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| Articles written in 1989 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1989 | | Why is electricity so hard to understand? (amasci.com) |
| 556 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 1989 | | Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (users.ece.utexas.edu) |
| 466 points | 1 year ago with 258 comments |
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| 1989 | | Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (longnow.org) |
| 280 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1989 | | Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (longnow.org) |
| 279 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Relativity of Wrong (chem.tufts.edu) |
| 245 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1989 | | Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 Postmortem (antitrust.slated.org) |
| 235 points | 5 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (theatlantic.com) |
| 223 points | 12 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1989 | | Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (groups.google.com) |
| 200 points | 1 year ago with 103 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov (chem.tufts.edu) |
| 196 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1989 | | Why Adventure Games Suck (grumpygamer.com) |
| 196 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1989 | | Notes on Programming in C – Rob Pike (lysator.liu.se) |
| 188 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1989 | | Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (blog.longnow.org) |
| 165 points | 7 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Real War 1939-1945 (theatlantic.com) |
| 154 points | 2 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Relativity of Wrong (hermiene.net) |
| 139 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 124 comments |
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| 1989 | | High Tech High Life: William Gibson and Timothy Leary in Conversation (mondo2000.com) |
| 134 points | 2 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1989 | | What's hidden in the hidden layers? (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 124 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1989 | | Tao Te Ching – Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English Translation (terebess.hu) |
| 124 points | 1 year ago with 89 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Mundanity of Excellence (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 115 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1989 | | Ada implementation of an X Window System Server (sci-hub.se) |
| 108 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 1989 | | Tiananmen Square: Protests and Massacre (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 105 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1989 | | Steve Jobs: Out for Revenge (nytimes.com) |
| 101 points | 5 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 1989 | | Stack Computers: the new wave (ece.cmu.edu) |
| 100 points | 12 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1989 | | Roll your own minilanguages with mini-interpreters (textfiles.com) |
| 99 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 1989 | | By way of introduction – EWD 1041 (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 97 points | 1 year ago with 60 comments |
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| 1989 | | Stack Computers: the new wave (users.ece.cmu.edu) |
| 95 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Joys of Victimhood (nytimes.com) |
| 93 points | 6 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 1989 | | Uncleftish Beholding (ling.upenn.edu) |
| 89 points | 1 year ago with 33 comments |
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| 1989 | | Tim Berners-Lee's original WWW proposal (info.cern.ch) |
| 86 points | 12 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1989 | | Notes on Programming in C (doc.cat-v.org) |
| 81 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1989 | | On hygiene, intellectual and otherwise (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 78 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1989 | | Cuts and jumpers on a different scale (stuff.mit.edu) |
| 76 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1989 | | Kazuo Ishiguro (bombmagazine.org) |
| 74 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1989 | | Keyboard vs. The Mouse, Part 1 (asktog.com) |
| 70 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 1989 | | Thinking Machines – Introduction to Data Parallel Supercomputing (youtube.com) |
| 69 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1989 | | Unix: An Oral History (princeton.edu) |
| 69 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1989 | | U.N. Predicts Disaster If Global Warming Not Checked (web.archive.org) |
| 67 points | 1 year ago with 74 comments |
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| 1989 | | Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links (cqi.inf.usi.ch) |
| 64 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1989 | | A reverse-engineered description of Adobe Type 1 fonts. (minnie.tuhs.org) |
| 63 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Machinery of Freedom (daviddfriedman.com) |
| 62 points | 3 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1989 | | Three Questions About Each Bug You Find (multicians.org) |
| 62 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1989 | | Generatingfunctionology (math.upenn.edu) |
| 62 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1989 | | Can computers cope with human races? (web.stanford.edu) |
| 60 points | 2 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 1989 | | An Empirical Study of the Reliability of Unix Utilities (ftp.cs.wisc.edu) |
| 58 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1989 | | Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (stokely.com) |
| 57 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1989 | | Domain/OS Design Principles (bitsavers.org) |
| 55 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1989 | | Methods for Studying Coincidences (math.uchicago.edu) |
| 55 points | 6 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Pleasures of Eating (ecoliteracy.org) |
| 54 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1989 | | Building Your Own C Interpreter (drdobbs.com) |
| 52 points | 4 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Xerox Star: A Retrospective (www-lb.cs.umd.edu) |
| 52 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1989 | | Ten Years of Rows and Columns (aresluna.org) |
| 50 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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