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Articles written 200 to 209 that Hacker News still talks about.
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2008Print this file, your printer will jam (nedbatchelder.com)
740 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 208 comments
2005BBS: The Documentary (bbsdocumentary.com)
727 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 59 comments
2009A stick figure guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (moserware.com)
725 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2012An Intuitive Guide to Linear Algebra (betterexplained.com)
709 points | 4 years ago with 102 comments
2004What You Can't Say (paulgraham.com)
706 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 194 comments
2009Maker's schedule, Manager's schedule (paulgraham.com)
706 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 72 comments
2012Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (github.com)
706 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 165 comments
2011Your own company? You can do it (jacquesmattheij.com)
701 points | 7 years ago with 366 comments
2005How to be more productive (aaronsw.com)
698 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2011To become a good C programmer (fabiensanglard.net)
698 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 15 comments
2003Essential C (cslibrary.stanford.edu)
696 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 82 comments
2009Linus’s rules on keeping Git history clean (mail-archive.com)
688 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 65 comments
2011What every computer science major should know (matt.might.net)
688 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 182 comments
2010The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (sive.rs)
681 points | 2 years ago with 445 comments
2012Parody HN Homepage (linkedlistnyc.org)
678 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments
2008A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (prog21.dadgum.com)
676 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 179 comments
2012How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (daedtech.com)
672 points | 4 years ago with 432 comments
2009There’s no speed limit (sive.rs)
670 points | 2 years ago with 276 comments
2008History of the browser user-agent string (webaim.org)
669 points across 4 posts | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2011Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping Lego blocks (johndcook.com)
667 points | 4 years ago with 228 comments
2011Fucking Sue Me (pud.com)
663 points | 11 years ago with 194 comments
2012“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (harmful.cat-v.org)
663 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 36 comments
2005Why I Hate Frameworks (factoryfactoryfactory.net)
662 points | 1 year ago with 392 comments
2010Tron Legacy (jtnimoy.net)
657 points | 11 years ago with 143 comments
2000Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (cs.otago.ac.nz)
656 points | 5 years ago with 380 comments
2007A regular expression to check for prime numbers (noulakaz.net)
655 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 97 comments
2010Concise Electronics for Geeks (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
648 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 49 comments
201224/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (xiph.org)
647 points | 7 years ago with 428 comments
2007Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (elbruz.org)
645 points | 1 year ago with 254 comments
2006I Hate the News (aaronsw.com)
643 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 93 comments
2007Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (cia.gov)
635 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 17 comments
2006The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (teslamotors.com)
631 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 194 comments
2010Don’t mess with a genius (shreevatsa.wordpress.com)
631 points | 1 year ago with 151 comments
2008NirSoft Freeware (nirsoft.net)
625 points | 6 years ago with 232 comments
2009Papers every developer should read at least twice (michaelfeathers.silvrback.com)
623 points | 3 years ago with 95 comments
2010Why do many math books have so much detail and so little enlightenment? (mathoverflow.net)
620 points | 7 years ago with 260 comments
2009Oberon (ignorethecode.net)
618 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 143 comments
2002The case of the 500-mile email (ibiblio.org)
614 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 93 comments
2005Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (lists.warhead.org.uk)
610 points across 6 posts | 2 years ago with 56 comments
2012Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (madinamerica.com)
607 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 290 comments
20011500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (gamedeveloper.com)
593 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 179 comments
2012Wat [video] (destroyallsoftware.com)
593 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 144 comments
2008Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (news.cnet.com)
592 points | 11 years ago with 299 comments
2006Far Cry 1.34 source code (archive.org)
585 points | 1 year ago with 304 comments
2009Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (sivers.org)
581 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 173 comments
2012Hexaflexagons [video] (youtube.com)
578 points | 2 years ago with 54 comments
2010Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (raptitude.com)
577 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 247 comments
2005Google Mars (google.com)
574 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 80 comments
2007Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (theguardian.com)
571 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 7 comments
2003Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? (vole.wtf)
565 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 137 comments
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