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|  | Articles written in 1990 that Hacker News still talks about. | 
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|  | Go back or forward one year. See all articles from 1990 to 1999. | 
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| 1990 |  | Choosing a Name for Your Computer  (rfc-editor.org) | 
|  | 432 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 200 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer  (tools.ietf.org) | 
|  | 425 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 121 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks  (drive.google.com) | 
|  | 413 points | 7 years ago with 98 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants  (algorithmicbotany.org) | 
|  | 328 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 22 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants  (algorithmicbotany.org) | 
|  | 277 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 14 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project  (w3.org) | 
|  | 258 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 45 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat  (web.stanford.edu) | 
|  | 231 points | 2 years ago with 91 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Are sockets the wave of the future?  (groups.google.com) | 
|  | 221 points | 2 years ago with 90 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Why functional programming matters  (cs.kent.ac.uk) | 
|  | 215 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 103 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | SJ Games vs. the Secret Service  (sjgames.com) | 
|  | 214 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 47 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Bell Labs' Plan 9 research project looks to tomorrow  (doc.cat-v.org) | 
|  | 194 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 65 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Bill Watterson Commencement Speech  (web.mit.edu) | 
|  | 180 points | 1 year ago with 52 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video]  (youtube.com) | 
|  | 168 points | 1 year ago with 112 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Someone is stealing your life  (lycaeum.org) | 
|  | 167 points | 14 years ago with 157 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Unix in East Germany  (groups.google.com) | 
|  | 159 points | 7 years ago with 45 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders  (nytimes.com) | 
|  | 156 points | 14 years ago with 80 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Origins of the finger command  (groups.google.com) | 
|  | 150 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Prefix Sums and Their Applications  (cs.cmu.edu) | 
|  | 129 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 10 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Why Schools Don’t Educate  (thesunmagazine.org) | 
|  | 115 points | 3 years ago with 139 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Taxonomies of Visual Programming  (cs.cmu.edu) | 
|  | 107 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Lithium in drinking water and crimes, suicides related to drug addictions  (researchgate.net) | 
|  | 99 points | 6 years ago with 56 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Linear types can change the world  (cs.ioc.ee) | 
|  | 95 points | 7 years ago with 45 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Mathematical Education  (arxiv.org) | 
|  | 95 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | How to Print Floating-Point Numbers Accurately  (lists.nongnu.org) | 
|  | 78 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Computer-related horror stories, folklore and anecdotes  (speedygrl.com) | 
|  | 78 points | 11 years ago with 10 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | The Science of Scientific Writing  (americanscientist.org) | 
|  | 73 points | 3 years ago with 9 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Postscript on the Societies of Control  (theanarchistlibrary.org) | 
|  | 72 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Bill Watterson Commencement Speech  (graduationwisdom.com) | 
|  | 72 points | 13 years ago with 14 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Petri Nets Are Monoids  (core.ac.uk) | 
|  | 72 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | The Machine That Changed the World: Interview with Alan Kay  (openvault.wgbh.org) | 
|  | 69 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | The Nimble Type Inferencer for Common Lisp-84  (home.pipeline.com) | 
|  | 68 points | 8 years ago with 1 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Implementing Software Timers  (kohala.com) | 
|  | 66 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | A Letter from Ken Snelson Regarding Buckminster Fuller and Tensegrity  (grunch.net) | 
|  | 60 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Why Aren't Operating Systems Getting Faster as Fast as Hardware?  (web.stanford.edu) | 
|  | 55 points | 10 years ago with 39 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Mondo 2000 Issue 2  (archive.org) | 
|  | 55 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | The Macintosh Way  (guykawasaki.typepad.com) | 
|  | 54 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | US Army Field Manual: Basic Cryptanalysis  (umich.edu) | 
|  | 53 points | 10 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Who Died in Beijing, And Why  (docs.law.gwu.edu) | 
|  | 53 points | 11 years ago with 31 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn’t Pay  (hbr.org) | 
|  | 51 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | The Flying Crowbar  (merkle.com) | 
|  | 49 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | The Tera Computer System  (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu) | 
|  | 49 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Computation at the Edge of Chaos  (pdfs.semanticscholar.org) | 
|  | 48 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Writing Efficient Programs  (crowl.org) | 
|  | 47 points | 10 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | The Science of Scientific Writing  (americanscientist.org) | 
|  | 45 points | 12 years ago with 9 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | A Not Terribly Brief History of the Electronic Frontier Foundation  (w2.eff.org) | 
|  | 44 points | 10 years ago with 3 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Finding Structure in Time  (crl.ucsd.edu) | 
|  | 43 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Why X Is Not Our Ideal Window System  (std.org) | 
|  | 42 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Whatever Happened to New Math?  (americanheritage.com) | 
|  | 42 points | 4 years ago with 101 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | BaSiX – A Basic interpreter written in TeX  (tug.org) | 
|  | 40 points | 7 years ago with 5 comments | 
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| 1990 |  | Computing Before Computers  (ed-thelen.org) | 
|  | 40 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments | 
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