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| Articles written 1980 to 1989 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1989 | | Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (users.ece.utexas.edu) |
| 1014 points across 2 posts | 21 annotations | 1 year ago with 323 comments |
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| 1985 | | Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (asc.ohio-state.edu) |
| 915 points | 5 annotations | 1 year ago with 276 comments |
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| 1989 | | Why is electricity so hard to understand? (amasci.com) |
| 556 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 145 comments |
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| 1982 | | Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (theatlantic.com) |
| 458 points across 2 posts | 3 annotations | 2 years ago with 237 comments |
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| 1981 | | Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (nytimes.com) |
| 440 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 354 comments |
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| 1982 | | Why numbering should start at zero (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 439 points across 4 posts | 4 annotations | 2 years ago with 220 comments |
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| 1985 | | Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (reprints.longform.org) |
| 439 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Awk Programming Language (archive.org) |
| 415 points | 5 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 1986 | | People Simply Empty Out (lettersofnote.com) |
| 399 points | 2 years ago with 226 comments |
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| 1981 | | How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (straightdope.com) |
| 384 points | 1 year ago with 390 comments |
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| 1985 | | The result would be a catastrophe (lettersofnote.com) |
| 381 points | 6 years ago with 187 comments |
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| 1985 | | The Parable of the Two Programmers (csd.uwo.ca) |
| 381 points | 7 years ago with 160 comments |
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| 1983 | | New UNIX implementation (groups.google.com) |
| 370 points | 8 years ago with 159 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Awk Programming Language (ia802309.us.archive.org) |
| 370 points | 4 years ago with 207 comments |
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| 1986 | | Hacker’s Manifesto (phrack.org) |
| 354 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1986 | | Programmers At Work: Bill Gates (programmersatwork.wordpress.com) |
| 348 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 1985 | | Programming as Theory Building (pages.cs.wisc.edu) |
| 342 points across 2 posts | 2 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 | 1 annotation | 3 weeks ago with 114 comments |
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| 1987 | | Nuclear War Survival Skills (oism.org) |
| 334 points | 4 years ago with 213 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 330 points | 5 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 1987 | | Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (pessimistsarchive.substack.com) |
| 327 points | 11 months ago with 381 comments |
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| 1981 | | Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (cs.virginia.edu) |
| 321 points across 4 posts | 1 month ago with 80 comments |
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| 1981 | | Changing San Francisco Is Foreseen as a Haven for Wealthy and Childless (nytimes.com) |
| 318 points across 2 posts | 2 annotations | 3 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 1987 | | Higher Math for Beginners (archive.org) |
| 315 points | 7 months ago with 89 comments |
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| 1985 | | Bumper Sticker Computer Science (bowdoin.edu) |
| 312 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1986 | | Why Read the Classics? (nybooks.com) |
| 310 points | 3 years ago with 160 comments |
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| 1986 | | Unix Recovery Legend (ee.ryerson.ca) |
| 306 points across 2 posts | 4 annotations | 1 year ago with 97 comments |
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| 1982 | | The Byzantine Generals Problem (lamport.azurewebsites.net) |
| 290 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1989 | | Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (longnow.org) |
| 280 points across 2 posts | 3 annotations | 8 months ago with 49 comments |
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| 1989 | | Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (longnow.org) |
| 279 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Tao of Programming (mit.edu) |
| 269 points | 1 year ago with 63 comments |
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| 1984 | | Window System X (talisman.org) |
| 263 points | 1 annotation | 5 months ago with 164 comments |
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| 1983 | | The Theory of Relational Databases (web.cecs.pdx.edu) |
| 261 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1985 | | Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (longform.org) |
| 253 points | 7 years ago with 148 comments |
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| 1983 | | CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of the Absolute (cia.gov) |
| 248 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 1986 | | For every 1% increase in the number of lawyers, economic growth falls 3% (sciencedirect.com) |
| 248 points | 1 year ago with 89 comments |
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| 1986 | | The Hacker's Manifesto (usc.edu) |
| 248 points | 5 years ago with 146 comments |
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| 1985 | | The Orange Juice Test (intercom.com) |
| 246 points | 3 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 1985 | | East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures (twitter.com) |
| 246 points | 3 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Tao of Programming (textfiles.com) |
| 245 points | 3 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Relativity of Wrong (chem.tufts.edu) |
| 245 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (lysator.liu.se) |
| 241 points | 2 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 1984 | | Dynamic Programming: The Name (learning.cis.upenn.edu) |
| 238 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1989 | | Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 Postmortem (antitrust.slated.org) |
| 235 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1984 | | Thinking Forth – A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems (1scyem2bunjw1ghzsf1cjwwn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com) |
| 225 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (theatlantic.com) |
| 223 points | 10 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1983 | | The man who mistook his wife for a hat (lrb.co.uk) |
| 217 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1981 | | Rare cancer seen in 41 homossexuals (nytimes.com) |
| 215 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments |
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| 1985 | | Microsoft Has It All—Almost (nytimes.com) |
| 208 points | 4 years ago with 146 comments |
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| 1982 | | Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (web.mit.edu) |
| 207 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 91 comments |
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