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Articles written in 1996 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1996Bots Are Hot (wired.com)
121 points | 8 years ago with 47 comments
1996Using Prolog in Windows NT Network Configuration (web.archive.org)
121 points | 1 year ago with 25 comments
1996Tact Filters (mit.edu)
119 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments
1996Browser Bloat (miken.com)
118 points | 8 years ago with 82 comments
1996Why I am called "the Father of Visual Basic" (cooper.com)
116 points | 9 years ago with 80 comments
1996The Twelve Networking Truths (ietf.org)
115 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 17 comments
1996RAM Doubler 2 (tidbits.com)
114 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
1996What is Electricity? (amasci.com)
113 points | 4 years ago with 46 comments
1996How to help someone use a computer (pages.gseis.ucla.edu)
106 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 46 comments
1996The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering (sigchi.org)
104 points | 8 years ago with 72 comments
1996Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing (archive.wired.com)
102 points | 9 years ago with 86 comments
1996Netheads vs. Bellheads (wired.com)
102 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
1996To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (dkeenan.com)
102 points | 4 years ago with 29 comments
1996It's the Latency, Stupid (rescomp.stanford.edu)
101 points | 10 years ago with 52 comments
1996With every good film I see, I feel reborn (sabzian.be)
101 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments
1996Exterminate All Operating System Abstractions (cs.berkeley.edu)
99 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments
1996 Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color? (research.ibm.com)
97 points | 11 years ago with 20 comments
1996Interview with Bob Yannes, creator of the SID chip (web.archive.org)
97 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments
1996Turing Machines Are Recurrent Neural Networks (users.ics.aalto.fi)
97 points | 1 year ago with 33 comments
1996Improbable Inspiration: Bayesian Networks (cs.ubc.ca)
96 points | 3 years ago with 20 comments
1996The PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide (cr.yp.to)
95 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
1996Generative Music – Brian Eno (inmotionmagazine.com)
95 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments
1996Why Software Jewels Are Rare (cse.msu.edu)
93 points | 3 years ago with 73 comments
1996Is Sony's 140MB MiniDisc Drive the Next Betamax? (web.archive.org)
93 points | 3 years ago with 125 comments
1996Ray-Casting Tutorial for Game Development and Other Purposes (permadi.com)
93 points | 7 years ago with 7 comments
1996Essentials of Standard ML Modules (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
92 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
1996Why computer modeling should become a popular hobby (qrg.northwestern.edu)
92 points | 1 year ago with 31 comments
1996Content Is King (web.archive.org)
87 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
1996Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet (dl.acm.org)
87 points | 4 years ago with 37 comments
1996White Collars Turn Blue (mit.edu)
85 points | 15 years ago with 40 comments
1996Some rules kids won't learn in school (ime.usp.br)
83 points | 13 years ago with 67 comments
1996Purely Functional Data Structures (cs.cmu.edu)
83 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments
1996The Year on the Net (wsj.com)
82 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments
1996Internet addiction: The emergence of a new clinical disorder (netaddiction.com)
81 points | 2 years ago with 78 comments
1996How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (bioperl.org)
80 points | 11 years ago with 63 comments
1996One person's war on junk mail (langston.com)
80 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments
1996Internet Explorer is evil (toastytech.com)
80 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments
1996Design Patterns in Dynamic Languages (norvig.com)
78 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments
1996Classic SE Mistakes (cs.nmsu.edu)
77 points | 2 years ago with 45 comments
1996Why I Wrote “The Crucible” (newyorker.com)
77 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments
1996Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (dolekemp96.org)
76 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments
1996USB, Java take center stage at Comdex (sunsite.uakom.sk)
76 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments
1996Money and Investing (philip.greenspun.com)
72 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments
1996Well, duh (lrb.co.uk)
72 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments
1996Andy Grove's Paranoia: Universal Lessons (hbr.org)
72 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
1996Proposal for an Internet Service: The Eternal Home Page (neilsloane.com)
72 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
1996Apple Pippin (en.wikipedia.org)
68 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
1996Mother Earth Mother Board (archive.wired.com)
67 points | 10 years ago with 15 comments
1996A Country Is Not a Company (hbr.org)
67 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments
1996A Life that Added Up to Something: Paul Erdos (math.ohio-state.edu)
66 points | 15 years ago with 16 comments
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