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Articles written 1890 to 1899 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1897The most important scientific problems have yet to be solved (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
257 points | 4 years ago with 148 comments
1897Symbolic Logic (gutenberg.org)
131 points | 3 years ago with 25 comments
1899The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (gutenberg.org)
108 points | 6 years ago with 75 comments
1899The Lost Art of Conversation (saturdayeveningpost.com)
85 points | 1 year ago with 53 comments
1898Cryptography: Or the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing (publicdomainreview.org)
75 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
1898The Modern Bicycle and Its Accessories (archive.org)
71 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments
1894Practical typewriting: By the all-finger method (babel.hathitrust.org)
69 points | 3 years ago with 20 comments
1898On the Foundations of Geometry by Henri Poincaré (archive.org)
66 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments
1899Wilbur Wright's Letter to the Smithsonian (siarchives.si.edu)
66 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
1896On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air Upon the Temperature (rsc.org)
64 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
1890Adolf Schmidt’s Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (publicdomainreview.org)
52 points | 2 years ago with 5 comments
1897The Future of Rural New England (theatlantic.com)
51 points | 1 year ago with 35 comments
1895What the Tortoise Said to Achilles (ditext.com)
49 points | 9 years ago with 35 comments
1890Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing by Lewis Carroll (gutenberg.org)
46 points | 8 years ago with 30 comments
1898Logic – Deductive and Inductive (gutenberg.org)
46 points | 4 years ago with 10 comments
1898The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars (publicdomainreview.org)
29 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments
1899Frost Flowers on the Windows (publicdomainreview.org)
25 points | 1 year ago with 10 comments
1893Indian Sign Talk (publicdomainreview.org)
18 points | 10 months ago with 13 comments
1890The Right to Privacy (groups.csail.mit.edu)
16 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments

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