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| Articles written 1990 to 1999 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1998 | | Recreating Medieval English Ales (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 112 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments |
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| 1999 | | Ford 021C Concept Car (marc-newson.com) |
| 112 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments |
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| 1992 | | Advanced Amiga Architecture (archive.org) |
| 111 points | 1 year ago with 97 comments |
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| 1994 | | Pentium floating-point division bug (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 111 points | 1 year ago with 62 comments |
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| 1995 | | Let's Build a Compiler (xmonader.github.io) |
| 111 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1995 | | The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis (duke.edu) |
| 111 points | 13 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1995 | | Roger Ebert: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (rogerebert.com) |
| 111 points | 2 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 1999 | | Intel won't back down on chip ID feature (zdnet.com) |
| 111 points | 1 year ago with 111 comments |
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| 1999 | | Outdoor Sound Propagation in the U.S. Civil War (wesclark.com) |
| 111 points | 2 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1991 | | The Taos Operating System (dickpountain.co.uk) |
| 110 points | 9 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 1993 | | Kirby’s Adventure – Nintendo Developer Interview (shmuplations.com) |
| 110 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1994 | | OK for Apple to Call Sagan 'Butt-Head Astronomer' (web.archive.org) |
| 110 points | 2 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 1995 | | Finite State Machines in Forth (galileo.phys.virginia.edu) |
| 110 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1997 | | A difficult case: Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices (researchgate.net) |
| 109 points | 4 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 1991 | | Language as an intellectual tool: From hieroglyphics to APL (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu) |
| 108 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1992 | | Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (theparisreview.org) |
| 108 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1993 | | TCP in 30 instructions (pdl.cmu.edu) |
| 108 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1995 | | A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (newyorker.com) |
| 108 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments |
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| 1998 | | Why I Am a Bad Correspondent (nealstephenson.com) |
| 108 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1999 | | Unskilled and Unaware of It (psych.colorado.edu) |
| 108 points | 6 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 1990 | | Taxonomies of Visual Programming (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 107 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm (schneier.com) |
| 107 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1999 | | “That Deep Romantic Chasm”: Libertarianism and the Computer Culture (uvm.edu) |
| 107 points | 5 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1992 | | 'Fifth Generation' Became Japan's Lost Generation (nytimes.com) |
| 106 points | 6 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1996 | | How to help someone use a computer (pages.gseis.ucla.edu) |
| 106 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 46 comments |
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| 1997 | | Euclid's Elements (aleph0.clarku.edu) |
| 106 points | 7 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 1997 | | Calculus for mathematicians (cr.yp.to) |
| 106 points | 9 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 1999 | | Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? (bikeshed.org) |
| 106 points | 8 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1999 | | Unix – The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems (team.net) |
| 106 points | 3 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1994 | | The X-Windows Disaster (art.net) |
| 105 points | 4 years ago with 160 comments |
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| 1997 | | Lecture Notes on General Relativity (arxiv.org) |
| 105 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Way Things Work CD-ROM (archive.org) |
| 104 points | 1 year ago with 24 comments |
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| 1994 | | Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (book.simply-logical.space) |
| 104 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering (sigchi.org) |
| 104 points | 8 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 1997 | | Does OO really match the way we think (leshatton.org) |
| 104 points | 7 years ago with 239 comments |
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| 1999 | | Reading code from top to bottom (iq0.com) |
| 103 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1993 | | AT&T's predictions of the future (youtube.com) |
| 102 points | 1 year ago with 63 comments |
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| 1994 | | The 10,000,000,000th Prime Number (code.jsoftware.com) |
| 102 points | 4 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 1994 | | Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ an Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity (cs.yale.edu) |
| 102 points | 7 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 1995 | | How transistors really work (amasci.com) |
| 102 points | 9 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1996 | | Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing (archive.wired.com) |
| 102 points | 9 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 1996 | | Netheads vs. Bellheads (wired.com) |
| 102 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1996 | | To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (dkeenan.com) |
| 102 points | 4 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1999 | | TetrisRant (tcrf.net) |
| 102 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1991 | | The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (jstor.org) |
| 101 points | 2 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 1995 | | The Construction of a Yurt (pbm.com) |
| 101 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1996 | | It's the Latency, Stupid (rescomp.stanford.edu) |
| 101 points | 10 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1996 | | With every good film I see, I feel reborn (sabzian.be) |
| 101 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1998 | | The myth of the $600 hammer (govexec.com) |
| 101 points | 1 year ago with 185 comments |
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| 1999 | | DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (lea.hamradio.si) |
| 101 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments |
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