Lindy Hacker News | | submit
Articles written 2010 to 2019 that Hacker News still talks about.
Go back or forward one decade. Go to the previous century.
2010Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33 (queue.acm.org)
148 points | 3 years ago with 278 comments
2010Beej's Guide to Unix IPC (beej.us)
148 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments
2013The controller pattern is awful, and other OO heresy (eev.ee)
148 points | 1 year ago with 188 comments
2013Things I Hate About PostgreSQL (kupershmidt.org)
148 points | 8 years ago with 114 comments
2013High Performance Browser Networking (hpbn.co)
148 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments
2014Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985 (studioforcreativeinquiry.org)
148 points | 6 years ago with 71 comments
2014Systems Past: software innovations we actually use (davidad.github.io)
148 points | 7 years ago with 110 comments
2015Choose Boring Technology (boringtechnology.club)
148 points | 2 years ago with 83 comments
2010Regrets of the Dying (bronnieware.com)
147 points | 2 years ago with 140 comments
2012Scaling to millions of simultaneous connections (erlang-factory.com)
147 points | 10 years ago with 81 comments
2012Geometric Algebra (arxiv.org)
147 points | 4 years ago with 57 comments
2013There's Just No Getting Around It: You're Building a Distributed System (queue.acm.org)
147 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments
2013When FP? And When OOP? (raganwald.com)
147 points | 5 years ago with 151 comments
2013Why is Tcl syntax so weird (wiki.tcl-lang.org)
147 points | 3 years ago with 100 comments
2014How Water Heaters Have Evolved into Grid-Scale Energy-Storage Devices (esource.com)
147 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 144 comments
2014Accidental Pinhole and Pinspeck Cameras (people.csail.mit.edu)
147 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
2014The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (medium.com)
147 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments
2014Gauss’s “Remarkable Theorem” and the best way to hold a pizza slice (aatishb.com)
147 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments
2014That famous Pixar lunch of 1994 (gointothestory.blcklst.com)
147 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments
2015How Some Consultants Fake an 80-Hour Workweek (nytimes.com)
147 points | 6 years ago with 99 comments
2010A Big Little Idea Called Legibility (ribbonfarm.com)
146 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2010What Car Thieves Think of the Club (freakonomics.com)
146 points | 6 years ago with 125 comments
2010Creating Pixel Art (pixeljoint.com)
146 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments
2011"Another World" source code review (fabiensanglard.net)
146 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments
2011The Decline of the Xerox PARC Philosophy at Apple Computers (dorophone.blogspot.com)
146 points | 9 years ago with 113 comments
2012Wood pulp extract stronger than carbon fiber or Kevlar (newatlas.com)
146 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments
2012What Killed the Linux Desktop (tirania.org)
146 points | 7 years ago with 293 comments
2012CSE 392 – Programming Challenges (www3.cs.stonybrook.edu)
146 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2013Why can't computers boot instantly? (superuser.com)
146 points | 5 years ago with 161 comments
2013Kokuhaku: Japan’s Love Confessing Culture (tofugu.com)
146 points | 1 year ago with 124 comments
2013Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions (theatlantic.com)
146 points | 9 years ago with 117 comments
2013How to write a 48-hour game in just 2 years (fistfulofsquid.com)
146 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2013Epistemic Learned Helplessness (slatestarcodex.com)
146 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2014Designing and building an FPGA sprite-based graphics accelerator (andybrown.me.uk)
146 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2015Pre-Modern Battlefields (scholars-stage.org)
146 points | 2 years ago with 107 comments
2015A Crash Course on ML Modules (jozefg.bitbucket.io)
146 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
2011MMIX 2009: A RISC computer for the third millennium (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
145 points | 7 years ago with 61 comments
2011Last Words of Programmer Bill Zeller (gizmodo.com)
145 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments
2011Job interviews go both ways (diegobasch.com)
145 points | 10 years ago with 80 comments
2012Stop Payment: A homeowner’s revolt against the banks (harpers.org)
145 points | 6 years ago with 122 comments
2012Controversial Programming Opinions (programmers.blogoverflow.com)
145 points | 3 years ago with 328 comments
2012Engineering Statistics Handbook (itl.nist.gov)
145 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2012The Nature of Code (natureofcode.com)
145 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments
2012Smooth Voxel Terrain, Part 2 (0fps.net)
145 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2013You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (qntm.org)
145 points | 4 years ago with 152 comments
2013Baby’s First Garbage Collector (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
145 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
2014Passive radiative cooling below ambient airtemperature under direct sun (web.stanford.edu)
145 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments
2014Unofficial Guide to Datomic Internals (tonsky.me)
145 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2014The Drugging of the American Boy (esquire.com)
145 points | 6 years ago with 151 comments
2014Applied Thinking for Intelligence Analysis: A Guide for Practitioners (airpower.airforce.gov.au)
145 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments
More

If you like quirky internet articles, you'll like the Unclutter reader mode too!