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Articles written in 1976 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1976The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (en.wikipedia.org)
255 points | 2 years ago with 158 comments
1976Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (zoon.cc)
166 points | 6 years ago with 88 comments
1976The Early Development of Programming Languages (bitsavers.trailing-edge.com)
150 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 13 comments
1976How to run a meeting (hbr.org)
147 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments
1976The Unix Command Language (github.com)
147 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
1976Solaris movie review and film summary (rogerebert.com)
98 points | 1 year ago with 91 comments
1976Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity (homepage.univie.ac.at)
95 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 8 comments
1976“Whole Earth” origin (sb.longnow.org)
85 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
1976FBI Records: Bigfoot (vault.fbi.gov)
84 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments
1976For God’s Sake, Margaret (oikos.org)
84 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
1976Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative (dspace.mit.edu)
80 points | 4 years ago with 8 comments
1976Smalltalk-72 Instruction Manual (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
80 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
1976The first photograph taken from the surface of Mars (nasa.gov)
75 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments
1976The Structure of “Unstructured” Decision Processes (media.corporate-ir.net)
74 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments
1976New Directions in Cryptography by Diffie and Hellman (www-ee.stanford.edu)
68 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments
1976Distributed Algorithm for Constructing Minimal Spanning Trees in Networks (i.stanford.edu)
66 points | 4 years ago with 6 comments
1976Life at Low Reynolds Number (biotec.tu-dresden.de)
62 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
1976An open letter to hobbyists by Bill Gates (cryptnet.net)
59 points | 10 years ago with 41 comments
1976Floating Point Routines for the 6502 (6502.org)
56 points | 8 years ago with 24 comments
1976NASA Graphics Standards Manual (nasa.gov)
44 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments
1976Arithmetic Shifting Considered Harmful (dspace.mit.edu)
44 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments
1976Grace Hopper: David and Goliath (history.navy.mil)
40 points | 9 years ago with 2 comments
1976An Open Letter to Hobbyists (archive.nytimes.com)
37 points | 8 months ago with 18 comments
1976Tom Moulton, Father of the Disco Mix (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
18 points | 7 months ago with 4 comments

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