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| Articles written 200 to 209 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2010 | | Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (lists.busybox.net) |
| 2163 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 231 comments |
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| 2011 | | Gobs of data (go.dev) |
| 1878 points across 10 posts | 1 year ago with 58 comments |
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| 2006 | | Diamonds Suck (diamondssuck.com) |
| 1779 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2009 | | A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages (james-iry.blogspot.com) |
| 1765 points across 9 posts | 1 year ago with 64 comments |
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| 2010 | | Why take a compiler course? (blog.regehr.org) |
| 1745 points across 9 posts | 1 year ago with 114 comments |
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| 2010 | | Land of Lisp (landoflisp.com) |
| 1703 points across 7 posts | 2 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2009 | | I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived (uss-la-ca135.org) |
| 1657 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 257 comments |
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| 2000 | | Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 1655 points | 1 year ago with 498 comments |
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| 2002 | | Forgotten Employee (sites.google.com) |
| 1490 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2011 | | A brief rant on the future of interaction design (worrydream.com) |
| 1468 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2009 | | Keep Your Identity Small (paulgraham.com) |
| 1415 points across 6 posts | 2 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 2004 | | You can't tell people anything (habitatchronicles.com) |
| 1381 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 182 comments |
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| 2009 | | Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (georgehart.com) |
| 1351 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 2008 | | Why to start a startup in a bad economy (paulgraham.com) |
| 1311 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 223 comments |
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| 2012 | | Basic Social Skills Guide (improveyoursocialskills.com) |
| 1291 points | 5 years ago with 409 comments |
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| 2010 | | Why GNU grep is fast (lists.freebsd.org) |
| 1246 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2002 | | Can’t send email more than 500 miles (web.mit.edu) |
| 1158 points | 1 year ago with 195 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (nytimes.com) |
| 1086 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 315 comments |
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| 2010 | | Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (shadyurl.com) |
| 1037 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 2012 | | Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index (swtch.com) |
| 999 points across 8 posts | 1 year ago with 16 comments |
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| 2009 | | “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (bugs.launchpad.net) |
| 996 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 207 comments |
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| 2005 | | NewOS (newos.org) |
| 978 points across 8 posts | 1 year ago with 9 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (slate.com) |
| 977 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 733 comments |
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| 2010 | | Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity (rumorsontheinternets.org) |
| 962 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 2010 | | Learn Just a Little Awk (gregable.com) |
| 961 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2007 | | ‘I've got nothing to hide’ and other misunderstandings of privacy (papers.ssrn.com) |
| 960 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 260 comments |
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| 2008 | | To remember everything you learn, surrender to this algorithm (wired.com) |
| 955 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2012 | | Do things, tell people (carl.flax.ie) |
| 954 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 2009 | | Not Lisp again (funcall.blogspot.com) |
| 915 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2009 | | Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (improvingsoftware.com) |
| 910 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 430 comments |
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| 2010 | | Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (news.ycombinator.com) |
| 908 points | 4 years ago with 437 comments |
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| 2011 | | Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (kalzumeus.com) |
| 885 points across 5 posts | 3 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2012 | | Photos Always Pointing at the Pointer (pointerpointer.com) |
| 879 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 106 comments |
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| 2004 | | Zoomquilt (zoomquilt.org) |
| 878 points | 4 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2000 | | Curse Of The Gifted (vanadac.com) |
| 875 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 356 comments |
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| 2009 | | How not to sort by average rating (evanmiller.org) |
| 858 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2009 | | Start all of your commands with a comma (rhodesmill.org) |
| 845 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 2009 | | There Is No Speed Limit (sivers.org) |
| 837 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2003 | | Calculus for Beginners and Artists (www-math.mit.edu) |
| 836 points | 5 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 2009 | | Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (link.springer.com) |
| 830 points | 1 year ago with 235 comments |
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| 2006 | | How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (downes.ca) |
| 827 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2009 | | The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (moserware.com) |
| 821 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2006 | | Dennis Ritchie Home Page (bell-labs.com) |
| 817 points across 12 posts | 2 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2012 | | A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (queue.acm.org) |
| 812 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2012 | | Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (karpathy.github.io) |
| 807 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2011 | | Stuff I said at Kansas City Startup Weekend that sounded smart (apenwarr.ca) |
| 804 points across 6 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2012 | | How I went from programming to consulting (training.kalzumeus.com) |
| 780 points | 7 years ago with 472 comments |
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| 2000 | | Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (cgl.uwaterloo.ca) |
| 753 points | 7 years ago with 133 comments |
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| 2004 | | Should I just stop attempting to make these trivial patches? (lkml.org) |
| 752 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (250bpm.com) |
| 742 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 163 comments |
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