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Articles written in 1974 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1974Cargo cult science (calteches.library.caltech.edu)
455 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 156 comments
1974Richard Feynman: Cargo Cult Science (neurotheory.columbia.edu)
212 points | 10 years ago with 62 comments
1974Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (paulgraham.com)
208 points | 8 years ago with 104 comments
1974Bill Gates Resume (image.cnbcfm.com)
183 points | 4 years ago with 130 comments
1974Live Not by Lies (solzhenitsyncenter.org)
140 points | 2 years ago with 43 comments
1974What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (www2.warwick.ac.uk)
132 points | 7 years ago with 95 comments
1974How to Spot a Spook (cryptome.org)
130 points | 6 years ago with 63 comments
1974Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet and PC (youtube.com)
127 points | 9 years ago with 36 comments
1974Ethernet will never work (twitter.com)
120 points | 4 years ago with 53 comments
1974Computer programming as an art (dl.acm.org)
113 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
1974On the Road with Aristotle: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (the-tls.co.uk)
105 points | 7 years ago with 32 comments
1974Forth: A New Way to Program a Mini Computer (articles.adsabs.harvard.edu)
104 points | 1 year ago with 58 comments
1974Representing Graphs by Knuth Trees (cs.virginia.edu)
100 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments
1974Computer Programming as an Art (cacm.acm.org)
96 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
1974A History of The Rochester, NY Camera and Lens Companies (nwmangum.com)
93 points | 2 years ago with 66 comments
1974The Unix Time-Sharing System (cs.berkeley.edu)
92 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
1974The UNIX Time-Sharing System (chsasank.github.io)
90 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments
1974LIL, the Little Implementation Language (ultimate.com)
89 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
1974Cybernetics A to Z (archive.org)
80 points | 1 year ago with 17 comments
1974Programming with Abstract Data Types (web.cs.iastate.edu)
78 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
1974Cargo Cult Science (physics.brocku.ca)
78 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments
1974The CONS microprocessor (dspace.mit.edu)
66 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
1974Radar Made Easy (archive.org)
64 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments
1974The Conversation (en.wikipedia.org)
57 points | 10 years ago with 33 comments
1974FRAMES – A Framework for Representing Knowledge (web.media.mit.edu)
56 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments
1974The Conversation (movies.netflix.com)
52 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments
1974Drug Themes in Science Fiction, by Robert Silverberg (erowid.org)
52 points | 3 years ago with 17 comments
1974The Unsuccessful Treatment of a Case of “Writer's Block” (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
49 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments
1974Computers aren’t so smart, after all (theatlantic.com)
45 points | 1 year ago with 70 comments
1974The Protection of Information in Computer Systems (cs.virginia.edu)
44 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 0 comments
1974Apollo Experience Report – The Role of Flight Mission Rules (hq.nasa.gov)
40 points | 3 years ago with 1 comments
1974Reducing oil content of Fried potatoes with difluorodichloromethane (patents.google.com)
19 points | 1 year ago with 22 comments
1974No One Belonged Here (theparisreview.org)
18 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments

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