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| Articles written 180 to 189 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1899 | | Wilbur Wright's Letter to the Smithsonian (siarchives.si.edu) |
| 66 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1843 | | Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 65 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1886 | | Beyond Good and Evil (holybooks.com) |
| 65 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1896 | | On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air Upon the Temperature (rsc.org) |
| 64 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1889 | | Unicode (archive.org) |
| 63 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1889 | | Rudyard Kipling's Interview with Mark Twain (storyoftheweek.loa.org) |
| 63 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1841 | | Self-Reliance (archive.vcu.edu) |
| 62 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1864 | | Karl Marx's letter to Abraham Lincoln (marxists.org) |
| 62 points | 12 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1885 | | The Diary of Thomas Edison on Vacation (ariwatch.com) |
| 62 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1860 | | On Authorship and Style (ebooks.adelaide.edu.au) |
| 59 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1862 | | Post office stamps as currency (nytimes.com) |
| 58 points | 8 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1840 | | About the irrationality of e=2.718... (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 56 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1842 | | Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes by Ada Lovelace (fourmilab.ch) |
| 54 points | 10 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1880 | | The Art of Money Getting or Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (gutenberg.org) |
| 54 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1882 | | The Lady, or the Tiger? (en.m.wikisource.org) |
| 54 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 1890 | | Adolf Schmidt’s Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 52 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1897 | | The Future of Rural New England (theatlantic.com) |
| 51 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1879 | | The Future of Invention (theatlantic.com) |
| 49 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1895 | | What the Tortoise Said to Achilles (ditext.com) |
| 49 points | 10 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1878 | | How to Make Our Ideas Clear (peirce.org) |
| 47 points | 9 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1890 | | Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing by Lewis Carroll (gutenberg.org) |
| 46 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1898 | | Logic – Deductive and Inductive (gutenberg.org) |
| 46 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1858 | | Charles Dickens on being unhappily married (laphamsquarterly.org) |
| 45 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1848 | | The Chemical History of a Candle (bartleby.com) |
| 42 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1881 | | The Story of a Great Monopoly (theatlantic.com) |
| 42 points | 5 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1836 | | Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 41 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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| 1872 | | The Art of Travel (gutenberg.org) |
| 41 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1886 | | Mechanical Integrators (books.google.com) |
| 41 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1846 | | The Pencil of Nature (gutenberg.org) |
| 40 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1870 | | The diagrammatic writings of an asylum patient (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 40 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1870 | | Vikram and the Vampire (gutenberg.org) |
| 40 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1886 | | Thomas Stevens in Japan (japanbiking.com) |
| 40 points | 1 year ago with 8 comments |
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| 1824 | | Punctuation Personified (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 29 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 1862 | | Magician's Own Book: Experiments in Electricity (archive.org) |
| 29 points | 3 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1898 | | The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 29 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1878 | | Rimbaud in the Alps (theparisreview.org) |
| 26 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1899 | | Frost Flowers on the Windows (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 25 points | 2 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1863 | | The “Legal Tender” Decision (nytimes.com) |
| 21 points | 3 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1869 | | Specimens of Fancy Turning (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 21 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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| 1878 | | Shores of the Polar Sea (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 20 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1878 | | Salem Witchcraft Trial (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 18 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1893 | | Indian Sign Talk (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 18 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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| 1863 | | Escaped Slave Showing His Scarred Back (vintag.es) |
| 17 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1863 | | Darwin Among the Machines (en.wikisource.org) |
| 16 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1890 | | The Right to Privacy (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 16 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1880 | | Aspirated Aspirations: Alfred Leach’s the Letter H (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 13 points | 3 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1825 | | The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 12 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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| 1808 | | “The Rainbow for Their Guide”: Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 10 points | 3 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1848 | | Trimalchio 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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| 1883 | | Synaesthesia’s Colour Debut (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 10 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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