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| Articles written in 1985 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1985 | | Byte Magazine: Declarative Languages (archive.org) |
| 1246 points across 11 posts | 2 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1985 | | Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (asc.ohio-state.edu) |
| 915 points | 3 years ago with 276 comments |
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| 1985 | | Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (reprints.longform.org) |
| 439 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 1985 | | The result would be a catastrophe (lettersofnote.com) |
| 381 points | 8 years ago with 187 comments |
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| 1985 | | The Parable of the Two Programmers (csd.uwo.ca) |
| 381 points | 9 years ago with 160 comments |
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| 1985 | | Programming as Theory Building (pages.cs.wisc.edu) |
| 342 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1985 | | Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 336 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 1985 | | Bumper Sticker Computer Science (bowdoin.edu) |
| 312 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1985 | | Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (longform.org) |
| 253 points | 10 years ago with 148 comments |
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| 1985 | | The Orange Juice Test (intercom.com) |
| 246 points | 6 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 1985 | | East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures (twitter.com) |
| 246 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1985 | | Microsoft Has It All—Almost (nytimes.com) |
| 208 points | 7 years ago with 146 comments |
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| 1985 | | Programming as Theory Building (gist.github.com) |
| 193 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1985 | | What happened to the laptop computer? (nytimes.com) |
| 164 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 1985 | | The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker (rheingold.com) |
| 128 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1985 | | How to Write with Style (peterstekel.com) |
| 124 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1985 | | Underwater Exploring Is Banned in Brazil (nytimes.com) |
| 122 points | 5 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 1985 | | Weizsäcker's speech on 40th anniversary of WW2's end (bundespraesident.de) |
| 118 points | 4 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 1985 | | Crabs: The bitmap terror (lucacardelli.name) |
| 117 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1985 | | The Connection Machine (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 114 points | 8 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 1985 | | Inside Macintosh (weihenstephan.org) |
| 112 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 1985 | | How to do with probabilities what people say you can’t (ftp.cs.ucla.edu) |
| 108 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1985 | | Programmimg Pearls (dl.acm.org) |
| 105 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1985 | | Forth BBS 2 (github.com) |
| 103 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1985 | | Why Forth Isn't Slow (archive.org) |
| 101 points | 4 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1985 | | Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems (rpgpoet.com) |
| 98 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1985 | | What is a Hacker? (cs.berkeley.edu) |
| 96 points | 10 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1985 | | Terry Prachett: Why Gandalf Never Married (ansible.co.uk) |
| 95 points | 15 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1985 | | Miranda: A non-strict functional language with polymorphic types (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu) |
| 95 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1985 | | American Pictures (american-pictures.com) |
| 90 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1985 | | Apple Krackers Guide (bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de) |
| 88 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1985 | | Briefing note: US Deputy Secretary Of State meeting with Andrei Gromyko (history.state.gov) |
| 86 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1985 | | The Dark Ages of AI (pdfs.semanticscholar.org) |
| 85 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1985 | | Super Mario Bros Coin Sound (365blanc.blogspot.com) |
| 83 points | 11 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1985 | | Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It? (hpl.hp.com) |
| 83 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1985 | | Design case history: the Commodore 64 (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 80 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1985 | | CROBOTS is a programming game, for programmers or aspiring programmers (tpoindex.github.io) |
| 76 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1985 | | Thinking Like a Mathematician (news.psu.edu) |
| 73 points | 9 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1985 | | The Case Against Credentialism (theatlantic.com) |
| 72 points | 9 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1985 | | On anthropomorphism in science (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 70 points | 7 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1985 | | Cryptography with Cellular Automata (stephenwolfram.com) |
| 67 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1985 | | Oral History of Bob Barton and the Burroughs B5000 team (web.archive.org) |
| 63 points | 13 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1985 | | Metamagical Themas: Sanity and Survival (gwern.net) |
| 61 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1985 | | The Carver Challenge (stereophile.com) |
| 59 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1985 | | Templates of Doom – A spreadsheet text adventure game (twitter.com) |
| 57 points | 1 year ago with 9 comments |
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| 1985 | | The dark ages of AI: A panel discussion at AAAI-84 (researchgate.net) |
| 57 points | 4 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 1985 | | Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language (worrydream.com) |
| 57 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1985 | | Swiss German is not context-free (unlike virtually all other languages) (eecs.harvard.edu) |
| 54 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1985 | | Feynman vs. the Abacus (ee.ryerson.ca) |
| 54 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 1985 | | Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror (scalar.usc.edu) |
| 53 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments |
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