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Articles written 1980 to 1989 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1984A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge (medium.com)
119 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments
1983Hints for Computer System Design (microsoft.com)
118 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments
1984Early computer art by Barbara Nessim (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
118 points | 6 months ago with 5 comments
1985Weizsäcker's speech on 40th anniversary of WW2's end (bundespraesident.de)
118 points | 3 years ago with 105 comments
1987Unix Text Processing (oreilly.com)
118 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 0 comments
1985Crabs: The bitmap terror (lucacardelli.name)
117 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 9 comments
1981Operating the Lisp Machine (bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
116 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments
1983Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – Physical Mathematician (sci-hub.se)
116 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
1988Why some things are darker when wet (fermatslibrary.com)
116 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
1988Germans Who Refused to Execute Civilians During World War II (sci-hub.tw)
115 points | 5 years ago with 104 comments
1989The Mundanity of Excellence (fermatslibrary.com)
115 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments
1984Whole Earth Software Catalog (archive.org)
114 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
1985The Connection Machine (dspace.mit.edu)
114 points | 7 years ago with 59 comments
1982Report warns computers may threaten constitutional rights (archive.org)
113 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments
1985Inside Macintosh (weihenstephan.org)
112 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
1980Dune Genesis (moodleshare.org)
111 points | 9 years ago with 72 comments
1988Dijkstra: On the cruelty of really teaching computer science (cs.utexas.edu)
111 points | 10 years ago with 61 comments
1982The Byzantine Generals Problem (research.microsoft.com)
110 points | 9 years ago with 27 comments
1987HyperCard Users Guide (vintageapple.org)
110 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments
1982Computer Spacegames (drive.google.com)
109 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments
1984Why Men Love War (public.wsu.edu)
109 points | 9 years ago with 92 comments
1986Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle (history.nasa.gov)
109 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
1985How to do with probabilities what people say you can’t (ftp.cs.ucla.edu)
108 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments
1988Fabrik – A Visual Programming Environment (web.archive.org)
108 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments
1989Ada implementation of an X Window System Server (sci-hub.se)
108 points | 2 years ago with 38 comments
1983The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce (esquire.com)
107 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 9 comments
1982Michael Bloomberg on starting a business during tough economic times (nytimes.com)
106 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments
1985Programmimg Pearls (dl.acm.org)
105 points | 1 year ago with 29 comments
1989Tiananmen Square: Protests and Massacre (en.wikipedia.org)
105 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments
1981Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (lysator.liu.se)
104 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 55 comments
1986The CIA's Deadly Deceits and the Vietnam War, with Ralph McGehee (ourhiddenhistory.org)
104 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments
1988Tom Duff on Duff's device (lysator.liu.se)
104 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 18 comments
1983Inventing the Atari 2600 (spectrum.ieee.org)
103 points | 2 years ago with 47 comments
1985Forth BBS 2 (github.com)
103 points | 2 years ago with 12 comments
1984The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (urbigenous.net)
102 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments
1982An Overview of TUNIS: A UNIX Look-Alike Written in Concurrent Euclid (archive.org)
101 points | 1 year ago with 45 comments
1984Ken Thompson: Reflections on Trusting Trust (cm.bell-labs.com)
101 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 9 comments
1985Why Forth Isn't Slow (archive.org)
101 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments
1989Steve Jobs: Out for Revenge (nytimes.com)
101 points | 4 years ago with 107 comments
1981Jim Blinn and Ed Catmull – graphics class at Berkeley (youtube.com)
100 points | 1 year ago with 19 comments
1981Flipping your Disk (atarimagazines.com)
100 points | 4 years ago with 61 comments
1984A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences (sci-hub.tf)
100 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments
1989Stack Computers: the new wave (ece.cmu.edu)
100 points | 11 years ago with 37 comments
1988Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and Value Cells (nhplace.com)
99 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments
1989Roll your own minilanguages with mini-interpreters (textfiles.com)
99 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments
1981The $10,000-a-year college education has arrived (nytimes.com)
98 points | 8 years ago with 145 comments
1985Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems (rpgpoet.com)
98 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments
1989By way of introduction – EWD 1041 (cs.utexas.edu)
97 points | 1 year ago with 60 comments
1981Byte Magazine Volume 06 Number 09 – Artificial Intelligence (archive.org)
96 points | 11 months ago with 39 comments
1985What is a Hacker? (cs.berkeley.edu)
96 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments
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