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| Articles written 1940 to 1949 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1940 | | A Mathematician's Apology (math.ualberta.ca) |
| 71 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1949 | | Do electrons think? (quantumlifescience.wordpress.com) |
| 71 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1941 | | Who Goes Nazi? (harpers.org) |
| 70 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 1946 | | Camus's New York Diary (theparisreview.org) |
| 70 points | 1 year ago with 39 comments |
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| 1946 | | George Orwell: Why I Write (ebooks.adelaide.edu.au) |
| 70 points | 10 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1945 | | As We May Think (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 67 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1946 | | Books vs. Cigarettes (orwell.ru) |
| 65 points | 6 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 1941 | | Einstein Reads ‘The Common Language of Science’ (openculture.com) |
| 63 points | 11 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1949 | | Programming a Computer for Playing Chess (pi.infn.it) |
| 63 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1940 | | A Mathematician’s Apology (math.ualberta.ca) |
| 62 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1948 | | A Mathematical Theory of Communication (math.harvard.edu) |
| 61 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1948 | | Capsule Challenges Vacuum Tube (books.google.com) |
| 58 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1944 | | The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry (ieeexplore.ieee.org) |
| 57 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1945 | | The Economic Organization of a POW Camp (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 55 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1944 | | The Oldest Living Civilization (historians.org) |
| 54 points | 4 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 1949 | | Gödel's Solution to Einstein's Field Equations (privatdozent.co) |
| 54 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 17 comments |
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| 1944 | | What Is Propaganda? (historians.org) |
| 53 points | 1 year ago with 63 comments |
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| 1946 | | Newton, the Man (www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk) |
| 52 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1948 | | Painting as a Pastime by Winston Churchill (gutenberg.ca) |
| 52 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1949 | | Thinking Like a Mountain (web.archive.org) |
| 52 points | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1946 | | George Kennan's “Long Telegram” (nsarchive.gwu.edu) |
| 51 points | 8 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1946 | | Nuremberg: A Fair Trial? A Dangerous Precedent (theatlantic.com) |
| 49 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1949 | | Albert Einstein: Why Socialism? (monthlyreview.org) |
| 49 points | 13 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1946 | | Newton, the Man (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk) |
| 46 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1945 | | Science the Endless Frontier – Vannevar Bush (nsf.gov) |
| 45 points | 7 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1946 | | A Nice Cup of Tea by George Orwell (booksatoz.com) |
| 45 points | 10 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1943 | | Lockheed Martin Skunk Works 14 Rules of Operation (lockheedmartin.com) |
| 44 points | 15 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1947 | | “First actual case of bug being found” (commons.m.wikimedia.org) |
| 44 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1940 | | Science and Linguistics (web.mit.edu) |
| 43 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1944 | | Ancient Courses: Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 43 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1946 | | A Soroban Beats an Electric Calculator (historyofinformation.com) |
| 43 points | 3 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1949 | | William Faulkner's Nobel Prize in Literature Acceptance Speech (nobelprize.org) |
| 42 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1947 | | New proof of a minimum property of the regular n-gon (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 41 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1942 | | The Analytical Language of John Wilkins (alamut.com) |
| 35 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments |
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| 1946 | | Second Thoughts on James Burnham (orwell.ru) |
| 35 points | 1 year ago with 11 comments |
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| 1945 | | The B-29's automated central fire control system (airandspace.si.edu) |
| 32 points | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1946 | | User Manual for the Harvard Mark 1 Electro-Mechanical Computer (archive.org) |
| 32 points | 1 year ago with 8 comments |
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| 1944 | | The Simple Art of Murder (theatlantic.com) |
| 31 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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| 1945 | | Simple Sabotage Field Manual (hsdl.org) |
| 31 points | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1948 | | Oscar Night in Hollywood (theatlantic.com) |
| 25 points | 1 year ago with 10 comments |
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| 1948 | | Einstein: Letter to the New York Times, New Palestine Party (archive.org) |
| 20 points | 11 months ago with 3 comments |
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| 1944 | | Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord (fadedpage.com) |
| 19 points | 11 months ago with 5 comments |
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| 1946 | | The film had killed me (diariesofnote.com) |
| 12 points | 1 year ago with 1 comments |
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| 1940 | | George Orwell’s Review of Mein Kampf (bookmarks.reviews) |
| 10 points | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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| 1945 | | Notes on Nationalism (orwellfoundation.com) |
| 0 points | 2 years ago with 208 comments |
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| 1946 | | Politics and the English Language (orwellfoundation.com) |
| 0 points | 1 year ago with 41 comments |
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| 1946 | | Confessions of a Book Reviewer (orwellfoundation.com) |
| 0 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments |
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