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| Articles written 1980 to 1989 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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1983 | | Hints for Computer System Design (bwlampson.site) |
| 81 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments |
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1986 | | Ada is not just another programming language (sci-hub.se) |
| 81 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments |
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1989 | | Notes on Programming in C (doc.cat-v.org) |
| 81 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments |
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1982 | | “I Was Tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse” by Bobby Fischer (timkr.home.xs4all.nl) |
| 80 points | 2 years ago with 91 comments |
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1983 | | The story of Mel (pbm.com) |
| 80 points | 15 years ago with 22 comments |
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1985 | | Design case history: the Commodore 64 (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 80 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments |
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1986 | | Unix Recovery Legend (ecb.torontomu.ca) |
| 80 points | 1 year ago with 26 comments |
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1987 | | The Key of Lisp (iment.com) |
| 80 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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1980 | | Beam Me Out of This Death Trap, Scotty (iasa-intl.com) |
| 79 points | 1 year ago with 44 comments |
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1982 | | Loglisp: An Alternative to Prolog (aitopics.org) |
| 79 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments |
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1983 | | Hints for Computer System Design (research.microsoft.com) |
| 79 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 9 comments |
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1986 | | Behind the Scenes of a Bank Takeover by FDIC (latimes.com) |
| 79 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments |
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1986 | | Simulating Fluid Dynamics with Cellular Automata (content.wolfram.com) |
| 79 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments |
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1981 | | RFC 791: Internet Protocol (datatracker.ietf.org) |
| 78 points | 3 years ago with 43 comments |
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1981 | | History of Ball Bearings (ntrs.nasa.gov) |
| 78 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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1981 | | The truth about Unix: The user interface is horrid (ceri.memphis.edu) |
| 78 points | 9 years ago with 87 comments |
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1982 | | Alan Perlis: Epigrams on Programming (gwern.net) |
| 78 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments |
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1984 | | 1984, the Year of the 32-bit Microprocessor (archive.org) |
| 78 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments |
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1986 | | “Little Languages” by Jon Bentley (staff.um.edu.mt) |
| 78 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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1989 | | On hygiene, intellectual and otherwise (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 78 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments |
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1982 | | Radio hams do battle with 'Russian Woodpecker' (qsl.net) |
| 77 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments |
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1986 | | Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival (nsscds.org) |
| 77 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments |
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1987 | | Scratch Monkey Story (edp.org) |
| 77 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 2 comments |
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1987 | | Stan Ulam, John von Neumann, and the Monte Carlo Method (permalink.lanl.gov) |
| 77 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments |
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1988 | | A Forth Apologia (holonforth.com) |
| 77 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments |
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1983 | | Put That There [video] (youtube.com) |
| 76 points | 2 years ago with 16 comments |
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1984 | | How to Expose an Eavesdropper (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 76 points | 8 years ago with 5 comments |
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1985 | | CROBOTS is a programming game, for programmers or aspiring programmers (tpoindex.github.io) |
| 76 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments |
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1986 | | How Not to Lie with Statistics: Avoiding Common Mistakes (dash.harvard.edu) |
| 76 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments |
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1987 | | Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program [pdf] (web.stanford.edu) |
| 76 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments |
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1989 | | Cuts and jumpers on a different scale (stuff.mit.edu) |
| 76 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments |
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1983 | | John Walker's Crisis Letter to Autodesk Employees (fourmilab.ch) |
| 75 points | 16 years ago with 17 comments |
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1983 | | How and How Not to Write a Good Systems Paper (usenix.org) |
| 75 points | 5 years ago with 0 comments |
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1984 | | Reflections on Trusting Trust (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 75 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments |
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1981 | | Round rectangles are everywhere (folklore.org) |
| 74 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments |
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1988 | | Dijkstra on the cruelty of really teaching computing science (userweb.cs.utexas.edu) |
| 74 points | 14 years ago with 47 comments |
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1989 | | Kazuo Ishiguro (bombmagazine.org) |
| 74 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments |
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1980 | | Omikron TRS-80 Boards, NEWDOS+ and Sundry Other Matters (archive.org) |
| 73 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments |
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1982 | | “Blade Runner” has its own look, and a place in film history (newyorker.com) |
| 73 points | 2 years ago with 64 comments |
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1982 | | Doing a Job (bebekim.wordpress.com) |
| 73 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments |
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1985 | | Thinking Like a Mathematician (news.psu.edu) |
| 73 points | 9 years ago with 4 comments |
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1986 | | My Life as a Forth Interpreter (bit-player.org) |
| 73 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments |
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1987 | | The Outsiders (worlddreambank.org) |
| 73 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 7 comments |
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1987 | | The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (ditext.com) |
| 73 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 49 comments |
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1985 | | The Case Against Credentialism (theatlantic.com) |
| 72 points | 9 years ago with 22 comments |
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1984 | | Metafont (tug.ctan.org) |
| 71 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments |
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1980 | | Yet Another Modest Proposal: The Roentgen Standard (larryniven.net) |
| 70 points | 11 years ago with 13 comments |
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1981 | | Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy and childless (nytimes.com) |
| 70 points | 9 years ago with 94 comments |
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1982 | | Epigrams in Programming (cpsc.yale.edu) |
| 70 points | 1 year ago with 37 comments |
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1983 | | The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce (web.stanford.edu) |
| 70 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 6 comments |
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