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Articles written 1840 to 1849 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1845Candlestick Makers' Petition (bastiat.org)
89 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments
1841Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (math.dartmouth.edu)
84 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments
1845Petition of the Candlemakers (sites.middlebury.edu)
67 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments
1843Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (publicdomainreview.org)
65 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
1841Self-Reliance (archive.vcu.edu)
62 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments
1840About the irrationality of e=2.718... (fermatslibrary.com)
56 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
1842Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes by Ada Lovelace (fourmilab.ch)
54 points | 10 years ago with 5 comments
1848The Chemical History of a Candle (bartleby.com)
42 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments
1846The Pencil of Nature (gutenberg.org)
40 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
1848Trimalchio in Newburyport: Timothy Dexter’s a Pickle for the Knowing Ones (publicdomainreview.org)
10 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments

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