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Articles written 190 to 199 that Hacker News still talks about.
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1975Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (depauw.edu)
369 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 101 comments
1993The Development of the C Language (bell-labs.com)
369 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 323 comments
1998A 1970s Teenager's Bedroom (rocketroberts.com)
369 points | 7 years ago with 135 comments
1996"Invisible Electrostatic Wall" at 3M adhesive tape plant (amasci.com)
367 points across 2 posts | 12 years ago with 23 comments
1996Will Wright on designing user interfaces to simulation games (donhopkins.medium.com)
367 points | 2 years ago with 74 comments
1998How Complex Systems Fail (how.complexsystems.fail)
366 points | 4 years ago with 83 comments
1998How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children (pages.cs.wisc.edu)
366 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 41 comments
1999The Bastard Operator from Hell (bofh.bjash.com)
363 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 98 comments
1996Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (sfwriter.com)
362 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 1 comments
1981Starting FORTH (forth.com)
358 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 23 comments
1983A Story About ‘Magic' (catb.org)
358 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 35 comments
1928Who the Hell Is This Joyce (theparisreview.org)
355 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 109 comments
1992The Document Which Used to Be Called the MIT Lockpicking Guide (blurofinsanity.com)
355 points | 8 years ago with 114 comments
1986Hacker’s Manifesto (phrack.org)
354 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments
1995Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (newsweek.com)
353 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 54 comments
1979History of Lisp (jmc.stanford.edu)
352 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 23 comments
1992Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (news.lettersofnote.com)
352 points | 3 years ago with 320 comments
1999Linus Torvalds on semaphores (yarchive.net)
349 points | 10 years ago with 104 comments
1953The Eyes Have It (gutenberg.org)
348 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 38 comments
1986Programmers At Work: Bill Gates (programmersatwork.wordpress.com)
348 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 175 comments
1992Albini pitching Nirvana: “I would like to be paid like a plumber” (news.lettersofnote.com)
345 points | 3 years ago with 149 comments
1985Programming as Theory Building (pages.cs.wisc.edu)
342 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments
1995A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (alvyray.com)
342 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 70 comments
1997Ten lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations (math.toronto.edu)
338 points | 9 years ago with 118 comments
1997Introduction to A* (theory.stanford.edu)
337 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments
1933War Is a Racket (wanttoknow.info)
336 points | 5 years ago with 181 comments
1985Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (spectrum.ieee.org)
336 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 114 comments
1997The currency of the new economy won't be money, but attention (wired.com)
336 points | 2 years ago with 149 comments
1987Nuclear War Survival Skills (oism.org)
334 points | 7 years ago with 213 comments
1988The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (groups.csail.mit.edu)
330 points | 7 years ago with 134 comments
1959Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (technologyreview.com)
328 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 28 comments
1990The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (algorithmicbotany.org)
328 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 22 comments
1987Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (pessimistsarchive.substack.com)
327 points | 3 years ago with 381 comments
1992Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (pinyin.info)
325 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 49 comments
1993Burning a NeXTCube (simson.net)
322 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 70 comments
1981Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (cs.virginia.edu)
321 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 80 comments
1999Doors I touched today (fluxus.org)
321 points | 2 years ago with 99 comments
1967Why Programming Is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly Understood Ideas (web.media.mit.edu)
320 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 87 comments
1982Report on an Unidentified Space Station (geosci.uchicago.edu)
320 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 84 comments
1981Changing San Francisco Is Foreseen as a Haven for Wealthy and Childless (nytimes.com)
318 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 109 comments
1933War Is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler (wanttoknow.info)
317 points | 8 years ago with 152 comments
1949Why Socialism? (monthlyreview.org)
315 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 630 comments
1987Higher Math for Beginners (archive.org)
315 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments
1985Bumper Sticker Computer Science (bowdoin.edu)
312 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 49 comments
1986Why Read the Classics? (nybooks.com)
310 points | 6 years ago with 160 comments
1963I Have a Dream (americanrhetoric.com)
309 points | 3 years ago with 173 comments
1936Physics as a Way of Thinking (kb.osu.edu)
307 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 48 comments
1992Ordering burritos from my SPARC (mit.edu)
307 points | 4 years ago with 97 comments
1986Unix Recovery Legend (ee.ryerson.ca)
306 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 97 comments
1940George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (docs.google.com)
305 points | 10 years ago with 240 comments
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