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| Articles written 1950 to 1959 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1952 | | Von Neumann, Einstein, Morgenstern, Morse and Lefschetz (privatdozent.co) |
| 72 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1957 | | Profession (abelard.org) |
| 71 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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| 1952 | | The Shield of Achilles (poets.org) |
| 67 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1959 | | There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 67 points | 8 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1956 | | The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (archive.org) |
| 66 points | 8 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1959 | | FBI Files on Ray Bradbury (openculture.com) |
| 66 points | 8 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1951 | | Arthur C. Clarke: Superiority (mayofamily.com) |
| 65 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1957 | | Bronx High School Math Bulletin (lamport.azurewebsites.net) |
| 65 points | 4 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1958 | | Downtown is for People (fortune.com) |
| 65 points | 9 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1953 | | John Berger: Drawing is discovery (newstatesman.com) |
| 63 points | 7 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1955 | | Comments on the Change in Soviet Leadership (cia.gov) |
| 63 points | 2 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1956 | | The Last Question (multivax.com) |
| 60 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1956 | | The Bandwagon – Claude Shannon (dsp.rice.edu) |
| 60 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1958 | | The Computer and the Brain (ia800800.us.archive.org) |
| 59 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1959 | | A Do-It-Yourself paper digital computer (longstreet.typepad.com) |
| 59 points | 3 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1956 | | The Synthesis of Reliable Organisms from Unreliable Parts (dna.caltech.edu) |
| 58 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1953 | | Albert Camus: The Life of the Artist – A Mimodrama in Two Parts (newyorker.com) |
| 57 points | 10 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1957 | | The Fortran Automatic Coding System (archive.computerhistory.org) |
| 56 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1955 | | Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency (thecomicbooks.com) |
| 55 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 1959 | | T. S. Eliot, the Art of Poetry No. 1 (theparisreview.org) |
| 55 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1954 | | Dr. John von Neumann at the dedication of the NORD (ftp.arl.army.mil) |
| 54 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1955 | | The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (psychclassics.yorku.ca) |
| 54 points | 4 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1957 | | Techniques of Systems Analysis (rand.org) |
| 54 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1950 | | 40 uses for Germanium Diodes (frank.pocnet.net) |
| 53 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1955 | | How work expands to fill available time (economist.com) |
| 52 points | 14 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1956 | | Miner's “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” (msu.edu) |
| 51 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1955 | | One-Man Amphibious 'Copter' [video] (youtube.com) |
| 49 points | 2 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1955 | | The Crystal Goblet (web.archive.org) |
| 49 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 2 comments |
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| 1953 | | The transistor – or 25 miles on a hunk of Germanium (robkalmeijer.nl) |
| 48 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments |
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| 1956 | | Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (smarthistory.org) |
| 48 points | 1 year ago with 15 comments |
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| 1950 | | Non-Cooperative Games (rbsc.princeton.edu) |
| 46 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1955 | | Parkinson's Law: work expands to fill the time available (economist.com) |
| 46 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1957 | | Seeking the Magic Mushroom (imaginaria.org) |
| 46 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1956 | | Body Ritual Among the Nacirema (sfu.ca) |
| 45 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1959 | | Indeterminacy – John Cage (lcdf.org) |
| 45 points | 5 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1950 | | Programming a Computer for Playing Chess (vision.unipv.it) |
| 43 points | 9 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1956 | | Body Ritual Among the Nacirema (en.wikisource.org) |
| 43 points | 4 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1953 | | Air Force Jet Was Scrambled to Intercept a UFO–Then Disappeared (history.com) |
| 42 points | 2 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1954 | | Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Southeast Asia (nautilus.org) |
| 41 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1957 | | An Introduction to Cybernetics (pespmc1.vub.ac.be) |
| 41 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1952 | | A Subway Named Mobius (fadedpage.com) |
| 40 points | 2 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1957 | | Passing of a Great Mind (qualiacomputing.com) |
| 40 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1954 | | Mystical Experiences of Arthur Koestler (bodysoulandspirit.net) |
| 32 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1957 | | Mr. Benedum’s Will (benedum.org) |
| 29 points | 7 months ago with 8 comments |
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| 1958 | | IBM's World of Numbers (computerhistory.org) |
| 29 points | 7 months ago with 5 comments |
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| 1953 | | Project Mars (archive.org) |
| 27 points | 7 months ago with 11 comments |
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| 1954 | | John von Neumann – The Role of Mathematics in the Sciences and in Society (docdroid.net) |
| 26 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 1958 | | Education in the Soviet Union – emphasis on science (sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net) |
| 25 points | 1 year ago with 104 comments |
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| 1957 | | The Duke in His Domain: Marlon Brando, on Location (newyorker.com) |
| 24 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments |
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| 1953 | | Psychology and the Instrument Panel (web.archive.org) |
| 20 points | 1 year ago with 7 comments |
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