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| Articles written in 1999 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1999 | | A cab ride I'll never forget (kentnerburn.com) |
| 1704 points | 1 year ago with 165 comments |
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| 1999 | | Why I Wrote PGP (philzimmermann.com) |
| 904 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1999 | | Doom as a tool for system administration (cs.unm.edu) |
| 625 points across 4 posts | 6 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1999 | | Get a cable modem, go to jail (telecom.csail.mit.edu) |
| 510 points | 1 year ago with 455 comments |
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| 1999 | | Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (futureblues.com) |
| 492 points | 1 year ago with 182 comments |
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| 1999 | | In the Beginning was the Command Line (cristal.inria.fr) |
| 426 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 1999 | | Big Ball of Mud (laputan.org) |
| 389 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 31 comments |
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| 1999 | | Windows Refund Day (marc.merlins.org) |
| 370 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Bastard Operator from Hell (bofh.bjash.com) |
| 363 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 1999 | | Linus Torvalds on semaphores (yarchive.net) |
| 349 points | 10 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 1999 | | Doors I touched today (fluxus.org) |
| 321 points | 1 year ago with 99 comments |
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| 1999 | | Why I Don't Use Netscape (complang.tuwien.ac.at) |
| 283 points | 2 years ago with 275 comments |
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| 1999 | | How To Write With Style (novelr.com) |
| 281 points | 7 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Craft of Text Editing (finseth.com) |
| 272 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Mandelbrot Monk (users.math.yale.edu) |
| 265 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Cathedral and the Bazaar (catb.org) |
| 264 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 164 comments |
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| 1999 | | Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (thetaoofwealth.wordpress.com) |
| 262 points | 1 year ago with 231 comments |
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| 1999 | | Introduction to Nintendo 64 Programming (n64.icequake.net) |
| 232 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1999 | | If English were written like Chinese (zompist.com) |
| 228 points | 8 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 1999 | | QNX DEMO disk (qnx.puslapiai.lt) |
| 226 points | 2 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 1999 | | Homo sapiens declared extinct (bruces.medium.com) |
| 226 points | 1 year ago with 62 comments |
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| 1999 | | Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge (supermemo.com) |
| 223 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (analog.com) |
| 218 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1999 | | When Interfaces Kill: What Happened to John Denver (asktog.com) |
| 214 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 119 comments |
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| 1999 | | Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 210 points | 4 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 1999 | | Practical file system design with the Be File System (nobius.org) |
| 205 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1999 | | A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything (arxiv.org) |
| 202 points | 7 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 1999 | | Don't Become a Scientist (wuphys.wustl.edu) |
| 195 points | 10 years ago with 159 comments |
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| 1999 | | Napster: A New Killer Internet App (evolt.org) |
| 190 points | 5 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 1999 | | A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (muppetlabs.com) |
| 190 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process for Creating Half-Life (gamasutra.com) |
| 188 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1999 | | Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher (ils.unc.edu) |
| 185 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1999 | | Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (cia.gov) |
| 185 points | 7 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1999 | | Interface Hall of Shame – QuickTime 4.0 Player (hallofshame.gp.co.at) |
| 183 points | 6 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 1999 | | Can Google's search engine find profits? (zdnet.com) |
| 179 points | 10 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1999 | | Perl, the first postmodern computer language (wall.org) |
| 176 points | 2 years ago with 210 comments |
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| 1999 | | Ken Thompson flies a MiG-29 (cm.bell-labs.com) |
| 170 points | 10 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1999 | | Advice I Wish I'd Been Told (web.archive.org) |
| 170 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1999 | | Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp (dept-info.labri.fr) |
| 169 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments |
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| 1999 | | What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs TIE Fighter (gamasutra.com) |
| 166 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1999 | | Knuth versus Email (cs.stanford.edu) |
| 164 points | 8 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 1999 | | Yahoo buys GeoCities (money.cnn.com) |
| 160 points | 11 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 1999 | | How to Write Unmaintainable Code (doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| 159 points | 9 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 1999 | | Knuth versus Email (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu) |
| 158 points | 4 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 1999 | | Linkers and Loaders (iecc.com) |
| 158 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1999 | | Intel PIII: Is Big Brother Inside? (zdnet.com) |
| 156 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1999 | | African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes (web.stanford.edu) |
| 156 points | 8 years ago with 249 comments |
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| 1999 | | Practical File System Design: The Be File System (nobius.org) |
| 154 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Story of Maxis Software (web.archive.org) |
| 154 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1999 | | The relationship between age and wisdom-related performance (journals.sagepub.com) |
| 153 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments |
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