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Articles written 2010 to 2019 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2011Does it scale? Who cares (jacquesmattheij.com)
431 points | 7 years ago with 273 comments
2013On Hacking MicroSD Cards (bunniestudios.com)
431 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 18 comments
2010No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? (m.spiegel.de)
429 points | 6 years ago with 168 comments
2014“The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (git.kernel.org)
429 points | 6 years ago with 108 comments
2015Building Better Interfaces with SVG (slides.com)
429 points | 7 years ago with 106 comments
2011Music for Programming (musicforprogramming.net)
427 points | 4 years ago with 261 comments
2014Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU? (danluu.com)
427 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2014Literate DevOps (howardism.org)
427 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2015Experts once predicted that Americans would face excess leisure time (newyorker.com)
427 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 352 comments
2010A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (blog.regehr.org)
426 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 183 comments
2014World Airports Voronoi (jasondavies.com)
424 points | 6 years ago with 107 comments
201514,000x Speedup (james.hiebert.name)
424 points | 4 years ago with 228 comments
2011Jewish Problems (arxiv.org)
423 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 126 comments
2014Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (github.com)
423 points | 4 years ago with 614 comments
2015How to get better at painting without painting anything (learning-to-see.co.uk)
423 points | 3 years ago with 166 comments
2015How to Be Someone People Love to Talk To (time.com)
423 points | 7 years ago with 197 comments
2015The Raft Consensus Algorithm (raft.github.io)
423 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 76 comments
2012Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (kalzumeus.com)
420 points | 4 years ago with 260 comments
2013Let Postgres Do the Work (sorentwo.com)
420 points | 7 years ago with 202 comments
2015Building a vision of life without work (livingafi.com)
419 points | 3 years ago with 421 comments
2012Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch (journals.sagepub.com)
418 points | 1 year ago with 243 comments
2014Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (gnu.org)
418 points | 4 years ago with 286 comments
2015Why I Am a Sociomediapath (nealstephenson.com)
418 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 9 comments
2013For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off from All Human Contact (smithsonianmag.com)
417 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 134 comments
2013Fourier transform – A math tool used in optics, MP3s, JPEGs and more (nautil.us)
417 points | 7 years ago with 83 comments
2010Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (rwmj.wordpress.com)
416 points | 2 years ago with 330 comments
2011Add Honest Achmed's root certificate (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
414 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 25 comments
2013How a middle aged CS major debunked a classic positive psychology finding (narratively.com)
414 points | 2 years ago with 271 comments
2015I tried to buy an actual barrel of crude oil (bloomberg.com)
413 points | 4 years ago with 157 comments
2010God's Number Is 20 (cube20.org)
411 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 83 comments
201390% of Python in 90 Minutes (slideshare.net)
411 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2014Raft Consensus Animated (thesecretlivesofdata.com)
411 points | 2 years ago with 67 comments
2015The days are long but the decades are short (blog.samaltman.com)
411 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 83 comments
2014Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (pbs.org)
409 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 44 comments
2012Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (npr.org)
408 points | 9 years ago with 95 comments
2013Bugger: Maybe the real state secret is spies aren't good at their jobs (bbc.co.uk)
408 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 90 comments
2014Why Walking Helps Us Think (newyorker.com)
407 points | 7 years ago with 117 comments
2015Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (automatetheboringstuff.com)
407 points | 4 years ago with 70 comments
2011Biggest image in the smallest space (bamsoftware.com)
406 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 5 comments
2013From novice to master, and back again (blog.djmnet.org)
406 points | 2 years ago with 143 comments
2012The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (boingboing.net)
405 points | 4 years ago with 210 comments
2013What if I were 1% charged? (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
405 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 136 comments
2011JustFab.com JustFabulous Class Action Lawsuit (scambook.com)
404 points | 11 years ago with 72 comments
2011OCaml for the Masses (queue.acm.org)
404 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 223 comments
2012Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple (greenteapress.com)
404 points | 7 years ago with 56 comments
2014How to Design Programs (htdp.org)
404 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments
2015Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (npr.org)
404 points | 4 years ago with 133 comments
2012Living Worlds in HTML5 (effectgames.com)
403 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2014Category Theory for Programmers (github.com)
403 points | 4 years ago with 129 comments
2014Stanford Unsupervised Deep Learning Tutorial (deeplearning.stanford.edu)
401 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
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