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|  | Articles written in 1971 that Hacker News still talks about. | 
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|  | Go back or forward one year. See all articles from 1970 to 1979. | 
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| 1971 |  | Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14  (rollingstone.com) | 
|  | 382 points | 5 years ago with 111 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | A Short Introduction to the Art of Programming  (cs.utexas.edu) | 
|  | 296 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | Elementary Algebra  (softwarepreservation.org) | 
|  | 224 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 4 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | Newly discovered earliest draft of a Unix manual  (tuhs.org) | 
|  | 158 points | 9 years ago with 40 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | Unix Edition Zero  (doc.cat-v.org) | 
|  | 149 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | Ken Thompson's NFA regex patent  (patents.google.com) | 
|  | 119 points | 2 years ago with 20 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | Unix Programmer's Manual, First Edition  (bell-labs.com) | 
|  | 119 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | SHRDLU  (hci.stanford.edu) | 
|  | 113 points | 8 years ago with 30 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | What Made Apollo a Success?  (ntrs.nasa.gov) | 
|  | 112 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | The Making of “The Godfather” – Sort of a home movie  (thestacksreader.com) | 
|  | 94 points | 4 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | Twenty Things to do with a Computer  (stager.org) | 
|  | 90 points | 11 years ago with 13 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | Memristor – The missing circuit element  (cpmt.org) | 
|  | 84 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section  (web.archive.org) | 
|  | 81 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | There Should Be No Computer Art  (bbk.ac.uk) | 
|  | 79 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | The parable of the parking lots  (nationalaffairs.com) | 
|  | 76 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | Felicia, the Pipe-Cleaning Ferret of Fermilab  (history.fnal.gov) | 
|  | 70 points | 11 years ago with 31 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | Project Cybersyn  (en.wikipedia.org) | 
|  | 70 points | 11 years ago with 36 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | Bliss: A language for systems programming  (www2.cs.arizona.edu) | 
|  | 65 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | Secrets of the Little Blue Box  (lospadres.info) | 
|  | 54 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | That's Interesting  (info.marshall.usc.edu) | 
|  | 46 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | That's Interesting  (pages.stern.nyu.edu) | 
|  | 46 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | Program Development by Stepwise Refinement  (sunnyday.mit.edu) | 
|  | 45 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | Darwin, a Game of Survival of the Fittest Among Programs  (corewar.co.uk) | 
|  | 43 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 1971 |  | Extraterrestrial Civilizations: Problems of Interstellar Communication  (archive.org) | 
|  | 40 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments | 
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