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Articles written 1990 to 1999 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1998Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (infolab.stanford.edu)
123 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 7 comments
1997Linux: A Portable Operating System (cs.helsinki.fi)
122 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
1999Jobs at Google (web.archive.org)
122 points | 6 years ago with 126 comments
1999The mathematics of Magic: the Gathering (kibble.net)
122 points | 6 years ago with 95 comments
1993The Quest for Fuel in World War II (eiaonline.com)
121 points | 2 years ago with 62 comments
1993Anti Warez Association, 1 (defacto2.net)
121 points | 1 year ago with 81 comments
1993Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style (cs.umd.edu)
121 points | 5 years ago with 32 comments
1993The Coming Technological Singularity (edoras.sdsu.edu)
121 points | 1 year ago with 169 comments
1996Bots Are Hot (wired.com)
121 points | 8 years ago with 47 comments
1996Using Prolog in Windows NT Network Configuration (web.archive.org)
121 points | 1 year ago with 25 comments
1997N guilty men (www2.law.ucla.edu)
121 points | 1 year ago with 82 comments
1995NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and Driver Kit (nextop.de)
120 points | 8 years ago with 78 comments
1997Did you ever wonder why December has 31 days? (projects.csail.mit.edu)
120 points | 10 years ago with 64 comments
1993A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (w2.eff.org)
119 points | 7 years ago with 7 comments
1995Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (chomsky.info)
119 points | 15 years ago with 53 comments
1996Tact Filters (mit.edu)
119 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments
1997The Internet Free Zone (arachnoid.com)
119 points | 1 year ago with 41 comments
1998Lisp: A Language for Internet Scripting and Programming (norvig.com)
119 points | 10 years ago with 110 comments
1998How Complex Systems Fail (ctlab.org)
119 points | 10 years ago with 16 comments
1992Implementing functional languages: a tutorial (research.microsoft.com)
118 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments
1995If operating systems were beers (beerme.com)
118 points | 2 years ago with 70 comments
1996Browser Bloat (miken.com)
118 points | 8 years ago with 82 comments
1998Why Ada isn't Popular (adapower.com)
118 points | 10 years ago with 112 comments
1999How to Get Rich (edge.org)
118 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
1991Understand (ktxr.rs)
117 points | 1 year ago with 38 comments
1992Linux is Obsolete (groups.google.com)
117 points | 6 years ago with 168 comments
1994Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open (nytimes.com)
117 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 20 comments
1997Why Awk for AI? (wra1th.plus.com)
117 points | 11 years ago with 53 comments
1998The Mind Has No Firewall (press.armywarcollege.edu)
117 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments
1998Cyberpunk in the Nineties (streettech.com)
117 points | 1 year ago with 114 comments
1991Beyond Cyberpunk: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Future (archive.org)
116 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments
1994Bug in the Pentium FPU (trnicely.net)
116 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 30 comments
1995The Internet? Bah (newsweek.com)
116 points | 14 years ago with 71 comments
1995How to read Plato (plato-dialogues.org)
116 points | 6 years ago with 73 comments
1996Why I am called "the Father of Visual Basic" (cooper.com)
116 points | 9 years ago with 80 comments
1999Introduction to AOLserver, Part 1 (philip.greenspun.com)
116 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments
1990Why Schools Don’t Educate (thesunmagazine.org)
115 points | 2 years ago with 139 comments
1993Assemblers and Loaders (davidsalomon.name)
115 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments
1993The Problem with Music (thebaffler.com)
115 points | 1 year ago with 94 comments
1996The Twelve Networking Truths (ietf.org)
115 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 17 comments
1998An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
115 points | 3 years ago with 76 comments
1999Why didn't we patent the spreadsheet? Were we stupid? (bricklin.com)
115 points | 11 years ago with 135 comments
1999What Is RPN? Why Did/Does HP Use RPN? Learning RPN (hpmuseum.org)
115 points | 3 years ago with 117 comments
1999Put 1.7MB onto 1.44MB Floppies (trevormarshall.com)
115 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments
1996RAM Doubler 2 (tidbits.com)
114 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
1997History of Computing at Bell Labs (research.swtch.com)
114 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 2 comments
1996What is Electricity? (amasci.com)
113 points | 4 years ago with 46 comments
1998A Brief Guide to CLOS (aiai.ed.ac.uk)
113 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
1998Yahoo buys Viaweb for $49 million (news.cnet.com)
113 points | 11 years ago with 52 comments
1997On teaching mathematics, by V.I. Arnold (pauli.uni-muenster.de)
112 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 14 comments
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