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Articles written in 1972 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1972Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (library.sciencemadness.org)
382 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 34 comments
1972The Charles Mingus CAT-alog (charlesmingus.com)
299 points | 2 years ago with 141 comments
1972Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (wheels.org)
175 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 35 comments
1972The Humble Programmer (cs.utexas.edu)
150 points | 10 years ago with 59 comments
1972Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (sciencemadness.org)
143 points | 3 years ago with 52 comments
1972The Limits to Growth (donellameadows.org)
114 points | 4 months ago with 104 comments
1972Viktor Frankl: Why believe in others [video] (ted.com)
109 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments
1972The Limits to Growth (donellameadows.org)
101 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments
1972HAKMEM (dspace.mit.edu)
101 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
1972The original Unix init system (code.google.com)
94 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments
1972Cognitive and Attentional Mechanisms in Delay of Gratification (fermatslibrary.com)
79 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
1972Users' Reference to B (bell-labs.com)
66 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
1972More Is Different (physics.ohio-state.edu)
55 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments
1972My Love Affair with Dozens (dozenal.org)
50 points | 3 years ago with 46 comments
1972Great Grain Robbery (en.wikipedia.org)
47 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments
1972The Original Affluent Society (home.iitk.ac.in)
40 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments
1972HAKMEM (inwap.com)
27 points | 1 year ago with 7 comments
1972Record Linkage and the Universal Identifier (dl.acm.org)
19 points | 9 months ago with 1 comments
1972Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow (hbr.org)
16 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments
1972Computer Security Technology Planning Study (apps.dtic.mil)
14 points | 1 year ago with 1 comments

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