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| Articles written 200 to 209 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2009 | | Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know (info.ucl.ac.be) |
| 565 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2012 | | Never Use Black (ianstormtaylor.com) |
| 565 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 217 comments |
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| 2003 | | Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu) |
| 558 points | 6 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 2006 | | Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (math.dartmouth.edu) |
| 558 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2009 | | What I've Learned from Hacker News (paulgraham.com) |
| 553 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2000 | | The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (bbsdocumentary.com) |
| 552 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2012 | | Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (jesshamrick.com) |
| 549 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 257 comments |
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| 2002 | | Why Russians do not smile (chicagomaroon.com) |
| 548 points | 3 years ago with 481 comments |
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| 2010 | | Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP (arxiv.org) |
| 546 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 169 comments |
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| 2012 | | 20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (stevehanov.ca) |
| 545 points | 8 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 2012 | | Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps (news.nationalgeographic.com) |
| 541 points | 5 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 2012 | | Functional programming in C++ (gamasutra.com) |
| 540 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2011 | | Visualization of Common Algorithms (visualgo.net) |
| 538 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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| 2009 | | What typing ^D does on Unix (utcc.utoronto.ca) |
| 536 points | 8 years ago with 156 comments |
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| 2012 | | Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (blog.garrytan.com) |
| 535 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 2010 | | How Fake Money Saved Brazil (npr.org) |
| 534 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2010 | | Experience: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (theguardian.com) |
| 531 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2010 | | Haskell researchers discover industry programmer who gives a shit (steve-yegge.blogspot.com) |
| 528 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments |
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| 2005 | | So you want to be a consultant? (unixwiz.net) |
| 527 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2006 | | Tcl the Misunderstood (antirez.com) |
| 527 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2012 | | Terry Tao's generals (web.math.princeton.edu) |
| 527 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 137 comments |
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| 2012 | | Guide to implementing 2D platformers (higherorderfun.com) |
| 526 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2005 | | Why I Hate Frameworks (fredrikholmqvist.com) |
| 525 points | 3 years ago with 295 comments |
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| 2012 | | Functional Core, Imperative Shell (destroyallsoftware.com) |
| 525 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 39 comments |
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| 2008 | | You weren't meant to have a boss (paulgraham.com) |
| 524 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 165 comments |
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| 2011 | | If PHP Were British (aloneonahill.com) |
| 524 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 364 comments |
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| 2000 | | You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (nngroup.com) |
| 523 points | 5 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 2002 | | Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu) |
| 523 points | 10 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 2011 | | Insulation: First the body, then the home (lowtechmagazine.com) |
| 523 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 302 comments |
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| 2004 | | Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (imaginary.org) |
| 521 points | 3 years ago with 318 comments |
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| 2011 | | I hate almost all software (tinyclouds.org) |
| 518 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 246 comments |
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| 2012 | | An interactive guide to the Fourier transform (betterexplained.com) |
| 518 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 74 comments |
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| 2012 | | Dad and the ten commandments of egoless programming (blog.stephenwyattbush.com) |
| 518 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 102 comments |
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| 2008 | | Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (bitcoin.org) |
| 516 points | 7 years ago with 385 comments |
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| 2012 | | Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (quora.com) |
| 515 points | 7 years ago with 253 comments |
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| 2007 | | Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (damtp.cam.ac.uk) |
| 514 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 2003 | | Alan Kay on the Meaning of “Object-Oriented Programming” (purl.org) |
| 512 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 292 comments |
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| 2011 | | I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still a Programmer? (zef.me) |
| 512 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2007 | | How Not to Die (paulgraham.com) |
| 508 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 130 comments |
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| 2012 | | How a car works (howacarworks.com) |
| 508 points | 9 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2003 | | “A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 507 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 227 comments |
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| 2011 | | Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (boingboing.net) |
| 507 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2012 | | Good sleep, good learning, good life (supermemo.com) |
| 506 points | 6 years ago with 254 comments |
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| 2012 | | Build your own FPGA (blog.notdot.net) |
| 506 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (jerrydallal.com) |
| 502 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2002 | | Wi Flag (asheron.fandom.com) |
| 501 points | 1 year ago with 205 comments |
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| 2005 | | Rewriting Reddit (aaronsw.com) |
| 499 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2011 | | If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (calnewport.com) |
| 499 points | 5 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 2011 | | Cells are fast and crowded places (righto.com) |
| 499 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2012 | | In 1957, Five Men Agreed to Stand Under an Exploding Nuclear Bomb (npr.org) |
| 498 points | 7 years ago with 203 comments |
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