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| Articles written in 1981 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1981 | | Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (nytimes.com) |
| 440 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 354 comments |
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| 1981 | | How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (straightdope.com) |
| 384 points | 3 years ago with 390 comments |
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| 1981 | | Starting FORTH (forth.com) |
| 358 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 23 comments |
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| 1981 | | Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (cs.virginia.edu) |
| 321 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 80 comments |
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| 1981 | | Changing San Francisco Is Foreseen as a Haven for Wealthy and Childless (nytimes.com) |
| 318 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 1981 | | Rare cancer seen in 41 homossexuals (nytimes.com) |
| 215 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1981 | | Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers (history.com) |
| 200 points | 3 years ago with 251 comments |
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| 1981 | | Feynman: Simulating Physics with Computers (cs.berkeley.edu) |
| 187 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1981 | | M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story (theatlantic.com) |
| 180 points | 5 years ago with 191 comments |
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| 1981 | | A Review of Modern Sail Theory (ljjensen.net) |
| 167 points | 7 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1981 | | Rob Pike: An important message from Dennis Ritchie (plus.google.com) |
| 163 points | 12 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1981 | | EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable Display Editor (gnu.org) |
| 144 points | 9 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1981 | | Operating the Lisp Machine (bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de) |
| 116 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1981 | | Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (lysator.liu.se) |
| 104 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 1981 | | Jim Blinn and Ed Catmull – graphics class at Berkeley (youtube.com) |
| 100 points | 1 year ago with 19 comments |
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| 1981 | | Flipping your Disk (atarimagazines.com) |
| 100 points | 4 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1981 | | The $10,000-a-year college education has arrived (nytimes.com) |
| 98 points | 8 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 1981 | | Byte Magazine Volume 06 Number 09 – Artificial Intelligence (archive.org) |
| 96 points | 11 months ago with 39 comments |
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| 1981 | | Apple II Mouse Card (folklore.org) |
| 94 points | 2 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1981 | | Landing the Nostromo (archive.org) |
| 92 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1981 | | Xerox Star 8010 Interfaces, high quality polaroids (digibarn.com) |
| 92 points | 11 months ago with 34 comments |
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| 1981 | | The Gernsback Continuum by William Gibson (web.archive.org) |
| 91 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1981 | | Expense Calculator (c2.com) |
| 86 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1981 | | Computing e to 116,000 Places with a Personal Computer (archive.org) |
| 84 points | 1 year ago with 28 comments |
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| 1981 | | Byte Magazine: Future Computers (archive.org) |
| 84 points | 4 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 1981 | | Captain Grace M. Hopper: The Mother of COBOL (books.google.nl) |
| 83 points | 4 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1981 | | A.I. (newyorker.com) |
| 81 points | 9 months ago with 50 comments |
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| 1981 | | RFC 791: Internet Protocol (datatracker.ietf.org) |
| 78 points | 2 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1981 | | History of Ball Bearings (ntrs.nasa.gov) |
| 78 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1981 | | The truth about Unix: The user interface is horrid (ceri.memphis.edu) |
| 78 points | 8 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 1981 | | Round rectangles are everywhere (folklore.org) |
| 74 points | 2 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1981 | | Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy and childless (nytimes.com) |
| 70 points | 8 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 1981 | | Symbolic Self-Completion, Attempted Influence, and Self-Deprecation (interruptions.net) |
| 69 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1981 | | The 25¢ Apple II Real Time Clock (atarimagazines.com) |
| 66 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1981 | | Car and Driver's Review of the 1981 De Lorean (caranddriver.com) |
| 64 points | 8 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1981 | | Emacs Manual for ITS Users (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 58 points | 1 year ago with 12 comments |
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| 1981 | | The Future of Computer Wargaming (archive.org) |
| 58 points | 6 months ago with 27 comments |
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| 1981 | | The Interlisp Programming Environment (ics.uci.edu) |
| 58 points | 10 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1981 | | A study of branch prediction strategies (courses.cs.washington.edu) |
| 57 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1981 | | ZMOB: A multiprocessor computer with 256 Z80 CPUs. (ijcai.org) |
| 55 points | 4 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1981 | | Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69 (theparisreview.org) |
| 54 points | 10 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1981 | | Lisp: Basically Speaking (mypage.iu.edu) |
| 52 points | 11 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1981 | | A Source Book in APL (softwarepreservation.org) |
| 51 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1981 | | The Optical Mouse (bitsavers.trailing-edge.com) |
| 51 points | 10 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1981 | | Venture Capitalist: A Rise to Riches (nytimes.com) |
| 49 points | 4 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1981 | | The Origin of Spacewar! (masswerk.at) |
| 48 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1981 | | The Origin of the VM/370 Time-Sharing System (lass.cs.umass.edu) |
| 47 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1981 | | Preliminary Macintosh Business Plan (archive.computerhistory.org) |
| 45 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1981 | | The Scientific Straightjacket (documents.uow.edu.au) |
| 37 points | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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| 1981 | | Madman, architect, carpenter, judge (sci-hub.st) |
| 31 points | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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