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| Articles written 1980 to 1989 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1989 | | The Real War 1939-1945 (theatlantic.com) |
| 154 points | 2 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 1987 | | Infants' sense of pain is recognized, finally (nytimes.com) |
| 153 points | 2 years ago with 350 comments |
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| 1980 | | Atari's “The Book” (pdf.textfiles.com) |
| 150 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1983 | | A Proposal For A System To Replace Ordinary Record Merchandising (zappa.com) |
| 150 points | 12 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1980 | | Lisp Comes of Age (microship.com) |
| 147 points | 4 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 1983 | | Ironies of Automation (ise.ncsu.edu) |
| 147 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1987 | | Why calculating is better than scheming (cs.kent.ac.uk) |
| 145 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1981 | | EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable Display Editor (gnu.org) |
| 144 points | 10 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1982 | | AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video] (youtube.com) |
| 143 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1986 | | Unix Recovery Legend (ee.ryerson.ca:8080) |
| 143 points | 9 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1982 | | Apple IIe Design Guidelines (apple2scans.net) |
| 142 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1984 | | Lisp Machine Manual (hanshuebner.github.io) |
| 142 points | 7 years ago with 152 comments |
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| 1987 | | Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems (inf.ed.ac.uk) |
| 142 points | 4 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 1983 | | BYTE Magazine: The C Language (archive.org) |
| 141 points | 9 years ago with 46 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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| 1982 | | The Architecture of the Burroughs B-5000 (smecc.org) |
| 140 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1983 | | Silence Is a Commons (dlc.dlib.indiana.edu) |
| 140 points | 3 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1982 | | Photos from the Surface of Venus (twitter.com) |
| 139 points | 3 years ago with 60 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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| 1983 | | ZX Spectrum BASIC programming (worldofspectrum.net) |
| 138 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1980 | | LSD – My Problem Child (maps.org) |
| 135 points | 4 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 1986 | | Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle (science.ksc.nasa.gov) |
| 135 points | 10 years ago with 79 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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| 1982 | | A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory (bkent.net) |
| 133 points | 10 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1984 | | Thinking Forth (thinking-forth.sourceforge.net) |
| 132 points | 2 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1986 | | You and Your Research (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 132 points | 2 years ago with 33 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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| 1986 | | Notation as a Tool of Thought (eecg.utoronto.ca) |
| 131 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1983 | | The Coming Crisis in Home Computers (nytimes.com) |
| 130 points | 6 years ago with 180 comments |
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| 1984 | | Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 129 points | 1 year ago with 57 comments |
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| 1985 | | The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker (rheingold.com) |
| 128 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1986 | | The perplexing life of Ernő Rubik (fei.edu.br) |
| 128 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1983 | | Silence Is a Commons (davidtinapple.com) |
| 127 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1986 | | Grace Hopper on Late Night with David Letterman (youtube.com) |
| 126 points | 1 year ago with 28 comments |
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| 1980 | | Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (worrydream.com) |
| 125 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1982 | | Inside the Soviet Army (militera.lib.ru) |
| 125 points | 10 years ago with 107 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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| 1982 | | Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (archive.org) |
| 124 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1985 | | How to Write with Style (peterstekel.com) |
| 124 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Beginning of the Monte Carlo Method (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 124 points | 6 years ago with 31 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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| 1980 | | How to Get into Farming with No Money (smallfarmersjournal.com) |
| 123 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1982 | | Perlis' Epigrams (cs.yale.edu) |
| 123 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1983 | | Smalltalk 80 – Blue Book (stephane.ducasse.free.fr) |
| 122 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1983 | | Free Unix (article.olduse.net) |
| 122 points | 11 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1985 | | Underwater Exploring Is Banned in Brazil (nytimes.com) |
| 122 points | 5 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 1982 | | A Personal History of APL (ed-thelen.org) |
| 121 points | 1 year ago with 47 comments |
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| 1983 | | Ironies of Automation (bainbrdg.demon.co.uk) |
| 119 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 3 comments |
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