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| Articles written in 1998 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1998 | | Cool URIs Don't Change (w3.org) |
| 1470 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 120 comments |
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| 1998 | | Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (norvig.com) |
| 614 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 110 comments |
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| 1998 | | Cool URIs don't change (w3.org) |
| 606 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 1998 | | Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about messaging (lists.squeakfoundation.org) |
| 558 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 174 comments |
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| 1998 | | The sad story of Heisenberg's doctoral oral exam (aps.org) |
| 517 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 145 comments |
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| 1998 | | How Complex Systems Fail (how.complexsystems.fail) |
| 507 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 33 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Guy I Almost Was (electricsheepcomix.com) |
| 410 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 203 comments |
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| 1998 | | Back Orifice (web.archive.org) |
| 389 points | 2 years ago with 221 comments |
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| 1998 | | A Beginner’s Guide to the Mathematics of Neural Networks (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu) |
| 384 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1998 | | Why ML/OCaml are good for writing compilers (flint.cs.yale.edu) |
| 381 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 147 comments |
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| 1998 | | A 1970s Teenager's Bedroom (rocketroberts.com) |
| 369 points | 5 years ago with 135 comments |
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| 1998 | | How Complex Systems Fail (how.complexsystems.fail) |
| 366 points | 3 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 1998 | | How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children (pages.cs.wisc.edu) |
| 366 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1998 | | Furby source code (archive.org) |
| 304 points | 1 year ago with 79 comments |
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| 1998 | | HyperPhysics (hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu) |
| 297 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 17 comments |
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| 1998 | | How Complex Systems Fail (web.mit.edu) |
| 255 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1998 | | Praise for Intelligence Can Undermine Children's Motivation (psychology.stanford.edu) |
| 253 points | 7 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 1998 | | Amazon’s distributed computing manifesto (allthingsdistributed.com) |
| 242 points | 1 year ago with 53 comments |
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| 1998 | | America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (nytimes.com) |
| 239 points | 10 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 1998 | | She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (generationterrorists.com) |
| 228 points | 2 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1998 | | How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (nytimes.com) |
| 223 points | 14 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 1998 | | Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (xlinux.nist.gov) |
| 222 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1998 | | By 1995, it'll be evident that the Internet means as little as fax (web.archive.org) |
| 215 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 68 comments |
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| 1998 | | Memorandum on Microsoft’s strategy against Linux and Open Source software (catb.org) |
| 215 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1998 | | Does Gravity Travel at the Speed of Light? (math.ucr.edu) |
| 214 points | 10 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 1998 | | “The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (harpers.org) |
| 212 points | 7 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 1998 | | Processor Design: An Introduction (gamezero.com) |
| 211 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 14 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (washingtonpost.com) |
| 192 points | 13 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1998 | | Data Structures for Text Sequences (cs.unm.edu) |
| 189 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 1998 | | Set Up to Fail: How Bosses Create Their Own Poor Performers (insead.edu) |
| 187 points | 9 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1998 | | Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (itprotoday.com) |
| 186 points | 5 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 1998 | | Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (norvig.com) |
| 186 points | 11 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 1998 | | American Summer: Before Air-Conditioning (newyorker.com) |
| 174 points | 10 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Elements of Style: Unix as Literature (theody.net) |
| 169 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Fallacy of Cracking Contests (schneier.com) |
| 164 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (archive.org) |
| 160 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Great Filter – Are We Almost Past It? (mason.gmu.edu) |
| 150 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 174 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (nytimes.com) |
| 149 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1998 | | AOL acquires Netscape in $4.2B deal (money.cnn.com) |
| 143 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1998 | | Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic words (groups.google.com) |
| 141 points | 9 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 1998 | | Alan Kay on Messaging (c2.com) |
| 136 points | 8 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1998 | | How to build a Linux-based wireless router out of spare parts (rage.net) |
| 135 points | 1 year ago with 100 comments |
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| 1998 | | PHP 3.0 Final is out (web.archive.org) |
| 134 points | 2 years ago with 169 comments |
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| 1998 | | U.S. Torpedo Troubles During World War II (historynet.com) |
| 132 points | 4 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1998 | | Processor Design: An Introduction (gamezero.com) |
| 131 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1998 | | Microsoft TerraServer (msdn.microsoft.com) |
| 128 points | 10 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1998 | | Adam Smith did not mean what he is often made to say (theatlantic.com) |
| 127 points | 2 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 1998 | | Fifty Years of Shannon Theory (princeton.edu) |
| 126 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1998 | | DC Circuit Water Analogy (hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu) |
| 125 points | 2 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 1998 | | Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (infolab.stanford.edu) |
| 123 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 7 comments |
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