.edu) | 
 | 239 points | 9 years ago with 83 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | How Bad Are Things?  (slatestarcodex.com) | 
 | 239 points | 6 years ago with 136 comments | 
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| 2010 |  | Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names  (kalzumeus.com) | 
 | 238 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 64 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Stuxnet is embarrassing, not amazing  (rdist.root.org) | 
 | 238 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 92 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Why is writing mathematical proofs more fault-proof than writing code?  (cs.stackexchange.com) | 
 | 238 points | 7 years ago with 132 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The Twelve-Factor App  (12factor.net) | 
 | 238 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 102 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | How Yahoo Killed Flickr  (gizmodo.com) | 
 | 238 points | 8 years ago with 179 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice  (yosefk.com) | 
 | 238 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 74 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics of Open Source  (techcrunch.com) | 
 | 238 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 9 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Löb and möb: strange loops in Haskell  (github.com) | 
 | 238 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 55 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | A philosophical difference between Haskell and Lisp  (chrisdone.com) | 
 | 238 points | 5 years ago with 181 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | What color is your function?  (journal.stuffwithstuff.com) | 
 | 238 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 57 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | I fooled millions into thinking chocolate helps weight loss  (gizmodo.com) | 
 | 238 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 165 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning  (norvig.com) | 
 | 237 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 12 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | The bomb that changed my life  (swombat.com) | 
 | 236 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 0 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Reviving Smalltalk-78  (freudenbergs.de) | 
 | 236 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 21 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow?  (software.intel.com) | 
 | 235 points | 7 years ago with 291 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | UX Myths  (uxmyths.com) | 
 | 235 points | 9 years ago with 76 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Google helps Scientology billionaire Bob Duggan hide a dark family secret  (tonyortega.org) | 
 | 235 points | 3 years ago with 40 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year  (washingtonpost.com) | 
 | 235 points | 8 years ago with 38 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Homoiconicity isn’t the point  (calculist.org) | 
 | 234 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 49 comments | 
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| 2013 |  | The Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement  (smithsonianmag.com) | 
 | 234 points | 6 years ago with 252 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time  (theguardian.com) | 
 | 234 points | 6 years ago with 109 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong  (akkartik.name) | 
 | 234 points across 5 posts | 3 years ago with 168 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python  (iamtrask.github.io) | 
 | 234 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments | 
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| 2010 |  | Why is the volume of a cone one third of the volume of a cylinder?  (math.stackexchange.com) | 
 | 233 points | 2 years ago with 112 comments | 
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| 2010 |  | Levenshtein Automata  (blog.notdot.net) | 
 | 233 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Jitsi Architecture – legacy desktop application  (aosabook.org) | 
 | 233 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | “Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World”  (2012diaries.blogspot.com) | 
 | 233 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Stories of Steve Jobs in Safari Design Reviews  (donmelton.com) | 
 | 233 points | 6 years ago with 103 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | HCL: a color model that actually matches our perceptions  (vis4.net) | 
 | 232 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 43 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Packing a backpack  (info.deuter.com) | 
 | 232 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development  (web.archive.org) | 
 | 232 points | 5 years ago with 151 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Exposing Digital Photography  (digitalphotography.exposed) | 
 | 232 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users  (wired.com) | 
 | 232 points | 2 years ago with 252 comments | 
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| 2015 |  | How hackers abused satellites to stay under the radar  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 232 points | 8 years ago with 60 comments | 
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| 2010 |  | Tarkovsky Films Free Online  (openculture.com) | 
 | 231 points | 11 years ago with 52 comments | 
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| 2010 |  | A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind  (greatergood.berkeley.edu) | 
 | 231 points | 7 years ago with 73 comments | 
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| 2011 |  | Size is the best predictor of code quality  (blog.vivekhaldar.com) | 
 | 231 points | 2 years ago with 187 comments | 
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| 2014 |  | Lego has changed since we were kids  (todaysparent.com) | 
 | 231 points | 3 years ago with 287 comments | 
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