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Articles written 190 to 199 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1988On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (psy.gla.ac.uk)
89 points | 4 years ago with 120 comments
1989Uncleftish Beholding (ling.upenn.edu)
89 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
1991HyperCard Stack: Douglas Adams' Megapode Nest Volume Calculator (archive.org)
89 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
1994Job Posting for Amazon.com Before it Launched (readwriteweb.com)
89 points | 14 years ago with 38 comments
1995Matt Blaze: My life as an international arms courier (crypto.com)
89 points | 11 years ago with 22 comments
1997Lisp as a Vehicle for Rapid Prototyping (nhplace.com)
89 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 22 comments
1998Soviet Calculators History (xnumber.com)
89 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
1999Why HTML is a strategic dead end for business transactions and e-commerce (jimgray.azurewebsites.net)
89 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments
1963Buzz Aldrin thesis: Line-of-sight guidance for manned orbital rendezvous (dspace.mit.edu)
88 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
1978Combinatorial Algorithms (math.upenn.edu)
88 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments
1978Communicating Sequential Processes (cs.cmu.edu)
88 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
1985Apple Krackers Guide (bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
88 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments
1992Linux’s History (cs.cmu.edu)
88 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
1995Why Threads Are a Bad Idea (cc.gatech.edu)
88 points | 7 years ago with 97 comments
1998500 years ago, a German abbot wrote a book on communication with spirits (cryptome.org)
88 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments
1999Math Bite: Irrationality of √m (fermatslibrary.com)
88 points | 9 years ago with 23 comments
1999‘I Had A Funny Feeling in My Gut’ (washingtonpost.com)
88 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments
1999The Linux Kernel Explained (tldp.org)
88 points | 11 years ago with 27 comments
1932Photographer Charles Ebbets takes iconic photo “Lunch atop a skyscraper” (reddit.com)
87 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
1979Design of Lisp-Based Processors Or, LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode (dspace.mit.edu)
87 points | 10 years ago with 46 comments
1992The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (nybooks.com)
87 points | 2 years ago with 40 comments
1992Fractal compression for generating resolution-independent images (books.google.com)
87 points | 10 years ago with 35 comments
1994A Wired.com reporter was first to register mcdonalds.com (wired.com)
87 points | 12 years ago with 47 comments
1995NSA "can – and does – listen to everyone from senators to lovers" (articles.baltimoresun.com)
87 points | 12 years ago with 16 comments
1996Content Is King (web.archive.org)
87 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
1996Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet (dl.acm.org)
87 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments
1997Last Page of The Great Gatsby (home.sprynet.com)
87 points | 8 years ago with 30 comments
1998An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (cs.berkeley.edu)
87 points | 11 years ago with 17 comments
1999The Cluetrain Manifesto (cluetrain.com)
87 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments
1999The Radioactive Boy Scout (dangerouslaboratories.org)
87 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
1999Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (cia.gov)
87 points | 5 years ago with 2 comments
1929Exposing Houdini’s Tricks of Magic (blog.modernmechanix.com)
86 points | 11 years ago with 11 comments
1950Space-Time Structure by Erwin Schrödinger (strangebeautiful.com)
86 points | 9 years ago with 1 comments
1978BASIC Computer Games (vintage-basic.net)
86 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments
1981Expense Calculator (c2.com)
86 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments
1985Briefing note: US Deputy Secretary Of State meeting with Andrei Gromyko (history.state.gov)
86 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments
1986The Conscience of a Hacker (textfiles.com)
86 points | 1 year ago with 27 comments
1987Lisp: A Language for Stratified Design (dspace.mit.edu)
86 points | 12 years ago with 14 comments
1989Tim Berners-Lee's original WWW proposal (info.cern.ch)
86 points | 13 years ago with 18 comments
1991Intelligence Without Reason (ijcai.org)
86 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
1995The Myth of the Rule of Law (faculty.msb.edu)
86 points | 9 years ago with 69 comments
1997The Problem of Excess Genius (visakanv.com)
86 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 55 comments
1998An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (eecs.berkeley.edu)
86 points | 11 years ago with 21 comments
1998Swatch Internet Time (en.wikipedia.org)
86 points | 7 years ago with 78 comments
1998The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web (ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090)
86 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments
1946George Orwell – Politics and the English Language (orwell.ru)
85 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 21 comments
1953Hyman Rickover on Nuclear Reactor Designs (ecolo.org)
85 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments
1976“Whole Earth” origin (sb.longnow.org)
85 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
1977The Woz Wonderbook (digibarn.com)
85 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
1978Programming in an Interactive Environment: The Lisp Experience (ida.liu.se)
85 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 4 comments
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