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Articles written in 1999 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1999Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life (gamasutra.com)
152 points | 10 years ago with 25 comments
1999The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (gamasutra.com)
150 points | 10 years ago with 107 comments
1999VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC (bricklin.com)
149 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments
1999In the beginning was the command line (faculty.georgetown.edu)
148 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments
1999Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula (academics.rowan.edu)
148 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
1999How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (mud.co.uk)
148 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments
1999Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices (academic.oup.com)
147 points | 1 year ago with 113 comments
1999F***ing Learn to Code Again (blog.kebby.org)
144 points | 9 years ago with 64 comments
1999Shhh: The Undocumented DOS Commands (the-eye.eu)
143 points | 4 years ago with 53 comments
1999How my startup failed (alumni.stanford.edu)
141 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
1999Parsing Expressions by Recursive Descent (engr.mun.ca)
141 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
1999Golden Rules of Financial Safety (harrybrowne.org)
140 points | 7 years ago with 110 comments
1999Why Arabs Lose Wars (meforum.org)
137 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 34 comments
1999Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk)
135 points | 5 years ago with 96 comments
1999How the Internet Ruined San Francisco (salon.com)
135 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 56 comments
1999Secrets of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler Inliner (microsoft.com)
131 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
19991x Forth (ultratechnology.com)
130 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 30 comments
1999Lightweight Living (aldha.org)
128 points | 14 years ago with 71 comments
1999The Evolution of Roller Coaster Tycoon (nicscorner.com)
126 points | 10 years ago with 16 comments
1999The In-game Economics of Ultima Online (mine-control.com)
125 points | 12 years ago with 43 comments
1999Hugh Laurie: Wodehouse Saved my Life (pgwodehousebooks.com)
124 points | 11 years ago with 56 comments
1999Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (theatlantic.com)
124 points | 5 years ago with 122 comments
1999Among the Norse Tribes: The Remarkable Account of Ibn Fadlan (archive.aramcoworld.com)
124 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments
1999Jobs at Google (web.archive.org)
122 points | 6 years ago with 126 comments
1999The mathematics of Magic: the Gathering (kibble.net)
122 points | 6 years ago with 95 comments
1999How to Get Rich (edge.org)
118 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
1999Introduction to AOLserver, Part 1 (philip.greenspun.com)
116 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments
1999Why didn't we patent the spreadsheet? Were we stupid? (bricklin.com)
115 points | 11 years ago with 135 comments
1999What Is RPN? Why Did/Does HP Use RPN? Learning RPN (hpmuseum.org)
115 points | 3 years ago with 117 comments
1999Put 1.7MB onto 1.44MB Floppies (trevormarshall.com)
115 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments
1999Ford 021C Concept Car (marc-newson.com)
112 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments
1999Intel won't back down on chip ID feature (zdnet.com)
111 points | 1 year ago with 111 comments
1999Outdoor Sound Propagation in the U.S. Civil War (wesclark.com)
111 points | 2 years ago with 52 comments
1999Unskilled and Unaware of It (psych.colorado.edu)
108 points | 6 years ago with 82 comments
1999The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm (schneier.com)
107 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 8 comments
1999“That Deep Romantic Chasm”: Libertarianism and the Computer Culture (uvm.edu)
107 points | 5 years ago with 91 comments
1999Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? (bikeshed.org)
106 points | 8 years ago with 52 comments
1999Unix – The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems (team.net)
106 points | 3 years ago with 85 comments
1999Reading code from top to bottom (iq0.com)
103 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 14 comments
1999TetrisRant (tcrf.net)
102 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments
1999DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (lea.hamradio.si)
101 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
1999Thomas Friedman: Amazon.you (nytimes.com)
101 points | 13 years ago with 38 comments
1999Who Can Name the Bigger Number? (scottaaronson.com)
100 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments
1999Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. Why? (st.cs.uni-saarland.de)
100 points | 7 years ago with 40 comments
1999African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes (web.stanford.edu)
99 points | 7 years ago with 121 comments
1999How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift (allstar.fiu.edu)
95 points | 9 years ago with 51 comments
1999PostScript Language Reference (adobe.com)
94 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments
1999The GNU Privacy Handbook (gnupg.org)
90 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments
1999Big Ball of Mud (laputan.org)
90 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments
1999Why HTML is a strategic dead end for business transactions and e-commerce (jimgray.azurewebsites.net)
89 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments
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