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Articles written in 1999 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1999Math Bite: Irrationality of √m (fermatslibrary.com)
88 points | 9 years ago with 23 comments
1999‘I Had A Funny Feeling in My Gut’ (washingtonpost.com)
88 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments
1999The Linux Kernel Explained (tldp.org)
88 points | 10 years ago with 27 comments
1999The Cluetrain Manifesto (cluetrain.com)
87 points | 1 year ago with 85 comments
1999The Radioactive Boy Scout (dangerouslaboratories.org)
87 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
1999Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (cia.gov)
87 points | 4 years ago with 2 comments
1999Why I will never have a girlfriend (logological.org)
85 points | 7 years ago with 118 comments
1999Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut interview each other (robertcaro.com)
84 points | 3 years ago with 46 comments
1999Web Design Mistakes of 1999 (nngroup.com)
82 points | 1 year ago with 15 comments
1999D-Expressions: Lisp Power, Dylan Style (people.csail.mit.edu)
82 points | 7 years ago with 89 comments
1999The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome (improbable.com)
82 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments
1999The Alternative History of Public-Key Cryptography (cryptome.org)
81 points | 13 years ago with 17 comments
1999Side Effects of the Growth of Wealth (nytimes.com)
80 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
1999A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass (docs.freebsd.org)
79 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments
1999The physics of information processing superobjects: Jupiter brains (jetpress.org)
78 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments
1999Richard Feynman and Computation (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
77 points | 7 years ago with 2 comments
1999And so I'm giving up the Mozilla project - Jamie Zawinski (jwz.org)
77 points | 13 years ago with 37 comments
1999Infrequently Asked Questions in Comp.lang.c (seebs.net)
76 points | 1 year ago with 38 comments
1999Microsoft to Alter Software in Response to Privacy Concerns (nytimes.com)
74 points | 9 years ago with 67 comments
1999The Craft of Text Editing: Emacs for the Modern World (finseth.com)
74 points | 10 years ago with 9 comments
1999Electric currency could trash cash (theguardian.com)
74 points | 7 years ago with 43 comments
1999Is there a Belgium? (nybooks.com)
73 points | 9 years ago with 36 comments
1999Ted Nelson's Computer Paradigm Expressed as One-Liners (hyperland.com)
72 points | 11 years ago with 18 comments
1999Turing as a Runner (www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk)
72 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments
1999Threaded Code (complang.tuwien.ac.at)
72 points | 3 years ago with 25 comments
1999The Cluetrain Manifesto (cluetrain.com)
71 points | 2 years ago with 42 comments
1999Holography without Lasers: Hand-drawn Holograms (amasci.com)
71 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments
1999What was the first personal computer? (blinkenlights.com)
69 points | 9 years ago with 27 comments
1999XML-RPC Specification (xmlrpc.com)
68 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments
1999Micromusic.net chiptune radio (micromusic.net)
68 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
1999ABit BP6 Dual Socket370 Motherboard (hardware-one.com)
68 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments
1999America Online Exploits Bug in Own Software (geoffchappell.com)
68 points | 3 years ago with 27 comments
1999The Linux Edge (blog.corememory.io)
67 points | 5 years ago with 47 comments
1999The Hunt for 928 or Has Anyone Seen This Spy Plane? (otherhand.org)
67 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments
1999Congress passes wide-ranging bill easing bank laws (nytimes.com)
67 points | 15 years ago with 43 comments
1999The Cluetrain Manifesto (cluetrain.com)
64 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments
1999Learning Standard C++ as a New Language (drdobbs.com)
64 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments
1999Amiga at NASA (obligement.free.fr)
63 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments
1999The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War (archive.nytimes.com)
62 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments
1999BBC Betsie: Perl program to create an automatic text-only website version (web.archive.org)
62 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments
1999The NBC Chimes Machine (theradiohistorian.org)
62 points | 4 years ago with 14 comments
1999The Death of Alpha on NT (itprotoday.com)
62 points | 3 years ago with 43 comments
1999Did Disney's The Lion King Rip Off an Old Japanese TV Series? (straightdope.com)
61 points | 9 years ago with 57 comments
1999Tea (h2g2.com)
61 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments
1999RISC vs. CISC: The Post-RISC Era (arstechnica.com)
61 points | 1 year ago with 56 comments
1999'Minting' electronic cash (spectrum.ieee.org)
60 points | 3 years ago with 88 comments
1999The ascent of "guy" (muse.jhu.edu)
59 points | 2 years ago with 87 comments
1999Intel won't back down on chip ID feature (web.archive.org)
59 points | 1 year ago with 47 comments
1999First South Americans Were Australian Aborigines (news.bbc.co.uk)
59 points | 9 years ago with 22 comments
1999How to Become as Rich as Bill Gates (philip.greenspun.com)
58 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments
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