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| The best articles from archive.org, according to Hacker News. |
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| 1985 | | Byte Magazine: Declarative Languages (archive.org) |
| 1246 points across 11 posts | 1 year ago with 52 comments |
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| 1983 | | Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (archive.org) |
| 1245 points across 11 posts | 1 year ago with 275 comments |
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| 1987 | | Byte Magazine: Prolog and 386 Hardware Software (archive.org) |
| 811 points across 9 posts | 1 year ago with 8 comments |
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| 1984 | | Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (archive.org) |
| 811 points across 9 posts | 1 year ago with 113 comments |
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| 2006 | | Far Cry 1.34 source code (archive.org) |
| 585 points | 9 months ago with 304 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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| 1979 | | Byte Magazine: LISP (archive.org) |
| 445 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 107 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Awk Programming Language (archive.org) |
| 415 points | 7 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 1935 | | War Is a Racket (archive.org) |
| 383 points | 11 months ago with 534 comments |
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| 1992 | | A Fire Upon The Deep By Vernor Vinge (archive.org) |
| 374 points across 2 posts | 8 months ago with 51 comments |
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| 1987 | | Higher Math for Beginners (archive.org) |
| 315 points | 2 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 1998 | | Furby source code (archive.org) |
| 304 points | 1 year ago with 79 comments |
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| 1984 | | The World is Built on Probability (archive.org) |
| 290 points | 11 months ago with 91 comments |
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| 1980 | | Byte Magazine: The Forth Language (archive.org) |
| 285 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 89 comments |
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| 1996 | | Build Your Own Flight Sim in C++ (archive.org) |
| 284 points across 2 posts | 7 months ago with 59 comments |
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| 1961 | | Harrison Bergeron (archive.org) |
| 240 points | 1 year ago with 268 comments |
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| 1984 | | The UNIX Programming Environment (archive.org) |
| 231 points | 1 year ago with 105 comments |
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| 2011 | | X Minus One: 1950s Science Fiction Radio Programs Available to Listen (archive.org) |
| 213 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1994 | | Introduction to Permaculture (archive.org) |
| 197 points | 4 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Complete Hypercard Handbook (archive.org) |
| 193 points | 2 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 1995 | | Black Art of 3D Game Programming (archive.org) |
| 182 points | 7 months ago with 47 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (archive.org) |
| 160 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1983 | | Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Design (archive.org) |
| 156 points | 4 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1977 | | Cards as Weapons (archive.org) |
| 146 points | 8 months ago with 49 comments |
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| 1979 | | Atari Star Raiders Source Code (archive.org) |
| 145 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1919 | | My Inventions – Nikola Tesla (archive.org) |
| 143 points | 11 months ago with 61 comments |
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| 1983 | | BYTE Magazine: The C Language (archive.org) |
| 141 points | 9 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1962 | | The Bathyscaph Trieste: Technological and Operational Aspects (archive.org) |
| 137 points | 10 months ago with 121 comments |
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| 1965 | | Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerrilla Warfare (archive.org) |
| 133 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1978 | | Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu: The End of Hot Metal Typesetting at the NY Times (archive.org) |
| 127 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 2 comments |
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| 1975 | | How to Entertain with Your Pocket Calculator (archive.org) |
| 124 points | 11 months ago with 33 comments |
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| 1982 | | Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (archive.org) |
| 124 points | 2 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1991 | | Beyond Cyberpunk: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Future (archive.org) |
| 116 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1984 | | Whole Earth Software Catalog (archive.org) |
| 114 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1982 | | Report warns computers may threaten constitutional rights (archive.org) |
| 113 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1992 | | Advanced Amiga Architecture (archive.org) |
| 111 points | 11 months ago with 97 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Way Things Work CD-ROM (archive.org) |
| 104 points | 1 year ago with 24 comments |
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| 1944 | | Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (archive.org) |
| 103 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1982 | | An Overview of TUNIS: A UNIX Look-Alike Written in Concurrent Euclid (archive.org) |
| 101 points | 1 year ago with 45 comments |
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| 1985 | | Why Forth Isn't Slow (archive.org) |
| 101 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1981 | | Byte Magazine Volume 06 Number 09 – Artificial Intelligence (archive.org) |
| 96 points | 11 months ago with 39 comments |
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| 1988 | | The World Is Built on Probability (archive.org) |
| 95 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1981 | | Landing the Nostromo (archive.org) |
| 92 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1919 | | Diary of a little girl in old New York (archive.org) |
| 90 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1991 | | HyperCard Stack: Douglas Adams' Megapode Nest Volume Calculator (archive.org) |
| 89 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1981 | | Computing e to 116,000 Places with a Personal Computer (archive.org) |
| 84 points | 1 year ago with 28 comments |
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| 1979 | | The Timeless Way of Building (archive.org) |
| 84 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1981 | | Byte Magazine: Future Computers (archive.org) |
| 84 points | 4 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 1946 | | ENIAC Operating Manual (archive.org) |
| 83 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1939 | | Graphic Presentation (archive.org) |
| 82 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments |
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