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| Articles written 1990 to 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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| 1997 | | NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes (cypherspace.org) |
| 1623 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 167 comments |
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| 1991 | | They're Made Out of Meat (mit.edu) |
| 1555 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 168 comments |
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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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| 1995 | | Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (web.archive.org) |
| 1086 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 301 comments |
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| 1991 | | Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 1083 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 405 comments |
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| 1997 | | Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations [pdf] (web.williams.edu) |
| 1081 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 243 comments |
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| 1993 | | A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (what.cd) |
| 925 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 1995 | | Foundations of Databases (webdam.inria.fr) |
| 915 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 53 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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| 1994 | | The Unix-Haters Handbook (web.mit.edu) |
| 824 points across 4 posts | 5 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 1992 | | Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (github.com) |
| 802 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 1995 | | Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (web.archive.org) |
| 755 points | 3 years ago with 455 comments |
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| 1997 | | Graphics Programming Black Book (github.com) |
| 693 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1996 | | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (opendocs.github.io) |
| 665 points | 5 years ago with 142 comments |
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| 1995 | | Does memory leak? (groups.google.com) |
| 647 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 279 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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| 1998 | | Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (norvig.com) |
| 614 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 1998 | | Cool URIs don't change (w3.org) |
| 606 points across 2 posts | 3 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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| 1999 | | Get a cable modem, go to jail (telecom.csail.mit.edu) |
| 510 points | 1 year ago with 455 comments |
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| 1998 | | How Complex Systems Fail (how.complexsystems.fail) |
| 507 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 33 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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| 1993 | | Space After Periods (1997.webhistory.org) |
| 478 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 178 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Anti-Mac User Interface (nngroup.com) |
| 440 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 1991 | | The WorldWideWeb application is now available as an alpha release (groups.google.com) |
| 438 points | 12 years ago with 125 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death (outsideonline.com) |
| 437 points | 11 years ago with 184 comments |
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| 1990 | | Choosing a Name for Your Computer (rfc-editor.org) |
| 432 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 200 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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| 1990 | | RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (tools.ietf.org) |
| 425 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 1995 | | Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (web.stanford.edu) |
| 423 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 234 comments |
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| 1990 | | Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (drive.google.com) |
| 413 points | 6 years ago with 98 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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| 1993 | | The Early History of Smalltalk (worrydream.com) |
| 407 points across 6 posts | 2 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1991 | | What would you like to see most in minix? (groups.google.com) |
| 398 points | 11 years ago with 186 comments |
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| 1996 | | “I am literally losing sleep” over Java (twitter.com) |
| 396 points | 2 years ago with 403 comments |
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| 1996 | | John Carmack on QuakeWorld latency and business model (raw.githubusercontent.com) |
| 395 points | 5 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 1998 | | Back Orifice (web.archive.org) |
| 389 points | 3 years ago with 221 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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| 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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| 1997 | | The Right to Read (gnu.org) |
| 379 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 1993 | | Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (wiki.debian.org) |
| 378 points | 1 year ago with 131 comments |
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| 1992 | | A Fire Upon The Deep By Vernor Vinge (archive.org) |
| 374 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 51 comments |
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| 1999 | | Windows Refund Day (marc.merlins.org) |
| 370 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 1993 | | The Development of the C Language (bell-labs.com) |
| 369 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 323 comments |
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| 1998 | | A 1970s Teenager's Bedroom (rocketroberts.com) |
| 369 points | 6 years ago with 135 comments |
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| 1996 | | "Invisible Electrostatic Wall" at 3M adhesive tape plant (amasci.com) |
| 367 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1996 | | Will Wright on designing user interfaces to simulation games (donhopkins.medium.com) |
| 367 points | 1 year ago with 74 comments |
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