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| Articles written 1980 to 1989 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1980 | | Logic Programming and Compiler Writing (sovietov.com) |
| 95 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1982 | | Living with a Computer (theatlantic.com) |
| 95 points | 9 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1983 | | Cellular Automata (content.wolfram.com) |
| 95 points | 3 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1984 | | Computer Software (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 95 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1985 | | Terry Prachett: Why Gandalf Never Married (ansible.co.uk) |
| 95 points | 15 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1985 | | Miranda: A non-strict functional language with polymorphic types (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu) |
| 95 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1987 | | Case Study: IBM's System/360-370 Architecture (cs.tufts.edu) |
| 95 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1987 | | History of Cartography: Volumes One, Two, Three, Four, and Six (press.uchicago.edu) |
| 95 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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| 1988 | | The World Is Built on Probability (archive.org) |
| 95 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1989 | | Stack Computers: the new wave (users.ece.cmu.edu) |
| 95 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1980 | | Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple (computerhistory.org) |
| 94 points | 13 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1981 | | Apple II Mouse Card (folklore.org) |
| 94 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1984 | | The 2 Sigma Problem (web.mit.edu) |
| 94 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1986 | | The Design of Postgres (db.cs.berkeley.edu) |
| 94 points | 7 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1983 | | Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work (hbr.org) |
| 93 points | 4 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Joys of Victimhood (nytimes.com) |
| 93 points | 6 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 1981 | | Landing the Nostromo (archive.org) |
| 92 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1981 | | Xerox Star 8010 Interfaces, high quality polaroids (digibarn.com) |
| 92 points | 1 year ago with 34 comments |
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| 1984 | | Cottage Computer Programming (atariarchives.org) |
| 92 points | 10 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1981 | | The Gernsback Continuum by William Gibson (web.archive.org) |
| 91 points | 4 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1982 | | Living with a Computer (theatlantic.com) |
| 91 points across 3 posts | 10 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1984 | | Interview with Bill Joy (web.cecs.pdx.edu) |
| 90 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1985 | | American Pictures (american-pictures.com) |
| 90 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1982 | | Epigrams on Programming (pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de) |
| 89 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1988 | | On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (psy.gla.ac.uk) |
| 89 points | 4 years ago with 120 comments |
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| 1989 | | Uncleftish Beholding (ling.upenn.edu) |
| 89 points | 1 year ago with 33 comments |
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| 1985 | | Apple Krackers Guide (bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de) |
| 88 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1981 | | Expense Calculator (c2.com) |
| 86 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1985 | | Briefing note: US Deputy Secretary Of State meeting with Andrei Gromyko (history.state.gov) |
| 86 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1986 | | The Conscience of a Hacker (textfiles.com) |
| 86 points | 1 year ago with 27 comments |
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| 1987 | | Lisp: A Language for Stratified Design (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 86 points | 11 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1989 | | Tim Berners-Lee's original WWW proposal (info.cern.ch) |
| 86 points | 12 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1984 | | Opening the Hood of a Word Processor (worrydream.com) |
| 85 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1984 | | The kremvax hoax (godfatherof.nl) |
| 85 points | 1 year ago with 24 comments |
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| 1985 | | The Dark Ages of AI (pdfs.semanticscholar.org) |
| 85 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1980 | | Beam Me Out Of This Death Trap, Scotty (washingtonmonthly.com) |
| 84 points | 10 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 1981 | | Computing e to 116,000 Places with a Personal Computer (archive.org) |
| 84 points | 1 year ago with 28 comments |
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| 1981 | | Byte Magazine: Future Computers (archive.org) |
| 84 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 1984 | | Thinking Forth (thinking-forth.sourceforge.net) |
| 84 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1984 | | All these companies were a lot smarter than us. What we had was luck (atariarchives.org) |
| 84 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1981 | | Captain Grace M. Hopper: The Mother of COBOL (books.google.nl) |
| 83 points | 4 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1985 | | Super Mario Bros Coin Sound (365blanc.blogspot.com) |
| 83 points | 11 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1985 | | Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It? (hpl.hp.com) |
| 83 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Original Hacker's Dictionary (dourish.com) |
| 83 points | 11 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1982 | | DEC's No Output Division Memo (archive.computerhistory.org) |
| 82 points | 9 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1982 | | Why Systolic Architectures? (eecs.harvard.edu) |
| 82 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1983 | | The Apple II Circuit Description (archive.org) |
| 82 points | 1 year ago with 17 comments |
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| 1984 | | Photography's new bag of tricks (nytimes.com) |
| 82 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 20 comments |
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| 1986 | | 68000 Tricks and Traps – Some assembly language programming guidelines (easy68k.com) |
| 82 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1981 | | A.I. (newyorker.com) |
| 81 points | 1 year ago with 50 comments |
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