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| Articles written in 1987 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1987 | | Byte Magazine: Prolog and 386 Hardware Software (archive.org) |
| 811 points across 9 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1987 | | Nuclear War Survival Skills (oism.org) |
| 334 points | 7 years ago with 213 comments |
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| 1987 | | Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (pessimistsarchive.substack.com) |
| 327 points | 3 years ago with 381 comments |
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| 1987 | | Higher Math for Beginners (archive.org) |
| 315 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Tao of Programming (mit.edu) |
| 269 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Tao of Programming (textfiles.com) |
| 245 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (lysator.liu.se) |
| 241 points | 4 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Goiânia Accident (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 205 points | 3 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 1987 | | Letter from the Carnation Company (pleacher.com) |
| 202 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages (research.microsoft.com) |
| 190 points | 9 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1987 | | Neural Network on a Commodore 64 (fourmilab.ch) |
| 182 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1987 | | Nuclear War Survival Skills (oism.org) |
| 176 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 205 comments |
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| 1987 | | Infants' sense of pain is recognized, finally (nytimes.com) |
| 153 points | 2 years ago with 350 comments |
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| 1987 | | Why calculating is better than scheming (cs.kent.ac.uk) |
| 145 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1987 | | Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems (inf.ed.ac.uk) |
| 142 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Beginning of the Monte Carlo Method (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 124 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1987 | | Unix Text Processing (oreilly.com) |
| 118 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1987 | | HyperCard Users Guide (vintageapple.org) |
| 110 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1987 | | Case Study: IBM's System/360-370 Architecture (cs.tufts.edu) |
| 95 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1987 | | History of Cartography: Volumes One, Two, Three, Four, and Six (press.uchicago.edu) |
| 95 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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| 1987 | | Lisp: A Language for Stratified Design (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 86 points | 11 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Key of Lisp (iment.com) |
| 80 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1987 | | Scratch Monkey Story (edp.org) |
| 77 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1987 | | Stan Ulam, John von Neumann, and the Monte Carlo Method (permalink.lanl.gov) |
| 77 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1987 | | Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program [pdf] (web.stanford.edu) |
| 76 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Outsiders (worlddreambank.org) |
| 73 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (ditext.com) |
| 73 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1987 | | A Little Smalltalk (archive.org) |
| 68 points | 2 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1987 | | Is it really worth running in the rain? (fisica.uniud.it) |
| 67 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1987 | | History Uncut: Bill Gates unveils Microsoft Excel (history.com) |
| 62 points | 12 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 1987 | | If software companies ran the country (jaykinney.com) |
| 60 points | 3 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1987 | | A Dictionary of APL (jsoftware.com) |
| 52 points | 4 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1987 | | Statecharts: A Visual Formalism For Complex Systems (wisdom.weizmann.ac.il) |
| 52 points | 9 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1987 | | Atchafalaya (newyorker.com) |
| 49 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1987 | | Ray Tracing Jell-O Brand Gelatin (cs.northwestern.edu) |
| 47 points | 10 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1987 | | A tutorial on the principles of fault tolerance (ias.ac.in) |
| 47 points | 3 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Making of Darius (shmuplations.com) |
| 46 points | 2 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1987 | | Autoweapons (ccs.neu.edu) |
| 41 points | 10 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1987 | | No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (cgl.ucsf.edu) |
| 41 points | 3 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1987 | | Hashed and Hierarchical Timing Wheels: Data Structures for Timers (cs.columbia.edu) |
| 40 points | 5 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1987 | | 72K Rombank System (dusted.dk) |
| 20 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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