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| Articles written 1990 to 1999 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1995 | | All Circuits are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse (users.csc.calpoly.edu) |
| 249 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 42 comments |
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| 1996 | | Why Three Prongs? (amasci.com) |
| 249 points | 5 years ago with 232 comments |
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| 1996 | | Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (math.tamu.edu) |
| 249 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Story of the Ping Program (ftp.arl.army.mil) |
| 249 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1991 | | Linus Torvalds announces Linux (web.archive.org) |
| 248 points | 6 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 1996 | | The long strange trip to Java (blinkenlights.com) |
| 247 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 1994 | | A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (user.eng.umd.edu) |
| 246 points | 4 years ago with 276 comments |
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| 1996 | | Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (people.math.osu.edu) |
| 246 points | 8 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 1996 | | Sergey Brin’s Resume (infolab.stanford.edu) |
| 243 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 1998 | | Amazon’s distributed computing manifesto (allthingsdistributed.com) |
| 242 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1992 | | WordPerfect for UNIX (lock.cmpxchg8b.com) |
| 241 points | 2 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 1998 | | America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (nytimes.com) |
| 239 points | 10 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 1995 | | Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism (theanarchistlibrary.org) |
| 238 points | 3 years ago with 191 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (dspguide.com) |
| 238 points | 7 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1995 | | RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines (rfc-editor.org) |
| 237 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 9 comments |
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| 1991 | | Paradigms of A.I. Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (norvig.github.io) |
| 235 points | 1 year ago with 95 comments |
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| 1997 | | FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (telecommander.com) |
| 234 points | 6 years ago with 211 comments |
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| 1993 | | Proposed new tag: IMG (1997.webhistory.org) |
| 233 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1999 | | Introduction to Nintendo 64 Programming (n64.icequake.net) |
| 232 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1990 | | The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat (web.stanford.edu) |
| 231 points | 1 year ago with 91 comments |
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| 1995 | | How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 230 points | 10 years ago with 168 comments |
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| 1998 | | She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (generationterrorists.com) |
| 228 points | 2 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1999 | | If English were written like Chinese (zompist.com) |
| 228 points | 8 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 1997 | | Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (ams.org) |
| 226 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1999 | | QNX DEMO disk (qnx.puslapiai.lt) |
| 226 points | 2 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 1999 | | Homo sapiens declared extinct (bruces.medium.com) |
| 226 points | 1 year ago with 62 comments |
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| 1993 | | Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets (newyorker.com) |
| 223 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Development of Erlang (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 223 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1998 | | How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (nytimes.com) |
| 223 points | 14 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 1999 | | Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge (supermemo.com) |
| 223 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1992 | | Source Code for SunOS 4.1.3 (github.com) |
| 222 points | 2 years ago with 127 comments |
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| 1998 | | Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (xlinux.nist.gov) |
| 222 points | 8 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1990 | | Are sockets the wave of the future? (groups.google.com) |
| 221 points | 1 year ago with 90 comments |
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| 1991 | | IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (ibiblio.org) |
| 220 points | 10 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 1993 | | A Timeline of CIA Atrocities (huppi.com) |
| 219 points | 3 years ago with 258 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (analog.com) |
| 218 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1994 | | How I Met My Wife (newyorker.com) |
| 217 points | 3 years ago with 125 comments |
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| 1994 | | Fatal Dose – Radiation Deaths linked to AECL Computer Errors (ccnr.org) |
| 216 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 1994 | | Haskell, Ada, C++: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (haskell.cs.yale.edu) |
| 216 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 1990 | | Why functional programming matters (cs.kent.ac.uk) |
| 215 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 1997 | | The computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (catonmat.net) |
| 215 points | 3 years ago with 179 comments |
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| 1998 | | By 1995, it'll be evident that the Internet means as little as fax (web.archive.org) |
| 215 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 1998 | | Memorandum on Microsoft’s strategy against Linux and Open Source software (catb.org) |
| 215 points | 6 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1990 | | SJ Games vs. the Secret Service (sjgames.com) |
| 214 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1998 | | Does Gravity Travel at the Speed of Light? (math.ucr.edu) |
| 214 points | 11 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 1999 | | When Interfaces Kill: What Happened to John Denver (asktog.com) |
| 214 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 119 comments |
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| 1996 | | Bill Gates: I'm literally losing sleep over Java (techemails.com) |
| 212 points | 1 year ago with 229 comments |
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| 1998 | | “The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (harpers.org) |
| 212 points | 8 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 1992 | | On the typography of flight deck documentation – NASA (ntrs.nasa.gov) |
| 211 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1998 | | Processor Design: An Introduction (gamezero.com) |
| 211 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 14 comments |
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