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| Articles written in 1986 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1986 | | People Simply Empty Out (lettersofnote.com) |
| 399 points | 5 years ago with 226 comments |
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| 1986 | | Hacker’s Manifesto (phrack.org) |
| 354 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1986 | | Programmers At Work: Bill Gates (programmersatwork.wordpress.com) |
| 348 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 1986 | | Why Read the Classics? (nybooks.com) |
| 310 points | 6 years ago with 160 comments |
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| 1986 | | Unix Recovery Legend (ee.ryerson.ca) |
| 306 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 1986 | | You and Your Research (cs.virginia.edu) |
| 268 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 90 comments |
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| 1986 | | For every 1% increase in the number of lawyers, economic growth falls 3% (sciencedirect.com) |
| 248 points | 4 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 1986 | | The Hacker's Manifesto (usc.edu) |
| 248 points | 8 years ago with 146 comments |
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| 1986 | | The History of FoxPro: Interview with Wayne Ratliff (foxprohistory.org) |
| 179 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1986 | | No Silver Bullet (worrydream.com) |
| 175 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1986 | | He Understood Not Only What We Did but What We Were Supposed to Do (articles.latimes.com) |
| 161 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1986 | | Unix Recovery Legend (ee.ryerson.ca:8080) |
| 143 points | 9 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1986 | | Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle (science.ksc.nasa.gov) |
| 135 points | 10 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 1986 | | You and Your Research (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 132 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1986 | | Notation as a Tool of Thought (eecg.utoronto.ca) |
| 131 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1986 | | The perplexing life of Ernő Rubik (fei.edu.br) |
| 128 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1986 | | Grace Hopper on Late Night with David Letterman (youtube.com) |
| 126 points | 1 year ago with 28 comments |
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| 1986 | | Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle (history.nasa.gov) |
| 109 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1986 | | The CIA's Deadly Deceits and the Vietnam War, with Ralph McGehee (ourhiddenhistory.org) |
| 104 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1986 | | The Design of Postgres (db.cs.berkeley.edu) |
| 94 points | 7 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1986 | | The Conscience of a Hacker (textfiles.com) |
| 86 points | 1 year ago with 27 comments |
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| 1986 | | 68000 Tricks and Traps – Some assembly language programming guidelines (easy68k.com) |
| 82 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1986 | | Ada is not just another programming language (sci-hub.se) |
| 81 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 1986 | | Unix Recovery Legend (ecb.torontomu.ca) |
| 80 points | 1 year ago with 26 comments |
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| 1986 | | Behind the Scenes of a Bank Takeover by FDIC (latimes.com) |
| 79 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1986 | | Simulating Fluid Dynamics with Cellular Automata (content.wolfram.com) |
| 79 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1986 | | “Little Languages” by Jon Bentley (staff.um.edu.mt) |
| 78 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1986 | | Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival (nsscds.org) |
| 77 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1986 | | How Not to Lie with Statistics: Avoiding Common Mistakes (dash.harvard.edu) |
| 76 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1986 | | My Life as a Forth Interpreter (bit-player.org) |
| 73 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1986 | | The Case for Shared Nothing (db.cs.berkeley.edu) |
| 70 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1986 | | A Macintosh History (systemtalk.org) |
| 66 points | 2 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1986 | | Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (paulgraham.com) |
| 66 points | 12 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1986 | | Orbit: An Optimizing Compiler for Scheme (cpsc.yale.edu) |
| 62 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1986 | | Inside the deal that made Bill Gates $350M (unf.edu) |
| 61 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1986 | | The Implementation of the Icon Programming Language (www2.cs.arizona.edu) |
| 60 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1986 | | The Semantics of Destructive Lisp (sul-derivatives.stanford.edu) |
| 55 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1986 | | Intractable Problems in Control Theory (mit.edu) |
| 52 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1986 | | Norway – An Inside Perspective (robertpriddy.com) |
| 48 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1986 | | BYTE Interview With Richard Stallman (gnu.org) |
| 48 points | 12 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1986 | | On Bullshit (csudh.edu) |
| 47 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1986 | | The Lecture System in Teaching Science, and My Discovery of the "Gutenberg Method" (entropysite.com) |
| 41 points | 15 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1986 | | On Stapledon's “Last and First Men” (dpuadweb.depauw.edu) |
| 41 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1986 | | Why TCP Timers Don’t Work Well (comet.lehman.cuny.edu) |
| 41 points | 4 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1986 | | A short ballad dedicated to the growth of programs (ashwinram.org) |
| 24 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 1986 | | An early 3D viewer (fano.co.uk) |
| 19 points | 1 year ago with 7 comments |
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| 1986 | | Steve Jobs in Entrepreneurs Documentary on PBS (youtube.com) |
| 16 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments |
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