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| Articles written in 1999 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1999 | | Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life (gamasutra.com) |
| 152 points | 9 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (gamasutra.com) |
| 150 points | 10 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 1999 | | VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC (bricklin.com) |
| 149 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1999 | | In the beginning was the command line (faculty.georgetown.edu) |
| 148 points | 4 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1999 | | Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula (academics.rowan.edu) |
| 148 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1999 | | How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (mud.co.uk) |
| 148 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1999 | | Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices (academic.oup.com) |
| 147 points | 1 year ago with 113 comments |
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| 1999 | | F***ing Learn to Code Again (blog.kebby.org) |
| 144 points | 9 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 1999 | | Shhh: The Undocumented DOS Commands (the-eye.eu) |
| 143 points | 3 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1999 | | How my startup failed (alumni.stanford.edu) |
| 141 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1999 | | Parsing Expressions by Recursive Descent (engr.mun.ca) |
| 141 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1999 | | Golden Rules of Financial Safety (harrybrowne.org) |
| 140 points | 6 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 1999 | | Why Arabs Lose Wars (meforum.org) |
| 137 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1999 | | Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk) |
| 135 points | 4 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 1999 | | How the Internet Ruined San Francisco (salon.com) |
| 135 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1999 | | Secrets of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler Inliner (microsoft.com) |
| 131 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1999 | | 1x Forth (ultratechnology.com) |
| 130 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1999 | | Lightweight Living (aldha.org) |
| 128 points | 13 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Evolution of Roller Coaster Tycoon (nicscorner.com) |
| 126 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1999 | | The In-game Economics of Ultima Online (mine-control.com) |
| 125 points | 11 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1999 | | Hugh Laurie: Wodehouse Saved my Life (pgwodehousebooks.com) |
| 124 points | 11 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1999 | | Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (theatlantic.com) |
| 124 points | 4 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 1999 | | Among the Norse Tribes: The Remarkable Account of Ibn Fadlan (archive.aramcoworld.com) |
| 124 points | 3 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1999 | | Jobs at Google (web.archive.org) |
| 122 points | 5 years ago with 126 comments |
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| 1999 | | The mathematics of Magic: the Gathering (kibble.net) |
| 122 points | 5 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 1999 | | How to Get Rich (edge.org) |
| 118 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1999 | | Introduction to AOLserver, Part 1 (philip.greenspun.com) |
| 116 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1999 | | Why didn't we patent the spreadsheet? Were we stupid? (bricklin.com) |
| 115 points | 10 years ago with 135 comments |
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| 1999 | | What Is RPN? Why Did/Does HP Use RPN? Learning RPN (hpmuseum.org) |
| 115 points | 3 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 1999 | | Put 1.7MB onto 1.44MB Floppies (trevormarshall.com) |
| 115 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 1999 | | Ford 021C Concept Car (marc-newson.com) |
| 112 points | 8 months ago with 72 comments |
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| 1999 | | Intel won't back down on chip ID feature (zdnet.com) |
| 111 points | 1 year ago with 111 comments |
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| 1999 | | Outdoor Sound Propagation in the U.S. Civil War (wesclark.com) |
| 111 points | 1 year ago with 52 comments |
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| 1999 | | Unskilled and Unaware of It (psych.colorado.edu) |
| 108 points | 6 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm (schneier.com) |
| 107 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1999 | | “That Deep Romantic Chasm”: Libertarianism and the Computer Culture (uvm.edu) |
| 107 points | 4 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1999 | | Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? (bikeshed.org) |
| 106 points | 7 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1999 | | Unix – The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems (team.net) |
| 106 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1999 | | Reading code from top to bottom (iq0.com) |
| 103 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1999 | | TetrisRant (tcrf.net) |
| 102 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1999 | | DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (lea.hamradio.si) |
| 101 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1999 | | Thomas Friedman: Amazon.you (nytimes.com) |
| 101 points | 13 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 1999 | | Who Can Name the Bigger Number? (scottaaronson.com) |
| 100 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1999 | | Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. Why? (st.cs.uni-saarland.de) |
| 100 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1999 | | African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes (web.stanford.edu) |
| 99 points | 6 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 1999 | | How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift (allstar.fiu.edu) |
| 95 points | 8 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 1999 | | PostScript Language Reference (adobe.com) |
| 94 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1999 | | The GNU Privacy Handbook (gnupg.org) |
| 90 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1999 | | Big Ball of Mud (laputan.org) |
| 90 points | 2 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1999 | | Why HTML is a strategic dead end for business transactions and e-commerce (jimgray.azurewebsites.net) |
| 89 points | 1 year ago with 60 comments |
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