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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 | | Tron Legacy (jtnimoy.net) |
| 657 points | 11 years ago with 143 comments |
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| 2015 | | Amazon Web Services in Plain English (expeditedssl.com) |
| 655 points | 7 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2013 | | How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 652 points | 8 years ago with 138 comments |
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| 2015 | | It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (drmaciver.com) |
| 650 points | 4 years ago with 345 comments |
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| 2010 | | Concise Electronics for Geeks (lcamtuf.coredump.cx) |
| 648 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2012 | | 24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (xiph.org) |
| 647 points | 7 years ago with 428 comments |
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| 2014 | | The worst API ever made (caseymuratori.com) |
| 640 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 215 comments |
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| 2015 | | Startup Playbook (playbook.samaltman.com) |
| 640 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2014 | | A command-line murder mystery (github.com) |
| 638 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 19 comments |
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| 2013 | | Mistakes in the Design of CSS (wiki.csswg.org) |
| 636 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 142 comments |
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| 2013 | | News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (theguardian.com) |
| 632 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 254 comments |
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| 2010 | | Don’t mess with a genius (shreevatsa.wordpress.com) |
| 631 points | 1 year ago with 151 comments |
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| 2015 | | Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (lcamtuf.coredump.cx) |
| 631 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 156 comments |
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| 2013 | | Pixar's Rules of Storytelling (aerogrammestudio.com) |
| 630 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2014 | | Only 90s web developers remember this (zachholman.com) |
| 628 points | 3 years ago with 345 comments |
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| 2013 | | Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go (andrewkelley.me) |
| 621 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2010 | | Why do many math books have so much detail and so little enlightenment? (mathoverflow.net) |
| 620 points | 7 years ago with 260 comments |
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| 2015 | | When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (nationalgeographic.com) |
| 611 points | 4 years ago with 224 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (madinamerica.com) |
| 607 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 290 comments |
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| 2014 | | Always bet on text (graydon2.dreamwidth.org) |
| 605 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments |
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| 2015 | | A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (ecc-comp.blogspot.com) |
| 604 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2015 | | How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (bzarg.com) |
| 603 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2013 | | How Doctors Die (saturdayeveningpost.com) |
| 601 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 319 comments |
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| 2013 | | I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (theguardian.com) |
| 601 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 124 comments |
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| 2015 | | The Art of Command Line (github.com) |
| 597 points | 5 years ago with 169 comments |
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| 2013 | | T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (github.com) |
| 595 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2012 | | Wat [video] (destroyallsoftware.com) |
| 593 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 144 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Myth of RAM (ilikebigbits.com) |
| 593 points | 8 years ago with 277 comments |
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| 2014 | | A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (scientificamerican.com) |
| 589 points | 5 years ago with 238 comments |
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| 2013 | | Long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by prototaxites (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 584 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 240 comments |
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| 2014 | | Meditations on Moloch (slatestarcodex.com) |
| 579 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 106 comments |
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| 2012 | | Hexaflexagons [video] (youtube.com) |
| 578 points | 2 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2010 | | Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (raptitude.com) |
| 577 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 247 comments |
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| 2014 | | Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt (ai.google) |
| 576 points | 6 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 2013 | | Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (audioasylum.com) |
| 575 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 746 comments |
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| 2014 | | Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (dougseven.com) |
| 574 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 273 comments |
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| 2015 | | A visual introduction to machine learning (r2d3.us) |
| 571 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2015 | | Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (nautil.us) |
| 571 points | 6 years ago with 200 comments |
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| 2014 | | Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (mako.cc) |
| 570 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 386 comments |
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| 2012 | | Never Use Black (ianstormtaylor.com) |
| 565 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 217 comments |
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| 2014 | | MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 is now open-source (github.com) |
| 564 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 101 comments |
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| 2014 | | Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (lcamtuf.blogspot.com) |
| 561 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2014 | | Engineering management lessons (defmacro.org) |
| 558 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2014 | | Why I did not go to jail (a16z.com) |
| 556 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 142 comments |
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| 2013 | | Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests” (istacee.wordpress.com) |
| 550 points | 7 years ago with 354 comments |
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| 2012 | | Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (jesshamrick.com) |
| 549 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 257 comments |
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| 2013 | | A Primer on Bézier Curves (pomax.github.io) |
| 547 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2010 | | Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP (arxiv.org) |
| 546 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 169 comments |
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| 2012 | | 20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (stevehanov.ca) |
| 545 points | 8 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 2013 | | The Theoretical Minimum (theoreticalminimum.com) |
| 545 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments |
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