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| Articles written 1990 to 1999 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1993 | | History of Fidonet (olografix.org) |
| 176 points | 4 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 1997 | | Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible? (math.ucr.edu) |
| 176 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1999 | | Perl, the first postmodern computer language (wall.org) |
| 176 points | 2 years ago with 210 comments |
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| 1993 | | A Stroke of Genius: Striving for Greatness in All You Do (mccurley.org) |
| 175 points | 7 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Infamous SCSH Scheme Shell “Acknowledgements” (scsh.net) |
| 174 points | 4 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1998 | | American Summer: Before Air-Conditioning (newyorker.com) |
| 174 points | 11 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1995 | | Modern art was CIA 'weapon' (independent.co.uk) |
| 173 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 1996 | | "How do I set the User-Agent string in Java?" - L. Page (guyro.typepad.com) |
| 173 points | 15 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1997 | | Reality is a Shared Hallucination (reactor-core.org) |
| 173 points | 8 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 1996 | | Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming (norvig.com) |
| 172 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1997 | | Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours (aelinik.free.fr) |
| 172 points | 7 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 1995 | | The Web is the Next Platform (benslivka.com) |
| 171 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1995 | | A plea for lean software (cr.yp.to) |
| 171 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Story of the PING Program (ftp.arl.mil) |
| 171 points | 10 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1997 | | The raster tragedy at low resolution (microsoft.com) |
| 170 points | 12 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1999 | | Ken Thompson flies a MiG-29 (cm.bell-labs.com) |
| 170 points | 10 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1999 | | Advice I Wish I'd Been Told (web.archive.org) |
| 170 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Elements of Style: Unix as Literature (theody.net) |
| 169 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1999 | | Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp (dept-info.labri.fr) |
| 169 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments |
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| 1990 | | Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] (youtube.com) |
| 168 points | 1 year ago with 112 comments |
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| 1993 | | Almost perfect: the rise and fall of WordPerfect Corporation (wordplace.com) |
| 168 points | 10 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 1990 | | Someone is stealing your life (lycaeum.org) |
| 167 points | 13 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 1996 | | They Write the Right Stuff (fastcompany.com) |
| 167 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1996 | | Can a Human See a Single Photon? (math.ucr.edu) |
| 167 points | 1 year ago with 131 comments |
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| 1996 | | A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (eff.org) |
| 167 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1999 | | What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs TIE Fighter (gamasutra.com) |
| 166 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1995 | | Windows: Interface Guidelines (ics.uci.edu) |
| 165 points | 4 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 1997 | | Letters about Soap (people.cs.ksu.edu) |
| 164 points | 2 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 1997 | | Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (mars.nasa.gov) |
| 164 points | 7 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Fallacy of Cracking Contests (schneier.com) |
| 164 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1999 | | Knuth versus Email (cs.stanford.edu) |
| 164 points | 8 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 1994 | | Python 1.0.0 is out (groups.google.com) |
| 163 points | 6 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 1995 | | A Plea for Lean Software (people.inf.ethz.ch) |
| 163 points | 4 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 1995 | | Taos Operating System (uruk.org) |
| 163 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 55 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (archive.org) |
| 160 points | 4 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1999 | | Yahoo buys GeoCities (money.cnn.com) |
| 160 points | 11 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 1990 | | Unix in East Germany (groups.google.com) |
| 159 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1996 | | Apple and NeXT announce merger (nextcomputers.org) |
| 159 points | 6 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Story of Squeak, a Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself (ftp.squeak.org) |
| 159 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1999 | | How to Write Unmaintainable Code (doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| 159 points | 9 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 1999 | | Knuth versus Email (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu) |
| 158 points | 4 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 1999 | | Linkers and Loaders (iecc.com) |
| 158 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1997 | | Why is c the symbol for the speed of light? (math.ucr.edu) |
| 157 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 45 comments |
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| 1990 | | All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (nytimes.com) |
| 156 points | 13 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 1999 | | Intel PIII: Is Big Brother Inside? (zdnet.com) |
| 156 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1999 | | African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes (web.stanford.edu) |
| 156 points | 8 years ago with 249 comments |
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| 1993 | | Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (latimes.com) |
| 155 points | 3 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 1991 | | Lecture on Creativity (genius.com) |
| 154 points | 7 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1996 | | QuakeWorld by John Carmack (fabiensanglard.net) |
| 154 points | 8 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 1996 | | Quake related work logs (gamers.org) |
| 154 points | 1 year ago with 101 comments |
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