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Articles written 1980 to 1989 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1986The Hacker's Manifesto (usc.edu)
248 points | 7 years ago with 146 comments
1985The Orange Juice Test (intercom.com)
246 points | 5 years ago with 173 comments
1985East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures (twitter.com)
246 points | 5 years ago with 78 comments
1987The Tao of Programming (textfiles.com)
245 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments
1989The Relativity of Wrong (chem.tufts.edu)
245 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments
1987The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (lysator.liu.se)
241 points | 3 years ago with 128 comments
1984Dynamic Programming: The Name (learning.cis.upenn.edu)
238 points | 7 years ago with 61 comments
1989Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 Postmortem (antitrust.slated.org)
235 points | 5 years ago with 84 comments
1984The UNIX Programming Environment (archive.org)
231 points | 1 year ago with 105 comments
1984Thinking Forth – A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems (1scyem2bunjw1ghzsf1cjwwn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com)
225 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
1982Doing a Job (govleaders.org)
224 points across 3 posts | 4 months ago with 16 comments
1989The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (theatlantic.com)
223 points | 11 years ago with 78 comments
1983The man who mistook his wife for a hat (lrb.co.uk)
217 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
1981Rare cancer seen in 41 homossexuals (nytimes.com)
215 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments
1982Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (theatlantic.com)
209 points across 2 posts | 6 months ago with 11 comments
1985Microsoft Has It All—Almost (nytimes.com)
208 points | 6 years ago with 146 comments
1982Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (web.mit.edu)
207 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 91 comments
1987The Goiânia Accident (en.wikipedia.org)
205 points | 2 years ago with 121 comments
1983The Story of Mel (catb.org)
202 points across 2 posts | 7 months ago with 4 comments
1987Letter from the Carnation Company (pleacher.com)
202 points | 1 year ago with 48 comments
1981Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers (history.com)
200 points | 3 years ago with 251 comments
1989Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (groups.google.com)
200 points | 10 months ago with 103 comments
1984KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (youtube.com)
199 points | 2 years ago with 154 comments
1989The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov (chem.tufts.edu)
196 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 60 comments
1989Why Adventure Games Suck (grumpygamer.com)
196 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 57 comments
1985Programming as Theory Building (gist.github.com)
193 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments
1988The Complete Hypercard Handbook (archive.org)
193 points | 2 years ago with 68 comments
1987The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages (research.microsoft.com)
190 points | 8 years ago with 45 comments
1989Notes on Programming in C – Rob Pike (lysator.liu.se)
188 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 39 comments
1981Feynman: Simulating Physics with Computers (cs.berkeley.edu)
187 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
1987Neural Network on a Commodore 64 (fourmilab.ch)
182 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 14 comments
1984Why Functional Programming Matters (cse.chalmers.se)
181 points | 7 years ago with 140 comments
1981M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story (theatlantic.com)
180 points | 5 years ago with 191 comments
1986The History of FoxPro: Interview with Wayne Ratliff (foxprohistory.org)
179 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments
1987Nuclear War Survival Skills (oism.org)
176 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 205 comments
1986No Silver Bullet (worrydream.com)
175 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 85 comments
1988Introduction to Functional Programming (usi-pl.github.io)
174 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
1980Bell Labs Org Chart (neil.computer)
172 points | 2 years ago with 70 comments
1984The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (downlode.org)
170 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 18 comments
1980America's Cult of Ignorance (aphelis.net)
169 points | 6 years ago with 113 comments
1981A Review of Modern Sail Theory (ljjensen.net)
167 points | 7 years ago with 54 comments
1984Why Men Love War (esquire.com)
165 points | 5 years ago with 174 comments
1989Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (blog.longnow.org)
165 points | 7 years ago with 61 comments
1985What happened to the laptop computer? (nytimes.com)
164 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 86 comments
1981Rob Pike: An important message from Dennis Ritchie (plus.google.com)
163 points | 12 years ago with 3 comments
1986He Understood Not Only What We Did but What We Were Supposed to Do (articles.latimes.com)
161 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
1983Apple Reveals ‘Lisa’, Its $50M Gamble (newsweek.com)
158 points | 4 years ago with 179 comments
1984Original Spec for Lotus Notes (kapor.com)
158 points | 7 years ago with 75 comments
1983Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Design (archive.org)
156 points | 4 years ago with 37 comments
1983An Inside Look at MS-DOS – The design decisions behind the popular OS (patersontech.com)
154 points | 1 year ago with 33 comments
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