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| Articles written 10 to 19 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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1983 | | Inventing the Atari 2600 (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 103 points | 3 years ago with 47 comments |
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1985 | | Forth BBS 2 (github.com) |
| 103 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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1999 | | Reading code from top to bottom (iq0.com) |
| 103 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 14 comments |
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1931 | | Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 102 points | 8 years ago with 71 comments |
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1960 | | Cyborgs and Space (web.mit.edu) |
| 102 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 10 comments |
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1968 | | Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Luis Borges (commonwealmagazine.org) |
| 102 points | 4 years ago with 10 comments |
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1984 | | The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (urbigenous.net) |
| 102 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments |
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1993 | | AT&T's predictions of the future (youtube.com) |
| 102 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments |
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1994 | | The 10,000,000,000th Prime Number (code.jsoftware.com) |
| 102 points | 5 years ago with 73 comments |
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1994 | | Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ an Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity (cs.yale.edu) |
| 102 points | 8 years ago with 59 comments |
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1995 | | How transistors really work (amasci.com) |
| 102 points | 9 years ago with 22 comments |
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1996 | | Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing (archive.wired.com) |
| 102 points | 10 years ago with 86 comments |
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1996 | | Netheads vs. Bellheads (wired.com) |
| 102 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments |
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1996 | | To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (dkeenan.com) |
| 102 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments |
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1999 | | TetrisRant (tcrf.net) |
| 102 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments |
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1911 | | Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months (timesmachine.nytimes.com) |
| 101 points | 9 years ago with 91 comments |
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1972 | | The Limits to Growth (donellameadows.org) |
| 101 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments |
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1972 | | HAKMEM (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 101 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments |
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1982 | | An Overview of TUNIS: A UNIX Look-Alike Written in Concurrent Euclid (archive.org) |
| 101 points | 2 years ago with 45 comments |
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1984 | | Ken Thompson: Reflections on Trusting Trust (cm.bell-labs.com) |
| 101 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 9 comments |
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1985 | | Why Forth Isn't Slow (archive.org) |
| 101 points | 4 years ago with 65 comments |
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1989 | | Steve Jobs: Out for Revenge (nytimes.com) |
| 101 points | 5 years ago with 107 comments |
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1991 | | The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (jstor.org) |
| 101 points | 3 years ago with 71 comments |
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1995 | | The Construction of a Yurt (pbm.com) |
| 101 points | 7 years ago with 54 comments |
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1996 | | It's the Latency, Stupid (rescomp.stanford.edu) |
| 101 points | 11 years ago with 52 comments |
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1996 | | With every good film I see, I feel reborn (sabzian.be) |
| 101 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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1998 | | The myth of the $600 hammer (govexec.com) |
| 101 points | 2 years ago with 185 comments |
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1999 | | DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (lea.hamradio.si) |
| 101 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments |
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1999 | | Thomas Friedman: Amazon.you (nytimes.com) |
| 101 points | 14 years ago with 38 comments |
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1854 | | Life Without Principle (thoreau.eserver.org) |
| 100 points | 11 years ago with 16 comments |
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1958 | | The Coming Ice Age (harpers.org) |
| 100 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 63 comments |
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1974 | | Representing Graphs by Knuth Trees (cs.virginia.edu) |
| 100 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments |
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1981 | | Jim Blinn and Ed Catmull – graphics class at Berkeley (youtube.com) |
| 100 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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1981 | | Flipping your Disk (atarimagazines.com) |
| 100 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments |
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1984 | | A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences (sci-hub.tf) |
| 100 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments |
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1989 | | Stack Computers: the new wave (ece.cmu.edu) |
| 100 points | 12 years ago with 37 comments |
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1992 | | The birth of Prolog (alain.colmerauer.free.fr) |
| 100 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments |
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1993 | | Inside the Windows Messaging System (drdobbs.com) |
| 100 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments |
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1997 | | Anatomy of a Catastrophic Boiler Accident (nationalboard.org) |
| 100 points | 3 years ago with 47 comments |
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1999 | | Who Can Name the Bigger Number? (scottaaronson.com) |
| 100 points | 5 years ago with 43 comments |
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1999 | | Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. Why? (st.cs.uni-saarland.de) |
| 100 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments |
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1851 | | Iconographic Encyclopædia of Science, Literature, and Art (c82.net) |
| 99 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments |
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1883 | | The Buffalo Public Library in 1983 (en.wikisource.org) |
| 99 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments |
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1951 | | The Use of Sub-Routines in Programmes (laputan.org) |
| 99 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 4 comments |
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1953 | | A Study of Assassination – CIA (gwu.edu) |
| 99 points | 12 years ago with 46 comments |
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1955 | | David Ogilvy: "I am a lousy copywriter" (lettersofnote.com) |
| 99 points | 13 years ago with 15 comments |
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1988 | | Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and Value Cells (nhplace.com) |
| 99 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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1989 | | Roll your own minilanguages with mini-interpreters (textfiles.com) |
| 99 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments |
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1990 | | Lithium in drinking water and crimes, suicides related to drug addictions (researchgate.net) |
| 99 points | 6 years ago with 56 comments |
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1993 | | The Hypertext annotated version of “A Fire Upon the Deep” (groups.google.com) |
| 99 points | 4 years ago with 108 comments |
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