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| Articles written 1990 to 1999 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| Go back or forward one decade. Go to the previous or next century. |
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| 1994 | | Modular C: Reusable and Maintainable Code Using the C Language (metamodular.com) |
| 92 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1995 | | Against Intellectual Property (uow.edu.au) |
| 92 points | 10 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1995 | | Toyota Children's Web Site (toyota.co.jp) |
| 92 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1996 | | Essentials of Standard ML Modules (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu) |
| 92 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1996 | | Why computer modeling should become a popular hobby (qrg.northwestern.edu) |
| 92 points | 1 year ago with 31 comments |
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| 1997 | | Intel Internet Party Line (web.archive.org) |
| 92 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1997 | | Shock in the Shower (esdjournal.com) |
| 92 points | 9 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1997 | | Learning the Cello as an Adult (ethanwiner.com) |
| 92 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Decommoditization of Protocols (levien.com) |
| 92 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1998 | | “It's easier to port a shell than a shell script” (gopher.quux.org:70) |
| 92 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1998 | | “Devil Girl from Mars”: Why I Write Science Fiction (web.mit.edu) |
| 92 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1991 | | Relational databases performed a task that didn't need doing (home.pipeline.com) |
| 91 points | 15 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1992 | | Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (theparisreview.org) |
| 91 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1997 | | A Simple Scheme Compiler (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 91 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1998 | | The structure of the special type of DOS files called directories (averstak.tripod.com) |
| 91 points | 5 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 1991 | | World Wide Web (info.cern.ch) |
| 90 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1994 | | Airport ABCs: An Explanation of Airport Identifier Codes (skygod.com) |
| 90 points | 10 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 1998 | | Rules of Card Games: I Doubt It (pagat.com) |
| 90 points | 2 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1999 | | The GNU Privacy Handbook (gnupg.org) |
| 90 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1999 | | Big Ball of Mud (laputan.org) |
| 90 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1991 | | HyperCard Stack: Douglas Adams' Megapode Nest Volume Calculator (archive.org) |
| 89 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1994 | | Job Posting for Amazon.com Before it Launched (readwriteweb.com) |
| 89 points | 13 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 1995 | | Matt Blaze: My life as an international arms courier (crypto.com) |
| 89 points | 10 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1997 | | Lisp as a Vehicle for Rapid Prototyping (nhplace.com) |
| 89 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1998 | | Soviet Calculators History (xnumber.com) |
| 89 points | 4 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1999 | | Why 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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| 1992 | | Linux’s History (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 88 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1995 | | Why Threads Are a Bad Idea (cc.gatech.edu) |
| 88 points | 6 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 1998 | | 500 years ago, a German abbot wrote a book on communication with spirits (cryptome.org) |
| 88 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1999 | | Math Bite: Irrationality of √m (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 88 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1999 | | ‘I Had A Funny Feeling in My Gut’ (washingtonpost.com) |
| 88 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Linux Kernel Explained (tldp.org) |
| 88 points | 10 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1992 | | The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (nybooks.com) |
| 87 points | 1 year ago with 40 comments |
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| 1992 | | Fractal compression for generating resolution-independent images (books.google.com) |
| 87 points | 9 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1994 | | A Wired.com reporter was first to register mcdonalds.com (wired.com) |
| 87 points | 11 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1995 | | NSA "can – and does – listen to everyone from senators to lovers" (articles.baltimoresun.com) |
| 87 points | 11 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1996 | | Content Is King (web.archive.org) |
| 87 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1996 | | Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet (dl.acm.org) |
| 87 points | 4 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1997 | | Last Page of The Great Gatsby (home.sprynet.com) |
| 87 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1998 | | An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (cs.berkeley.edu) |
| 87 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Cluetrain Manifesto (cluetrain.com) |
| 87 points | 1 year ago with 85 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Radioactive Boy Scout (dangerouslaboratories.org) |
| 87 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1999 | | Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (cia.gov) |
| 87 points | 4 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1991 | | Intelligence Without Reason (ijcai.org) |
| 86 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1995 | | The Myth of the Rule of Law (faculty.msb.edu) |
| 86 points | 9 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Problem of Excess Genius (visakanv.com) |
| 86 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 55 comments |
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| 1998 | | An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (eecs.berkeley.edu) |
| 86 points | 11 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1998 | | Swatch Internet Time (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 86 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1998 | | The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web (ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090) |
| 86 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Tcl War (vanderburg.org) |
| 85 points | 8 years ago with 103 comments |
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