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| Articles written 1960 to 1969 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1961 | | The Chaostron: An Important Advance in Learning Machines (dl.acm.org) |
| 1474 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1964 | | Feynman Lectures on Physics (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu) |
| 839 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 66 comments |
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| 1966 | | Do not remain nameless to yourself (lettersofnote.com) |
| 782 points | 4 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 1968 | | Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (twitter.com) |
| 497 points | 5 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 1967 | | Why Programming Is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly Understood Ideas (web.media.mit.edu) |
| 320 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 1963 | | I Have a Dream (americanrhetoric.com) |
| 309 points | 2 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 1960 | | Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions Computation by Machine (www-formal.stanford.edu) |
| 288 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1963 | | The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Algebra (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu) |
| 288 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1964 | | Feynman's Messenger Lectures (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu) |
| 271 points | 1 year ago with 76 comments |
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| 1961 | | Harrison Bergeron (archive.org) |
| 240 points | 2 years ago with 268 comments |
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| 1964 | | The Truth, by Stanisław Lem (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu) |
| 238 points | 3 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 1969 | | Apollo 11 implementation of Trigonometric functions (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 212 points | 3 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1960 | | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (dartmouth.edu) |
| 202 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1969 | | In Event of Moon Disaster (lettersofnote.com) |
| 182 points | 7 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1963 | | The Principia Discordia (principiadiscordia.com) |
| 178 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1963 | | Probability (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu) |
| 174 points | 2 years ago with 154 comments |
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| 1962 | | Augmenting Human Intellect (dougengelbart.org) |
| 167 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1969 | | Interview with Frank Herbert and His Wife Beverly Herbert (sinanvural.com) |
| 159 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1967 | | How to Design, Build and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines (risacher.org) |
| 153 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1969 | | Alan Kay Thesis: The Reactive Engine (chilton-computing.org.uk) |
| 149 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1961 | | I hope you will never see this letter (news.lettersofnote.com) |
| 145 points | 1 year ago with 114 comments |
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| 1960 | | LISP I Programmer's Manual (history.siam.org) |
| 138 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1962 | | The Bathyscaph Trieste: Technological and Operational Aspects (archive.org) |
| 137 points | 1 year ago with 121 comments |
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| 1962 | | Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (dougengelbart.org) |
| 134 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1969 | | I Am Sitting in a Room (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 134 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments |
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| 1962 | | Miles Davis: A candid conversation (erenkrantz.com) |
| 133 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments |
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| 1965 | | Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerrilla Warfare (archive.org) |
| 133 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1964 | | The Paranoid Style in American Politics (harpers.org) |
| 132 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments |
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| 1968 | | Mr. Rogers Introduces Kids to Experimental Electronic Music (openculture.com) |
| 132 points | 9 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1964 | | FBI Investigation: “Louie Louie”, The Song (vault.fbi.gov) |
| 129 points | 7 years ago with 142 comments |
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| 1963 | | Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force (patents.google.com) |
| 127 points | 1 year ago with 202 comments |
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| 1962 | | LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual (softwarepreservation.org) |
| 123 points | 4 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1961 | | How the hell have you done it? (lettersofnote.com) |
| 118 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1967 | | The ABC's of Guiding the Child (centervideo.forest.usf.edu) |
| 117 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1963 | | Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system (cl.cam.ac.uk) |
| 116 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1966 | | A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges (nybooks.com) |
| 115 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1967 | | What a Programmer Does (archive.computerhistory.org) |
| 115 points | 8 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1960 | | The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences (maths.ed.ac.uk) |
| 113 points | 5 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 1960 | | Man-Computer Symbiosis (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 111 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1962 | | Wiring and Cabling: How to Lace Cable Harnesses (dairiki.org) |
| 111 points | 4 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1965 | | An introductory course in computer programming (repository.cmu.edu) |
| 110 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1960 | | The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (gizmodo.com) |
| 109 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1962 | | Augmenting Human Intellect (dougengelbart.org) |
| 109 points | 3 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1961 | | Marvin Minsky: Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence (worrydream.com) |
| 107 points | 8 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1964 | | Sartre on the Nobel Prize (nybooks.com) |
| 105 points | 10 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1966 | | Properties of expanding universes (repository.cam.ac.uk) |
| 105 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1969 | | An Interview with Stanley Kubrick (visual-memory.co.uk) |
| 104 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1963 | | The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Principle of Least Action (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu) |
| 103 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1967 | | Lisp 1.5 Primer (softwarepreservation.org) |
| 103 points | 7 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1960 | | Cyborgs and Space (web.mit.edu) |
| 102 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 10 comments |
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