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| Articles written in 1996 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1996 | | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (opendocs.github.io) |
| 665 points | 5 years ago with 142 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Anti-Mac User Interface (nngroup.com) |
| 440 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 1996 | | “I am literally losing sleep” over Java (twitter.com) |
| 396 points | 2 years ago with 403 comments |
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| 1996 | | John Carmack on QuakeWorld latency and business model (raw.githubusercontent.com) |
| 395 points | 5 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 1996 | | "Invisible Electrostatic Wall" at 3M adhesive tape plant (amasci.com) |
| 367 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1996 | | Will Wright on designing user interfaces to simulation games (donhopkins.medium.com) |
| 367 points | 1 year ago with 74 comments |
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| 1996 | | Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (sfwriter.com) |
| 362 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Net Is a Waste of Time (nytimes.com) |
| 303 points | 11 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Art of Assembly Language (web.archive.org) |
| 297 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 1996 | | “Invisible Electrostatic Wall” at 3M adhesive tape plant (amasci.com) |
| 293 points | 6 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 1996 | | Build Your Own Flight Sim in C++ (archive.org) |
| 284 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 59 comments |
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| 1996 | | The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (nytimes.com) |
| 282 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 1996 | | Lessons I wish I had been taught (alumni.media.mit.edu) |
| 275 points | 2 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1996 | | NSA is monitoring key Internet routers (marc.info) |
| 266 points | 9 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1996 | | ML for the Working Programmer, 2nd Edition (cl.cam.ac.uk) |
| 266 points | 7 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1996 | | Why Three Prongs? (amasci.com) |
| 249 points | 5 years ago with 232 comments |
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| 1996 | | Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (math.tamu.edu) |
| 249 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1996 | | The long strange trip to Java (blinkenlights.com) |
| 247 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 1996 | | Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (people.math.osu.edu) |
| 246 points | 8 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 1996 | | Sergey Brin’s Resume (infolab.stanford.edu) |
| 243 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 1996 | | Bill Gates: I'm literally losing sleep over Java (techemails.com) |
| 212 points | 1 year ago with 229 comments |
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| 1996 | | Mother Earth Mother Board (wired.com) |
| 210 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1996 | | How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (sfgate.com) |
| 208 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1996 | | How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (gwern.net) |
| 207 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 1996 | | Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anybody'” (groups.google.com) |
| 205 points | 6 years ago with 189 comments |
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| 1996 | | Retrospective review of Gödel, Escher, Bach (cs.nyu.edu) |
| 200 points | 3 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Art of Assembly Language Programming (phatcode.net) |
| 198 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 1996 | | SoftRAM 95 (drdobbs.com) |
| 187 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1996 | | Steve Jobs Introduces WebObjects [video] (channel9.msdn.com) |
| 186 points | 10 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 1996 | | Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (phrack.org) |
| 181 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1996 | | "How do I set the User-Agent string in Java?" - L. Page (guyro.typepad.com) |
| 173 points | 15 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1996 | | Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming (norvig.com) |
| 172 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1996 | | They Write the Right Stuff (fastcompany.com) |
| 167 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1996 | | Can a Human See a Single Photon? (math.ucr.edu) |
| 167 points | 1 year ago with 131 comments |
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| 1996 | | A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (eff.org) |
| 167 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1996 | | Apple and NeXT announce merger (nextcomputers.org) |
| 159 points | 7 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 1996 | | QuakeWorld by John Carmack (fabiensanglard.net) |
| 154 points | 8 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 1996 | | Quake related work logs (gamers.org) |
| 154 points | 1 year ago with 101 comments |
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| 1996 | | Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design (users.monash.edu) |
| 150 points | 3 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 1996 | | Java JDK 1.0 (github.com) |
| 148 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1996 | | Linux Logo (lkml.org) |
| 147 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1996 | | A Unified Mathematical Language for Physics and Engineering (mrao.cam.ac.uk) |
| 138 points | 10 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1996 | | Quake's Lighting Model: Surface Caching (bluesnews.com) |
| 133 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1996 | | Peter's Evil Overlord List (eviloverlord.com) |
| 132 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1996 | | Hydrofluoric Acid: An Invisible Fire (discovermagazine.com) |
| 132 points | 6 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1996 | | Giftedness and Genius: Crucial Differences (gwern.net) |
| 132 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1996 | | Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (web.media.mit.edu) |
| 131 points | 1 year ago with 35 comments |
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| 1996 | | Cassidy Curtis's Marvelous Surface Drawings (math.brown.edu) |
| 129 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1996 | | On FPGAs as PC Coprocessors (fpgacpu.org) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1996 | | Setting User-Agent Field? (groups.google.com) |
| 127 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments |
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