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| Articles written 1990 to 1999 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1999 | | Practical File System Design: The Be File System (nobius.org) |
| 154 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Story of Maxis Software (web.archive.org) |
| 154 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1995 | | Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers (scifiinterfaces.com) |
| 153 points | 11 months ago with 76 comments |
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| 1999 | | The relationship between age and wisdom-related performance (journals.sagepub.com) |
| 153 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 1999 | | Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life (gamasutra.com) |
| 152 points | 10 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1991 | | Combinatorial Music Theory (andrewduncan.net) |
| 151 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1992 | | Unix Admin Horror Story Summary (www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk) |
| 151 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Sad Saga of Silicon Graphics (businessweek.com) |
| 151 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 1990 | | Origins of the finger command (groups.google.com) |
| 150 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 1996 | | Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design (users.monash.edu) |
| 150 points | 3 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Great Filter – Are We Almost Past It? (mason.gmu.edu) |
| 150 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 174 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (gamasutra.com) |
| 150 points | 10 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 1995 | | Down with Determinants (axler.net) |
| 149 points | 6 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (nytimes.com) |
| 149 points | 10 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1999 | | VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC (bricklin.com) |
| 149 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1996 | | Java JDK 1.0 (github.com) |
| 148 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1999 | | In the beginning was the command line (faculty.georgetown.edu) |
| 148 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1999 | | Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula (academics.rowan.edu) |
| 148 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1999 | | How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (mud.co.uk) |
| 148 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1996 | | Linux Logo (lkml.org) |
| 147 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1999 | | Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices (academic.oup.com) |
| 147 points | 1 year ago with 113 comments |
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| 1993 | | A Taste of Linear Logic (homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk) |
| 146 points | 6 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1995 | | A Plea for Lean Software (blog.frantovo.cz) |
| 146 points | 3 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 1995 | | Anonymity on the Internet Must Be Protected (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 146 points | 6 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 1997 | | Steve Jobs negotiates Apple's deal with Microsoft (techemails.com) |
| 146 points | 2 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 1994 | | Just a Drop in the Bucket (milk.com) |
| 145 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1995 | | Interview with Anders Hejlsberg on Delphi (theopenforce.com) |
| 145 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1995 | | x86 Is an Octal Machine (gist.github.com) |
| 145 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1994 | | Callbacks in C++ using template functors (tutok.sk) |
| 144 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1995 | | The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal (nytimes.com) |
| 144 points | 11 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 1999 | | F***ing Learn to Code Again (blog.kebby.org) |
| 144 points | 9 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 1998 | | AOL acquires Netscape in $4.2B deal (money.cnn.com) |
| 143 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1999 | | Shhh: The Undocumented DOS Commands (the-eye.eu) |
| 143 points | 4 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1993 | | Moving Forth (bradrodriguez.com) |
| 142 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1997 | | Russian-manufactured armored vehicle vulnerability in urban combat (man.fas.org) |
| 142 points | 2 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 1995 | | Financial Institution Letters: Vacation Policies (fdic.gov) |
| 141 points | 2 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 1998 | | Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic words (groups.google.com) |
| 141 points | 10 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 1999 | | How my startup failed (alumni.stanford.edu) |
| 141 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1999 | | Parsing Expressions by Recursive Descent (engr.mun.ca) |
| 141 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1995 | | Man deposits fake check in ATM, gets to keep the money. (goodthink.com) |
| 140 points | 13 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1999 | | Golden Rules of Financial Safety (harrybrowne.org) |
| 140 points | 7 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Art of Prolog (mitpress.mit.edu) |
| 139 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1994 | | Well-capitalized Seattle startup seeks Unix developers – Jeff Bezos (groups.google.com) |
| 139 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1991 | | The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher, by John Taylor Gatto (cantrip.org) |
| 138 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1991 | | Getting Started in Star Lisp (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 138 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1992 | | On the Typography of Flight-Deck Documentation (ti.arc.nasa.gov) |
| 138 points | 11 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1996 | | A Unified Mathematical Language for Physics and Engineering (mrao.cam.ac.uk) |
| 138 points | 10 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1999 | | Why Arabs Lose Wars (meforum.org) |
| 137 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1998 | | Alan Kay on Messaging (c2.com) |
| 136 points | 9 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1994 | | Letter to the Patent Office From Professor Donald Knuth (pluto.it) |
| 135 points | 10 years ago with 48 comments |
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