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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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2013 | | A Buddhist monk confronts Japan's suicide culture (newyorker.com) |
| 543 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 44 comments |
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2015 | | Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (github.com) |
| 543 points | 4 years ago with 196 comments |
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2015 | | Visual Information Theory (colah.github.io) |
| 543 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments |
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2012 | | Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps (news.nationalgeographic.com) |
| 541 points | 5 years ago with 140 comments |
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2012 | | Functional programming in C++ (gamasutra.com) |
| 540 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 100 comments |
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2014 | | Most Unit Testing Is Waste (rbcs-us.com) |
| 540 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 159 comments |
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2014 | | What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (woz.posthaven.com) |
| 540 points | 6 years ago with 348 comments |
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2011 | | Visualization of Common Algorithms (visualgo.net) |
| 538 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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2014 | | Kindness is Underrated (circleci.com) |
| 536 points | 7 years ago with 210 comments |
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2012 | | Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (blog.garrytan.com) |
| 535 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 164 comments |
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2015 | | Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (jnd.org) |
| 535 points | 4 years ago with 500 comments |
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2010 | | How Fake Money Saved Brazil (npr.org) |
| 534 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 93 comments |
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2010 | | Experience: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (theguardian.com) |
| 531 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 100 comments |
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2013 | | Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors (righto.com) |
| 531 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 105 comments |
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2010 | | Haskell researchers discover industry programmer who gives a shit (steve-yegge.blogspot.com) |
| 528 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments |
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2012 | | Terry Tao's generals (web.math.princeton.edu) |
| 527 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 137 comments |
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2012 | | Guide to implementing 2D platformers (higherorderfun.com) |
| 526 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 37 comments |
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2014 | | Why Racket? Why Lisp? (beautifulracket.com) |
| 526 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 151 comments |
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2012 | | Functional Core, Imperative Shell (destroyallsoftware.com) |
| 525 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 39 comments |
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2011 | | If PHP Were British (aloneonahill.com) |
| 524 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 364 comments |
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2011 | | Insulation: First the body, then the home (lowtechmagazine.com) |
| 523 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 302 comments |
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2015 | | Audio engineer explains NPR's signature sound (current.org) |
| 522 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 133 comments |
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2011 | | I hate almost all software (tinyclouds.org) |
| 518 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 246 comments |
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2012 | | An interactive guide to the Fourier transform (betterexplained.com) |
| 518 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 74 comments |
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2012 | | Dad and the ten commandments of egoless programming (blog.stephenwyattbush.com) |
| 518 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 102 comments |
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2013 | | Snowflake macro photography (chaoticmind75.blogspot.com) |
| 517 points | 7 years ago with 67 comments |
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2013 | | Computer Science from the Bottom Up (bottomupcs.com) |
| 516 points | 7 years ago with 156 comments |
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2012 | | Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (quora.com) |
| 515 points | 7 years ago with 253 comments |
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2011 | | I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still a Programmer? (zef.me) |
| 512 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 75 comments |
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2015 | | HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permanent web (ipfs.io) |
| 510 points | 3 years ago with 325 comments |
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2012 | | How a car works (howacarworks.com) |
| 508 points | 9 years ago with 117 comments |
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2011 | | Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (boingboing.net) |
| 507 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 59 comments |
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2012 | | Good sleep, good learning, good life (supermemo.com) |
| 506 points | 6 years ago with 254 comments |
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2012 | | Build your own FPGA (blog.notdot.net) |
| 506 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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2012 | | The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (jerrydallal.com) |
| 502 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments |
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2015 | | Facebook’s code quality problem (darkcoding.net) |
| 502 points | 7 years ago with 226 comments |
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2015 | | Choose Boring Technology (mcfunley.com) |
| 500 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments |
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2011 | | If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (calnewport.com) |
| 499 points | 5 years ago with 162 comments |
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2011 | | Cells are fast and crowded places (righto.com) |
| 499 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 117 comments |
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2012 | | In 1957, Five Men Agreed to Stand Under an Exploding Nuclear Bomb (npr.org) |
| 498 points | 7 years ago with 203 comments |
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2010 | | The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell (thetech.com) |
| 495 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 128 comments |
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2011 | | Data Structure Visualizations (cs.usfca.edu) |
| 495 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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2011 | | Advice on Getting Better from an Accomplished Piano Player (calnewport.com) |
| 492 points | 5 years ago with 156 comments |
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2013 | | Git Koans (stevelosh.com) |
| 492 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 65 comments |
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2015 | | Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (washingtonpost.com) |
| 491 points across 5 posts | 11 months ago with 9 comments |
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2014 | | I reverse engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes (features.jsomers.net) |
| 490 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 140 comments |
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2012 | | Don't just roll the dice – Software pricing guide (neildavidson.com) |
| 488 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments |
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2012 | | Teller Reveals His Secrets (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 487 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments |
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2012 | | Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package (righto.com) |
| 486 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 273 comments |
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2012 | | A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept (gist.github.com) |
| 485 points | 1 year ago with 116 comments |
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