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Articles written 190 to 199 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1981Jim Blinn and Ed Catmull – graphics class at Berkeley (youtube.com)
100 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments
1981Flipping your Disk (atarimagazines.com)
100 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments
1984A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences (sci-hub.tf)
100 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
1989Stack Computers: the new wave (ece.cmu.edu)
100 points | 12 years ago with 37 comments
1992The birth of Prolog (alain.colmerauer.free.fr)
100 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments
1993Inside the Windows Messaging System (drdobbs.com)
100 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments
1997Anatomy of a Catastrophic Boiler Accident (nationalboard.org)
100 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments
1999Who Can Name the Bigger Number? (scottaaronson.com)
100 points | 5 years ago with 43 comments
1999Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. Why? (st.cs.uni-saarland.de)
100 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments
1951The Use of Sub-Routines in Programmes (laputan.org)
99 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 4 comments
1953A Study of Assassination – CIA (gwu.edu)
99 points | 12 years ago with 46 comments
1955David Ogilvy: "I am a lousy copywriter" (lettersofnote.com)
99 points | 13 years ago with 15 comments
1988Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and Value Cells (nhplace.com)
99 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 12 comments
1989Roll your own minilanguages with mini-interpreters (textfiles.com)
99 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments
1990Lithium in drinking water and crimes, suicides related to drug addictions (researchgate.net)
99 points | 6 years ago with 56 comments
1993The Hypertext annotated version of “A Fire Upon the Deep” (groups.google.com)
99 points | 4 years ago with 108 comments
1994The Design of the Connection Machine (tamikothiel.com)
99 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments
1995LavaPS: Top, Implemented as a Lava Lamp (isi.edu)
99 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments
1996Exterminate All Operating System Abstractions (cs.berkeley.edu)
99 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments
1997It'll Never Work (lhup.edu)
99 points | 10 years ago with 79 comments
1997Principles of Programming Languages (cs.nott.ac.uk)
99 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
1997On teaching mathematics (uni-muenster.de)
99 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 40 comments
1998The Pentium F00F Bug (rcollins.org)
99 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 24 comments
1999African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes (web.stanford.edu)
99 points | 7 years ago with 121 comments
1906Disappearing Bicyclist – Sam Loyd (geogebra.org)
98 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments
1922Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son (gutenberg.org)
98 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
1956The Last Question by Isaac Asimov (multivax.com)
98 points | 10 years ago with 15 comments
1962Operation Northwoods: CIA false-flag op against American citizens (en.wikipedia.org)
98 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments
196517 year old Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret" (youtube.com)
98 points | 15 years ago with 11 comments
1968Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal (mises.org)
98 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments
1970A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (seas.upenn.edu)
98 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 20 comments
1976Solaris movie review and film summary (rogerebert.com)
98 points | 2 years ago with 91 comments
1981The $10,000-a-year college education has arrived (nytimes.com)
98 points | 9 years ago with 145 comments
1985Performance and evaluation of Lisp systems (rpgpoet.com)
98 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments
1991Forth – The Early Years (colorforth.com)
98 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments
1993The Mail from Budapest (cia.gov)
98 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
1994The Netscape Dorm (jwz.org)
98 points | 14 years ago with 28 comments
1994Wavelets (cybertester.com)
98 points | 6 years ago with 46 comments
1995How to ensure that your program does not run under Windows 95 (ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com)
98 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
1997The Long Boom: A History of the Future, 1980–2020 (wired.com)
98 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments
1955The value of science (calteches.library.caltech.edu)
97 points | 4 years ago with 21 comments
1964Original Dartmouth College BASIC manual (bitsavers.org)
97 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
1977The Heilmeier Catechism (darpa.mil)
97 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
1989By way of introduction – EWD 1041 (cs.utexas.edu)
97 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments
1996 Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color? (research.ibm.com)
97 points | 11 years ago with 20 comments
1996Interview with Bob Yannes, creator of the SID chip (web.archive.org)
97 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
1996Turing Machines Are Recurrent Neural Networks (users.ics.aalto.fi)
97 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
1998Technorealism (technorealism.org)
97 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments
1939The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge (ias.edu)
96 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
1945The Scientists Take Over: George Orwell Reviews “That Hideous Strength” (lewisiana.nl)
96 points | 4 years ago with 57 comments
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