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| Articles written 200 to 209 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2012 | | Why I Love Coding (henrikwarne.com) |
| 252 points | 3 years ago with 118 comments |
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| 2000 | | Courtney Love does the math (salon.com) |
| 251 points | 13 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2006 | | My First BillG Review (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 251 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 153 comments |
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| 2008 | | How can C Programs be so Reliable? (tratt.net) |
| 251 points | 11 years ago with 221 comments |
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| 2010 | | Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (highscalability.com) |
| 250 points | 5 years ago with 119 comments |
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| 2012 | | R, the master troll of statistical languages (talyarkoni.org) |
| 250 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 148 comments |
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| 2001 | | Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 249 points | 8 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2008 | | Project from Hell (projectfailures.wordpress.com) |
| 249 points | 7 years ago with 148 comments |
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| 2011 | | The German School of Lisp (blog.fogus.me) |
| 249 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2004 | | ZFS 128 bit storage: Are you high? (blogs.oracle.com) |
| 248 points | 7 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 2011 | | Crockford on JSON license (gist.github.com) |
| 248 points | 1 year ago with 59 comments |
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| 2012 | | Mathematics I Use (pub.gajendra.net) |
| 248 points | 7 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2011 | | Yahoo Logo ASCII Animation in 462 bytes of C (a1k0n.net) |
| 247 points | 9 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2012 | | How MIT Students Won $8M in the Massachusetts Lottery (newsfeed.time.com) |
| 247 points | 9 years ago with 204 comments |
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| 2012 | | Fatigue Is a Brain-Derived Emotion that Regulates to Ensure Protection (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 247 points | 8 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2012 | | Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (theguardian.com) |
| 247 points | 9 years ago with 209 comments |
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| 2004 | | “We Are Morons” – A quick look at the Win2k source (atdt.freeshell.org) |
| 246 points | 7 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2008 | | What's the difference between the com and exe extensions? (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) |
| 246 points | 7 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2008 | | Common shell script mistakes (pixelbeat.org) |
| 246 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2009 | | Dice-O-Matic hopper and elevator (gamesbyemail.com) |
| 246 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2009 | | Can I Talk to that William Fellow? He was so Helpful (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com) |
| 246 points | 8 years ago with 126 comments |
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| 2009 | | How to Write Your Own Compiler (staff.polito.it) |
| 246 points | 7 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2009 | | Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (arxiv.org) |
| 245 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2011 | | What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings (kunststube.net) |
| 245 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2003 | | The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (doc.cat-v.org) |
| 244 points | 4 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2007 | | Risk Everything (web.archive.org) |
| 244 points | 2 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2008 | | The TTY Demystified (linusakesson.net) |
| 244 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2012 | | A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads (slobc.org) |
| 244 points | 8 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2007 | | Goto (beej.us) |
| 243 points | 3 years ago with 201 comments |
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| 2008 | | Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (reuters.com) |
| 243 points | 3 years ago with 219 comments |
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| 2010 | | An employee whose job was to be sacked (henrytapper.com) |
| 243 points | 7 years ago with 161 comments |
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| 2001 | | The world's most toxic value system (uwgb.edu) |
| 242 points | 7 years ago with 193 comments |
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| 2002 | | Minimalism: Practical Guide to Writing Less Code (two-sdg.demon.co.uk) |
| 242 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2005 | | Sleeve cap ease is bogus (fashion-incubator.com) |
| 242 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2008 | | Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (old.ycombinator.com) |
| 242 points | 7 years ago with 176 comments |
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| 2007 | | The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen (pbs.org) |
| 241 points | 11 years ago with 237 comments |
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| 2010 | | More Dirty Coding Tricks from Game Developers (gamasutra.com) |
| 241 points | 9 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2012 | | Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (toothycat.net) |
| 241 points | 7 years ago with 115 comments |
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| 2004 | | Magician-turned-mathematician uncovers bias in coin flipping (news.stanford.edu) |
| 240 points | 4 years ago with 120 comments |
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| 2005 | | Ontology Is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (shirky.com) |
| 240 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2006 | | The management myth (theatlantic.com) |
| 240 points | 8 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2007 | | The Sun seen through the Earth in “neutrino light” (strangepaths.com) |
| 240 points | 4 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2009 | | What a Real Train System Looks Like (newworldeconomics.com) |
| 240 points | 6 years ago with 199 comments |
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| 2010 | | Magnus Carlsen – “I am chaotic and lazy” (en.chessbase.com) |
| 240 points | 10 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2010 | | Everything you need to know about pointers in C (boredzo.org) |
| 240 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2002 | | The Antidesktop (web.archive.org) |
| 238 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments |
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| 2010 | | Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (kalzumeus.com) |
| 238 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2011 | | Stuxnet is embarrassing, not amazing (rdist.root.org) |
| 238 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why is writing mathematical proofs more fault-proof than writing code? (cs.stackexchange.com) |
| 238 points | 7 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Twelve-Factor App (12factor.net) |
| 238 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 102 comments |
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