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Articles written 190 to 199 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1991“The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to information” (groups.google.com)
93 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments
1992GUIs Considered Harmful (porkmail.org)
93 points | 7 years ago with 146 comments
1996Why Software Jewels Are Rare (cse.msu.edu)
93 points | 4 years ago with 73 comments
1996Is Sony's 140MB MiniDisc Drive the Next Betamax? (web.archive.org)
93 points | 4 years ago with 125 comments
1996Ray-Casting Tutorial for Game Development and Other Purposes (permadi.com)
93 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
1997Why I Left the Law (spectacle.org)
93 points | 11 years ago with 22 comments
1964System/360 Announcement (ibm.com)
92 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 66 comments
1974The Unix Time-Sharing System (cs.berkeley.edu)
92 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments
1981Landing the Nostromo (archive.org)
92 points | 10 years ago with 42 comments
1981Xerox Star 8010 Interfaces, high quality polaroids (digibarn.com)
92 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments
1984Cottage Computer Programming (atariarchives.org)
92 points | 11 years ago with 30 comments
1992A Memo on the Secret Features of the Hitachi 6309 processor (en.wikichip.org)
92 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
1994Modular C: Reusable and Maintainable Code Using the C Language (metamodular.com)
92 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments
1995Against Intellectual Property (uow.edu.au)
92 points | 11 years ago with 56 comments
1995Toyota Children's Web Site (toyota.co.jp)
92 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
1996Essentials of Standard ML Modules (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
92 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
1996Why computer modeling should become a popular hobby (qrg.northwestern.edu)
92 points | 2 years ago with 31 comments
1997Intel Internet Party Line (web.archive.org)
92 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
1997Shock in the Shower (esdjournal.com)
92 points | 9 years ago with 22 comments
1997Learning the Cello as an Adult (ethanwiner.com)
92 points | 10 years ago with 29 comments
1998The Decommoditization of Protocols (levien.com)
92 points | 3 years ago with 11 comments
1998“It's easier to port a shell than a shell script” (gopher.quux.org:70)
92 points | 10 years ago with 63 comments
1998“Devil Girl from Mars”: Why I Write Science Fiction (web.mit.edu)
92 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
1935"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes (poets.org)
91 points | 12 years ago with 4 comments
1964Monk: The High Priest of Jazz (reprints.longform.org)
91 points | 11 years ago with 14 comments
1978Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (web.stanford.edu)
91 points | 10 years ago with 57 comments
1981The Gernsback Continuum by William Gibson (web.archive.org)
91 points | 4 years ago with 50 comments
1982Living with a Computer (theatlantic.com)
91 points across 3 posts | 10 years ago with 0 comments
1991Relational databases performed a task that didn't need doing (home.pipeline.com)
91 points | 15 years ago with 49 comments
1992Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (theparisreview.org)
91 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments
1997A Simple Scheme Compiler (cs.utexas.edu)
91 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
1998The structure of the special type of DOS files called directories (averstak.tripod.com)
91 points | 6 years ago with 68 comments
1919Diary of a little girl in old New York (archive.org)
90 points | 10 years ago with 15 comments
1958PAPAC-00, a Do-It-Yourself Paper Computer (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
90 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments
1959William and Mary by Roald Dahl (user.ceng.metu.edu.tr)
90 points | 1 year ago with 32 comments
1971Twenty Things to do with a Computer (stager.org)
90 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments
1974The UNIX Time-Sharing System (chsasank.github.io)
90 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
1984Interview with Bill Joy (web.cecs.pdx.edu)
90 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 1 comments
1985American Pictures (american-pictures.com)
90 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
1991World Wide Web (info.cern.ch)
90 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 13 comments
1994Airport ABCs: An Explanation of Airport Identifier Codes (skygod.com)
90 points | 10 years ago with 36 comments
1998Rules of Card Games: I Doubt It (pagat.com)
90 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
1999The GNU Privacy Handbook (gnupg.org)
90 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments
1999Big Ball of Mud (laputan.org)
90 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments
1961Minds, Machines and Gödel (users.ox.ac.uk)
89 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments
1962A Programming Language (softwarepreservation.org)
89 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
1969Isaac Asimov: Man of 7,560,000 Words (nytimes.com)
89 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments
1974LIL, the Little Implementation Language (ultimate.com)
89 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments
1977Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide? (library.sciencemadness.org)
89 points | 10 years ago with 6 comments
1982Epigrams on Programming (pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de)
89 points across 4 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments
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