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| Articles written 1980 to 1989 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1986 | | The Hacker's Manifesto (usc.edu) |
| 248 points | 8 years ago with 146 comments |
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| 1985 | | The Orange Juice Test (intercom.com) |
| 246 points | 6 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 1985 | | East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures (twitter.com) |
| 246 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Tao of Programming (textfiles.com) |
| 245 points | 5 years ago with 57 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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| 1987 | | The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (lysator.liu.se) |
| 241 points | 4 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 1984 | | Dynamic Programming: The Name (learning.cis.upenn.edu) |
| 238 points | 8 years ago with 61 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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| 1984 | | The UNIX Programming Environment (archive.org) |
| 231 points | 2 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 1984 | | Thinking Forth – A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems (1scyem2bunjw1ghzsf1cjwwn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com) |
| 225 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1982 | | Doing a Job (govleaders.org) |
| 224 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 16 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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| 1983 | | The man who mistook his wife for a hat (lrb.co.uk) |
| 217 points | 9 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1981 | | Rare cancer seen in 41 homossexuals (nytimes.com) |
| 215 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1982 | | Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (theatlantic.com) |
| 209 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments |
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| 1985 | | Microsoft Has It All—Almost (nytimes.com) |
| 208 points | 7 years ago with 146 comments |
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| 1982 | | Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (web.mit.edu) |
| 207 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Goiânia Accident (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 205 points | 3 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 1983 | | The Story of Mel (catb.org) |
| 202 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 4 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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| 1981 | | Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers (history.com) |
| 200 points | 3 years ago with 251 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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| 1984 | | KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (youtube.com) |
| 199 points | 2 years ago with 154 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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| 1985 | | Programming as Theory Building (gist.github.com) |
| 193 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Complete Hypercard Handbook (archive.org) |
| 193 points | 3 years ago with 68 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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| 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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| 1981 | | Feynman: Simulating Physics with Computers (cs.berkeley.edu) |
| 187 points | 8 years ago with 22 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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| 1984 | | Why Functional Programming Matters (cse.chalmers.se) |
| 181 points | 8 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 1981 | | M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story (theatlantic.com) |
| 180 points | 5 years ago with 191 comments |
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| 1986 | | The History of FoxPro: Interview with Wayne Ratliff (foxprohistory.org) |
| 179 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 47 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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| 1986 | | No Silver Bullet (worrydream.com) |
| 175 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 85 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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| 1980 | | Bell Labs Org Chart (neil.computer) |
| 172 points | 2 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 1984 | | The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (downlode.org) |
| 170 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1980 | | America's Cult of Ignorance (aphelis.net) |
| 169 points | 7 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 1981 | | A Review of Modern Sail Theory (ljjensen.net) |
| 167 points | 7 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1984 | | Why Men Love War (esquire.com) |
| 165 points | 6 years ago with 174 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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| 1985 | | What happened to the laptop computer? (nytimes.com) |
| 164 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 1981 | | Rob Pike: An important message from Dennis Ritchie (plus.google.com) |
| 163 points | 13 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1986 | | He Understood Not Only What We Did but What We Were Supposed to Do (articles.latimes.com) |
| 161 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1983 | | Apple Reveals ‘Lisa’, Its $50M Gamble (newsweek.com) |
| 158 points | 5 years ago with 179 comments |
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| 1984 | | Original Spec for Lotus Notes (kapor.com) |
| 158 points | 8 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 1983 | | Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Design (archive.org) |
| 156 points | 4 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1983 | | An Inside Look at MS-DOS – The design decisions behind the popular OS (patersontech.com) |
| 154 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments |
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