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Articles written 200 to 209 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2012How Yahoo Killed Flickr (gizmodo.com)
238 points | 7 years ago with 179 comments
2000Interview with the authors of C, C++ and Java (gotw.ca)
237 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments
2001Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (joelonsoftware.com)
237 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 148 comments
2008Want to Write a Compiler? Read These Two Papers (prog21.dadgum.com)
237 points | 9 years ago with 70 comments
2009Amish Hackers (kk.org)
237 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 61 comments
2011On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning (norvig.com)
237 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 12 comments
2007Bizarro World: World Record Tetris (boston.com)
236 points | 10 years ago with 75 comments
2009On Being Smart (sma.epfl.ch)
236 points | 9 years ago with 130 comments
2009Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (gamesfromwithin.com)
236 points | 3 years ago with 359 comments
2011The bomb that changed my life (swombat.com)
236 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 0 comments
2002Engineering Pornography (jwz.org)
235 points | 12 years ago with 77 comments
2005Does Visual Studio rot the mind? (charlespetzold.com)
235 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 143 comments
2007Scroogled (scroogle.org)
235 points | 13 years ago with 80 comments
2008Git is as revolutionary as Unix pipes (apenwarr.ca)
235 points | 14 years ago with 55 comments
2009PSD is not my favourite file format (github.com)
235 points | 4 years ago with 103 comments
2003Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (inference.org.uk)
234 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments
2004It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (paradise.caltech.edu)
234 points | 7 years ago with 87 comments
2009Not Lisp again (funcall.blogspot.sg)
234 points | 12 years ago with 175 comments
2009Growing a Compiler (cs.dartmouth.edu)
234 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments
2012Homoiconicity isn’t the point (calculist.org)
234 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2004It's Charisma, Stupid (paulgraham.com)
233 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 48 comments
2007The Strange Story of Dual_EC_DRBG – suspected NSA backdoor (schneier.com)
233 points | 11 years ago with 75 comments
2009Mathematics for Physics (goldbart.gatech.edu)
233 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2010Why is the volume of a cone one third of the volume of a cylinder? (math.stackexchange.com)
233 points | 1 year ago with 112 comments
2010Levenshtein Automata (blog.notdot.net)
233 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2011Jitsi Architecture – legacy desktop application (aosabook.org)
233 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments
2012“Man Becomes the Sex Organs of the Machine World” (2012diaries.blogspot.com)
233 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments
2001How to Criticize Computer Scientists (cs.purdue.edu)
232 points | 4 years ago with 101 comments
2005Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List (scs.stanford.edu)
232 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments
2011HCL: a color model that actually matches our perceptions (vis4.net)
232 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 43 comments
2007Zoomquilt 2 (zoomquilt2.com)
231 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments
2007What's all this fuss about Erlang? (pragprog.com)
231 points | 8 years ago with 188 comments
2010Tarkovsky Films Free Online (openculture.com)
231 points | 11 years ago with 52 comments
2010A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind (greatergood.berkeley.edu)
231 points | 7 years ago with 73 comments
2011Size is the best predictor of code quality (blog.vivekhaldar.com)
231 points | 2 years ago with 187 comments
2000Coroutines in C (chiark.greenend.org.uk)
230 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments
2012Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? (blogs.msdn.com)
230 points | 10 years ago with 67 comments
2000A vi-centric family tree of editors (web.mit.edu)
229 points | 8 years ago with 90 comments
2001Advanced Linux Programming – book with free PDF (advancedlinuxprogramming.com)
229 points | 9 years ago with 36 comments
2001Your face is not a bar code: arguments against automatic face recognition (pages.gseis.ucla.edu)
229 points | 3 years ago with 73 comments
2006The tragic birth of FM radio (damninteresting.com)
229 points | 2 years ago with 65 comments
2008The “high-level CPU” challenge (yosefk.com)
229 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 127 comments
2009What is your favorite C programming trick? (stackoverflow.com)
229 points | 4 years ago with 180 comments
2010What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki? (cstheory.stackexchange.com)
229 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 42 comments
2010You're doing it wrong: B-heap 10x faster than binary heap (phk.freebsd.dk)
229 points | 5 years ago with 95 comments
2011Is infinity an odd or even number? (math.stackexchange.com)
229 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 373 comments
2011Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (npr.org)
229 points | 8 years ago with 56 comments
2012The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (otherhand.org)
229 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 147 comments
2005Practicing Programming (sites.google.com)
228 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 12 comments
2006How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (aaronsw.com)
228 points | 11 years ago with 164 comments
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