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| Articles written 1960 to 1969 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1968 | | Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Luis Borges (commonwealmagazine.org) |
| 102 points | 3 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1962 | | Operation Northwoods: CIA false-flag op against American citizens (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 98 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 2 comments |
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| 1965 | | 17 year old Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret" (youtube.com) |
| 98 points | 13 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1968 | | Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal (mises.org) |
| 98 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1964 | | Original Dartmouth College BASIC manual (bitsavers.org) |
| 97 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1963 | | The businessman and the fisherman (thestorytellers.com) |
| 96 points | 11 months ago with 124 comments |
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| 1968 | | “God is a Verb” by R. Buckminster Fuller (wholeearth.com) |
| 94 points | 6 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 1964 | | System/360 Announcement (ibm.com) |
| 92 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 1964 | | Monk: The High Priest of Jazz (reprints.longform.org) |
| 91 points | 9 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1961 | | Minds, Machines and Gödel (users.ox.ac.uk) |
| 89 points | 4 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1962 | | A Programming Language (softwarepreservation.org) |
| 89 points | 4 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1969 | | Isaac Asimov: Man of 7,560,000 Words (nytimes.com) |
| 89 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1963 | | Buzz Aldrin thesis: Line-of-sight guidance for manned orbital rendezvous (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 88 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1963 | | Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 83 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1964 | | META II: A Syntax-Oriented Compiler Writing Language (ibm-1401.info) |
| 83 points | 7 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1965 | | The Next 700 Programming Languages (homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk) |
| 83 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1969 | | Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Violence (nybooks.com) |
| 83 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1969 | | Arcology: The city in the image of man (organism.earth) |
| 82 points | 2 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1961 | | Quicksort (cs.ox.ac.uk) |
| 80 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1965 | | A City Is Not a Tree (patternlanguage.com) |
| 80 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1966 | | Theory of self-reproducing automata (archive.org) |
| 80 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1961 | | Surgeon stationed in Antarctica removes his own appendix (bmj.com) |
| 78 points | 14 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1964 | | IBM System/360 Principles of Operation (bitsavers.org) |
| 78 points | 4 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1966 | | Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (esquire.com) |
| 77 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1967 | | Programming as a medium for poorly understood, sloppily-formulated ideas (github.com) |
| 77 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1967 | | The Kidnapping of the Lunik (cia.gov) |
| 74 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1960 | | Handwritten coding sheets for Burroughs 205 Algol (archive.computerhistory.org) |
| 73 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1969 | | RFC 1: Host Software (tools.ietf.org) |
| 72 points | 3 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1963 | | Sketchpad III Demo [video] (youtube.com) |
| 70 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1966 | | K100.1-1966 Safety Code and Requirements for Dry Martinis (opticalheritagemuseum.org) |
| 70 points | 7 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1964 | | Computer control of a machine for exploring Mars (stacks.stanford.edu) |
| 68 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1966 | | The next 700 programming languages (fsl.cs.illinois.edu) |
| 68 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1968 | | James Bond Unmasked (commentarymagazine.com) |
| 68 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1961 | | Joan Didion: On Self-Respect (vogue.com) |
| 67 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1962 | | Augmenting Human Intellect (web.stanford.edu) |
| 67 points | 8 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1963 | | Why Land on the Moon? (theatlantic.com) |
| 67 points | 7 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1967 | | The manager and the moron (mckinsey.com) |
| 67 points | 9 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1965 | | The first corned beef sandwich in space (gemini3.spacelog.org) |
| 66 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1966 | | Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (watertownology.com) |
| 65 points | 8 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1968 | | On the Design of Display Processors (cva.stanford.edu) |
| 65 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1968 | | On the Future Computer Era: Modification of the American Character (rand.org) |
| 65 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1969 | | LIFE on the Moon (books.google.com) |
| 62 points | 11 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1967 | | Martin Luther King on “Guaranteed Income” (youtube.com) |
| 61 points | 7 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1966 | | The Days They Changed the Gauge (southern.railfan.net) |
| 59 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1968 | | Stephen Sondheim on How to Do a Crossword Puzzle (nymag.com) |
| 59 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1961 | | Random Generation of English Sentences (mt-archive.info) |
| 58 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1966 | | Shakespeare in the Bush (naturalhistorymag.com) |
| 58 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1968 | | The Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (openculture.com) |
| 58 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1968 | | Interstellar nuclear-powered transport (people.eecs.berkeley.edu) |
| 57 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1962 | | Herbert Simon: The Architecture of Complexity (ecoplexity.org) |
| 56 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments |
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