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Articles written 2010 to 2019 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2010Zsync: Differential file downloading over HTTP using the rsync algorithm (zsync.moria.org.uk)
368 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 28 comments
2011The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (golem.ph.utexas.edu)
368 points | 3 years ago with 164 comments
2012The Mathematical Hacker (evanmiller.org)
367 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 174 comments
2015Sitting and standing at work (ergo.human.cornell.edu)
366 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 130 comments
2012Linux on an 8bit Microcontroller (dmitry.gr)
365 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 37 comments
2012JSFuck (jsfuck.com)
365 points | 3 years ago with 156 comments
2011Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (prog21.dadgum.com)
364 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2011Why Hypercard had to die (loper-os.org)
364 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 166 comments
2012USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (intel.com)
364 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 118 comments
2012USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (intel.com)
364 points | 3 years ago with 226 comments
2014How ACH works: A developer perspective (engineering.gusto.com)
364 points | 7 years ago with 219 comments
2015A CEO's Guide to Emacs (blog.fugue.co)
364 points | 7 years ago with 172 comments
2011Depixelizing Pixel Art (johanneskopf.de)
363 points | 6 years ago with 88 comments
2014Efficient dehumidifier makes air conditioning a breeze (pnnl.gov)
362 points | 2 years ago with 209 comments
2014How to Pick Your Life Partner (waitbutwhy.com)
362 points | 7 years ago with 209 comments
2014Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (aadrake.com)
362 points | 8 years ago with 171 comments
2015Gitlet.js – Git implemented in 1k lines of JavaScript (gitlet.maryrosecook.com)
361 points | 3 years ago with 75 comments
2015Home-Built Scanning Tunneling Microscope (dberard.com)
361 points | 3 years ago with 79 comments
2014Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (hndex.org)
360 points | 4 years ago with 391 comments
2014Fasting leads to stress resistance, self-renewal, and regeneration (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
359 points | 7 years ago with 233 comments
2015Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention (nautil.us)
359 points | 6 years ago with 72 comments
2011Effects of grill patterns on fan performance/noise (pugetsystems.com)
357 points | 2 years ago with 121 comments
2015Markov chain Monte Carlo without the bullshit (jeremykun.com)
357 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 52 comments
2015600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (blog.jayway.com)
357 points | 5 years ago with 137 comments
2011Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed (avichal.com)
356 points | 7 years ago with 141 comments
2014So You Want to Write Your Own Language (drdobbs.com)
356 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 143 comments
2015Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Overflow (i-programmer.info)
356 points | 6 years ago with 280 comments
2012The Architecture of Git (aosabook.org)
355 points | 6 years ago with 79 comments
2015The True Size of Africa (kai.sub.blue)
355 points | 3 years ago with 219 comments
2015NSA Owns Everything (blog.thinkst.com)
355 points | 4 years ago with 248 comments
2014What's been wrought using the Piece Table? (web.archive.org)
354 points | 7 years ago with 83 comments
2010Writing a Simple Operating System From Scratch (cs.bham.ac.uk)
353 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 10 comments
2010How to increase your luck surface area (codusoperandi.com)
353 points | 3 years ago with 200 comments
2012Why concatenative programming matters (evincarofautumn.blogspot.com)
353 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 54 comments
2014What Armenians should know about life in America (likewise.am)
353 points | 4 years ago with 347 comments
2014How to Write a Git Commit Message (chris.beams.io)
353 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 118 comments
20156 days to change 1 line of code (edw519.posthaven.com)
353 points | 1 year ago with 243 comments
2013Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (harthur.wordpress.com)
352 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 366 comments
2013Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (arxiv.org)
351 points | 7 years ago with 204 comments
2010Never pay for online dating (web.archive.org)
350 points | 2 years ago with 469 comments
2011Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (scottaaronson.com)
350 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 22 comments
2012Seven signs of ethical collapse (scu.edu)
350 points | 1 year ago with 137 comments
2014Let’s write a simple Kernel (arjunsreedharan.org)
350 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2013Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to replace every year (ilyabirman.net)
349 points | 2 years ago with 185 comments
2015Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to the Young: “Learn to Be Alone” (openculture.com)
349 points | 4 years ago with 91 comments
2012A Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz (theatlantic.com)
348 points | 6 years ago with 140 comments
2014What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL (wozniak.ca)
348 points | 4 years ago with 291 comments
2014Minimal Viable Programs (joearms.github.io)
348 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 1 comments
2014The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (washingtonpost.com)
348 points | 7 years ago with 226 comments
2011Why Arabic Is Terrific (idlewords.com)
346 points | 5 years ago with 190 comments
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