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| Articles written in 1978 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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| 1978 | | How to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later (urbigenous.net) |
| 550 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 134 comments |
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| 1978 | | The Theory of Interstellar Trade (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 267 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 1978 | | On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 258 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 63 comments |
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| 1978 | | Microsoft BASIC for 6502 – Original Source Code (pagetable.com) |
| 250 points | 9 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 1978 | | Connections by James Burke (topdocumentaryfilms.com) |
| 218 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 1978 | | Raiders of the Lost Ark Story Conference (nloewen.com) |
| 213 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 52 comments |
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| 1978 | | Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style? (dl.acm.org) |
| 169 points | 3 years ago with 129 comments |
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| 1978 | | An Introduction to the EMACS Editor (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 154 points | 5 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 1978 | | The Theory of Interstellar Trade (princeton.edu) |
| 132 points | 9 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1978 | | Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 128 points | 7 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 1978 | | Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu: The End of Hot Metal Typesetting at the NY Times (archive.org) |
| 127 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1978 | | A micro manual for Lisp – Not the whole truth (ee.ryerson.ca) |
| 109 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1978 | | Video: 24 year-old Steve Jobs prepping for his first TV appearance (youtube.com) |
| 94 points | 13 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1978 | | Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (web.stanford.edu) |
| 91 points | 9 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1978 | | Combinatorial Algorithms (math.upenn.edu) |
| 88 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1978 | | Communicating Sequential Processes (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 88 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1978 | | BASIC Computer Games (vintage-basic.net) |
| 86 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1978 | | Programming in an Interactive Environment: The Lisp Experience (ida.liu.se) |
| 85 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1978 | | The Joys of Unix – NSA Cryptolog (archive.org) |
| 78 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1978 | | Truisms (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 74 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1978 | | Programming in an Interactive Environment: The “Lisp” Experience (softwarepreservation.org) |
| 73 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1978 | | Basic Computer Games (atariarchives.org) |
| 65 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1978 | | Trans-Planetary Subway Systems (rand.org) |
| 62 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1978 | | The Art of the Interpreter (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 62 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1978 | | Why Apple II Is the World's Best Selling Personal Computer (archive.org) |
| 55 points | 4 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 1978 | | A Unix System Implementation for System/370 (tuhs.org) |
| 55 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1978 | | Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System (amturing.acm.org) |
| 54 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1978 | | Flight 1080 (tristar500.net) |
| 53 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1978 | | On-The-Fly Garbage Collection: An Exercise in Cooperation (lamport.azurewebsites.net) |
| 51 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1978 | | APL is more French than English (jsoftware.com) |
| 50 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1978 | | The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization, Theory of Higher Brain Function (homes.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de) |
| 49 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1978 | | Computers in the home? (clickamericana.com) |
| 45 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1978 | | Digital VT100 (oldcomputr.com) |
| 44 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1978 | | Data and Reality (bkent.net) |
| 40 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1978 | | Rikuo: Harley-Davidson and the Birth of the Japanese Motorcycle (magazine.cycleworld.com) |
| 31 points | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1978 | | In Search of the Coming Ice Age, with Leonard Nimoy (youtube.com) |
| 11 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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