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| Articles written 10 to 19 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1999 | | Practical File System Design: The Be File System (nobius.org) |
| 154 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Story of Maxis Software (web.archive.org) |
| 154 points | 3 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1945 | | My observations during the explosion at Trinity (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 153 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1967 | | How to Design, Build and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines (risacher.org) |
| 153 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1977 | | How to Write a Thesis (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu) |
| 153 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1987 | | Infants' sense of pain is recognized, finally (nytimes.com) |
| 153 points | 3 years ago with 350 comments |
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| 1995 | | Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers (scifiinterfaces.com) |
| 153 points | 1 year ago with 76 comments |
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| 1999 | | The relationship between age and wisdom-related performance (journals.sagepub.com) |
| 153 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 1979 | | 'Too negative ': Welsh seaside images (theguardian.com) |
| 152 points | 4 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 1999 | | Valve’s Design Process For Creating Half-Life (gamasutra.com) |
| 152 points | 11 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1991 | | Combinatorial Music Theory (andrewduncan.net) |
| 151 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1992 | | Unix Admin Horror Story Summary (www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk) |
| 151 points | 3 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Sad Saga of Silicon Graphics (businessweek.com) |
| 151 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 1972 | | The Humble Programmer (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 150 points | 11 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 1976 | | The Early Development of Programming Languages (bitsavers.trailing-edge.com) |
| 150 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1980 | | Atari's “The Book” (pdf.textfiles.com) |
| 150 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1983 | | A Proposal For A System To Replace Ordinary Record Merchandising (zappa.com) |
| 150 points | 12 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1990 | | Origins of the finger command (groups.google.com) |
| 150 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 1996 | | Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design (users.monash.edu) |
| 150 points | 3 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Great Filter – Are We Almost Past It? (mason.gmu.edu) |
| 150 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 174 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (gamasutra.com) |
| 150 points | 11 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 1969 | | Alan Kay Thesis: The Reactive Engine (chilton-computing.org.uk) |
| 149 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1971 | | Unix Edition Zero (doc.cat-v.org) |
| 149 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 1995 | | Down with Determinants (axler.net) |
| 149 points | 7 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (nytimes.com) |
| 149 points | 10 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1999 | | VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC (bricklin.com) |
| 149 points | 3 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1928 | | On Being the Right Size (irl.cs.ucla.edu) |
| 148 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1956 | | The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien (newrepublic.com) |
| 148 points | 8 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 1973 | | Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration (pmj.bmj.com) |
| 148 points | 5 years ago with 154 comments |
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| 1996 | | Java JDK 1.0 (github.com) |
| 148 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1999 | | In the beginning was the command line (faculty.georgetown.edu) |
| 148 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1999 | | Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula (academics.rowan.edu) |
| 148 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1999 | | How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (mud.co.uk) |
| 148 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1942 | | Looking Back on the Spanish War (orwellfoundation.com) |
| 147 points | 4 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 1976 | | How to run a meeting (hbr.org) |
| 147 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1976 | | The Unix Command Language (github.com) |
| 147 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1979 | | Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation (multicians.org) |
| 147 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1980 | | Lisp Comes of Age (microship.com) |
| 147 points | 5 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 1983 | | Ironies of Automation (ise.ncsu.edu) |
| 147 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1996 | | Linux Logo (lkml.org) |
| 147 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1999 | | Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices (academic.oup.com) |
| 147 points | 2 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 1977 | | Cards as Weapons (archive.org) |
| 146 points | 1 year ago with 49 comments |
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| 1993 | | A Taste of Linear Logic (homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk) |
| 146 points | 6 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1995 | | A Plea for Lean Software (blog.frantovo.cz) |
| 146 points | 4 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 1995 | | Anonymity on the Internet Must Be Protected (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 146 points | 6 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 1997 | | Steve Jobs negotiates Apple's deal with Microsoft (techemails.com) |
| 146 points | 2 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 1961 | | I hope you will never see this letter (news.lettersofnote.com) |
| 145 points | 2 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 1979 | | Atari Star Raiders Source Code (archive.org) |
| 145 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1987 | | Why calculating is better than scheming (cs.kent.ac.uk) |
| 145 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1994 | | Just a Drop in the Bucket (milk.com) |
| 145 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments |
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