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2007Tree traversal without recursion: the tree as a state machine (plasmasturm.org)
209 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments
2008Mona Lisa in 50 polygons, using a genetic algorithm (rogeralsing.com)
209 points | 12 years ago with 53 comments
2009The value of downvoting, or, how Hacker News gets it wrong (stackoverflow.blog)
209 points | 4 years ago with 447 comments
2009Why Is C Faster Than Java (marc.info)
209 points | 3 years ago with 366 comments
2011Subtractive synths explained (residentadvisor.net)
209 points | 5 years ago with 76 comments
2005Google Will Eat Itself (gwei.org)
208 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments
2007Market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure (pmarchive.com)
208 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 127 comments
2008Using Programming Language Concepts to Teach General Thinking Skills (people.csail.mit.edu)
208 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments
2009Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Counts (scientificamerican.com)
208 points | 8 years ago with 133 comments
2010Genetic Algorithms Produce Winning StarCraft II Build Order (rockpapershotgun.com)
208 points | 11 years ago with 50 comments
2011How to beat the CAP theorem (nathanmarz.com)
208 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 19 comments
2011Hard work vs. Long work (seths.blog)
208 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2012Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (righto.com)
208 points | 3 years ago with 158 comments
2000Basics of Compiler Design (hjemmesider.diku.dk)
207 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments
2002A guide on how to be a Programmer (github.com)
207 points | 9 years ago with 44 comments
2005What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (newyorker.com)
207 points | 8 years ago with 58 comments
2006Refuse to be terrorized (wired.com)
207 points | 13 years ago with 83 comments
2006Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
207 points across 3 posts | 11 years ago with 47 comments
2010Why are bones not made of steel? (materialstoday.com)
207 points | 7 years ago with 159 comments
2010Why the sun is a poor dumping ground for nuclear waste (csicop.org)
207 points | 10 years ago with 171 comments
2011Bret Victor Redesigns Classic Strogatz Paper (worrydream.com)
206 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2003Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (web.archive.org)
205 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments
2004EA: The Human Story (ea-spouse.livejournal.com)
205 points | 2 years ago with 132 comments
2008Very Long-Term Backup (longnow.org)
205 points | 2 years ago with 139 comments
2008RIP Good Times (articles.sequoiacap.com)
205 points | 2 years ago with 216 comments
2008Git from the Bottom Up (jwiegley.github.io)
205 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments
2009Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (wisdomandwonder.com)
205 points | 8 years ago with 97 comments
2011Amazon’s $23M book about flies (michaeleisen.org)
205 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments
2012I introduced my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to startx and xmonad (changelog.complete.org)
205 points | 3 years ago with 190 comments
2012The Email I Received from Google in 2007 When They Wanted to Buy Zilo (berrebi.org)
205 points | 10 years ago with 56 comments
2012Crawling a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (michaelnielsen.org)
205 points | 1 year ago with 63 comments
2006F (nsl.com)
204 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 56 comments
2009Existential Depression in Gifted Children and Adults (hoagiesgifted.org)
204 points | 8 years ago with 128 comments
2009Baker's Math (thefreshloaf.com)
204 points | 2 years ago with 113 comments
2010Galois Theory for Beginners (math.jhu.edu)
204 points | 7 years ago with 33 comments
2012Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (research.microsoft.com)
204 points | 8 years ago with 140 comments
2007Write a rapid prototype first (terrytao.wordpress.com)
203 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
2007CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (yarchive.net)
203 points | 11 years ago with 95 comments
2010Demoralize Your Teams Quickly and Efficiently with Micromanagement (stellman-greene.com)
203 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments
2010The Top Idea in Your Mind (paulgraham.com)
203 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments
2010AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server (aolserver.github.io)
203 points | 2 years ago with 100 comments
2012Reddit’s database has two tables (kevin.burke.dev)
203 points | 2 years ago with 245 comments
2001An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (spectrum.ieee.org)
202 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 116 comments
2007Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (lowendmac.com)
202 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2009All or something (37signals.com)
202 points | 13 years ago with 64 comments
2011Don't Be a Free User (blog.pinboard.in)
202 points | 8 years ago with 99 comments
2000The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (web.archive.org)
201 points | 4 years ago with 98 comments
2001Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened (web.mit.edu)
201 points | 10 years ago with 50 comments
2003First atomic clock wristwatch (leapsecond.com)
201 points | 4 years ago with 91 comments
2003Why Nerds Are Unpopular (paulgraham.com)
201 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 44 comments
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