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| Articles written 190 to 199 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1999 | | A cab ride I'll never forget (kentnerburn.com) |
| 1704 points | 1 year ago with 165 comments |
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| 1997 | | NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes (cypherspace.org) |
| 1623 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 167 comments |
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| 1922 | | I Quit Being So Accommodating (mikecanex.wordpress.com) |
| 1568 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1991 | | They're Made Out of Meat (mit.edu) |
| 1555 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 168 comments |
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| 1961 | | The Chaostron: An Important Advance in Learning Machines (dl.acm.org) |
| 1474 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1998 | | Cool URIs Don't Change (w3.org) |
| 1470 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 120 comments |
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| 1985 | | Byte Magazine: Declarative Languages (archive.org) |
| 1246 points across 11 posts | 2 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1983 | | Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (archive.org) |
| 1245 points across 11 posts | 2 years ago with 275 comments |
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| 1995 | | Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (web.archive.org) |
| 1086 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 301 comments |
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| 1991 | | Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 1083 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 405 comments |
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| 1997 | | Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations [pdf] (web.williams.edu) |
| 1081 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 243 comments |
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| 1914 | | Calculus Made Easy (djm.cc) |
| 1080 points | 7 years ago with 189 comments |
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| 1988 | | What not to write on your security clearance form (milk.com) |
| 1061 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 545 comments |
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| 1982 | | Negative 2000 Lines of Code (folklore.org) |
| 978 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 166 comments |
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| 1993 | | A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (what.cd) |
| 925 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 1985 | | Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (asc.ohio-state.edu) |
| 915 points | 3 years ago with 276 comments |
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| 1995 | | Foundations of Databases (webdam.inria.fr) |
| 915 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1999 | | Why I Wrote PGP (philzimmermann.com) |
| 904 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1964 | | Feynman Lectures on Physics (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu) |
| 839 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 66 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Unix-Haters Handbook (web.mit.edu) |
| 824 points across 4 posts | 5 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 1930 | | How to Draw Animals (dessinoprimaire.blogspot.com) |
| 819 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 1984 | | Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (archive.org) |
| 811 points across 9 posts | 2 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 1987 | | Byte Magazine: Prolog and 386 Hardware Software (archive.org) |
| 811 points across 9 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1992 | | Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (github.com) |
| 802 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 1910 | | Calculus Made Easy (calculusmadeeasy.org) |
| 795 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 1922 | | What the world will be like in a hundred years (loc.gov) |
| 791 points | 2 years ago with 634 comments |
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| 1966 | | Do not remain nameless to yourself (lettersofnote.com) |
| 782 points | 4 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 1995 | | Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (web.archive.org) |
| 755 points | 4 years ago with 455 comments |
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| 1997 | | Graphics Programming Black Book (github.com) |
| 693 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1910 | | Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (calculusmadeeasy.org) |
| 676 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 57 comments |
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| 1996 | | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (opendocs.github.io) |
| 665 points | 5 years ago with 142 comments |
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| 1995 | | Does memory leak? (groups.google.com) |
| 647 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 279 comments |
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| 1999 | | Doom as a tool for system administration (cs.unm.edu) |
| 625 points across 4 posts | 6 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1998 | | Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (norvig.com) |
| 614 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 1988 | | Let's Build a Compiler (compilers.iecc.com) |
| 611 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 14 comments |
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| 1946 | | Einstein: The Negro Question (onbeing.org) |
| 610 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 1998 | | Cool URIs don't change (w3.org) |
| 606 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 1998 | | Alan Kay: Smalltalk is not about objects, it’s about messaging (lists.squeakfoundation.org) |
| 558 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 174 comments |
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| 1989 | | Why is electricity so hard to understand? (amasci.com) |
| 556 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 1978 | | How to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart two days later (urbigenous.net) |
| 550 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 134 comments |
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| 1988 | | Xmas.c (udel.edu) |
| 544 points | 1 year ago with 92 comments |
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| 1940 | | The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (charliechaplin.com) |
| 533 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 371 comments |
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| 1970 | | The Tyranny of Structurelessness (jofreeman.com) |
| 530 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 72 comments |
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| 1958 | | Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (tranquilmonkey.com) |
| 525 points | 8 years ago with 257 comments |
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| 1998 | | The sad story of Heisenberg's doctoral oral exam (aps.org) |
| 517 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 1999 | | Get a cable modem, go to jail (telecom.csail.mit.edu) |
| 510 points | 1 year ago with 455 comments |
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| 1998 | | How Complex Systems Fail (how.complexsystems.fail) |
| 507 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1944 | | Simple Sabotage Field Manual (cia.gov) |
| 502 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 1968 | | Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (twitter.com) |
| 497 points | 5 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 1999 | | Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (futureblues.com) |
| 492 points | 1 year ago with 182 comments |
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