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| Articles written in 1998 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1998 | | Lisp: A Language for Internet Scripting and Programming (norvig.com) |
| 119 points | 10 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 1998 | | How Complex Systems Fail (ctlab.org) |
| 119 points | 10 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1998 | | Why Ada isn't Popular (adapower.com) |
| 118 points | 10 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Mind Has No Firewall (press.armywarcollege.edu) |
| 117 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 1998 | | Cyberpunk in the Nineties (streettech.com) |
| 117 points | 1 year ago with 114 comments |
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| 1998 | | An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (people.eecs.berkeley.edu) |
| 115 points | 3 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 1998 | | A Brief Guide to CLOS (aiai.ed.ac.uk) |
| 113 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1998 | | Yahoo buys Viaweb for $49 million (news.cnet.com) |
| 113 points | 11 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1998 | | Recreating Medieval English Ales (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 112 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments |
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| 1998 | | Why I Am a Bad Correspondent (nealstephenson.com) |
| 108 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1998 | | The myth of the $600 hammer (govexec.com) |
| 101 points | 1 year ago with 185 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Pentium F00F Bug (rcollins.org) |
| 99 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1998 | | Technorealism (technorealism.org) |
| 97 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Extended Mind (consc.net) |
| 96 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Story of PDP-1 (gordonbell.azurewebsites.net) |
| 94 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Decommoditization of Protocols (levien.com) |
| 92 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1998 | | “It's easier to port a shell than a shell script” (gopher.quux.org:70) |
| 92 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1998 | | “Devil Girl from Mars”: Why I Write Science Fiction (web.mit.edu) |
| 92 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1998 | | The structure of the special type of DOS files called directories (averstak.tripod.com) |
| 91 points | 5 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 1998 | | Rules of Card Games: I Doubt It (pagat.com) |
| 90 points | 2 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1998 | | Soviet Calculators History (xnumber.com) |
| 89 points | 4 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1998 | | 500 years ago, a German abbot wrote a book on communication with spirits (cryptome.org) |
| 88 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1998 | | An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (cs.berkeley.edu) |
| 87 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1998 | | An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (eecs.berkeley.edu) |
| 86 points | 11 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1998 | | Swatch Internet Time (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 86 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1998 | | The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web (ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090) |
| 86 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Joy of Perl (salon.com) |
| 85 points | 4 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 1998 | | Why No One Uses Functional Languages (ugcs.caltech.edu) |
| 85 points | 10 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 1998 | | Inmos and the Transputer (transputer.net) |
| 84 points | 1 year ago with 58 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Radioactive Boy Scout (harpers.org) |
| 84 points | 2 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1998 | | High Performance Computing: Are We Just Getting Wrong Answers Faster? (www3.nd.edu) |
| 83 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1998 | | Installing Debian Linux 2.0 (archive.debian.org) |
| 82 points | 5 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 1998 | | For Sale: Free Operating System (archive.nytimes.com) |
| 81 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1998 | | Washington Pizza Index (washingtonpost.com) |
| 80 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1998 | | The “Only” Coke Machine on the Internet (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 79 points | 9 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1998 | | Foundations by Greg Egan (gregegan.net) |
| 79 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1998 | | Contact Yahoo (docs.yahoo.com) |
| 79 points | 11 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 1998 | | Simulation, Consciousness, Existence (frc.ri.cmu.edu) |
| 74 points | 8 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1998 | | Monadic parsing in Haskell (cs.nott.ac.uk) |
| 74 points | 5 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1998 | | Mathematical Concepts: How Do Mathematicians Jump to Conclusions? (edge.org) |
| 73 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1998 | | Hellandizing (multicians.org) |
| 72 points | 7 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1998 | | Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 69 points | 11 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1998 | | The First Unix Port (bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de) |
| 68 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1998 | | Medical Emergencies In Space (chapters.marssociety.org) |
| 67 points | 9 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1998 | | Why no one uses functional languages (dl.acm.org) |
| 66 points | 4 years ago with 127 comments |
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| 1998 | | Why anything? Why this? (lrb.co.uk) |
| 66 points | 7 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Shootings at Kent State: The Search for Historical Accuracy (kent.edu) |
| 66 points | 1 year ago with 52 comments |
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| 1998 | | Larry and Sergey's CS349 (infolab.stanford.edu) |
| 65 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1998 | | Computer users fight 'bloatware' (cnn.com) |
| 65 points | 3 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 1998 | | Micropayment Barriers (nothings.org) |
| 65 points | 5 years ago with 49 comments |
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