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| Articles written in 1991 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1991 | | They're Made Out of Meat (mit.edu) |
| 1555 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 168 comments |
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| 1991 | | Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 1083 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 405 comments |
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| 1991 | | The WorldWideWeb application is now available as an alpha release (groups.google.com) |
| 438 points | 12 years ago with 125 comments |
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| 1991 | | What would you like to see most in minix? (groups.google.com) |
| 398 points | 11 years ago with 186 comments |
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| 1991 | | A TCP/IP Tutorial (tools.ietf.org) |
| 290 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1991 | | Linus Torvalds announces Linux (web.archive.org) |
| 248 points | 6 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 1991 | | Paradigms of A.I. Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (norvig.github.io) |
| 235 points | 1 year ago with 95 comments |
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| 1991 | | IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (ibiblio.org) |
| 220 points | 10 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 1991 | | Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved (erowid.org) |
| 202 points | 2 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 1991 | | Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages (bertrandmeyer.com) |
| 198 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1991 | | Tim Berners-Lee's Original Announcement (groups.google.com) |
| 184 points | 12 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1991 | | Lecture on Creativity (genius.com) |
| 154 points | 7 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1991 | | Combinatorial Music Theory (andrewduncan.net) |
| 151 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1991 | | The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher, by John Taylor Gatto (cantrip.org) |
| 138 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1991 | | Getting Started in Star Lisp (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 138 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1991 | | The Rise of Worse Is Better (dreamsongs.com) |
| 132 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1991 | | Functional programming with bananas, lenses, envelopes and barbed wire [pdf] (ris.utwente.nl) |
| 131 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1991 | | Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big (dreamsongs.com) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1991 | | What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic (docs.oracle.com) |
| 123 points | 4 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1991 | | Understand (ktxr.rs) |
| 117 points | 1 year ago with 38 comments |
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| 1991 | | Beyond Cyberpunk: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Future (archive.org) |
| 116 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1991 | | The Taos Operating System (dickpountain.co.uk) |
| 110 points | 9 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 1991 | | Language as an intellectual tool: From hieroglyphics to APL (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu) |
| 108 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1991 | | The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (jstor.org) |
| 101 points | 2 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 1991 | | Forth – The Early Years (colorforth.com) |
| 98 points | 9 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1991 | | “The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to information” (groups.google.com) |
| 93 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1991 | | Relational databases performed a task that didn't need doing (home.pipeline.com) |
| 91 points | 15 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1991 | | World Wide Web (info.cern.ch) |
| 90 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1991 | | HyperCard Stack: Douglas Adams' Megapode Nest Volume Calculator (archive.org) |
| 89 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1991 | | Intelligence Without Reason (ijcai.org) |
| 86 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1991 | | The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 80 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1991 | | The Computer for the 21st Cenury (lri.fr) |
| 78 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1991 | | Neo Geo Programming Guide (hardmvs.com) |
| 76 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1991 | | The Object-Oriented Amiga Exec (web.archive.org) |
| 72 points | 3 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1991 | | When Is It Legal to Lie in Negotiations? (sloanreview.mit.edu) |
| 71 points | 10 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1991 | | The Taos Operating System (dickpountain.co.uk) |
| 71 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1991 | | A Mathematical Trivium (physics.montana.edu) |
| 70 points | 3 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1991 | | The Lisp Machine: Noble Experiment or Fabulous Failure? (pt.withy.org) |
| 68 points | 9 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1991 | | Ways to Fool the Masses Giving Performance Results on Vector Computers (johngustafson.net) |
| 68 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1991 | | Forth – The Early Years (colorforth.github.io) |
| 68 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1991 | | Porting Unix to the 386: a Practical Approach (informatica.co.cr) |
| 64 points | 7 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1991 | | Nietzsche on Truth and Lie (rickroderick.org) |
| 61 points | 3 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1991 | | The Wonderful Power of Storytelling (w2.eff.org) |
| 57 points | 11 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1991 | | Hard-Coding Bottom-Up Code Generation Tables to Save Time and Space (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu) |
| 56 points | 4 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1991 | | DOS as a Mach 3.0 Application (usenix.org) |
| 53 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1991 | | How the Supermarket Tabloids Stay Out of Court (nytimes.com) |
| 49 points | 8 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1991 | | Profile: David A. Huffman (huffmancoding.com) |
| 47 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1991 | | Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction (wambook.sourceforge.net) |
| 46 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1991 | | Computer for the 21st Century (ics.uci.edu) |
| 44 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1991 | | CACM special issue on Lisp (cacm.acm.org) |
| 44 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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