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| Articles written 10 to 19 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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1995 | | Interview with Anders Hejlsberg on Delphi (theopenforce.com) |
| 145 points | 3 years ago with 53 comments |
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1995 | | x86 Is an Octal Machine (gist.github.com) |
| 145 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments |
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1784 | | What is Enlightenment? (legacy.earlham.edu) |
| 144 points | 7 years ago with 60 comments |
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1973 | | Why They Lost The Wheel (saudiaramcoworld.com) |
| 144 points | 10 years ago with 23 comments |
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1981 | | EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable Display Editor (gnu.org) |
| 144 points | 10 years ago with 57 comments |
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1994 | | Callbacks in C++ using template functors (tutok.sk) |
| 144 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 50 comments |
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1995 | | The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal (nytimes.com) |
| 144 points | 11 years ago with 71 comments |
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1999 | | F***ing Learn to Code Again (blog.kebby.org) |
| 144 points | 10 years ago with 64 comments |
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1919 | | My Inventions – Nikola Tesla (archive.org) |
| 143 points | 2 years ago with 61 comments |
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1972 | | Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (sciencemadness.org) |
| 143 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments |
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1982 | | AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video] (youtube.com) |
| 143 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments |
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1986 | | Unix Recovery Legend (ee.ryerson.ca:8080) |
| 143 points | 9 years ago with 60 comments |
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1998 | | AOL acquires Netscape in $4.2B deal (money.cnn.com) |
| 143 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments |
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1999 | | Shhh: The Undocumented DOS Commands (the-eye.eu) |
| 143 points | 5 years ago with 53 comments |
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1977 | | Applied Mathematical Programming (web.mit.edu) |
| 142 points | 9 years ago with 27 comments |
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1982 | | Apple IIe Design Guidelines (apple2scans.net) |
| 142 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments |
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1984 | | Lisp Machine Manual (hanshuebner.github.io) |
| 142 points | 7 years ago with 152 comments |
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1987 | | Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems (inf.ed.ac.uk) |
| 142 points | 4 years ago with 64 comments |
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1993 | | Moving Forth (bradrodriguez.com) |
| 142 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 7 comments |
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1997 | | Russian-manufactured armored vehicle vulnerability in urban combat (man.fas.org) |
| 142 points | 3 years ago with 123 comments |
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1905 | | Photovoltaic Solar Panels (lowtechmagazine.com) |
| 141 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments |
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1947 | | Von Neumann’s critique of automata theory and logic in computer science (yodaiken.com) |
| 141 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments |
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1983 | | BYTE Magazine: The C Language (archive.org) |
| 141 points | 10 years ago with 46 comments |
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1988 | | Designing an Authentication System: A Dialogue in Four Scenes (web.mit.edu) |
| 141 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 25 comments |
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1995 | | Financial Institution Letters: Vacation Policies (fdic.gov) |
| 141 points | 2 years ago with 88 comments |
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1998 | | Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic words (groups.google.com) |
| 141 points | 11 years ago with 82 comments |
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1999 | | How my startup failed (alumni.stanford.edu) |
| 141 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments |
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1999 | | Parsing Expressions by Recursive Descent (engr.mun.ca) |
| 141 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 6 comments |
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1974 | | Live Not by Lies (solzhenitsyncenter.org) |
| 140 points | 3 years ago with 43 comments |
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1979 | | How to Share a Secret [pdf] (web.mit.edu) |
| 140 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments |
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1982 | | The Architecture of the Burroughs B-5000 (smecc.org) |
| 140 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 23 comments |
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1983 | | Silence Is a Commons (dlc.dlib.indiana.edu) |
| 140 points | 3 years ago with 17 comments |
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1995 | | Man deposits fake check in ATM, gets to keep the money. (goodthink.com) |
| 140 points | 14 years ago with 52 comments |
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1999 | | Golden Rules of Financial Safety (harrybrowne.org) |
| 140 points | 7 years ago with 110 comments |
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1982 | | Photos from the Surface of Venus (twitter.com) |
| 139 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments |
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1989 | | The Relativity of Wrong (hermiene.net) |
| 139 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 124 comments |
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1994 | | The Art of Prolog (mitpress.mit.edu) |
| 139 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments |
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1994 | | Well-capitalized Seattle startup seeks Unix developers – Jeff Bezos (groups.google.com) |
| 139 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments |
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1959 | | Feynman: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (zyvex.com) |
| 138 points | 11 years ago with 35 comments |
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1960 | | LISP I Programmer's Manual (history.siam.org) |
| 138 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments |
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1983 | | ZX Spectrum BASIC programming (worldofspectrum.net) |
| 138 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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1991 | | The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher, by John Taylor Gatto (cantrip.org) |
| 138 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 20 comments |
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1991 | | Getting Started in Star Lisp (people.csail.mit.edu) |
| 138 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 7 comments |
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1992 | | On the Typography of Flight-Deck Documentation (ti.arc.nasa.gov) |
| 138 points | 11 years ago with 27 comments |
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1996 | | A Unified Mathematical Language for Physics and Engineering (mrao.cam.ac.uk) |
| 138 points | 10 years ago with 29 comments |
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1926 | | Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman (theanarchistlibrary.org) |
| 137 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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1962 | | The Bathyscaph Trieste: Technological and Operational Aspects (archive.org) |
| 137 points | 2 years ago with 121 comments |
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1999 | | Why Arabs Lose Wars (meforum.org) |
| 137 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 34 comments |
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1880 | | The Awful German Language (faculty.georgetown.edu) |
| 136 points | 4 years ago with 253 comments |
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1998 | | Alan Kay on Messaging (c2.com) |
| 136 points | 10 years ago with 61 comments |
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