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most cited and most upvoted xkcd comics on Hacker News

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1.

Standards<br>1,603 citations · 21 upvotes

2.

Ten Thousand<br>1,002 citations · 29 upvotes

3.

Security<br>848 citations · 24 upvotes

4.

Workflow<br>535 citations · 118 upvotes

5.

Duty Calls<br>430 citations · 28 upvotes

6.

Constructive<br>340 citations · 27 upvotes

7.

Dependency<br>302 citations · 812 upvotes

8.

Password Strength<br>300 citations · 116 upvotes

9.

Significant<br>296 citations · 6 upvotes

10.

Earth Temperature Timeline<br>274 citations · 234 upvotes

11.

Is It Worth the Time?<br>260 citations · 41 upvotes

12.

Free Speech<br>243 citations · 63 upvotes

13.

Extrapolating<br>235 citations · 2 upvotes

14.

Exploits of a Mom<br>234 citations · 64 upvotes

15.

Heatmap<br>213 citations · 10 upvotes

16.

Tasks<br>208 citations · 43 upvotes

17.

Real Programmers<br>205 citations · 79 upvotes

18.

Authorization<br>203 citations · 20 upvotes

19.

Physicists<br>184 citations · 0 upvotes

20.

Purity<br>181 citations · 17 upvotes

21.

Compiling<br>171 citations · 20 upvotes

22.

Random Number<br>147 citations · 0 upvotes

23.

Voting Software<br>147 citations · 299 upvotes

24.

Ballmer Peak<br>143 citations · 36 upvotes

25.

Average Familiarity<br>135 citations · 0 upvotes

26.

Python Environment<br>134 citations · 358 upvotes

27.

Nerd Sniping<br>129 citations · 15 upvotes

28.

Cells<br>115 citations · 0 upvotes

29.

Git<br>109 citations · 35 upvotes

30.

Citogenesis<br>108 citations · 6 upvotes

31.

Correlation<br>106 citations · 2 upvotes

32.

Lisp<br>102 citations · 7 upvotes

33.

A Bunch of Rocks<br>95 citations · 55 upvotes

34.

Automation<br>95 citations · 16 upvotes

35.

tar<br>90 citations · 50 upvotes

36.

Land Mammals<br>85 citations · 0 upvotes

37.

Survivorship Bias<br>80 citations · 464 upvotes

38.

Tech Support<br>79 citations · 57 upvotes

39.

Python<br>78 citations · 42 upvotes

40.

License Plate<br>76 citations · 0 upvotes

41.

Researcher Translation<br>74 citations · 0 upvotes

42.

Wisdom of the Ancients<br>73 citations · 29 upvotes

43.

Infrastructures<br>72 citations · 17 upvotes

44.

Here to Help<br>71 citations · 15 upvotes

45.

Map Projections<br>65 citations · 12 upvotes

46.

Sheeple<br>64 citations · 0 upvotes

47.

File Transfer<br>64 citations · 28 upvotes

48.

ISO 8601<br>64 citations · 62 upvotes

49.

Self-Driving Issues<br>59 citations · 1 upvotes

50.

Up Goer Five<br>58 citations · 5 upvotes

51.

CIA<br>58 citations · 0 upvotes

52.

How it Works<br>58 citations · 14 upvotes

53.

Connoisseur<br>57 citations · 0 upvotes

54.

Insurance<br>57 citations · 2 upvotes

55.

TornadoGuard<br>55 citations · 6 upvotes

56.

Settled<br>55 citations · 0 upvotes

57.

Team Chat<br>53 citations · 0 upvotes

58.

Fastest-Growing<br>52 citations · 0 upvotes

59.

Steal This Comic<br>52 citations · 102 upvotes

60.

The Pace of Modern Life<br>51 citations · 12 upvotes

61.

Kerning<br>49 citations · 2 upvotes

62.

Supported Features<br>49 citations · 6 upvotes

63.

Voting Machines<br>48 citations · 38 upvotes

64.

Lisp Cycles<br>46 citations · 30 upvotes

65.

Installing<br>46 citations · 5 upvotes

66.

Password Reuse<br>46 citations · 101 upvotes

67.

The General Problem<br>45 citations · 29 upvotes

68.

Machine Learning<br>45 citations · 551 upvotes

69.

Map of the Internet<br>45 citations · 1 upvotes

70.

Dreams<br>43 citations · 125 upvotes

71.

Reverse Identity Theft<br>43 citations · 0 upvotes

72.

Impostor<br>40 citations · 13 upvotes

73.

Bag Check<br>39 citations · 0 upvotes

74.

Self Driving<br>38 citations · 3 upvotes

75.

Money<br>37 citations · 160 upvotes

76.

Regular Expressions<br>36 citations · 2 upvotes

77.

Log Scale<br>36 citations · 5 upvotes

78.

Tech Support Cheat Sheet<br>35 citations · 26 upvotes

79.

Sandwich<br>34 citations · 0 upvotes

80.

Words that End in GRY<br>34 citations · 0 upvotes

81.

Hyphen<br>32 citations · 0 upvotes

82.

Free<br>31 citations · 0 upvotes

83.

Devotion to Duty<br>31 citations · 8 upvotes

84.

Legal Hacks<br>31 citations · 0 upvotes

85.

Idiocracy<br>31 citations · 0 upvotes

86.

Digital Data<br>31 citations · 6 upvotes

87.

Conditional Risk<br>30 citations · 0 upvotes

88.

The Cloud<br>30 citations · 10 upvotes

89.

65 Years<br>30 citations · 17 upvotes

90.

Sandboxing Cycle<br>30 citations · 9 upvotes

91.

Appropriate Term<br>29 citations · 0 upvotes

92.

The Problem with Wikipedia<br>29 citations · 0 upvotes

93.

Academia vs. Business<br>29 citations · 119 upvotes

94.

Spirit<br>29 citations · 10 upvotes

95.

1996<br>29 citations · 6 upvotes

96.

Engineer Syllogism<br>29 citations · 0 upvotes

97.

Orbital Mechanics<br>28 citations · 17 upvotes

98.

28-Hour Day<br>28 citations · 1 upvotes

99.

Extended Mind<br>28 citations · 0 upvotes

100.

Voynich Manuscript<br>28 citations · 0 upvotes

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