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2015HTTP is obsolete.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