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Articles written in 1997 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1997Does OO really match the way we think (leshatton.org)
104 points | 7 years ago with 239 comments
1997Anatomy of a Catastrophic Boiler Accident (nationalboard.org)
100 points | 3 years ago with 47 comments
1997It'll Never Work (lhup.edu)
99 points | 9 years ago with 79 comments
1997Principles of Programming Languages (cs.nott.ac.uk)
99 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
1997On teaching mathematics (uni-muenster.de)
99 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 40 comments
1997The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020 (wired.com)
98 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments
1997“It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture..encryption products” (thomas.loc.gov)
95 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments
1997Publication of Hiroshima in the New Yorker (herseyhiroshima.com)
95 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 68 comments
1997Yahoo and FreeBSD (zer0.org)
94 points | 9 years ago with 51 comments
1997Why I Left the Law (spectacle.org)
93 points | 10 years ago with 22 comments
1997Intel Internet Party Line (web.archive.org)
92 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments
1997Shock in the Shower (esdjournal.com)
92 points | 9 years ago with 22 comments
1997Learning the Cello as an Adult (ethanwiner.com)
92 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments
1997A Simple Scheme Compiler (cs.utexas.edu)
91 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments
1997Lisp as a Vehicle for Rapid Prototyping (nhplace.com)
89 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 22 comments
1997Last Page of The Great Gatsby (home.sprynet.com)
87 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments
1997The Problem of Excess Genius (visakanv.com)
86 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 55 comments
1997Electronic lottery tickets as micropayments (fermatslibrary.com)
85 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments
1997Inside Nintendo 64 (n64.icequake.net)
83 points | 10 years ago with 28 comments
1997Paul Graham: The 10 Secrets of Selling Online (web.archive.org)
82 points | 15 years ago with 51 comments
1997Inconstant Moon: The Moon at Perigee and Apogee (fourmilab.ch)
81 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
1997For Inventor of Eudora, Great Fame, No Fortune (nytimes.com)
79 points | 9 years ago with 56 comments
1997Casio Caleid XM-700 Mobile Navigator (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
77 points | 1 year ago with 37 comments
1997How Many Objects Can Be Juggled (fermatslibrary.com)
75 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments
1997VisualAge for Java 1.0 – Let the Future Begin (tug.ca)
74 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
1997The Attention Economy and the Net (firstmonday.org)
73 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments
1997Functional C (eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl)
73 points | 10 years ago with 10 comments
1997Oberon-2, a hi-performance alternative to C++ (folk.ntnu.no)
72 points | 1 year ago with 102 comments
1997Using Standard HTML (w3.org)
72 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
1997Tamagothi (studiohunty.com)
71 points | 9 years ago with 35 comments
1997WebL – A Programming Language for the Web (hpl.hp.com)
71 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
1997Phil Zimmermann: Beware of Snake Oil Crypto (philzimmermann.com)
70 points | 13 years ago with 42 comments
1997Netscape's Constellation (people.apache.org)
69 points | 1 year ago with 37 comments
1997Spies in the Xerox Machine (electricalstrategies.com)
68 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments
1997Recursive Make Considered Harmful (aegis.sourceforge.net)
68 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 41 comments
1997Using sed to make indexes for books (pement.org)
67 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
1997What really happened on Mars? (research.microsoft.com)
67 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments
1997Gex (games.greggman.com)
67 points | 7 years ago with 32 comments
1997The God Protocols (szabo.best.vwh.net)
67 points | 10 years ago with 4 comments
1997Inside the Windows 95 File System (tenox.net)
67 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
1997A difficult case: Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices (bmj.com)
67 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments
1997Slim Binaries (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
66 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
1997Hysteresis (mackido.com)
65 points | 2 years ago with 20 comments
1997Satan Comes to Dinner (erights.org)
64 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments
1997Everything a Hacker Needs to Know about Getting Busted by the Feds (web.textfiles.com)
64 points | 14 years ago with 12 comments
1997Computation of the n'th digit of pi in any base in O(n^2) (bellard.org)
63 points | 1 year ago with 35 comments
1997Prolog Programming Language (groups.engin.umd.umich.edu)
61 points | 9 years ago with 45 comments
1997Cool Tool of the Day (web.archive.org)
60 points | 3 years ago with 18 comments
1997Computer Science Logo Style: Programming Language Implementation (people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
59 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments
1997How Long Before Superintelligence? (nickbostrom.com)
59 points | 8 years ago with 60 comments
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