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Articles written in 1993 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1993The Fall of Schwinn (chicagobusiness.com)
67 points | 8 years ago with 50 comments
1993Es: A shell with higher-order functions (wryun.github.io)
66 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
1993Metaobject protocols: Why we want them and what else they can do (users.cs.duke.edu)
65 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments
1993The Turn (theatlantic.com)
65 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 1 comments
1993The Upside-Down "e" - an Editor's Nightmare (azer.com)
64 points | 14 years ago with 15 comments
1993The Use of Name Spaces in Plan 9 (www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de)
63 points | 9 years ago with 28 comments
1993Magic and Software Design (asktog.com)
62 points | 4 years ago with 9 comments
1993A Brief Introduction to Forth (users.ece.cmu.edu)
62 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
1993Antique Roman Dishes – Collection (cs.cmu.edu)
62 points | 1 year ago with 25 comments
1993The Pocket Handbook of Image Processing Algorithms in C (adaptiveart.eecs.umich.edu)
61 points | 10 years ago with 14 comments
1993Unix Administration Horror Stories (yak.net)
59 points | 9 years ago with 35 comments
1993The Early History of Smalltalk (gagne.homedns.org)
59 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments
1993The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Neural Network Perspective (iro.umontreal.ca)
58 points | 5 years ago with 3 comments
1993PDB – ANSI-C to PostScript compiler (compilers.iecc.com)
58 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
1993How the World Works (theatlantic.com)
57 points | 8 years ago with 25 comments
1993Secrets of the Magus (newyorker.com)
57 points | 11 years ago with 6 comments
1993Icon Programming Language – A brief introduction (www2.cs.arizona.edu)
56 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments
1993Email from Bill (newyorker.com)
56 points | 2 years ago with 44 comments
1993The Discoveries of Continuations (math.bas.bg)
56 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments
1993Bruce Sterling: Internet (lysator.liu.se)
55 points | 10 years ago with 59 comments
1993Burning a NeXTCube (web.archive.org)
54 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments
1993Nobel Prize speech from the inventor of PCR, Kary Mullis (nobelprize.org)
54 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments
1993Microsoft Creative Writer (en.wikipedia.org)
51 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments
1993What could you write down about a juggling pattern? (juggling.org)
50 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments
1993Engineering a Sort Function (cs.fit.edu)
50 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments
1993Don DeLillo, The Art of Fiction No. 135 (theparisreview.org)
49 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments
1993Commodore Amiga – The Settlers / Serf City: Life Is Feudal (youtube.com)
49 points | 1 year ago with 25 comments
1993To See and Not See by Oliver Sacks (willamette.edu)
47 points | 9 years ago with 2 comments
1993The telephone transformed – into almost everything (nytimes.com)
44 points | 4 years ago with 18 comments
1993Assemblers and Loaders (davidsalomon.name)
41 points | 9 years ago with 3 comments
1993Testicular Compression Boosts Testosterone (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
41 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments
1993NeXTSTEP Programming (simson.net)
41 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
1993Huntington's Disease gene is found (news.mit.edu)
40 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
1993The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development (jstor.org)
26 points | 1 year ago with 9 comments
1993Emerging from Censorship (salmagundi.skidmore.edu)
17 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments
1993The Night Before Doom: A Poem from the Past (gamers.org)
15 points | 11 months ago with 1 comments
1993Numbers' & Numeral systems' history and curiosities (archimedes-lab.org)
13 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments
1993Down with GUIs! (wired.com)
12 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments
1993Bill Gates on Microsoft's “hard-core detractors” (twitter.com)
10 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments
1993I'd like to propose a new, optional HTML tag (twitter.com)
10 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments

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