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