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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 | 1 year 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 | 3 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 | 6 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 1990 | | The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (algorithmicbotany.org) |
| 328 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1990 | | The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (algorithmicbotany.org) |
| 277 points across 2 posts | 3 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 | 1 year ago with 91 comments |
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| 1990 | | Are sockets the wave of the future? (groups.google.com) |
| 221 points | 1 year 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 | 6 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 | 2 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1990 | | Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (web.mit.edu) |
| 180 points | 10 months 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 | 13 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 1990 | | Unix in East Germany (groups.google.com) |
| 159 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1990 | | All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (nytimes.com) |
| 156 points | 13 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 1990 | | Origins of the finger command (groups.google.com) |
| 150 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 1990 | | Prefix Sums and Their Applications (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 129 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1990 | | Why Schools Don’t Educate (thesunmagazine.org) |
| 115 points | 2 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 1990 | | Taxonomies of Visual Programming (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 107 points | 3 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 | 5 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1990 | | Linear types can change the world (cs.ioc.ee) |
| 95 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1990 | | Mathematical Education (arxiv.org) |
| 95 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1990 | | How to Print Floating-Point Numbers Accurately (lists.nongnu.org) |
| 78 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1990 | | Computer-related horror stories, folklore and anecdotes (speedygrl.com) |
| 78 points | 10 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1990 | | The Science of Scientific Writing (americanscientist.org) |
| 73 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1990 | | Postscript on the Societies of Control (theanarchistlibrary.org) |
| 72 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1990 | | Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (graduationwisdom.com) |
| 72 points | 12 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1990 | | Petri Nets Are Monoids (core.ac.uk) |
| 72 points | 4 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 | 7 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1990 | | The Nimble Type Inferencer for Common Lisp-84 (home.pipeline.com) |
| 68 points | 7 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1990 | | Implementing Software Timers (kohala.com) |
| 66 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1990 | | A Letter from Ken Snelson Regarding Buckminster Fuller and Tensegrity (grunch.net) |
| 60 points | 2 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 | 9 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1990 | | Mondo 2000 Issue 2 (archive.org) |
| 55 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1990 | | The Macintosh Way (guykawasaki.typepad.com) |
| 54 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1990 | | US Army Field Manual: Basic Cryptanalysis (umich.edu) |
| 53 points | 9 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1990 | | Who Died in Beijing, And Why (docs.law.gwu.edu) |
| 53 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1990 | | Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn’t Pay (hbr.org) |
| 51 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1990 | | The Flying Crowbar (merkle.com) |
| 49 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1990 | | The Tera Computer System (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu) |
| 49 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments |
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| 1990 | | Computation at the Edge of Chaos (pdfs.semanticscholar.org) |
| 48 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1990 | | Writing Efficient Programs (crowl.org) |
| 47 points | 9 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 | 9 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1990 | | Finding Structure in Time (crl.ucsd.edu) |
| 43 points | 5 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1990 | | Why X Is Not Our Ideal Window System (std.org) |
| 42 points | 7 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 | 6 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1990 | | Computing Before Computers (ed-thelen.org) |
| 40 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments |
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