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| Articles written 1990 to 1999 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1998 | | How Complex Systems Fail (how.complexsystems.fail) |
| 366 points | 3 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 1998 | | How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children (pages.cs.wisc.edu) |
| 366 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Bastard Operator from Hell (bofh.bjash.com) |
| 363 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 1996 | | Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (sfwriter.com) |
| 362 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1992 | | The Document Which Used to Be Called the MIT Lockpicking Guide (blurofinsanity.com) |
| 355 points | 7 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 1995 | | Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (newsweek.com) |
| 353 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1992 | | Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (news.lettersofnote.com) |
| 352 points | 1 year ago with 320 comments |
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| 1999 | | Linus Torvalds on semaphores (yarchive.net) |
| 349 points | 9 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 1992 | | Albini pitching Nirvana: “I would like to be paid like a plumber” (news.lettersofnote.com) |
| 345 points | 2 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 1995 | | A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (alvyray.com) |
| 342 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 1997 | | Ten lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations (math.toronto.edu) |
| 338 points | 8 years ago with 118 comments |
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| 1997 | | Introduction to A* (theory.stanford.edu) |
| 337 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1997 | | The currency of the new economy won't be money, but attention (wired.com) |
| 336 points | 1 year ago with 149 comments |
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| 1990 | | The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (algorithmicbotany.org) |
| 328 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1992 | | Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (pinyin.info) |
| 325 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1993 | | Burning a NeXTCube (simson.net) |
| 322 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 70 comments |
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| 1999 | | Doors I touched today (fluxus.org) |
| 321 points | 1 year ago with 99 comments |
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| 1992 | | Ordering burritos from my SPARC (mit.edu) |
| 307 points | 3 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 1998 | | Furby source code (archive.org) |
| 304 points | 1 year ago with 79 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Net Is a Waste of Time (nytimes.com) |
| 303 points | 11 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Right to Read (gnu.org) |
| 302 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 21 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Art of Assembly Language (web.archive.org) |
| 297 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 1998 | | HyperPhysics (hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu) |
| 297 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 17 comments |
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| 1996 | | “Invisible Electrostatic Wall” at 3M adhesive tape plant (amasci.com) |
| 293 points | 6 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 1991 | | A TCP/IP Tutorial (tools.ietf.org) |
| 290 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1993 | | How To Deconstruct Almost Anything (fudco.com) |
| 289 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1995 | | Terry Pratchett warns Bill Gates about fake news (twitter.com) |
| 287 points | 4 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 1996 | | Build Your Own Flight Sim in C++ (archive.org) |
| 284 points across 2 posts | 8 months ago with 59 comments |
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| 1999 | | Why I Don't Use Netscape (complang.tuwien.ac.at) |
| 283 points | 1 year ago with 275 comments |
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| 1996 | | The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (nytimes.com) |
| 282 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Sims Game Design Documents (donhopkins.com) |
| 282 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1999 | | How To Write With Style (novelr.com) |
| 281 points | 7 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 1990 | | The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (algorithmicbotany.org) |
| 277 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1995 | | Ur-Fascism (nybooks.com) |
| 275 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1996 | | Lessons I wish I had been taught (alumni.media.mit.edu) |
| 275 points | 1 year ago with 62 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Craft of Text Editing (finseth.com) |
| 272 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1996 | | NSA is monitoring key Internet routers (marc.info) |
| 266 points | 9 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1996 | | ML for the Working Programmer, 2nd Edition (cl.cam.ac.uk) |
| 266 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Mandelbrot Monk (users.math.yale.edu) |
| 265 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Cathedral and the Bazaar (catb.org) |
| 264 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 164 comments |
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| 1999 | | Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (thetaoofwealth.wordpress.com) |
| 262 points | 8 months ago with 231 comments |
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| 1990 | | WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project (w3.org) |
| 258 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 45 comments |
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| 1993 | | Object oriented programming with ANSI-C (cs.rit.edu) |
| 258 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1995 | | A dream of an ultimate OS (okmij.org) |
| 256 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 1992 | | Lively Linear Lisp – 'Look Ma, No Garbage' (home.pipeline.com) |
| 255 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1997 | | Motive.c: The Soul of the Sims (donhopkins.com) |
| 255 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1998 | | How Complex Systems Fail (web.mit.edu) |
| 255 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1998 | | Praise for Intelligence Can Undermine Children's Motivation (psychology.stanford.edu) |
| 253 points | 7 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 1993 | | The Turn (theatlantic.com) |
| 249 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1993 | | The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (shitpost.plover.com) |
| 249 points | 6 years ago with 66 comments |
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