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| Articles written in 1997 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1997 | | NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes (cypherspace.org) |
| 1623 points across 4 posts | 7 months ago with 167 comments |
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| 1997 | | Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations [pdf] (web.williams.edu) |
| 1081 points across 3 posts | 5 months ago with 243 comments |
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| 1997 | | Graphics Programming Black Book (github.com) |
| 693 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death (outsideonline.com) |
| 437 points | 11 years ago with 184 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Right to Read (gnu.org) |
| 379 points | 3 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 1997 | | Ten lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations (math.toronto.edu) |
| 338 points | 8 years ago with 118 comments |
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| 1997 | | Introduction to A* (theory.stanford.edu) |
| 337 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1997 | | The currency of the new economy won't be money, but attention (wired.com) |
| 336 points | 1 year ago with 149 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Right to Read (gnu.org) |
| 302 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 21 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Sims Game Design Documents (donhopkins.com) |
| 282 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1997 | | Motive.c: The Soul of the Sims (donhopkins.com) |
| 255 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Story of the Ping Program (ftp.arl.army.mil) |
| 249 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (dspguide.com) |
| 238 points | 7 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1997 | | FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (telecommander.com) |
| 234 points | 5 years ago with 211 comments |
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| 1997 | | Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (ams.org) |
| 226 points | 3 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Development of Erlang (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 223 points | 2 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1997 | | The computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (catonmat.net) |
| 215 points | 3 years ago with 179 comments |
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| 1997 | | Ways to save Apple (archive.wired.com) |
| 208 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 1997 | | Doc Searls on Steve Jobs (scripting.com) |
| 203 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1997 | | Fuck.com (links.net) |
| 196 points | 2 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 1997 | | Gattaca draft script (sfy.ru) |
| 183 points | 1 year ago with 131 comments |
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| 1997 | | Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible? (math.ucr.edu) |
| 176 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1997 | | Reality is a Shared Hallucination (reactor-core.org) |
| 173 points | 7 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 1997 | | Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours (aelinik.free.fr) |
| 172 points | 6 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Story of the PING Program (ftp.arl.mil) |
| 171 points | 9 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1997 | | The raster tragedy at low resolution (microsoft.com) |
| 170 points | 12 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1997 | | Letters about Soap (people.cs.ksu.edu) |
| 164 points | 1 year ago with 71 comments |
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| 1997 | | Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (mars.nasa.gov) |
| 164 points | 7 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Story of Squeak, a Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself (ftp.squeak.org) |
| 159 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1997 | | Why is c the symbol for the speed of light? (math.ucr.edu) |
| 157 points across 2 posts | 8 months ago with 45 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Sad Saga of Silicon Graphics (businessweek.com) |
| 151 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 1997 | | Steve Jobs negotiates Apple's deal with Microsoft (techemails.com) |
| 146 points | 1 year ago with 88 comments |
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| 1997 | | Russian-manufactured armored vehicle vulnerability in urban combat (man.fas.org) |
| 142 points | 2 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Impact of the Lambda Calculus (www-users.mat.umk.pl) |
| 135 points | 4 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1997 | | All People in Canada are the Same Age (math.toronto.edu) |
| 132 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1997 | | Machine Learning (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 129 points | 1 year ago with 10 comments |
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| 1997 | | Three sins of authors in computer science and math (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 126 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1997 | | S-Expressions (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 125 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Effects of Computer Use on Eye Health and Vision (aoa.org) |
| 123 points | 6 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 1997 | | Linux: A Portable Operating System (cs.helsinki.fi) |
| 122 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1997 | | N guilty men (www2.law.ucla.edu) |
| 121 points | 7 months ago with 82 comments |
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| 1997 | | Did you ever wonder why December has 31 days? (projects.csail.mit.edu) |
| 120 points | 10 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Internet Free Zone (arachnoid.com) |
| 119 points | 9 months ago with 41 comments |
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| 1997 | | Why Awk for AI? (wra1th.plus.com) |
| 117 points | 10 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1997 | | History of Computing at Bell Labs (research.swtch.com) |
| 114 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1997 | | On teaching mathematics, by V.I. Arnold (pauli.uni-muenster.de) |
| 112 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1997 | | A difficult case: Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices (researchgate.net) |
| 109 points | 3 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 1997 | | Euclid's Elements (aleph0.clarku.edu) |
| 106 points | 6 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 1997 | | Calculus for mathematicians (cr.yp.to) |
| 106 points | 8 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 1997 | | Lecture Notes on General Relativity (arxiv.org) |
| 105 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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