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| Articles written 1950 to 1959 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1958 | | Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (tranquilmonkey.com) |
| 525 points | 7 years ago with 257 comments |
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| 1951 | | How to Grow Old (sites.google.com) |
| 476 points | 5 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 1953 | | The Eyes Have It (gutenberg.org) |
| 348 points across 2 posts | 5 months ago with 38 comments |
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| 1959 | | Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (technologyreview.com) |
| 328 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1958 | | I, Pencil (econlib.org) |
| 304 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 131 comments |
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| 1959 | | Isaac Asimov Mulls “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (technologyreview.com) |
| 269 points | 9 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1955 | | They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (press.uchicago.edu) |
| 240 points | 3 years ago with 382 comments |
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| 1955 | | John Nash's letters to the NSA (nsa.gov) |
| 238 points | 8 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1952 | | Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning (techchannel.att.com) |
| 209 points | 3 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 1955 | | A Proposal for the Dartmouth Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (www-formal.stanford.edu) |
| 193 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1956 | | Kurt Gödel's Letter to John von Neumann (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 183 points | 5 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 1955 | | The night I met Einstein (rd.com) |
| 171 points | 1 year ago with 56 comments |
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| 1958 | | An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Expressions (softwarepreservation.org) |
| 171 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1955 | | Can we survive technology? (drive.google.com) |
| 168 points | 2 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1956 | | “May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver?” (lettersofnote.com) |
| 165 points | 4 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1956 | | The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien (newrepublic.com) |
| 148 points | 7 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 1959 | | Feynman: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (zyvex.com) |
| 138 points | 10 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1954 | | Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester (collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk) |
| 135 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1953 | | Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' Memo (whatisnuclear.com) |
| 126 points | 11 months ago with 45 comments |
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| 1955 | | ПП-BESM – a Soviet language (xav.io) |
| 125 points | 11 months ago with 28 comments |
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| 1957 | | “Profession” (inf.ufpr.br) |
| 111 points | 8 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1959 | | A Corner in Piggly Wiggly (newyorker.com) |
| 107 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1954 | | The Doors of Perception (maps.org) |
| 105 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1958 | | The Coming Ice Age (harpers.org) |
| 100 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1951 | | The Use of Sub-Routines in Programmes (laputan.org) |
| 99 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1953 | | A Study of Assassination – CIA (gwu.edu) |
| 99 points | 10 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1955 | | David Ogilvy: "I am a lousy copywriter" (lettersofnote.com) |
| 99 points | 12 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1956 | | The Last Question by Isaac Asimov (multivax.com) |
| 98 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1955 | | The value of science (calteches.library.caltech.edu) |
| 97 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1950 | | The Armed Forces Officer Chapter Twenty: Writing and Speaking (gutenberg.org) |
| 96 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1958 | | PAPAC-00, a Do-It-Yourself Paper Computer (ieeexplore.ieee.org) |
| 90 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1959 | | William and Mary by Roald Dahl (user.ceng.metu.edu.tr) |
| 90 points | 6 months ago with 32 comments |
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| 1950 | | Space-Time Structure by Erwin Schrödinger (strangebeautiful.com) |
| 86 points | 7 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1953 | | Hyman Rickover on Nuclear Reactor Designs (ecolo.org) |
| 85 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1952 | | Reminiscences from the end of the horse era in New York City (untappedcities.com) |
| 84 points | 4 months ago with 52 comments |
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| 1953 | | Disneyland's original prospectus (boingboing.net) |
| 84 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1953 | | Computers and Automata (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 82 points | 9 months ago with 14 comments |
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| 1954 | | The First Sherpa to Climb to the Top of Mt. Everest (newyorker.com) |
| 81 points | 10 months ago with 43 comments |
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| 1958 | | Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace (youtube.com) |
| 81 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1953 | | A Most Important Discovery (lettersofnote.com) |
| 80 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1955 | | Can we survive technology? (geosci.uchicago.edu) |
| 80 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1951 | | Tom Lehrer's Mathematical Songs (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk) |
| 79 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1952 | | Creative Thinking (www1.ece.neu.edu) |
| 78 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1956 | | The Bandwagon – Claude Shannon (ieeexplore.ieee.org) |
| 77 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1957 | | “Loving Your Enemies” (kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu) |
| 77 points | 6 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 1958 | | Ernest Hemingway, the Art of Fiction No. 21 (theparisreview.org) |
| 77 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1956 | | The Negro Travelers' Green Book (digital.tcl.sc.edu) |
| 76 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1950 | | Computing machinery and intelligence (loebner.net) |
| 75 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1957 | | Flowmatic (archive.computerhistory.org) |
| 75 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1950 | | Miracles You’ll See in the Next Fifty Years (blog.modernmechanix.com) |
| 73 points | 4 years ago with 101 comments |
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