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