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| Articles written 1970 to 1979 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1974 | | Computer Programming as an Art (cacm.acm.org) |
| 96 points | 8 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1976 | | Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity (homepage.univie.ac.at) |
| 95 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1971 | | The Making of “The Godfather” – Sort of a home movie (thestacksreader.com) |
| 94 points | 3 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1972 | | The original Unix init system (code.google.com) |
| 94 points | 9 years ago with 36 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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| 1973 | | Why They Lost the Wheel (archive.aramcoworld.com) |
| 93 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1974 | | A History of The Rochester, NY Camera and Lens Companies (nwmangum.com) |
| 93 points | 3 years ago with 66 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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| 1974 | | The Unix Time-Sharing System (cs.berkeley.edu) |
| 92 points | 8 years ago with 17 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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| 1971 | | Twenty Things to do with a Computer (stager.org) |
| 90 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1974 | | The UNIX Time-Sharing System (chsasank.github.io) |
| 90 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1974 | | LIL, the Little Implementation Language (ultimate.com) |
| 89 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1977 | | Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide? (library.sciencemadness.org) |
| 89 points | 10 years ago with 6 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 | 6 years ago with 19 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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| 1978 | | BASIC Computer Games (vintage-basic.net) |
| 86 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1976 | | “Whole Earth” origin (sb.longnow.org) |
| 85 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1977 | | The Woz Wonderbook (digibarn.com) |
| 85 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1978 | | Programming in an Interactive Environment: The Lisp Experience (ida.liu.se) |
| 85 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1971 | | Memristor – The missing circuit element (cpmt.org) |
| 84 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1976 | | FBI Records: Bigfoot (vault.fbi.gov) |
| 84 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1976 | | For God’s Sake, Margaret (oikos.org) |
| 84 points | 5 years ago with 23 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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| 1970 | | APL\B5500: The Language and Its Implementation – Gary A. Kildall (cs.washington.edu) |
| 83 points | 9 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1977 | | Sweet 16: The 6502 Dream Machine (amigan.1emu.net) |
| 82 points | 9 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1971 | | First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (web.archive.org) |
| 81 points | 3 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 1970 | | Von Neumann's First Computer Program (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 80 points | 1 year ago with 9 comments |
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| 1974 | | Cybernetics A to Z (archive.org) |
| 80 points | 2 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1976 | | Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 80 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1976 | | Smalltalk-72 Instruction Manual (pdfs.semanticscholar.org) |
| 80 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1971 | | There Should Be No Computer Art (bbk.ac.uk) |
| 79 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 1972 | | Cognitive and Attentional Mechanisms in Delay of Gratification (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 79 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1974 | | Programming with Abstract Data Types (web.cs.iastate.edu) |
| 78 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1974 | | Cargo Cult Science (physics.brocku.ca) |
| 78 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1975 | | The Potentiometer Handbook (bourns.com) |
| 78 points | 6 years ago with 20 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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| 1970 | | A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (cs.uwaterloo.ca) |
| 77 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1971 | | The parable of the parking lots (nationalaffairs.com) |
| 76 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1977 | | The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones (reprints.longform.org) |
| 76 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 1975 | | Church Committee Report on NSA Surveillance Affecting Americans (aarclibrary.org) |
| 75 points | 11 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1976 | | The first photograph taken from the surface of Mars (nasa.gov) |
| 75 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1976 | | The Structure of “Unstructured” Decision Processes (media.corporate-ir.net) |
| 74 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1978 | | Truisms (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 74 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1973 | | Intel 4004 programming manual (bitsavers.trailing-edge.com) |
| 73 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1977 | | Thoughts on Man's Purpose in Life (govleaders.org) |
| 73 points | 5 years ago with 63 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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| 1971 | | Felicia, the Pipe-Cleaning Ferret of Fermilab (history.fnal.gov) |
| 70 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1971 | | Project Cybersyn (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 70 points | 10 years ago with 36 comments |
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