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 | Articles written 1920 to 1929 that Hacker News still talks about. | 
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| 1922 |  | I Quit Being So Accommodating  (mikecanex.wordpress.com) | 
 | 1568 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 18 comments | 
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| 1922 |  | What the world will be like in a hundred years  (loc.gov) | 
 | 791 points | 3 years ago with 634 comments | 
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| 1924 |  | Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men  (en.wikisource.org) | 
 | 419 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 1928 |  | Who the Hell Is This Joyce  (theparisreview.org) | 
 | 355 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 109 comments | 
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| 1928 |  | On being the right size  (marxists.org) | 
 | 199 points | 12 years ago with 144 comments | 
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| 1924 |  | 'Hitler Tamed by Prison'  (washingtonpost.com) | 
 | 166 points | 8 years ago with 124 comments | 
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| 1928 |  | On Being the Right Size  (irl.cs.ucla.edu) | 
 | 148 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 10 comments | 
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| 1926 |  | Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman  (theanarchistlibrary.org) | 
 | 137 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments | 
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| 1927 |  | H. G. Wells reviews "Metropolis"  (erkelzaar.tsudao.com) | 
 | 116 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments | 
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| 1922 |  | Follow This Rule — If You Want To Be Popular  (mikecanex.wordpress.com) | 
 | 113 points | 12 years ago with 27 comments | 
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| 1922 |  | The Chaos  (ncf.idallen.com) | 
 | 113 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 25 comments | 
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| 1922 |  | Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son  (gutenberg.org) | 
 | 98 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments | 
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| 1929 |  | Exposing Houdini’s Tricks of Magic  (blog.modernmechanix.com) | 
 | 86 points | 11 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 1928 |  | Plotto: A new method of plot suggestion for writers of creative fiction  (archive.org) | 
 | 78 points | 3 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 1923 |  | Carl Akeley’s fight to the death with a leopard  (stuffnobodycaresabout.com) | 
 | 74 points | 3 years ago with 58 comments | 
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| 1921 |  | Fabre’s Book of Insects  (publicdomainreview.org) | 
 | 71 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments | 
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| 1929 |  | They Thrive on All-Meat Diet  (archive.macleans.ca) | 
 | 70 points | 6 years ago with 134 comments | 
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| 1927 |  | Supernatural Horror in Literature  (hplovecraft.com) | 
 | 69 points | 9 years ago with 43 comments | 
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| 1926 |  | Truth and Probability  (core.ac.uk) | 
 | 67 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments | 
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| 1921 |  | Declaration of Independence in American  (xroads.virginia.edu) | 
 | 64 points | 9 years ago with 68 comments | 
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| 1923 |  | Mutual Interest: The Courting of Marie Curie  (laphamsquarterly.org) | 
 | 60 points | 8 years ago with 2 comments | 
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| 1928 |  | Rules for Writing Detective Stories by S.S. Van Dine  (thrillingdetective.com) | 
 | 57 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments | 
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| 1928 |  | How to Write Telegrams Properly  (telegraph-office.com) | 
 | 56 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments | 
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| 1928 |  | How to make a simple television  (retronaut.com) | 
 | 53 points | 11 years ago with 3 comments | 
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| 1922 |  | The Nothingness of Personality  (filosofiaesoterica.com) | 
 | 52 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments | 
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| 1928 |  | The Conquest of Ubiquity  (mtyka.github.io) | 
 | 52 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 1928 |  | “Progress” by Aldous Huxley  (atlasofplaces.com) | 
 | 50 points | 4 years ago with 18 comments | 
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| 1927 |  | Bertrand Russell: Why I Am Not a Christian  (users.drew.edu) | 
 | 48 points | 1 year ago with 96 comments | 
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| 1922 |  | James Joyce’s Ulysses reviewed  (theguardian.com) | 
 | 45 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments | 
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| 1921 |  | A Remarkable Case of External Hind Limbs in a Humpback Whale  (digitallibrary.amnh.org) | 
 | 43 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments | 
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| 1926 |  | Three Men Discuss Relativity  (archive.org) | 
 | 41 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments | 
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| 1925 |  | Mammonart. An Essay on Economic Interpretation  (en.wikipedia.org) | 
 | 36 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 1928 |  | Season's Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki  (publicdomainreview.org) | 
 | 36 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments | 
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| 1920 |  | The Discarnates: Thomas Carlyle in the Spirit-World  (publicdomainreview.org) | 
 | 35 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments | 
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| 1923 |  | 'The Waste Land' Reviewed  (theguardian.com) | 
 | 34 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments | 
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| 1920 |  | Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe  (publicdomainreview.org) | 
 | 33 points | 1 year ago with 11 comments | 
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| 1928 |  | “This Fairground Farce of Light”: Vladimir Nabokov’s “The Cinema”  (lareviewofbooks.org) | 
 | 20 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments | 
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| 1921 |  | Plain Geology  (pubs.usgs.gov) | 
 | 19 points | 3 years ago with 2 comments | 
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| 1923 |  | The Dot Essay  (psychclassics.yorku.ca) | 
 | 19 points | 2 years ago with 3 comments | 
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| 1926 |  | Woman jumps plane to plane to fix landing gear mid air  (twitter.com) | 
 | 14 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments | 
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| 1921 |  | Chess Fundamentals  (gutenberg.org) | 
 | 13 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments | 
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