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| Articles written 1990 to 1999 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1995 | | How Software Companies Die (gist.github.com) |
| 210 points | 1 year ago with 49 comments |
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| 1996 | | Mother Earth Mother Board (wired.com) |
| 210 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1999 | | Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 210 points | 4 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 1996 | | How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (sfgate.com) |
| 208 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1997 | | Ways to save Apple (archive.wired.com) |
| 208 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 1996 | | How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (gwern.net) |
| 207 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 1996 | | Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anybody'” (groups.google.com) |
| 205 points | 6 years ago with 189 comments |
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| 1999 | | Practical file system design with the Be File System (nobius.org) |
| 205 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Knot Book: Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots (math.harvard.edu) |
| 204 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1994 | | Ursula Le Guin on Star Trek: TNG (gentlier.tumblr.com) |
| 203 points | 2 years ago with 152 comments |
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| 1995 | | Bookbinding: A Tutorial (homepage.divms.uiowa.edu) |
| 203 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1997 | | Doc Searls on Steve Jobs (scripting.com) |
| 203 points across 2 posts | 12 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1991 | | Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved (erowid.org) |
| 202 points | 2 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 1993 | | Programming Bottom-Up (paulgraham.com) |
| 202 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 32 comments |
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| 1999 | | A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything (arxiv.org) |
| 202 points | 7 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 1996 | | Retrospective review of Gödel, Escher, Bach (cs.nyu.edu) |
| 200 points | 3 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 1991 | | Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages (bertrandmeyer.com) |
| 198 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Art of Assembly Language Programming (phatcode.net) |
| 198 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 1994 | | Introduction to Permaculture (archive.org) |
| 197 points | 4 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 1995 | | The decline of unfettered research (dtc.umn.edu) |
| 197 points | 3 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 1993 | | Algebra and the Lambda Calculus (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 196 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1997 | | Fuck.com (links.net) |
| 196 points | 3 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 1999 | | Don't Become a Scientist (wuphys.wustl.edu) |
| 195 points | 10 years ago with 159 comments |
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| 1990 | | Bell Labs' Plan 9 research project looks to tomorrow (doc.cat-v.org) |
| 194 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1993 | | The Evolution of Lisp (dreamsongs.com) |
| 194 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (washingtonpost.com) |
| 192 points | 14 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1999 | | Napster: A New Killer Internet App (evolt.org) |
| 190 points | 5 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 1999 | | A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (muppetlabs.com) |
| 190 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1994 | | On-Line Pizza Idea Is Clever but Only Half-Baked (latimes.com) |
| 189 points | 5 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 1998 | | Data Structures for Text Sequences (cs.unm.edu) |
| 189 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 1995 | | One hundred rules for NASA project managers (oliverlehmann.com) |
| 188 points | 10 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process for Creating Half-Life (gamasutra.com) |
| 188 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1996 | | SoftRAM 95 (drdobbs.com) |
| 187 points | 4 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1998 | | Set Up to Fail: How Bosses Create Their Own Poor Performers (insead.edu) |
| 187 points | 10 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1992 | | This Place Is Not a Place of Honor (web.archive.org) |
| 186 points | 5 years ago with 119 comments |
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| 1994 | | An Insulin Index of Foods (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 186 points | 5 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 1996 | | Steve Jobs Introduces WebObjects [video] (channel9.msdn.com) |
| 186 points | 9 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 1998 | | Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (itprotoday.com) |
| 186 points | 6 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 1998 | | Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (norvig.com) |
| 186 points | 11 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 1999 | | Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher (ils.unc.edu) |
| 185 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1999 | | Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (cia.gov) |
| 185 points | 7 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1991 | | Tim Berners-Lee's Original Announcement (groups.google.com) |
| 184 points | 12 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1997 | | Gattaca draft script (sfy.ru) |
| 183 points | 1 year ago with 131 comments |
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| 1999 | | Interface Hall of Shame – QuickTime 4.0 Player (hallofshame.gp.co.at) |
| 183 points | 6 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 1995 | | Black Art of 3D Game Programming (archive.org) |
| 182 points | 1 year ago with 47 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Basic Ideas in Neural Networks (www-isl.stanford.edu) |
| 181 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1996 | | Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (phrack.org) |
| 181 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1990 | | Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (web.mit.edu) |
| 180 points | 11 months ago with 52 comments |
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| 1995 | | Structured Procrastination (structuredprocrastination.com) |
| 180 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 1999 | | Can Google's search engine find profits? (zdnet.com) |
| 179 points | 10 years ago with 63 comments |
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