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| Articles written 1970 to 1979 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1970 | | The Origin of Death (elijahwald.com) |
| 69 points | 1 year ago with 15 comments |
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| 1973 | | Investigation of an Airborne Aircraft Carrier Concept (dtic.mil) |
| 69 points | 10 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1977 | | Stein's paradox in Statistics (statweb.stanford.edu) |
| 69 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1973 | | Bell System Vehicle Graphics Manual (archive.org) |
| 68 points | 1 year ago with 16 comments |
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| 1976 | | New Directions in Cryptography by Diffie and Hellman (www-ee.stanford.edu) |
| 68 points | 8 years ago with 13 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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| 1972 | | Users' Reference to B (bell-labs.com) |
| 66 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1974 | | The CONS microprocessor (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 66 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1976 | | Distributed Algorithm for Constructing Minimal Spanning Trees in Networks (i.stanford.edu) |
| 66 points | 4 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1977 | | A Pattern Language (arl.human.cornell.edu) |
| 66 points | 3 years ago with 22 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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| 1971 | | Bliss: A language for systems programming (www2.cs.arizona.edu) |
| 65 points | 4 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1978 | | Basic Computer Games (atariarchives.org) |
| 65 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1974 | | Radar Made Easy (archive.org) |
| 64 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1975 | | Knuth – Estimating the Efficiency of Backtrack Programs (ams.org) |
| 64 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1977 | | CIA Link to Cuban Pig Virus Reported (maebrussell.com) |
| 63 points | 4 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 1973 | | Some Rules for Historians (smithtrust.com) |
| 62 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1976 | | Life at Low Reynolds Number (biotec.tu-dresden.de) |
| 62 points | 8 years ago with 11 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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| 1970 | | New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual (thestandardsmanual.com) |
| 61 points | 10 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1977 | | Commentary on the sixth edition Unix operating system (cs3210.cc.gatech.edu) |
| 61 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1973 | | Bicycle Technology (veterancycleclublibrary.org.uk) |
| 60 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1975 | | How do we tell truths that might hurt? (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 60 points | 4 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 1977 | | Remembering My Cousin, Ludwig Wittgenstein (unz.org) |
| 60 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1973 | | Hints on Programming Language Design (i.stanford.edu) |
| 59 points | 9 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1973 | | “Computers”, BSA Merit Badge Series (archive.org) |
| 59 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1973 | | Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning (sympoetic.net) |
| 59 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1975 | | Hannah Arendt: Remembering W.H. Auden (newyorker.com) |
| 59 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1976 | | An open letter to hobbyists by Bill Gates (cryptnet.net) |
| 59 points | 10 years ago with 41 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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| 1970 | | Autobiographical Notes by Jorge Luis Borges (newyorker.com) |
| 58 points | 2 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1974 | | The Conversation (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 57 points | 11 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1970 | | Managing the Development of Large Software Systems (cs.umd.edu) |
| 56 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1974 | | FRAMES – A Framework for Representing Knowledge (web.media.mit.edu) |
| 56 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1975 | | Psychological Problems of Interplanetary Travel (archive.org) |
| 56 points | 2 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1976 | | Floating Point Routines for the 6502 (6502.org) |
| 56 points | 9 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1972 | | More Is Different (physics.ohio-state.edu) |
| 55 points | 8 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1975 | | On Preventing Programming Languages from Interfering with Programming (breckyunits.com) |
| 55 points | 4 years ago with 7 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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| 1971 | | Secrets of the Little Blue Box (lospadres.info) |
| 54 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 5 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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| 1979 | | Naming and Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System (dtic.mil) |
| 54 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1970 | | Reading list and exam for "Conflict, Coalition and Strategy", Schelling (irwincollier.com) |
| 53 points | 5 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1975 | | Death of the Twin Gynaecologists: A patient's notes (vulture.com) |
| 53 points | 1 year ago with 14 comments |
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| 1977 | | Le Corbusier as I Knew Him (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu) |
| 53 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1978 | | Flight 1080 (tristar500.net) |
| 53 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1973 | | Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 52 points | 6 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 1974 | | The Conversation (movies.netflix.com) |
| 52 points | 11 years ago with 20 comments |
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