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| Articles written 1970 to 1979 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1976 | | The Early Development of Programming Languages (bitsavers.trailing-edge.com) |
| 150 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1971 | | Unix Edition Zero (doc.cat-v.org) |
| 149 points | 1 year ago with 58 comments |
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| 1973 | | Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration (pmj.bmj.com) |
| 148 points | 4 years ago with 154 comments |
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| 1976 | | How to run a meeting (hbr.org) |
| 147 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1976 | | The Unix Command Language (github.com) |
| 147 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1979 | | Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation (multicians.org) |
| 147 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1977 | | Cards as Weapons (archive.org) |
| 146 points | 8 months ago with 49 comments |
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| 1979 | | Atari Star Raiders Source Code (archive.org) |
| 145 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1973 | | Why They Lost The Wheel (saudiaramcoworld.com) |
| 144 points | 9 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1972 | | Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (sciencemadness.org) |
| 143 points | 3 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1977 | | Applied Mathematical Programming (web.mit.edu) |
| 142 points | 7 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1974 | | Live Not by Lies (solzhenitsyncenter.org) |
| 140 points | 2 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1979 | | How to Share a Secret [pdf] (web.mit.edu) |
| 140 points | 1 year ago with 35 comments |
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| 1977 | | In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming (jsoftware.com) |
| 135 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1973 | | Outbreak of common colds at Antarctic base after 17 weeks of isolation (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 133 points | 3 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 1975 | | On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B (web.mit.edu) |
| 133 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1974 | | What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (www2.warwick.ac.uk) |
| 132 points | 7 years ago with 95 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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| 1974 | | How to Spot a Spook (cryptome.org) |
| 130 points | 6 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1979 | | Constructive mathematics and computer programming (cs.cornell.edu) |
| 130 points | 4 years ago with 22 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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| 1974 | | Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet and PC (youtube.com) |
| 127 points | 9 years ago with 36 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 | 1 year ago with 2 comments |
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| 1975 | | How to Entertain with Your Pocket Calculator (archive.org) |
| 124 points | 11 months ago with 33 comments |
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| 1979 | | Stories about the B5000 and people who were there (ed-thelen.org) |
| 122 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 1977 | | How inflation swindles the equity investor (fortune.com) |
| 121 points | 6 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 1974 | | Ethernet will never work (twitter.com) |
| 120 points | 4 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1971 | | Ken Thompson's NFA regex patent (patents.google.com) |
| 119 points | 1 year ago with 20 comments |
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| 1971 | | Unix Programmer's Manual, First Edition (bell-labs.com) |
| 119 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1975 | | “Houston, We've Had a Problem” (hq.nasa.gov) |
| 118 points | 8 years ago with 47 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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| 1973 | | The Tyranny of Structurelessness (jofreeman.com) |
| 115 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1972 | | The Limits to Growth (donellameadows.org) |
| 114 points | 3 months ago with 104 comments |
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| 1971 | | SHRDLU (hci.stanford.edu) |
| 113 points | 6 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1973 | | The original “Hello World”: B. W. Kernighan's intro to B (web.archive.org) |
| 113 points | 2 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 1974 | | Computer programming as an art (dl.acm.org) |
| 113 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1971 | | What Made Apollo a Success? (ntrs.nasa.gov) |
| 112 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1972 | | Viktor Frankl: Why believe in others [video] (ted.com) |
| 109 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1978 | | A micro manual for Lisp – Not the whole truth (ee.ryerson.ca) |
| 109 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1970 | | The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved (liamk.org) |
| 107 points | 9 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1974 | | On the Road with Aristotle: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (the-tls.co.uk) |
| 105 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1974 | | Forth: A New Way to Program a Mini Computer (articles.adsabs.harvard.edu) |
| 104 points | 1 year ago with 58 comments |
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| 1977 | | Methods for Teaching the Programming Language Smalltalk (bitsavers.org) |
| 104 points | 6 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1972 | | The Limits to Growth (donellameadows.org) |
| 101 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 1972 | | HAKMEM (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 101 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1974 | | Representing Graphs by Knuth Trees (cs.virginia.edu) |
| 100 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1970 | | A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (seas.upenn.edu) |
| 98 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1976 | | Solaris movie review and film summary (rogerebert.com) |
| 98 points | 1 year ago with 91 comments |
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| 1977 | | The Heilmeier Catechism (darpa.mil) |
| 97 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1973 | | The legend of John von Neumann (stepanov.lk.net) |
| 96 points | 9 years ago with 65 comments |
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