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| Articles written 1930 to 1939 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1930 | | How to Draw Animals (dessinoprimaire.blogspot.com) |
| 819 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 1932 | | In Praise of Idleness (harpers.org) |
| 468 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 170 comments |
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| 1932 | | In Praise of Idleness (zpub.com) |
| 401 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1933 | | The Triumph of Stupidity (russell-j.com) |
| 392 points | 9 years ago with 269 comments |
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| 1935 | | War Is a Racket (archive.org) |
| 383 points | 1 year ago with 534 comments |
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| 1933 | | War Is a Racket (wanttoknow.info) |
| 336 points | 4 years ago with 181 comments |
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| 1933 | | War Is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler (wanttoknow.info) |
| 317 points | 8 years ago with 152 comments |
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| 1936 | | Physics as a Way of Thinking (kb.osu.edu) |
| 307 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1933 | | War Is a Racket (man.fas.org) |
| 287 points | 2 years ago with 210 comments |
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| 1939 | | The usefulness of useless knowledge (library.ias.edu) |
| 246 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1938 | | You Can Learn Glass Blowing (blog.modernmechanix.com) |
| 164 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1932 | | In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (libcom.org) |
| 161 points | 9 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1934 | | Was My Life Worth Living? (ucblibrary3.berkeley.edu) |
| 132 points | 11 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 1937 | | The Nature of the Firm (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 132 points | 2 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1938 | | Tolkien Snubs a German Publisher Asking for Proof of His “Aryan Descent” (openculture.com) |
| 128 points | 10 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1936 | | Shooting an Elephant (orwellfoundation.com) |
| 113 points | 3 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 1930 | | Senate Considers Banning Dial Phones (senate.gov) |
| 109 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 1936 | | The Thirty-Hour Week (library.cqpress.com) |
| 103 points | 5 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 1931 | | Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 102 points | 7 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 1939 | | The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (ias.edu) |
| 96 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1939 | | Feynman’s first paper (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 94 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1935 | | "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes (poets.org) |
| 91 points | 11 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1932 | | Photographer Charles Ebbets takes iconic photo “Lunch atop a skyscraper” (reddit.com) |
| 87 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1939 | | Graphic Presentation (archive.org) |
| 82 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1930 | | Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (econ.yale.edu) |
| 80 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 1930 | | The Proposal of the Neutrino (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 79 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1930 | | America’s skepticism toward the first automobiles (saturdayeveningpost.com) |
| 77 points | 1 year ago with 118 comments |
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| 1934 | | H. G. Wells interviewing J. V. Stalin (redsails.org) |
| 77 points | 1 year ago with 48 comments |
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| 1939 | | The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics (damtp.cam.ac.uk) |
| 77 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1937 | | World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopædia (sherlock.ischool.berkeley.edu) |
| 76 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1936 | | A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 72 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1935 | | Heavy water tastes the same as ordinary water (science.sciencemag.org) |
| 71 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1936 | | Physics as a Way of Thinking (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 71 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1937 | | The Nature of the Firm (onlinelibrary.wiley.com) |
| 71 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1937 | | Points on Cartooning (mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com) |
| 67 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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| 1930 | | Heavier Than Air (newyorker.com) |
| 62 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1937 | | Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (video.nstr.no) |
| 62 points | 1 year ago with 19 comments |
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| 1937 | | The Nature of the Firm (onlinelibrary.wiley.com) |
| 61 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1933 | | Cathode Ray Television (r-type.org) |
| 60 points | 2 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1939 | | Artyping (archive.org) |
| 60 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1932 | | Possible Existence of a Neutron (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 59 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1933 | | Albert Einstein vs. Robert Oppenheimer (chessgames.com) |
| 58 points | 2 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1931 | | Rachmaninov on the future of broadcasting (gramophone.co.uk) |
| 57 points | 9 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1936 | | The Railway Clearing House (railwaywondersoftheworld.com) |
| 56 points | 3 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1932 | | My New York Misadventure (winstonchurchill.org) |
| 54 points | 8 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1933 | | The Positive Electron (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 53 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1930 | | The Sun's New Trans-Neptunian Planet (sciencenews.org) |
| 51 points | 9 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1939 | | Democracity a planned community of the future (1939nyworldsfair.com) |
| 50 points | 2 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1937 | | A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits (cs.virginia.edu) |
| 45 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1938 | | In Korean wilds and villages (archive.org) |
| 44 points | 1 year ago with 31 comments |
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