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| Articles written 200 to 209 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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2010 | | The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell (thetech.com) |
| 495 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 128 comments |
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2011 | | Data Structure Visualizations (cs.usfca.edu) |
| 495 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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2011 | | Advice on Getting Better from an Accomplished Piano Player (calnewport.com) |
| 492 points | 5 years ago with 156 comments |
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2012 | | Don't just roll the dice – Software pricing guide (neildavidson.com) |
| 488 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments |
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2012 | | Teller Reveals His Secrets (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 487 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments |
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2012 | | Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package (righto.com) |
| 486 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 273 comments |
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2012 | | A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept (gist.github.com) |
| 485 points | 1 year ago with 116 comments |
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2007 | | Holding a Program in One's Head (paulgraham.com) |
| 483 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 79 comments |
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2009 | | Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (drdobbs.com) |
| 482 points | 7 years ago with 305 comments |
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2008 | | Low-level is easy (yosefk.com) |
| 480 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 24 comments |
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2009 | | Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto (ecorenovator.org) |
| 477 points | 2 years ago with 246 comments |
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2008 | | Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (web.media.mit.edu) |
| 476 points | 8 years ago with 167 comments |
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2011 | | Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (chronicle.com) |
| 473 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 94 comments |
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2012 | | The effect of meditation on brain structure (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 472 points | 5 years ago with 242 comments |
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2012 | | What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen? (javlaskitsystem.se) |
| 471 points | 6 years ago with 186 comments |
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2003 | | Internet Archive gets DMCA exemption to help archive vintage software (archive.org) |
| 470 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 44 comments |
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2006 | | Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (regex.info) |
| 468 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 117 comments |
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2003 | | Simpsons Hit and Run source code (github.com) |
| 467 points | 1 year ago with 164 comments |
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2009 | | A home microhydro plant (ludens.cl) |
| 464 points | 5 years ago with 87 comments |
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2011 | | Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (blog.smartbear.com) |
| 463 points | 11 years ago with 155 comments |
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2005 | | Bit Twiddling Hacks (graphics.stanford.edu) |
| 462 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments |
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2011 | | Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (npr.org) |
| 462 points | 9 years ago with 81 comments |
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2012 | | The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (russolsen.com) |
| 462 points | 6 years ago with 237 comments |
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2008 | | "Secret" History of Silicon Valley (steveblank.com) |
| 460 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 48 comments |
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2010 | | Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (shadyurl.com) |
| 460 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments |
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2012 | | Dotsies (dotsies.org) |
| 460 points | 6 years ago with 194 comments |
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2000 | | Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (pages.cs.wisc.edu) |
| 459 points | 1 year ago with 77 comments |
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2008 | | Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone. (halfhalf.posterous.com) |
| 459 points | 12 years ago with 103 comments |
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2003 | | An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (web.mit.edu) |
| 457 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 31 comments |
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2004 | | Ten predictions (sites.google.com) |
| 457 points | 11 years ago with 309 comments |
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2005 | | BSD vs. Linux (over-yonder.net) |
| 457 points | 8 years ago with 356 comments |
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2006 | | How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (coding.derkeiler.com) |
| 454 points | 6 years ago with 419 comments |
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2002 | | Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web (pespmc1.vub.ac.be) |
| 453 points across 9 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments |
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2002 | | “Design Patterns” Aren't (perl.plover.com) |
| 451 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 114 comments |
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2008 | | 1k True Fans (kk.org) |
| 450 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 139 comments |
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2005 | | Being Poor (whatever.scalzi.com) |
| 449 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 216 comments |
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2012 | | Valve – Handbook for New Employees (valvesoftware.com) |
| 449 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 197 comments |
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2011 | | I hate almost all software (tinyclouds.org) |
| 446 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 135 comments |
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2008 | | Shouting in the Datacenter (youtube.com) |
| 444 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 47 comments |
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2011 | | Katamari Hack (kathack.com) |
| 444 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 37 comments |
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2010 | | Readme Driven Development (tom.preston-werner.com) |
| 443 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 42 comments |
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2010 | | The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (sivers.org) |
| 442 points | 11 years ago with 104 comments |
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2004 | | Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (poignant.guide) |
| 440 points | 4 years ago with 201 comments |
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2007 | | Microsoft Is Dead (paulgraham.com) |
| 440 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 82 comments |
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2006 | | The $25B eigenvector (rose-hulman.edu) |
| 438 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 68 comments |
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2012 | | Understanding the math behind 0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (h14s.p5r.org) |
| 434 points across 4 posts | 7 years ago with 19 comments |
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2010 | | (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (norvig.com) |
| 432 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 9 comments |
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2011 | | Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (blog.fogus.me) |
| 432 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 6 comments |
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2011 | | Does it scale? Who cares (jacquesmattheij.com) |
| 431 points | 7 years ago with 273 comments |
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2007 | | Fark redesign is now live (fark.com) |
| 430 points | 1 year ago with 466 comments |
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