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