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| Articles written 1900 to 1909 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1909 | | The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (archive.ncsa.illinois.edu) |
| 235 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1909 | | G.K. Chesterton: The fallacy of success (mustapha.svbtle.com) |
| 206 points | 10 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 1908 | | Hand Scraping a Truly Flat Plane (galleyrack.com) |
| 163 points | 4 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 1905 | | Photovoltaic Solar Panels (lowtechmagazine.com) |
| 141 points | 1 year ago with 48 comments |
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| 1909 | | The Machine Stops (web.cs.ucdavis.edu) |
| 129 points | 2 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 1901 | | “Corn-Pone Opinions” by Mark Twain (paulgraham.com) |
| 127 points | 8 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1903 | | The PhD Octopus (uky.edu) |
| 126 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1900 | | Tesla: Art of Transmitting Electrical Energy through the Natural Mediums (patents.google.com) |
| 107 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1909 | | The Machine Stops (ele.uri.edu) |
| 103 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1906 | | Disappearing Bicyclist – Sam Loyd (geogebra.org) |
| 98 points | 2 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 1905 | | Intuition and Logic in Mathematics (www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk) |
| 72 points | 10 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1903 | | The PhD Octopus (la.utexas.edu) |
| 69 points | 8 months ago with 24 comments |
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| 1909 | | The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 68 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1906 | | Sailor’s Chanties (jstor.org) |
| 61 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1900 | | The problem of increasing human energy (aetherwizard.com) |
| 60 points | 4 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1901 | | Two 4000 ft plumb bobs hung down a mine shaft, with baffling results (lockhaven.edu) |
| 59 points | 14 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1903 | | Letters to a Young Poet (carrothers.com) |
| 54 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1905 | | The modern clock; a study of time keeping mechanism (archive.org) |
| 54 points | 3 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1903 | | W.E.B. Du Bois on the beauty of sorrow songs (laphamsquarterly.org) |
| 53 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1906 | | The Moral Equivalent of War (uky.edu) |
| 53 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1903 | | The Principles of Mathematics (people.umass.edu) |
| 52 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1906 | | Hope for Cancer Cure from New Discoveries (query.nytimes.com) |
| 52 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1905 | | Does the Inertia of a Body Depend upon its Energy-Content? (fourmilab.ch) |
| 51 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1900 | | “Mother Will Be Pleased”: How It Feels to Be Run over (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 46 points | 1 year ago with 19 comments |
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| 1903 | | The First Film Version of Alice in Wonderland (dangerousminds.net) |
| 44 points | 8 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1909 | | On the Road: The Woman and the Car (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 44 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1906 | | The End of Matter (en.wikisource.org) |
| 19 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments |
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| 1909 | | Many-Colored Misdirection: Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 19 points | 1 year ago with 1 comments |
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| 1903 | | The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 17 points | 3 months ago with 2 comments |
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| 1902 | | Curley vs. Electric Vehicle Co. (cite.case.law) |
| 10 points | 5 months ago with 2 comments |
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