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Articles written 2010 to 2019 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2010Magnus Carlsen – “I am chaotic and lazy” (en.chessbase.com)
240 points | 9 years ago with 87 comments
2010Everything you need to know about pointers in C (boredzo.org)
240 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2013FAQs: Why we don’t have them (gds.blog.gov.uk)
240 points | 2 years ago with 190 comments
2013Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (nytimes.com)
240 points | 8 years ago with 174 comments
2013Public Must Fight against Prism and Tempora Surveillance (spiegel.de)
240 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2014Google's CardDAV server isn't standards compliant (evertpot.com)
240 points | 6 years ago with 62 comments
2015Disaster planning for regular folks (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
240 points | 2 years ago with 134 comments
2013We Should All Have Something to Hide (thoughtcrime.org)
239 points | 8 years ago with 38 comments
2014Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (smithsonianmag.com)
239 points | 1 year ago with 158 comments
2014`three = 1` in the Linux sourcecode (github.com)
239 points | 3 years ago with 101 comments
2014Researchers use light to coax stem cells to repair teeth (seas.harvard.edu)
239 points | 8 years ago with 83 comments
2015How Bad Are Things? (slatestarcodex.com)
239 points | 5 years ago with 136 comments
2010Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (kalzumeus.com)
238 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 64 comments
2011Stuxnet is embarrassing, not amazing (rdist.root.org)
238 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 92 comments
2011Why is writing mathematical proofs more fault-proof than writing code? (cs.stackexchange.com)
238 points | 6 years ago with 132 comments
2011The Twelve-Factor App (12factor.net)
238 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 102 comments
2012How Yahoo Killed Flickr (gizmodo.com)
238 points | 7 years ago with 179 comments
2013Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (yosefk.com)
238 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 74 comments
2014Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics of Open Source (techcrunch.com)
238 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 9 comments
2015Löb and möb: strange loops in Haskell (github.com)
238 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 55 comments
2015A philosophical difference between Haskell and Lisp (chrisdone.com)
238 points | 4 years ago with 181 comments
2015What color is your function? (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
238 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 57 comments
2015I fooled millions into thinking chocolate helps weight loss (gizmodo.com)
238 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 165 comments
2011On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (norvig.com)
237 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2011The bomb that changed my life (swombat.com)
236 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 0 comments
2014Reviving Smalltalk-78 (freudenbergs.de)
236 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2014Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (software.intel.com)
235 points | 6 years ago with 291 comments
2014UX Myths (uxmyths.com)
235 points | 8 years ago with 76 comments
2015Google helps Scientology billionaire Bob Duggan hide a dark family secret (tonyortega.org)
235 points | 2 years ago with 40 comments
2015Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (washingtonpost.com)
235 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2012Homoiconicity isn’t the point (calculist.org)
234 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2013The Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement (smithsonianmag.com)
234 points | 5 years ago with 252 comments
2014Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time (theguardian.com)
234 points | 6 years ago with 109 comments
2014Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (akkartik.name)
234 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 168 comments
2015A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python (iamtrask.github.io)
234 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments
2010Why is the volume of a cone one third of the volume of a cylinder? (math.stackexchange.com)
233 points | 1 year ago with 112 comments
2010Levenshtein Automata (blog.notdot.net)
233 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2011Jitsi Architecture – legacy desktop application (aosabook.org)
233 points | 4 years ago with 65 comments
2012“Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World” (2012diaries.blogspot.com)
233 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments
2014Stories of Steve Jobs in Safari Design Reviews (donmelton.com)
233 points | 5 years ago with 103 comments
2011HCL: a color model that actually matches our perceptions (vis4.net)
232 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 43 comments
2014Packing a backpack (info.deuter.com)
232 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments
2015Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development (web.archive.org)
232 points | 4 years ago with 151 comments
2015Exposing Digital Photography (digitalphotography.exposed)
232 points | 7 years ago with 40 comments
2015Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (wired.com)
232 points | 1 year ago with 252 comments
2015How hackers abused satellites to stay under the radar (arstechnica.com)
232 points | 7 years ago with 60 comments
2010Tarkovsky Films Free Online (openculture.com)
231 points | 10 years ago with 52 comments
2010A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind (greatergood.berkeley.edu)
231 points | 6 years ago with 73 comments
2011Size is the best predictor of code quality (blog.vivekhaldar.com)
231 points | 2 years ago with 187 comments
2014Lego has changed since we were kids (todaysparent.com)
231 points | 2 years ago with 287 comments
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