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| Articles written 20 to 29 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2007 | | Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (gnu.org) |
| 277 points | 5 years ago with 399 comments |
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| 2010 | | My history with Forth and stack machines (yosefk.com) |
| 277 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 98 comments |
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| 2008 | | How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (tom.preston-werner.com) |
| 276 points | 11 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 2009 | | Nobody wants to read your shit (stevenpressfield.com) |
| 276 points | 6 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2010 | | Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers (prog21.dadgum.com) |
| 276 points | 2 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2012 | | The surprising subtleties of zeroing a register (randomascii.wordpress.com) |
| 276 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2005 | | The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (nickbostrom.com) |
| 275 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2010 | | Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour (daemonology.net) |
| 275 points | 10 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2010 | | Will It Optimize? (ridiculousfish.com) |
| 275 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2000 | | I Don't Like Debuggers (lwn.net) |
| 274 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 239 comments |
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| 2007 | | I Think You're Fat (esquire.com) |
| 274 points across 2 posts | 13 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 2010 | | Facebook's Zuckerberg Says the Age of Privacy Is Over (archive.nytimes.com) |
| 274 points | 7 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2009 | | Climbing the wrong hill (cdixon.org) |
| 273 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2010 | | Tabnabbing: A New Type of Phishing Attack (azarask.in) |
| 273 points | 10 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why developers never use state machines (skorks.com) |
| 273 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2002 | | Computers Without Clocks – Ivan Sutherland (cs.virginia.edu) |
| 272 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2008 | | I fell in love with an assassin (independent.co.uk) |
| 272 points | 7 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies (cryptome.org) |
| 272 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 187 comments |
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| 2002 | | Linked List Problems (cslibrary.stanford.edu) |
| 271 points | 7 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2006 | | Number systems of the world, sorted by complexity of counting (sf.airnet.ne.jp) |
| 271 points | 7 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 2009 | | Aaron Swartz's Thoughts on djb (aaronsw.com) |
| 271 points | 10 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 2010 | | The US government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (slate.com) |
| 271 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2011 | | Pricing Experiments You Can Learn From (conversionxl.com) |
| 270 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2012 | | Eight years today (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com) |
| 270 points | 9 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2011 | | Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO (a16z.com) |
| 269 points | 5 years ago with 102 comments |
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| 2004 | | ABI vs. API (lists.debian.org) |
| 268 points | 8 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2006 | | Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (ronpatrickstuff.com) |
| 268 points | 1 year ago with 135 comments |
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| 2010 | | A successful Git branching model (nvie.com) |
| 268 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 74 comments |
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| 2011 | | Uncovering an advertising fraud scheme (NSFW) (behind-the-enemy-lines.com) |
| 268 points | 12 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2006 | | Finger Trees: A Simple General-Purpose Data Structure (staff.city.ac.uk) |
| 267 points | 8 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2009 | | The /bin/true Command and Copyright (trillian.mit.edu) |
| 267 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2012 | | An Introduction to Lock-Free Programming (preshing.com) |
| 267 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2012 | | Better Bash History (sanctum.geek.nz) |
| 267 points | 5 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2012 | | MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on (cirw.in) |
| 267 points | 5 years ago with 178 comments |
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| 2003 | | Bill Gates on Windows Usability (twitter.com) |
| 266 points | 5 years ago with 225 comments |
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| 2011 | | How Doctors Die (zocalopublicsquare.org) |
| 266 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2012 | | Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to write (joeyh.name) |
| 266 points | 4 years ago with 220 comments |
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| 2012 | | Sorting 1M 8-digit numbers in 1 MB of RAM (stackoverflow.com) |
| 266 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2002 | | How to find hidden cameras (tentacle.franken.de) |
| 265 points | 7 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2007 | | Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (dheera.net) |
| 265 points | 10 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2009 | | Choice of search engine on Android nuked by “Anonymous Coward” (android.googlesource.com) |
| 265 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2010 | | On 81st birthday, Oregon man gives company to employees (seattletimes.com) |
| 265 points | 12 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2011 | | Nokia’s Burning Platform Memo (aaplinvestors.net) |
| 265 points | 2 years ago with 305 comments |
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| 2012 | | Quake III Arena GPL Source Release (github.com) |
| 265 points | 7 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2000 | | Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (theatlantic.com) |
| 264 points | 7 years ago with 180 comments |
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| 2000 | | Olbers’ Paradox: Why Is the Sky Dark at Night? (amnh.org) |
| 264 points | 9 years ago with 143 comments |
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| 2001 | | Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (web.archive.org) |
| 264 points | 3 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2003 | | Transiting the Suez Canal in a Private Sailboat (sailsafely.com) |
| 264 points | 4 years ago with 216 comments |
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| 2008 | | My experiment with smart drugs (johannhari.com) |
| 264 points | 14 years ago with 142 comments |
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| 2009 | | The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (steveblank.com) |
| 264 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 198 comments |
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