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| Articles written 10 to 19 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1996 | | Can a Human See a Single Photon? (math.ucr.edu) |
| 167 points | 2 years ago with 131 comments |
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| 1996 | | A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (eff.org) |
| 167 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1559 | | Netherlandish Proverbs (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 166 points | 10 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1924 | | 'Hitler Tamed by Prison' (washingtonpost.com) |
| 166 points | 8 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 1976 | | Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (zoon.cc) |
| 166 points | 7 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 1999 | | What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs TIE Fighter (gamasutra.com) |
| 166 points | 8 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1956 | | “May I suggest that Mr. Bond be armed with a revolver?” (lettersofnote.com) |
| 165 points | 5 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1984 | | Why Men Love War (esquire.com) |
| 165 points | 7 years ago with 174 comments |
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| 1989 | | Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (blog.longnow.org) |
| 165 points | 8 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1995 | | Windows: Interface Guidelines (ics.uci.edu) |
| 165 points | 5 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 1938 | | You Can Learn Glass Blowing (blog.modernmechanix.com) |
| 164 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1977 | | A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System (warsus.github.io) |
| 164 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1985 | | What happened to the laptop computer? (nytimes.com) |
| 164 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 1997 | | Letters about Soap (people.cs.ksu.edu) |
| 164 points | 2 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 1997 | | Mars Pathfinder Mission Home Page (mars.nasa.gov) |
| 164 points | 8 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Fallacy of Cracking Contests (schneier.com) |
| 164 points | 11 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1999 | | Knuth versus Email (cs.stanford.edu) |
| 164 points | 9 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 1908 | | Hand Scraping a Truly Flat Plane (galleyrack.com) |
| 163 points | 5 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 1981 | | Rob Pike: An important message from Dennis Ritchie (plus.google.com) |
| 163 points | 13 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 1994 | | Python 1.0.0 is out (groups.google.com) |
| 163 points | 7 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 1995 | | A Plea for Lean Software (people.inf.ethz.ch) |
| 163 points | 4 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 1995 | | Taos Operating System (uruk.org) |
| 163 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 55 comments |
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| 1932 | | In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (libcom.org) |
| 161 points | 10 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1986 | | He Understood Not Only What We Did but What We Were Supposed to Do (articles.latimes.com) |
| 161 points | 10 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (archive.org) |
| 160 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1999 | | Yahoo buys GeoCities (money.cnn.com) |
| 160 points | 12 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 1876 | | Robert's Rules of Order (gutenberg.org) |
| 159 points | 2 years ago with 135 comments |
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| 1969 | | Interview with Frank Herbert and His Wife Beverly Herbert (sinanvural.com) |
| 159 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1990 | | Unix in East Germany (groups.google.com) |
| 159 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1996 | | Apple and NeXT announce merger (nextcomputers.org) |
| 159 points | 7 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Story of Squeak, a Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself (ftp.squeak.org) |
| 159 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1999 | | How to Write Unmaintainable Code (doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| 159 points | 9 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 1971 | | Newly discovered earliest draft of a Unix manual (tuhs.org) |
| 158 points | 9 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1983 | | Apple Reveals ‘Lisa’, Its $50M Gamble (newsweek.com) |
| 158 points | 6 years ago with 179 comments |
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| 1984 | | Original Spec for Lotus Notes (kapor.com) |
| 158 points | 8 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 1999 | | Knuth versus Email (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu) |
| 158 points | 4 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 1999 | | Linkers and Loaders (iecc.com) |
| 158 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1997 | | Why is c the symbol for the speed of light? (math.ucr.edu) |
| 157 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 45 comments |
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| 1977 | | Kurt Vonnegut, The Art of Fiction No. 64 (theparisreview.org) |
| 156 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1983 | | Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Design (archive.org) |
| 156 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1990 | | All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (nytimes.com) |
| 156 points | 14 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 1999 | | Intel PIII: Is Big Brother Inside? (zdnet.com) |
| 156 points | 4 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1999 | | African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes (web.stanford.edu) |
| 156 points | 9 years ago with 249 comments |
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| 1993 | | Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (latimes.com) |
| 155 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 1978 | | An Introduction to the EMACS Editor (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 154 points | 6 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 1983 | | An Inside Look at MS-DOS – The design decisions behind the popular OS (patersontech.com) |
| 154 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Real War 1939-1945 (theatlantic.com) |
| 154 points | 2 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 1991 | | Lecture on Creativity (genius.com) |
| 154 points | 8 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1996 | | QuakeWorld by John Carmack (fabiensanglard.net) |
| 154 points | 9 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 1996 | | Quake related work logs (gamers.org) |
| 154 points | 1 year ago with 101 comments |
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