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| Articles written 1970 to 1979 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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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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| 1970 | | The Tyranny of Structurelessness (jofreeman.com) |
| 530 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 72 comments |
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| 1974 | | Cargo cult science (calteches.library.caltech.edu) |
| 455 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 156 comments |
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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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| 1971 | | Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (rollingstone.com) |
| 382 points | 4 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 1972 | | Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (library.sciencemadness.org) |
| 382 points across 4 posts | 5 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1975 | | Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (depauw.edu) |
| 369 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 101 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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| 1972 | | The Charles Mingus CAT-alog (charlesmingus.com) |
| 299 points | 2 years ago with 141 comments |
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| 1971 | | A Short Introduction to the Art of Programming (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 296 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1973 | | A Parable by Dijkstra (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 296 points | 6 years ago with 102 comments |
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| 1977 | | The CIA and the Media (carlbernstein.com) |
| 274 points | 3 years ago with 152 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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| 1976 | | The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 255 points | 3 years ago with 158 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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| 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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| 1975 | | Ex‐FBI operative says he worked to disrupt political activities up to '74 (nytimes.com) |
| 232 points | 3 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 1971 | | Elementary Algebra (softwarepreservation.org) |
| 224 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1978 | | Connections by James Burke (topdocumentaryfilms.com) |
| 218 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 1970 | | The Tyranny of Structurelessness (bopsecrets.org) |
| 216 points | 10 years ago with 120 comments |
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| 1978 | | Raiders of the Lost Ark Story Conference (nloewen.com) |
| 213 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 52 comments |
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| 1974 | | Richard Feynman: Cargo Cult Science (neurotheory.columbia.edu) |
| 212 points | 11 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1974 | | Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (paulgraham.com) |
| 208 points | 8 years ago with 104 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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| 1970 | | Every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system (pespmc1.vub.ac.be) |
| 202 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1977 | | Can Programming Be Liberated From The Von Neumann Style? (worrydream.com) |
| 202 points | 8 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 1970 | | Deschooling Society (davidtinapple.com) |
| 201 points | 4 years ago with 195 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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| 1970 | | How to write Mathematics (math.utah.edu) |
| 199 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1975 | | Billiards Is a Good Game (mag.uchicago.edu) |
| 198 points | 5 years ago with 60 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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| 1974 | | Bill Gates Resume (image.cnbcfm.com) |
| 183 points | 5 years ago with 130 comments |
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| 1975 | | Everything I Know: Buckminster Fuller (bfi.org) |
| 183 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1970 | | Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (ivolo.me) |
| 178 points | 11 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 1977 | | Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (thocp.net) |
| 177 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1972 | | Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (wheels.org) |
| 175 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 35 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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| 1977 | | Jorge Luis Borges Interview (denisdutton.com) |
| 167 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1976 | | Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (zoon.cc) |
| 166 points | 7 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 1977 | | A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System (warsus.github.io) |
| 164 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1971 | | Newly discovered earliest draft of a Unix manual (tuhs.org) |
| 158 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1977 | | Kurt Vonnegut, The Art of Fiction No. 64 (theparisreview.org) |
| 156 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1978 | | An Introduction to the EMACS Editor (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 154 points | 6 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 1977 | | How to Write a Thesis (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu) |
| 153 points | 5 years ago with 22 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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| 1972 | | The Humble Programmer (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 150 points | 11 years ago with 59 comments |
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