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| Articles written 1990 to 1999 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1995 | | Viaweb's First Business Plan (paulgraham.com) |
| 135 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Impact of the Lambda Calculus (www-users.mat.umk.pl) |
| 135 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1998 | | How to build a Linux-based wireless router out of spare parts (rage.net) |
| 135 points | 1 year ago with 100 comments |
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| 1999 | | Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk) |
| 135 points | 5 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 1999 | | How the Internet Ruined San Francisco (salon.com) |
| 135 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1992 | | Motorola M68000 Family Programmer’s Reference Manual (cache.nxp.com) |
| 134 points | 6 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 1998 | | PHP 3.0 Final is out (web.archive.org) |
| 134 points | 3 years ago with 169 comments |
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| 1992 | | Ambition: How we manage success and failure throughout our lives (ambition-book.com) |
| 133 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1992 | | The Birth of Prolog (web.stanford.edu) |
| 133 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1995 | | Ropes, an Alternative to Strings [pdf] (cs.rit.edu) |
| 133 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1996 | | Quake's Lighting Model: Surface Caching (bluesnews.com) |
| 133 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1991 | | The Rise of Worse Is Better (dreamsongs.com) |
| 132 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1992 | | J one-page interpreter fragment (code.jsoftware.com) |
| 132 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1993 | | TCP in 30 instructions (pdl.cmu.edu) |
| 132 points | 10 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 1994 | | Ways to implement computer languages on 6502s (dwheeler.com) |
| 132 points | 8 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1996 | | Peter's Evil Overlord List (eviloverlord.com) |
| 132 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1996 | | Hydrofluoric Acid: An Invisible Fire (discovermagazine.com) |
| 132 points | 6 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1996 | | Giftedness and Genius: Crucial Differences (gwern.net) |
| 132 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1997 | | All People in Canada are the Same Age (math.toronto.edu) |
| 132 points | 4 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1998 | | U.S. Torpedo Troubles During World War II (historynet.com) |
| 132 points | 4 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1991 | | Functional programming with bananas, lenses, envelopes and barbed wire [pdf] (ris.utwente.nl) |
| 131 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1991 | | Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big (dreamsongs.com) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1996 | | Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (web.media.mit.edu) |
| 131 points | 11 months ago with 35 comments |
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| 1998 | | Processor Design: An Introduction (gamezero.com) |
| 131 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1999 | | Secrets of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler Inliner (microsoft.com) |
| 131 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1999 | | 1x Forth (ultratechnology.com) |
| 130 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1990 | | Prefix Sums and Their Applications (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 129 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1995 | | ANSI Common Lisp (paulgraham.com) |
| 129 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1996 | | Cassidy Curtis's Marvelous Surface Drawings (math.brown.edu) |
| 129 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1997 | | Machine Learning (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 129 points | 2 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1994 | | Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (pmichaud.com) |
| 128 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 1996 | | On FPGAs as PC Coprocessors (fpgacpu.org) |
| 128 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1998 | | Microsoft TerraServer (msdn.microsoft.com) |
| 128 points | 11 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1999 | | Lightweight Living (aldha.org) |
| 128 points | 14 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 1992 | | For BSD Unix, It's Sayonara (tech-insider.org) |
| 127 points | 1 year ago with 80 comments |
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| 1996 | | Setting User-Agent Field? (groups.google.com) |
| 127 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 1998 | | Adam Smith did not mean what he is often made to say (theatlantic.com) |
| 127 points | 2 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 1997 | | Three sins of authors in computer science and math (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 126 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1998 | | Fifty Years of Shannon Theory (princeton.edu) |
| 126 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Evolution of Roller Coaster Tycoon (nicscorner.com) |
| 126 points | 10 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1993 | | Disneyland with the Death Penalty (archive.wired.com) |
| 125 points | 9 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 1997 | | S-Expressions (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 125 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1998 | | DC Circuit Water Analogy (hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu) |
| 125 points | 2 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 1999 | | The In-game Economics of Ultima Online (mine-control.com) |
| 125 points | 11 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1999 | | Hugh Laurie: Wodehouse Saved my Life (pgwodehousebooks.com) |
| 124 points | 11 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1999 | | Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (theatlantic.com) |
| 124 points | 5 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 1999 | | Among the Norse Tribes: The Remarkable Account of Ibn Fadlan (archive.aramcoworld.com) |
| 124 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1991 | | What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic (docs.oracle.com) |
| 123 points | 4 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1992 | | Dylan: A New Language Is Blowin' in the Wind (schneier.com) |
| 123 points | 7 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Effects of Computer Use on Eye Health and Vision (aoa.org) |
| 123 points | 6 years ago with 99 comments |
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