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Articles written in 1977 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1977The CIA and the Media (carlbernstein.com)
274 points | 2 years ago with 152 comments
1977Can Programming Be Liberated From The Von Neumann Style? (worrydream.com)
202 points | 8 years ago with 175 comments
1977Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (thocp.net)
177 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 32 comments
1977Jorge Luis Borges Interview (denisdutton.com)
167 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
1977A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System (warsus.github.io)
164 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
1977Kurt Vonnegut, The Art of Fiction No. 64 (theparisreview.org)
156 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 15 comments
1977How to Write a Thesis (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
153 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments
1977Cards as Weapons (archive.org)
146 points | 1 year ago with 49 comments
1977Applied Mathematical Programming (web.mit.edu)
142 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments
1977In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming (jsoftware.com)
135 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 57 comments
1977How inflation swindles the equity investor (fortune.com)
121 points | 6 years ago with 123 comments
1977Methods for Teaching the Programming Language Smalltalk (bitsavers.org)
104 points | 7 years ago with 52 comments
1977The Heilmeier Catechism (darpa.mil)
97 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
1977Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide? (library.sciencemadness.org)
89 points | 10 years ago with 6 comments
1977The Woz Wonderbook (digibarn.com)
85 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
1977Sweet 16: The 6502 Dream Machine (amigan.1emu.net)
82 points | 9 years ago with 20 comments
1977The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones (reprints.longform.org)
76 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments
1977Thoughts on Man's Purpose in Life (govleaders.org)
73 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments
1977Stein's paradox in Statistics (statweb.stanford.edu)
69 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments
1977A Pattern Language (arl.human.cornell.edu)
66 points | 3 years ago with 22 comments
1977CIA Link to Cuban Pig Virus Reported (maebrussell.com)
63 points | 4 years ago with 66 comments
1977Commentary on the sixth edition Unix operating system (cs3210.cc.gatech.edu)
61 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments
1977Remembering My Cousin, Ludwig Wittgenstein (unz.org)
60 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments
1977Le Corbusier as I Knew Him (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
53 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
1977A Theory of Type Polymorphism in Programming (homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk)
48 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
1977The CIA's 3-Decade Effort to Mold the World's Views (nytimes.com)
44 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments
1977Arthur C. Clarke: Communications in the Second Century of the Telephone (paleotronic.com)
42 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
1977The $2.98 Computer Library (atariarchives.org)
41 points | 1 year ago with 12 comments
1977New Frontiers in Analytical Philosophy (nytimes.com)
34 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments

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