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| Articles written 2010 to 2019 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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2014 | | Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (robert.ocallahan.org) |
| 484 points | 8 years ago with 295 comments |
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2014 | | Why Go Is Not Good (yager.io) |
| 482 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 67 comments |
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2014 | | How Does Sqlite Work? (jvns.ca) |
| 480 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments |
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2015 | | The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (mjt.me.uk) |
| 480 points | 2 years ago with 101 comments |
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2015 | | A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art (dinofarmgames.com) |
| 479 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 88 comments |
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2015 | | Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (affordanything.com) |
| 475 points | 6 years ago with 478 comments |
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2013 | | Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (camdavidsonpilon.github.io) |
| 474 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 36 comments |
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2014 | | The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence (blog.revolutionanalytics.com) |
| 474 points | 1 year ago with 158 comments |
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2011 | | Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (chronicle.com) |
| 473 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 94 comments |
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2012 | | The effect of meditation on brain structure (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 472 points | 5 years ago with 242 comments |
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2012 | | What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen? (javlaskitsystem.se) |
| 471 points | 6 years ago with 186 comments |
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2015 | | The case for bad coffee (seriouseats.com) |
| 471 points | 2 years ago with 618 comments |
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2015 | | McDonald's Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money (blog.wallstreetsurvivor.com) |
| 470 points | 7 years ago with 259 comments |
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2013 | | Use long flags when scripting (changelog.com) |
| 468 points | 4 years ago with 189 comments |
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2013 | | Audiophile forum debating which versions of memcpy had the highest sound quality (discuss.systems) |
| 468 points | 1 year ago with 617 comments |
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2014 | | Becoming a better developer (gist.github.com) |
| 468 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 6 comments |
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2015 | | HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web (blog.neocities.org) |
| 467 points | 7 years ago with 216 comments |
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2015 | | Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (news.yale.edu) |
| 465 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 144 comments |
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2011 | | Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (blog.smartbear.com) |
| 463 points | 11 years ago with 155 comments |
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2011 | | Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (npr.org) |
| 462 points | 9 years ago with 81 comments |
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2012 | | The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (russolsen.com) |
| 462 points | 5 years ago with 237 comments |
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2013 | | Please don't say just hello in chat (nohello.net) |
| 461 points | 3 years ago with 350 comments |
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2010 | | Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (shadyurl.com) |
| 460 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments |
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2012 | | Dotsies (dotsies.org) |
| 460 points | 5 years ago with 194 comments |
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2013 | | System design and the cost of architectural complexity (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 459 points | 1 year ago with 165 comments |
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2013 | | Adobe Photoshop 1.0.1 Source Code (computerhistory.org) |
| 457 points | 6 years ago with 200 comments |
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2015 | | Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python (interactivepython.org) |
| 456 points | 7 years ago with 35 comments |
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2015 | | Ramanujan Surprises Again (plus.maths.org) |
| 454 points | 4 years ago with 92 comments |
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2014 | | Visualizing Algorithms (bost.ocks.org) |
| 453 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 27 comments |
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2014 | | Wage Theft Is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft (epi.org) |
| 450 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 124 comments |
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2012 | | Valve – Handbook for New Employees (valvesoftware.com) |
| 449 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 197 comments |
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2011 | | I hate almost all software (tinyclouds.org) |
| 446 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 135 comments |
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2013 | | Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10k jobs per second (gist.github.com) |
| 445 points | 5 years ago with 137 comments |
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2014 | | Is TDD Dead? (martinfowler.com) |
| 445 points | 4 years ago with 476 comments |
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2011 | | Katamari Hack (kathack.com) |
| 444 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 37 comments |
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2010 | | Readme Driven Development (tom.preston-werner.com) |
| 443 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 42 comments |
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2013 | | Kill Sticky Headers (alisdair.mcdiarmid.org) |
| 443 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 81 comments |
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2010 | | The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (sivers.org) |
| 442 points | 11 years ago with 104 comments |
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2014 | | Torus-Earth (aleph.se) |
| 441 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 33 comments |
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2014 | | The Matasano crypto challenges (cryptopals.com) |
| 440 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 54 comments |
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2013 | | Stop Reading News (fs.blog) |
| 439 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 61 comments |
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2015 | | Reasons Not to Use Google (stallman.org) |
| 438 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 102 comments |
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2013 | | Google Web Designer (google.com) |
| 437 points | 7 years ago with 149 comments |
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2013 | | Why the Brain Needs More Downtime (scientificamerican.com) |
| 436 points | 7 years ago with 106 comments |
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2014 | | C4: C in Four Functions (github.com) |
| 436 points | 4 years ago with 131 comments |
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2014 | | Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (gkogan.co) |
| 436 points | 4 years ago with 272 comments |
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2015 | | Dealing with Hard Problems (artofproblemsolving.com) |
| 435 points | 6 years ago with 65 comments |
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2012 | | Understanding the math behind 0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (h14s.p5r.org) |
| 434 points across 4 posts | 7 years ago with 19 comments |
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2010 | | (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (norvig.com) |
| 432 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 9 comments |
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2011 | | Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (blog.fogus.me) |
| 432 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 6 comments |
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