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| Articles written 10 to 19 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1940 | | Don't Worry – It Can't Happen (dropbox.com) |
| 108 points | 8 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1985 | | How to do with probabilities what people say you can’t (ftp.cs.ucla.edu) |
| 108 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1988 | | Fabrik – A Visual Programming Environment (web.archive.org) |
| 108 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1989 | | Ada implementation of an X Window System Server (sci-hub.se) |
| 108 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 1991 | | Language as an intellectual tool: From hieroglyphics to APL (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu) |
| 108 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1992 | | Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (theparisreview.org) |
| 108 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1993 | | TCP in 30 instructions (pdl.cmu.edu) |
| 108 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1995 | | A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (newyorker.com) |
| 108 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments |
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| 1998 | | Why I Am a Bad Correspondent (nealstephenson.com) |
| 108 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1999 | | Unskilled and Unaware of It (psych.colorado.edu) |
| 108 points | 7 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 1900 | | Tesla: Art of Transmitting Electrical Energy through the Natural Mediums (patents.google.com) |
| 107 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1959 | | A Corner in Piggly Wiggly (newyorker.com) |
| 107 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1961 | | Marvin Minsky: Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence (worrydream.com) |
| 107 points | 9 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1970 | | The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved (liamk.org) |
| 107 points | 11 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1983 | | The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce (esquire.com) |
| 107 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1990 | | Taxonomies of Visual Programming (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 107 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm (schneier.com) |
| 107 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 1999 | | “That Deep Romantic Chasm”: Libertarianism and the Computer Culture (uvm.edu) |
| 107 points | 5 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1945 | | As We May Think (theatlantic.com) |
| 106 points | 12 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1982 | | Michael Bloomberg on starting a business during tough economic times (nytimes.com) |
| 106 points | 9 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1992 | | 'Fifth Generation' Became Japan's Lost Generation (nytimes.com) |
| 106 points | 7 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1996 | | How to help someone use a computer (pages.gseis.ucla.edu) |
| 106 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 46 comments |
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| 1997 | | Euclid's Elements (aleph0.clarku.edu) |
| 106 points | 7 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 1997 | | Calculus for mathematicians (cr.yp.to) |
| 106 points | 10 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 1999 | | Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is? (bikeshed.org) |
| 106 points | 8 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1999 | | Unix – The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems (team.net) |
| 106 points | 3 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1945 | | Notes on Nationalism (orwell.ru) |
| 105 points | 7 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 1954 | | The Doors of Perception (maps.org) |
| 105 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1964 | | Sartre on the Nobel Prize (nybooks.com) |
| 105 points | 10 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1966 | | Properties of expanding universes (repository.cam.ac.uk) |
| 105 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1974 | | On the Road with Aristotle: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (the-tls.co.uk) |
| 105 points | 8 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1985 | | Programmimg Pearls (dl.acm.org) |
| 105 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1989 | | Tiananmen Square: Protests and Massacre (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 105 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1994 | | The X-Windows Disaster (art.net) |
| 105 points | 5 years ago with 160 comments |
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| 1997 | | Lecture Notes on General Relativity (arxiv.org) |
| 105 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1969 | | An Interview with Stanley Kubrick (visual-memory.co.uk) |
| 104 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1974 | | Forth: A New Way to Program a Mini Computer (articles.adsabs.harvard.edu) |
| 104 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 1977 | | Methods for Teaching the Programming Language Smalltalk (bitsavers.org) |
| 104 points | 7 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1981 | | Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (lysator.liu.se) |
| 104 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 1986 | | The CIA's Deadly Deceits and the Vietnam War, with Ralph McGehee (ourhiddenhistory.org) |
| 104 points | 4 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1988 | | Tom Duff on Duff's device (lysator.liu.se) |
| 104 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Way Things Work CD-ROM (archive.org) |
| 104 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1994 | | Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (book.simply-logical.space) |
| 104 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering (sigchi.org) |
| 104 points | 8 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 1997 | | Does OO really match the way we think (leshatton.org) |
| 104 points | 7 years ago with 239 comments |
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| 1909 | | The Machine Stops (ele.uri.edu) |
| 103 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1936 | | The Thirty-Hour Week (library.cqpress.com) |
| 103 points | 6 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 1944 | | Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying (archive.org) |
| 103 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 1963 | | The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Principle of Least Action (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu) |
| 103 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1967 | | Lisp 1.5 Primer (softwarepreservation.org) |
| 103 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments |
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