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| Articles written in 1988 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1988 | | What not to write on your security clearance form (milk.com) |
| 1061 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 545 comments |
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| 1988 | | Let's Build a Compiler (compilers.iecc.com) |
| 611 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 14 comments |
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| 1988 | | Xmas.c (udel.edu) |
| 544 points | 11 months ago with 92 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Awk Programming Language (archive.org) |
| 415 points | 7 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Awk Programming Language (ia802309.us.archive.org) |
| 370 points | 6 years ago with 207 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 330 points | 7 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Complete Hypercard Handbook (archive.org) |
| 193 points | 3 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 1988 | | Introduction to Functional Programming (usi-pl.github.io) |
| 174 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1988 | | Designing an Authentication System: A Dialogue in Four Scenes (web.mit.edu) |
| 141 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1988 | | Let's Build a Compiler (xmonader.github.io) |
| 132 points | 1 year ago with 19 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Minitel system in France (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 132 points | 2 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1988 | | Inventing PostScript, the tech that took the pain out of printing (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 125 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 1988 | | Why some things are darker when wet (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 116 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1988 | | Germans Who Refused to Execute Civilians During World War II (sci-hub.tw) |
| 115 points | 5 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 1988 | | Dijkstra: On the cruelty of really teaching computer science (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 111 points | 11 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1988 | | Fabrik – A Visual Programming Environment (web.archive.org) |
| 108 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1988 | | Tom Duff on Duff's device (lysator.liu.se) |
| 104 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1988 | | Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and Value Cells (nhplace.com) |
| 99 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1988 | | The World Is Built on Probability (archive.org) |
| 95 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1988 | | On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (psy.gla.ac.uk) |
| 89 points | 4 years ago with 120 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Original Hacker's Dictionary (dourish.com) |
| 83 points | 11 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1988 | | A Forth Apologia (holonforth.com) |
| 77 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 1988 | | Dijkstra on the cruelty of really teaching computing science (userweb.cs.utexas.edu) |
| 74 points | 14 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1988 | | Yugoslavs Find No Paradise at McDonald's (articles.latimes.com) |
| 70 points | 11 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Strong Law of Small Numbers (maa.org) |
| 69 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Manual – How to have a number one the easy way (freshonthenet.co.uk) |
| 66 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1988 | | Steve Jobs on his “glide slope” theory of tech (soundcloud.com) |
| 66 points | 3 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1988 | | Morris Worm Decompiled (foo.be) |
| 63 points | 14 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Call of the Ocean: Hypertext, Universal and Open (archive.org) |
| 63 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1988 | | Apple Computer: Scorpius Architectural Specification (archive.org) |
| 63 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1988 | | Dennis Ritchie on alias analysis in C (yodaiken.com) |
| 62 points | 3 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1988 | | Neural Network at Warp Speed (repository.cmu.edu) |
| 62 points | 7 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1988 | | A Simple Decompiler (drdobbs.com) |
| 60 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1988 | | On the cruelty of really teaching computer science (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 59 points | 9 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1988 | | Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems (cogsci.northwestern.edu) |
| 55 points | 9 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1988 | | Fabrik – A Visual Programming Environment (sp.cmc.msu.ru) |
| 54 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1988 | | New Hardware for Massive Neural Networks (papers.nips.cc) |
| 53 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1988 | | How to do research at the MIT AI Lab (people.cs.umass.edu) |
| 52 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1988 | | Development of the Domain Name System (cseweb.ucsd.edu) |
| 51 points | 4 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1988 | | C Traps and Pitfalls (literateprogramming.com) |
| 51 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1988 | | Why the last major U.S. television set maker, Zenith, finally gave up (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 51 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1988 | | Using Induction to Design Algorithms (akira.ruc.dk) |
| 50 points | 10 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1988 | | Anatomy of the 4040 Disk Drive (pagetable.com) |
| 50 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Society of Mind (aurellem.org) |
| 49 points | 9 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1988 | | Brain Wound Eliminates Man's Mental Illness (nytimes.com) |
| 47 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1988 | | Model Based Reasoning – Troubleshooting (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 45 points | 7 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1988 | | Dynamic Hash Tables (csd.uoc.gr) |
| 45 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1988 | | Tablet: Personal Computer in the Year 2000 (stephenwolfram.com) |
| 43 points | 11 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1988 | | Tom Duff on Duff's Device (lysator.liu.se) |
| 43 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1988 | | A Morning Cola Instead of Coffee? (nytimes.com) |
| 42 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments |
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