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| Articles written in 1979 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1979 | | Byte Magazine: LISP (archive.org) |
| 445 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 1979 | | Notation as a Tool of Thought (jsoftware.com) |
| 391 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1979 | | History of Lisp (jmc.stanford.edu) |
| 352 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1979 | | BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (ia902603.us.archive.org) |
| 250 points | 7 years ago with 151 comments |
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| 1979 | | Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (medium.com) |
| 237 points | 8 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 1979 | | Vela incident (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 233 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 54 comments |
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| 1979 | | Notation as a Tool of Thought (eecg.toronto.edu) |
| 208 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1979 | | Photos at Microsoft Corp (sound-photo.com) |
| 200 points | 9 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 1979 | | Land without Plea Bargaining: How the Germans Do It (digitalcommons.law.yale.edu) |
| 192 points | 11 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1979 | | 'Too negative ': Welsh seaside images (theguardian.com) |
| 152 points | 3 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 1979 | | Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation (multicians.org) |
| 147 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1979 | | Atari Star Raiders Source Code (archive.org) |
| 145 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1979 | | How to Share a Secret [pdf] (web.mit.edu) |
| 140 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1979 | | Constructive mathematics and computer programming (cs.cornell.edu) |
| 130 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1979 | | Stories about the B5000 and people who were there (ed-thelen.org) |
| 122 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 1979 | | Design of Lisp-based Processors (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 117 points | 11 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1979 | | The Quantum Theory and Reality (scientificamerican.com) |
| 93 points | 6 years ago with 163 comments |
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| 1979 | | Design of Lisp-Based Processors Or, LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 87 points | 9 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1979 | | The Timeless Way of Building (archive.org) |
| 84 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1979 | | Fermilab used aspirin to detect water leaks in their rings (history.fnal.gov) |
| 68 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1979 | | The Ubiquitous B-Tree (wwwold.cs.umd.edu) |
| 66 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1979 | | Serge Daney on Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu) |
| 59 points | 2 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1979 | | Naming and Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System (dtic.mil) |
| 54 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1979 | | Russian way with the mathematical travelling salesman (theguardian.com) |
| 46 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1979 | | A History of Individually Wrapped Cheese Slices (www56.homepage.villanova.edu) |
| 45 points | 6 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 1979 | | Bounds for Sorting by Prefix Reversal by William H. Gates (cs.berkeley.edu) |
| 43 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1979 | | Mechanisms in Modern Engineering Design (mirtitles.org) |
| 42 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1979 | | A Solid State of Progress – Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation (archive.org) |
| 22 points | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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| 1979 | | Design Considerations for an Anthropophilic Computer (web.stanford.edu) |
| 11 points | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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