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Articles written 2010 to 2019 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2012Tough times on the road to Starcraft (codeofhonor.com)
211 points | 2 years ago with 111 comments
2013C++ and the Culture of Complexity (blog.greaterthanzero.com)
211 points | 6 years ago with 279 comments
2014Freshmeat.net, 1997-2014 (jeffcovey.net)
211 points | 2 years ago with 146 comments
2014Simple Wi-Fi Yagi (ham-radio.com)
211 points | 7 years ago with 67 comments
2011Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer (w3.org)
210 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 91 comments
2012How to tell a raven from a crow (audubon.org)
210 points | 5 years ago with 100 comments
2012How the government set up a fake bank to launder drug money (npr.org)
210 points | 3 years ago with 97 comments
2013If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You (fledglingphysicist.com)
210 points | 7 years ago with 107 comments
2013Infosec's Jerk Problem (adversari.es)
210 points | 8 years ago with 130 comments
2013Audio Fingerprinting with Python and Numpy (willdrevo.com)
210 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments
2014Avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods (outofyourrut.com)
210 points | 3 years ago with 456 comments
2015If your cipher were secure, this image wouldn't have repeating patterns (mailarchive.ietf.org)
210 points | 4 years ago with 153 comments
2011Subtractive synths explained (residentadvisor.net)
209 points | 5 years ago with 76 comments
2014Inside Erlang – Joe Armstrong tells his story (wcm.ericsson.net)
209 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2015NULL: The worst mistake of computer science? (lucidchart.com)
209 points | 5 years ago with 368 comments
2015A CEO's Guide to Emacs (fugue.co)
209 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 108 comments
2010Genetic Algorithms Produce Winning StarCraft II Build Order (rockpapershotgun.com)
208 points | 10 years ago with 50 comments
2011How to beat the CAP theorem (nathanmarz.com)
208 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 19 comments
2011Hard work vs. Long work (seths.blog)
208 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2012Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (righto.com)
208 points | 3 years ago with 158 comments
2013How to sleep a million years (idea.popcount.org)
208 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2010Why are bones not made of steel? (materialstoday.com)
207 points | 6 years ago with 159 comments
2010Why the sun is a poor dumping ground for nuclear waste (csicop.org)
207 points | 9 years ago with 171 comments
2013How FPGAs work, and why people will buy them (embeddedrelated.com)
207 points | 6 years ago with 118 comments
2013Reversing Sinclair's 1974 calculator hack (files.righto.com)
207 points | 3 years ago with 54 comments
2013Does Life End at 35? (web.archive.org)
207 points | 6 years ago with 85 comments
2014The Invention of the AeroPress (priceonomics.com)
207 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 184 comments
2014Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (electronics.stackexchange.com)
207 points | 1 year ago with 743 comments
2015Flat Design vs. Traditional Design: Comparative Experimental Study (researchgate.net)
207 points | 5 years ago with 137 comments
2015Alaska's one-house town, home to hundreds (cnn.com)
207 points | 2 years ago with 102 comments
2011Bret Victor Redesigns Classic Strogatz Paper (worrydream.com)
206 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2014Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (theatlantic.com)
206 points | 7 years ago with 122 comments
2011Amazon’s $23M book about flies (michaeleisen.org)
205 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments
2012I introduced my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to startx and xmonad (changelog.complete.org)
205 points | 3 years ago with 190 comments
2012The Email I Received from Google in 2007 When They Wanted to Buy Zilo (berrebi.org)
205 points | 9 years ago with 56 comments
2012Crawling a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (michaelnielsen.org)
205 points | 1 year ago with 63 comments
2013Elasticsearch from the Bottom Up (elastic.co)
205 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
2014Photos from Inside North Korea (earthnutshell.com)
205 points | 7 years ago with 57 comments
2014Random Ultima Online anecdote #2 – Horses inside players (raphkoster.com)
205 points | 2 years ago with 113 comments
2015Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (digventures.com)
205 points | 6 years ago with 145 comments
2010Galois Theory for Beginners (math.jhu.edu)
204 points | 7 years ago with 33 comments
2012Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (research.microsoft.com)
204 points | 8 years ago with 140 comments
2013The aging mind: neuroplasticity in response to cognitive training (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
204 points | 6 years ago with 117 comments
2013The Shape of Rome (exurbe.com)
204 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2014How to Ask Questions the Smart Way (catb.org)
204 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments
2010Demoralize Your Teams Quickly and Efficiently with Micromanagement (stellman-greene.com)
203 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments
2010The Top Idea in Your Mind (paulgraham.com)
203 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
2010AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server (aolserver.github.io)
203 points | 1 year ago with 100 comments
2012Reddit’s database has two tables (kevin.burke.dev)
203 points | 2 years ago with 245 comments
2013A few words on Doug Engelbart (worrydream.com)
203 points | 6 years ago with 80 comments
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