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| Articles written 1990 to 1999 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1999 | | Thomas Friedman: Amazon.you (nytimes.com) |
| 101 points | 13 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 1992 | | The birth of Prolog (alain.colmerauer.free.fr) |
| 100 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1993 | | Inside the Windows Messaging System (drdobbs.com) |
| 100 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1997 | | Anatomy of a Catastrophic Boiler Accident (nationalboard.org) |
| 100 points | 3 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1999 | | Who Can Name the Bigger Number? (scottaaronson.com) |
| 100 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1999 | | Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. Why? (st.cs.uni-saarland.de) |
| 100 points | 7 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1990 | | Lithium in drinking water and crimes, suicides related to drug addictions (researchgate.net) |
| 99 points | 5 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1993 | | The Hypertext annotated version of “A Fire Upon the Deep” (groups.google.com) |
| 99 points | 4 years ago with 108 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Design of the Connection Machine (tamikothiel.com) |
| 99 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 1995 | | LavaPS: Top, Implemented as a Lava Lamp (isi.edu) |
| 99 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1996 | | Exterminate All Operating System Abstractions (cs.berkeley.edu) |
| 99 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1997 | | It'll Never Work (lhup.edu) |
| 99 points | 9 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 1997 | | Principles of Programming Languages (cs.nott.ac.uk) |
| 99 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1997 | | On teaching mathematics (uni-muenster.de) |
| 99 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 40 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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| 1999 | | African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes (web.stanford.edu) |
| 99 points | 7 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 1991 | | Forth – The Early Years (colorforth.com) |
| 98 points | 9 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1993 | | The Mail from Budapest (cia.gov) |
| 98 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Netscape Dorm (jwz.org) |
| 98 points | 13 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1994 | | Wavelets (cybertester.com) |
| 98 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1995 | | How to ensure that your program does not run under Windows 95 (ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com) |
| 98 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020 (wired.com) |
| 98 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments |
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| 1996 | | Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color? (research.ibm.com) |
| 97 points | 11 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1996 | | Interview with Bob Yannes, creator of the SID chip (web.archive.org) |
| 97 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1996 | | Turing Machines Are Recurrent Neural Networks (users.ics.aalto.fi) |
| 97 points | 1 year ago with 33 comments |
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| 1998 | | Technorealism (technorealism.org) |
| 97 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1995 | | Queues are Databases (arxiv.org) |
| 96 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1995 | | Netiquette (tools.ietf.org) |
| 96 points | 10 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 1996 | | Improbable Inspiration: Bayesian Networks (cs.ubc.ca) |
| 96 points | 3 years ago with 20 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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| 1990 | | Linear types can change the world (cs.ioc.ee) |
| 95 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1990 | | Mathematical Education (arxiv.org) |
| 95 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1994 | | Niels Bohr’s Argument for the Irreducibility of Biology to Physics (link.springer.com) |
| 95 points | 6 years ago with 90 comments |
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| 1995 | | Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism (theanarchistlibrary.org) |
| 95 points | 2 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 1996 | | The PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide (cr.yp.to) |
| 95 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1996 | | Generative Music – Brian Eno (inmotionmagazine.com) |
| 95 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1997 | | “It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture..encryption products” (thomas.loc.gov) |
| 95 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1997 | | Publication of Hiroshima in the New Yorker (herseyhiroshima.com) |
| 95 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 1999 | | How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift (allstar.fiu.edu) |
| 95 points | 8 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 1994 | | NetScape: A Sneak Preview of the shape of WWW Browsers to come (web.archive.org) |
| 94 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1997 | | Yahoo and FreeBSD (zer0.org) |
| 94 points | 9 years ago with 51 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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| 1999 | | PostScript Language Reference (adobe.com) |
| 94 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1991 | | “The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to information” (groups.google.com) |
| 93 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1992 | | GUIs Considered Harmful (porkmail.org) |
| 93 points | 6 years ago with 146 comments |
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| 1996 | | Why Software Jewels Are Rare (cse.msu.edu) |
| 93 points | 3 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 1996 | | Is Sony's 140MB MiniDisc Drive the Next Betamax? (web.archive.org) |
| 93 points | 3 years ago with 125 comments |
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| 1996 | | Ray-Casting Tutorial for Game Development and Other Purposes (permadi.com) |
| 93 points | 7 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1997 | | Why I Left the Law (spectacle.org) |
| 93 points | 10 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1992 | | A Memo on the Secret Features of the Hitachi 6309 processor (en.wikichip.org) |
| 92 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments |
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