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| Articles written 190 to 199 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1982 | | Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (theatlantic.com) |
| 209 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments |
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| 1974 | | Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (paulgraham.com) |
| 208 points | 9 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 1979 | | Notation as a Tool of Thought (eecg.toronto.edu) |
| 208 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1985 | | Microsoft Has It All—Almost (nytimes.com) |
| 208 points | 7 years ago with 146 comments |
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| 1996 | | How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (sfgate.com) |
| 208 points | 3 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1997 | | Ways to save Apple (archive.wired.com) |
| 208 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 1982 | | Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (web.mit.edu) |
| 207 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1996 | | How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (gwern.net) |
| 207 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 1909 | | G.K. Chesterton: The fallacy of success (mustapha.svbtle.com) |
| 206 points | 11 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 1919 | | The Basic Problem of Democracy (theatlantic.com) |
| 206 points | 5 years ago with 189 comments |
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| 1946 | | George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (alexgolec.github.io) |
| 206 points | 11 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Goiânia Accident (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 205 points | 3 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 1996 | | Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anybody'” (groups.google.com) |
| 205 points | 6 years ago with 189 comments |
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| 1999 | | Practical file system design with the Be File System (nobius.org) |
| 205 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Knot Book: Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots (math.harvard.edu) |
| 204 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1945 | | How to Solve It (math.utah.edu) |
| 203 points | 1 year ago with 101 comments |
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| 1994 | | Ursula Le Guin on Star Trek: TNG (gentlier.tumblr.com) |
| 203 points | 2 years ago with 152 comments |
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| 1995 | | Bookbinding: A Tutorial (homepage.divms.uiowa.edu) |
| 203 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1997 | | Doc Searls on Steve Jobs (scripting.com) |
| 203 points across 2 posts | 12 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1960 | | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (dartmouth.edu) |
| 202 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1970 | | Every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system (pespmc1.vub.ac.be) |
| 202 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1977 | | Can Programming Be Liberated From The Von Neumann Style? (worrydream.com) |
| 202 points | 8 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 1983 | | The Story of Mel (catb.org) |
| 202 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 1987 | | Letter from the Carnation Company (pleacher.com) |
| 202 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1991 | | Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved (erowid.org) |
| 202 points | 3 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 1993 | | Programming Bottom-Up (paulgraham.com) |
| 202 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 32 comments |
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| 1999 | | A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything (arxiv.org) |
| 202 points | 8 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 1970 | | Deschooling Society (davidtinapple.com) |
| 201 points | 4 years ago with 195 comments |
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| 1979 | | Photos at Microsoft Corp (sound-photo.com) |
| 200 points | 9 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 1981 | | Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers (history.com) |
| 200 points | 4 years ago with 251 comments |
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| 1989 | | Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (groups.google.com) |
| 200 points | 2 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 1996 | | Retrospective review of Gödel, Escher, Bach (cs.nyu.edu) |
| 200 points | 4 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 1928 | | On being the right size (marxists.org) |
| 199 points | 11 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 1970 | | How to write Mathematics (math.utah.edu) |
| 199 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1984 | | KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (youtube.com) |
| 199 points | 3 years ago with 154 comments |
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| 1975 | | Billiards Is a Good Game (mag.uchicago.edu) |
| 198 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1991 | | Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages (bertrandmeyer.com) |
| 198 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Art of Assembly Language Programming (phatcode.net) |
| 198 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 1948 | | A Mathematical Theory of Communication (people.math.harvard.edu) |
| 197 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1994 | | Introduction to Permaculture (archive.org) |
| 197 points | 5 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 1995 | | The decline of unfettered research (dtc.umn.edu) |
| 197 points | 3 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov (chem.tufts.edu) |
| 196 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1989 | | Why Adventure Games Suck (grumpygamer.com) |
| 196 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1993 | | Algebra and the Lambda Calculus (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 196 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1997 | | Fuck.com (links.net) |
| 196 points | 3 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 1999 | | Don't Become a Scientist (wuphys.wustl.edu) |
| 195 points | 11 years ago with 159 comments |
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| 1990 | | Bell Labs' Plan 9 research project looks to tomorrow (doc.cat-v.org) |
| 194 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1993 | | The Evolution of Lisp (dreamsongs.com) |
| 194 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1955 | | A Proposal for the Dartmouth Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (www-formal.stanford.edu) |
| 193 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1985 | | Programming as Theory Building (gist.github.com) |
| 193 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments |
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