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| Articles written 1940 to 1949 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1946 | | Einstein: The Negro Question (onbeing.org) |
| 610 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 1940 | | The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (charliechaplin.com) |
| 533 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 371 comments |
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| 1944 | | Simple Sabotage Field Manual (cia.gov) |
| 502 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 1946 | | Hiroshima (newyorker.com) |
| 486 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 158 comments |
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| 1941 | | Who Goes Nazi? (harpers.org) |
| 469 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 7 comments |
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| 1943 | | Albert Hofmann discovers the effects of LSD (laphamsquarterly.org) |
| 408 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 1944 | | Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (svn.cacert.org) |
| 387 points | 2 years ago with 208 comments |
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| 1949 | | Why Socialism? (monthlyreview.org) |
| 315 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 630 comments |
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| 1940 | | George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (docs.google.com) |
| 305 points | 10 years ago with 240 comments |
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| 1945 | | Transcript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (ghdi.ghi-dc.org) |
| 305 points | 1 year ago with 282 comments |
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| 1946 | | George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (mtholyoke.edu) |
| 301 points | 8 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 1943 | | A Short Guide to Iraq (history.navy.mil) |
| 300 points | 3 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 1945 | | As We May Think (theatlantic.com) |
| 294 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 55 comments |
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| 1943 | | Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun (orwell.ru) |
| 278 points | 6 years ago with 263 comments |
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| 1945 | | Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hall (germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org) |
| 258 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 1944 | | Simple Sabotage Field Manual (gist.github.com) |
| 228 points | 1 year ago with 129 comments |
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| 1946 | | George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (alexgolec.github.io) |
| 206 points | 11 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1945 | | How to Solve It (math.utah.edu) |
| 203 points | 1 year ago with 101 comments |
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| 1948 | | A Mathematical Theory of Communication (people.math.harvard.edu) |
| 197 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1944 | | The Inner Ring (lewissociety.org) |
| 184 points | 11 months ago with 82 comments |
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| 1947 | | The Mathematician (www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk) |
| 184 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1949 | | The Principles of Newspeak (berfrois.com) |
| 175 points | 3 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 1948 | | A Mathematical Theory of Communication (worrydream.com) |
| 169 points | 8 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1945 | | My observations during the explosion at Trinity (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 153 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1942 | | Looking Back on the Spanish War (orwellfoundation.com) |
| 147 points | 4 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 1947 | | Von Neumann’s critique of automata theory and logic in computer science (yodaiken.com) |
| 141 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1949 | | How to Study Physics (lhup.edu) |
| 135 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1948 | | Death of a Pig (theatlantic.com) |
| 129 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1944 | | The Inner Ring (lewissociety.org) |
| 127 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1945 | | Orwell's Proposed Preface to ‘Animal Farm’ (orwell.ru) |
| 122 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1944 | | What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger (whatislife.ie) |
| 121 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 1940 | | Ladle Rat Rotten Hut (exploratorium.edu) |
| 116 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1944 | | Simple Sabotage Field Manual (cia.gov) |
| 110 points | 9 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 1944 | | What Is Life? (dlab.clemson.edu) |
| 109 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1940 | | Don't Worry – It Can't Happen (dropbox.com) |
| 108 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1945 | | As We May Think (theatlantic.com) |
| 106 points | 12 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1945 | | Notes on Nationalism (orwell.ru) |
| 105 points | 6 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 1944 | | Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (archive.org) |
| 103 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1945 | | The Scientists Take Over: George Orwell Reviews “That Hideous Strength” (lewisiana.nl) |
| 96 points | 4 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1943 | | Dietrich Bonhoeffer on stupidity (platoscave.org) |
| 94 points | 1 year ago with 69 comments |
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| 1945 | | Freedom of the Press: Orwell's Proposed Preface to Animal Farm (home.iprimus.com.au) |
| 93 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1946 | | George Orwell – Politics and the English Language (orwell.ru) |
| 85 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1946 | | ENIAC Operating Manual (archive.org) |
| 83 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1946 | | How to Pick a Mate (gutenberg.org) |
| 81 points | 1 year ago with 146 comments |
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| 1946 | | Ideas that Have Harmed Mankind (panarchy.org) |
| 80 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1945 | | As We May Think (theatlantic.com) |
| 77 points | 14 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1944 | | On Disbelieving Atrocities (pastebin.com) |
| 73 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1946 | | Tanks Are Mighty Fine Things (imperialclub.com) |
| 73 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1944 | | The Design of the US Interstate Highway System (enotrans.org) |
| 72 points | 4 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1948 | | Intelligent Machinery (weightagnostic.github.io) |
| 72 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments |
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