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| Articles written in 1984 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1984 | | Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (archive.org) |
| 811 points across 9 posts | 2 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 1984 | | The World is Built on Probability (archive.org) |
| 290 points | 2 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1984 | | Window System X (talisman.org) |
| 263 points | 3 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 1984 | | Dynamic Programming: The Name (learning.cis.upenn.edu) |
| 238 points | 8 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1984 | | The UNIX Programming Environment (archive.org) |
| 231 points | 2 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 1984 | | Thinking Forth – A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems (1scyem2bunjw1ghzsf1cjwwn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com) |
| 225 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1984 | | KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (youtube.com) |
| 199 points | 3 years ago with 154 comments |
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| 1984 | | Why Functional Programming Matters (cse.chalmers.se) |
| 181 points | 8 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 1984 | | The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (downlode.org) |
| 170 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1984 | | Why Men Love War (esquire.com) |
| 165 points | 7 years ago with 174 comments |
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| 1984 | | Original Spec for Lotus Notes (kapor.com) |
| 158 points | 8 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 1984 | | Lisp Machine Manual (hanshuebner.github.io) |
| 142 points | 7 years ago with 152 comments |
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| 1984 | | Thinking Forth (thinking-forth.sourceforge.net) |
| 132 points | 2 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1984 | | Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 129 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1984 | | A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge (medium.com) |
| 119 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1984 | | Early computer art by Barbara Nessim (blog.gingerbeardman.com) |
| 118 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments |
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| 1984 | | Whole Earth Software Catalog (archive.org) |
| 114 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1984 | | Why Men Love War (public.wsu.edu) |
| 109 points | 10 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 1984 | | The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (urbigenous.net) |
| 102 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1984 | | Ken Thompson: Reflections on Trusting Trust (cm.bell-labs.com) |
| 101 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1984 | | A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences (sci-hub.tf) |
| 100 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1984 | | Computer Software (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 95 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1984 | | The 2 Sigma Problem (web.mit.edu) |
| 94 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1984 | | Cottage Computer Programming (atariarchives.org) |
| 92 points | 10 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1984 | | Interview with Bill Joy (web.cecs.pdx.edu) |
| 90 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1984 | | Opening the Hood of a Word Processor (worrydream.com) |
| 85 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1984 | | The kremvax hoax (godfatherof.nl) |
| 85 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1984 | | Thinking Forth (thinking-forth.sourceforge.net) |
| 84 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1984 | | All these companies were a lot smarter than us. What we had was luck (atariarchives.org) |
| 84 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1984 | | Photography's new bag of tricks (nytimes.com) |
| 82 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1984 | | 1984, the Year of the 32-bit Microprocessor (archive.org) |
| 78 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1984 | | How to Expose an Eavesdropper (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 76 points | 8 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1984 | | Reflections on Trusting Trust (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 75 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1984 | | Metafont (tug.ctan.org) |
| 71 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1984 | | Garbage collection in a large Lisp system (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu) |
| 70 points | 8 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 1984 | | Stanislav Grof Interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann, Big Sur, California (maps.org) |
| 69 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1984 | | The fourth dimension: Toward a geometry of higher reality (rudyrucker.com) |
| 68 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1984 | | The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville (www8.gsb.columbia.edu) |
| 67 points | 6 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1984 | | Texas Instruments on Scheme (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 65 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1984 | | IBM System 38 (cs.washington.edu) |
| 64 points | 10 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 1984 | | Robot Odyssey (robotodyssey.online) |
| 64 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1984 | | Interview with Bill Joy (web.archive.org) |
| 62 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1984 | | Rule-Based Expert Systems (people.dbmi.columbia.edu) |
| 59 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1984 | | In the Strange Land of Robert Heinlein (washingtonpost.com) |
| 58 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1984 | | Personal Computers – Hardware Review – Apple Weighs in With Macintosh (nytimes.com) |
| 57 points | 11 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1984 | | Buridan's Principle (microsoft.com) |
| 57 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 1984 | | Personal computers: does everyone need to learn programming? (nytimes.com) |
| 56 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1984 | | UNIX Text Formatting Using the -ms Macros (hactrn.net) |
| 55 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1984 | | NASA/Hasselblad Astronaut's Photography Manual (hasselblad.com) |
| 52 points | 10 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1984 | | Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite? (nytimes.com) |
| 52 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments |
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