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Articles written in 1960 that Hacker News still talks about.
Go back or forward one year. See all articles from 1960 to 1969.
1960Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions Computation by Machine (www-formal.stanford.edu)
288 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments
1960The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (dartmouth.edu)
202 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 4 comments
1960LISP I Programmer's Manual (history.siam.org)
138 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments
1960The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences (maths.ed.ac.uk)
113 points | 5 years ago with 70 comments
1960Man-Computer Symbiosis (groups.csail.mit.edu)
111 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 8 comments
1960The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (gizmodo.com)
109 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments
1960Cyborgs and Space (web.mit.edu)
102 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 10 comments
1960Handwritten coding sheets for Burroughs 205 Algol (archive.computerhistory.org)
73 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
1960IBM Ad for SAGE, A Massive Cold War Air Defense System (laughingsquid.com)
50 points | 12 years ago with 23 comments
1960What is a number that man may know it, and man that he may know a number? (nsl.com)
47 points | 3 years ago with 4 comments
1960The electronic ocean model (collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk)
40 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments
1960Christmas under the Puritans (historytoday.com)
31 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments

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