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Articles written 2010 to 2019 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2012Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (karpathy.github.io)
807 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2013Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different (randomwire.com)
806 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 102 comments
2011Stuff I said at Kansas City Startup Weekend that sounded smart (apenwarr.ca)
804 points across 6 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2014Typography in Alien (typesetinthefuture.com)
802 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 97 comments
2014What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (wozniak.ca)
795 points | 5 years ago with 634 comments
2014The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video] (destroyallsoftware.com)
792 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 36 comments
2015GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (blog.printf.net)
791 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2014Windows 93 (windows93.net)
790 points | 8 years ago with 113 comments
2014How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (gizmodo.com)
783 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 238 comments
2012How I went from programming to consulting (training.kalzumeus.com)
780 points | 6 years ago with 472 comments
2014SQLite as an Application File Format (sqlite.org)
778 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 301 comments
2014Calculus Explained with GIFs and Pics (0a.io)
770 points | 4 years ago with 67 comments
2015Write Like You Talk (paulgraham.com)
768 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 144 comments
2015I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (web.stanford.edu)
766 points | 2 years ago with 347 comments
2015Awk in 20 Minutes (ferd.ca)
762 points | 4 years ago with 126 comments
2015Normalization of Deviance (danluu.com)
748 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 219 comments
2012Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (250bpm.com)
742 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 163 comments
2013A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (minimizedistraction.com)
740 points | 3 years ago with 271 comments
2013“Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robust and reliable (redsymbol.net)
739 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 142 comments
2013The shittiest project I ever worked on (blog.plover.com)
732 points | 5 years ago with 296 comments
2014I can tolerate anything except the outgroup (slatestarcodex.com)
732 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 371 comments
2014What if OpenDocument used SQLite? (sqlite.org)
711 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 290 comments
2012An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (betterexplained.com)
709 points | 4 years ago with 102 comments
2012Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (github.com)
706 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 165 comments
2013Hexagonal Grids (redblobgames.com)
705 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 74 comments
2015The Book of Shaders (thebookofshaders.com)
703 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 22 comments
2013Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (somethingsimilar.com)
702 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 8 comments
2011Your own company? You can do it (jacquesmattheij.com)
701 points | 7 years ago with 366 comments
2011To become a good C programmer (fabiensanglard.net)
698 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 15 comments
2014Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (robert.ocallahan.org)
698 points | 5 years ago with 329 comments
2015Spot the Drowning Child (spotthedrowningchild.com)
697 points | 4 years ago with 405 comments
2013Scar tissues make relationships wear out (gist.github.com)
695 points | 1 year ago with 190 comments
2014Radiation-hardened Quine (github.com)
695 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 107 comments
2013Paper Airplane Designs (foldnfly.com)
689 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 96 comments
2011What every computer science major should know (matt.might.net)
688 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 182 comments
2013Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big (chrisstucchio.com)
688 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 352 comments
2013Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (amusingplanet.com)
685 points | 1 year ago with 407 comments
2015I may be the only evil (bit) user on the internet (blog.benjojo.co.uk)
684 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 61 comments
2013Avoid Else, Return Early (blog.timoxley.com)
682 points | 6 years ago with 578 comments
2010The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (sive.rs)
681 points | 2 years ago with 445 comments
2012Parody HN Homepage (linkedlistnyc.org)
678 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments
2013Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (bbc.com)
676 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 165 comments
2015Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (cbc.ca)
674 points | 5 years ago with 330 comments
2013Xerox scanners randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (dkriesel.com)
673 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 60 comments
2012How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (daedtech.com)
672 points | 4 years ago with 432 comments
2011Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping Lego blocks (johndcook.com)
667 points | 4 years ago with 228 comments
2013Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords (blog.dustinkirkland.com)
667 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 124 comments
2013JVM Internals (blog.jamesdbloom.com)
664 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 126 comments
2011Fucking Sue Me (pud.com)
663 points | 11 years ago with 194 comments
2012“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (harmful.cat-v.org)
663 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 36 comments
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