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Articles written in 1961 that Hacker News still talks about.
Go back or forward one year. See all articles from 1960 to 1969.
1961The Chaostron: An Important Advance in Learning Machines (dl.acm.org)
1474 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments
1961Harrison Bergeron (archive.org)
240 points | 2 years ago with 268 comments
1961I hope you will never see this letter (news.lettersofnote.com)
145 points | 1 year ago with 114 comments
1961How the hell have you done it? (lettersofnote.com)
118 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
1961Marvin Minsky: Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence (worrydream.com)
107 points | 8 years ago with 1 comments
1961Minds, Machines and Gödel (users.ox.ac.uk)
89 points | 4 years ago with 46 comments
1961Quicksort (cs.ox.ac.uk)
80 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
1961Surgeon stationed in Antarctica removes his own appendix (bmj.com)
78 points | 14 years ago with 24 comments
1961Joan Didion: On Self-Respect (vogue.com)
67 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments
1961Random Generation of English Sentences (mt-archive.info)
58 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments
1961Tensegrity (rwgrayprojects.com)
50 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
1961On Self-Respect by Joan Didion (vogue.com)
49 points | 9 years ago with 2 comments
1961Fortran Assembly Program (FAP) for the IBM 709/7090 (computerhistory.org)
40 points | 2 years ago with 5 comments
1961Some Applications of Mechanics to Mathematics (archive.org)
27 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments
1961President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (archives.gov)
19 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments

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