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Articles written 1960 to 1969 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1964Visit to the World's Fair of 2014 (archive.nytimes.com)
56 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments
1967The Joy of Writing (nobelprize.org)
56 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments
1967The Problem of Induction (csulb.edu)
56 points | 9 years ago with 41 comments
1969Internet Standard #80: ASCII Format for Network Interchange (ietf.org)
56 points | 9 months ago with 40 comments
1969E. B. White, the Art of the Essay No. 1 (theparisreview.org)
56 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
1963Letter from a Birmingham Jail (africa.upenn.edu)
55 points | 9 years ago with 2 comments
1968Go to Statement Considered Harmful (homepages.cwi.nl)
55 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments
1967National Intelligence Estimate: The Chinese Cultural Revolution (foia.cia.gov)
54 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
1964What do I want in a doctor? (lettersofnote.com)
53 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
1968Understanding Stresses and Strains (archive.org)
52 points | 1 year ago with 8 comments
1960IBM Ad for SAGE, A Massive Cold War Air Defense System (laughingsquid.com)
50 points | 12 years ago with 23 comments
1961Tensegrity (rwgrayprojects.com)
50 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
1961On Self-Respect by Joan Didion (vogue.com)
49 points | 8 years ago with 2 comments
1962Natural Sounding Artificial Reverberation (charlesames.net)
49 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
1969PL/I as a Tool for System Programming (web.archive.org)
49 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments
1965The Next 700 Programming Languages (thecorememory.com)
48 points | 12 years ago with 2 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
1963Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
47 points | 9 years ago with 20 comments
1965Buster Keaton in The Railrodder (nfb.ca)
47 points | 3 years ago with 20 comments
1964BASIC, Second Edition (mirrorservice.org)
46 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments
1964The Computers of Tomorrow (theatlantic.com)
46 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments
1967Dataless Programming (rand.org)
46 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments
1962The Soul of Bouillabaisse Town (newyorker.com)
45 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
1964What the bees know and what they do not know (projecteuclid.org)
45 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments
1969Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of AI (www-formal.stanford.edu)
45 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
1969Cardiac: CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation (cs.drexel.edu)
45 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments
1965Simone de Beauvoir, The Art of Fiction No. 35 (theparisreview.org)
44 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
1965Programming Considered as a Human Activity (fermatslibrary.com)
44 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments
1967Handwritten PDP-6 hardware log from the Stanford AI Laboratory (stacks.stanford.edu)
44 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments
1968Software Engineering (homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk)
44 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments
1962Direct contact among galactic civilizations by interstellar spaceflight (loc.gov)
42 points | 5 years ago with 3 comments
1964The Origin of Unix Pipes (doc.cat-v.org)
42 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments
1964Algol 60 implementation (softwarepreservation.org)
42 points | 3 years ago with 9 comments
1966The Measure of Man – Human Factors in Design (design.data.free.fr)
42 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
1968How Do Committees Invent? (melconway.com)
42 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
1965A City Is Not a Tree (bp.ntu.edu.tw)
41 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
1960The electronic ocean model (collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk)
40 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments
1961Fortran Assembly Program (FAP) for the IBM 709/7090 (computerhistory.org)
40 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments
1969Marshall McLuhan: The Playboy Interview (nextnature.net)
40 points | 9 years ago with 2 comments
1963Code Duello: The Rules of Dueling (pbs.org)
34 points | 9 months ago with 12 comments
1968Programming Techniques: Regular expression search algorithm (dl.acm.org)
32 points | 8 months ago with 1 comments
1960Christmas under the Puritans (historytoday.com)
31 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments
1961Some Applications of Mechanics to Mathematics (archive.org)
27 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments
1968The New Science of Strong Materials (press.princeton.edu)
27 points | 1 year ago with 11 comments
1964Arthur C. Clarke about the future of AI (twitter.com)
26 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments
1965Death of a Project (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
26 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments
1965King Phallus (nybooks.com)
21 points | 1 year ago with 0 comments
1968Eliza Scriptwriter's Manual (computerhistory.org)
21 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments
1961President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (archives.gov)
19 points | 10 months ago with 2 comments
1967Populorum Progressio (vatican.va)
17 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments

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