Lindy Hacker News | | submit
Articles written 200 to 209 that Hacker News still talks about.
Go back or forward one decade. Go to the previous or next century.
2011Real pixel coding (iquilezles.org)
188 points | 12 years ago with 79 comments
2011You've heard of “yes men”. Now learn about “no men” (rachelbythebay.com)
188 points | 5 years ago with 144 comments
2003Why events are a bad idea for high-concurrency servers (people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
187 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 45 comments
2007Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (wired.com)
187 points | 11 years ago with 32 comments
2007A look back: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds (wincent.com)
187 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 98 comments
2008The TTY Demystified (linusakesson.net)
187 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
2011The boy who stole Half-Life 2 (eurogamer.net)
187 points | 1 year ago with 94 comments
2011Papers from the Lost Culture of Array Languages (prog21.dadgum.com)
187 points | 7 years ago with 77 comments
2011Linux x86 program start up – How the heck do we get to main()? (dbp-consulting.com)
187 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments
2012Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell (web.archive.org)
187 points | 5 years ago with 74 comments
2012Easing Eye Strain with the Right Lenses (nytimes.com)
187 points | 7 years ago with 94 comments
2012Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (nature.com)
187 points | 8 years ago with 57 comments
2012If correlation doesn’t imply causality, then what does? (michaelnielsen.org)
187 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 1 comments
2012The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything (fs.blog)
187 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments
2003The Making Of Dust (johnsto.co.uk)
186 points | 6 years ago with 33 comments
2005The Origin of CAR and CDR in Lisp (iwriteiam.nl)
186 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 95 comments
2006Writing device drivers in Linux: A brief tutorial (freesoftwaremagazine.com)
186 points | 12 years ago with 33 comments
2007Jonesforth – A sometimes minimal Forth compiler and tutorial (github.com)
186 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 55 comments
2008The Algorithm Design Manual (algorist.com)
186 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2009How Command Line Parameters Are Parsed (daviddeley.com)
186 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 3 comments
2011Explain mathematically a video from a space station (mathoverflow.net)
186 points | 8 years ago with 32 comments
2012A Fresh Graduate's Guide to Software Development Tools and Technologies (comp.nus.edu.sg)
186 points | 7 years ago with 42 comments
2008What is Hindley-Milner and why is it cool? (codecommit.com)
185 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments
2008GnuTLS considered harmful (openldap.org)
185 points | 11 years ago with 115 comments
2010What Broke My Father's Heart (nytimes.com)
185 points | 12 years ago with 39 comments
2010The best debugging story I've ever heard (patrickthomson.tumblr.com)
185 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments
2011How many Commodore 64 computers were sold? (pagetable.com)
185 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 62 comments
2011Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (damninteresting.com)
185 points | 4 years ago with 110 comments
2012Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace (skeptictank.org)
185 points | 9 years ago with 98 comments
2002What Made Lisp Different (paulgraham.com)
184 points | 7 years ago with 201 comments
2002A Retrospective on Paradigms of AI Programming (norvig.com)
184 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2004What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are? (newyorker.com)
184 points | 10 years ago with 53 comments
2005Why Plan 9 is not dead yet and what we can learn from it (cs.unm.edu)
184 points | 10 years ago with 79 comments
2008I Still Use Windows 95 (web.archive.org)
184 points | 1 year ago with 307 comments
2012The Skylab 4 Mutiny, 1973 (libcom.org)
184 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
2012Place mushrooms in sunlight to get your vitamin D (fungi.com)
184 points | 1 year ago with 117 comments
2001Advanced Linux Programming (mentorembedded.github.io)
183 points | 2 years ago with 40 comments
200610 people who don't matter (money.cnn.com)
183 points | 13 years ago with 134 comments
2010So You Wanna Be a Chef (web.archive.org)
183 points | 2 years ago with 105 comments
2005NP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality (arxiv.org)
182 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 33 comments
2005Why is the DOS path character "\"? (web.archive.org)
182 points | 4 years ago with 158 comments
2007Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast (swtch.com)
182 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2008A ToC of Ian Lance Taylor’s 20-part Linkers essay (lwn.net)
182 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 14 comments
2011Interpreting 9/11 commemorative Afghan carpets (rugsofwar.wordpress.com)
182 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2012Schrödinger equation emerges mathematically from classical mechanics (researchgate.net)
182 points | 1 year ago with 84 comments
2006Windows XP minimal-requirement experiments (winhistory.de)
181 points | 5 years ago with 74 comments
2006Tcl the misunderstood (antirez.com)
181 points | 12 years ago with 108 comments
2007Cats Cannot Taste Sweets (scientificamerican.com)
181 points | 5 years ago with 156 comments
2010Jef Raskin's final gift to Aza (azarask.in)
181 points | 13 years ago with 10 comments
2010High-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain than sugar (princeton.edu)
181 points | 11 years ago with 122 comments
More

If you like quirky internet articles, you'll like the Unclutter reader mode too!