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| Articles written 20 to 29 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2012 | | Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (web.archive.org) |
| 323 points | 2 years ago with 352 comments |
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| 2006 | | The Windows Shutdown crapfest (moishelettvin.blogspot.com) |
| 322 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2012 | | Aggressive Chess Openings (chess.stackexchange.com) |
| 322 points | 5 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2005 | | Shane Pitman, leader of the warez group Razor 1911: life after prison (defacto2.net) |
| 321 points | 2 years ago with 221 comments |
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| 2001 | | Is your son a computer hacker? (wh0rd.ca) |
| 320 points | 3 years ago with 235 comments |
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| 2012 | | Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like one (blogs.scientificamerican.com) |
| 320 points | 4 years ago with 228 comments |
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| 2012 | | Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her from her books (nbcnews.com) |
| 319 points | 4 years ago with 245 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Python Paradox (paulgraham.com) |
| 318 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 268 comments |
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| 2012 | | Latency Comparisons every programmer should know (gist.github.com) |
| 318 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2011 | | Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 317 points | 7 years ago with 194 comments |
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| 2000 | | Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (sean-crist.com) |
| 316 points | 12 years ago with 206 comments |
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| 2004 | | I'm OK, the bull is dead (computerworld.com) |
| 315 points | 1 year ago with 173 comments |
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| 2010 | | Study shows salaries of young women 8% higher than men in peer group (content.time.com) |
| 315 points | 7 years ago with 264 comments |
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| 2004 | | What happens when patients find out how good their doctors are? (newyorker.com) |
| 314 points | 7 years ago with 224 comments |
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| 2011 | | Modern B-Tree Techniques (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu) |
| 314 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2011 | | C for Python programmers (toves.org) |
| 314 points | 8 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 2005 | | Return of the Mac (paulgraham.com) |
| 313 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 181 comments |
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| 2007 | | Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (robwalling.com) |
| 313 points | 5 years ago with 222 comments |
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| 2012 | | Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (nothings.org) |
| 313 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2009 | | A beginner's guide to Big O notation (rob-bell.net) |
| 312 points | 8 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications (lcamtuf.coredump.cx) |
| 312 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2011 | | Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (zwischenzugs.com) |
| 311 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2012 | | C as an intermediate language (yosefk.com) |
| 311 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2010 | | DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need (secretgeek.net) |
| 310 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 43 comments |
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| 2011 | | HTTP Status Dogs (httpstatusdogs.com) |
| 310 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 18 comments |
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| 2007 | | Shor, I’ll do it (scottaaronson.blog) |
| 308 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2012 | | The silent majority of experts (prog21.dadgum.com) |
| 308 points | 2 years ago with 197 comments |
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| 2012 | | The care and feeding of software engineers, or why engineers are grumpy (humanwhocodes.com) |
| 308 points | 5 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 2012 | | Decoding small QR codes by hand (blog.qartis.com) |
| 308 points | 1 year ago with 68 comments |
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| 2001 | | Tiny-C Compiler (iro.umontreal.ca) |
| 307 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 2006 | | A CD Spectrometer (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 307 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments |
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| 2007 | | My National Security Letter Gag Order (washingtonpost.com) |
| 307 points | 14 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (theamericanscholar.org) |
| 307 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 206 comments |
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| 2004 | | TheFacebook.com’s darker side (web.archive.org) |
| 306 points | 8 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2007 | | Introduction to Operating System Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs (lsub.org) |
| 306 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2009 | | Startups in 13 Sentences (paulgraham.com) |
| 306 points | 8 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why do we need modules at all? (erlang.org) |
| 306 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 102 comments |
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| 2011 | | Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (english.stackexchange.com) |
| 305 points | 1 year ago with 274 comments |
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| 2002 | | A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (dwheeler.com) |
| 304 points | 4 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2011 | | Drugs and the Meaning of Life (samharris.org) |
| 304 points | 11 years ago with 261 comments |
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| 2012 | | The multi-armed bandit problem (stevehanov.ca) |
| 303 points | 5 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2004 | | Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (slate.com) |
| 302 points | 8 years ago with 168 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Making of Prince of Persia (jordanmechner.com) |
| 302 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2011 | | Freedom of Information Release on Nikola Tesla (vault.fbi.gov) |
| 302 points | 7 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2001 | | Java's Cover (paulgraham.com) |
| 301 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2008 | | Linux is not about choice (redhat.com) |
| 301 points | 11 years ago with 230 comments |
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| 2010 | | Paul Rand's NeXT Logo (logodesignlove.com) |
| 301 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2011 | | Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecraft creator (torrentfreak.com) |
| 301 points | 4 years ago with 242 comments |
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| 2008 | | Operating System Development Series (brokenthorn.com) |
| 300 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2009 | | New York Times Election Day Crossword (crosswordunclued.com) |
| 300 points | 1 year ago with 44 comments |
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