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| Articles written 10 to 19 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1944 | | Simple Sabotage Field Manual (cia.gov) |
| 502 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 1968 | | Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (twitter.com) |
| 497 points | 5 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 1999 | | Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (futureblues.com) |
| 492 points | 2 years ago with 182 comments |
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| 1946 | | Hiroshima (newyorker.com) |
| 486 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 158 comments |
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| 1993 | | Space After Periods (1997.webhistory.org) |
| 478 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 178 comments |
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| 1951 | | How to Grow Old (sites.google.com) |
| 476 points | 6 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 1941 | | Who Goes Nazi? (harpers.org) |
| 469 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1932 | | In Praise of Idleness (harpers.org) |
| 468 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 170 comments |
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| 1989 | | Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (users.ece.utexas.edu) |
| 466 points | 1 year ago with 258 comments |
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| 1974 | | Cargo cult science (calteches.library.caltech.edu) |
| 455 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 156 comments |
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| 1979 | | Byte Magazine: LISP (archive.org) |
| 445 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 1983 | | The Story of Mel (cs.utah.edu) |
| 443 points | 2 years ago with 166 comments |
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| 1981 | | Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (nytimes.com) |
| 440 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 354 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Anti-Mac User Interface (nngroup.com) |
| 440 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 1982 | | Why numbering should start at zero (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 439 points across 4 posts | 5 years ago with 220 comments |
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| 1985 | | Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (reprints.longform.org) |
| 439 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 1991 | | The WorldWideWeb application is now available as an alpha release (groups.google.com) |
| 438 points | 13 years ago with 125 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death (outsideonline.com) |
| 437 points | 12 years ago with 184 comments |
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| 1990 | | Choosing a Name for Your Computer (rfc-editor.org) |
| 432 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 200 comments |
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| 1999 | | In the Beginning was the Command Line (cristal.inria.fr) |
| 426 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 1990 | | RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (tools.ietf.org) |
| 425 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 1914 | | Calculus Made Easy (gutenberg.org) |
| 424 points | 4 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 1995 | | Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (web.stanford.edu) |
| 423 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 234 comments |
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| 1924 | | Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (en.wikisource.org) |
| 419 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Awk Programming Language (archive.org) |
| 415 points | 8 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 1990 | | Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (drive.google.com) |
| 413 points | 6 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Guy I Almost Was (electricsheepcomix.com) |
| 410 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 203 comments |
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| 1943 | | Albert Hofmann discovers the effects of LSD (laphamsquarterly.org) |
| 408 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 1993 | | The Early History of Smalltalk (worrydream.com) |
| 407 points across 6 posts | 3 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1863 | | Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (scientificamerican.com) |
| 401 points | 4 years ago with 232 comments |
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| 1932 | | In Praise of Idleness (zpub.com) |
| 401 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1986 | | People Simply Empty Out (lettersofnote.com) |
| 399 points | 5 years ago with 226 comments |
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| 1880 | | Golden Rules for Making Money (fourmilab.ch) |
| 398 points | 9 years ago with 180 comments |
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| 1991 | | What would you like to see most in minix? (groups.google.com) |
| 398 points | 11 years ago with 186 comments |
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| 1996 | | “I am literally losing sleep” over Java (twitter.com) |
| 396 points | 3 years ago with 403 comments |
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| 1996 | | John Carmack on QuakeWorld latency and business model (raw.githubusercontent.com) |
| 395 points | 5 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 1933 | | The Triumph of Stupidity (russell-j.com) |
| 392 points | 9 years ago with 269 comments |
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| 1979 | | Notation as a Tool of Thought (jsoftware.com) |
| 391 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1998 | | Back Orifice (web.archive.org) |
| 389 points | 3 years ago with 221 comments |
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| 1999 | | Big Ball of Mud (laputan.org) |
| 389 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1944 | | Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (svn.cacert.org) |
| 387 points | 3 years ago with 208 comments |
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| 1886 | | How much land does a man need? (online-literature.com) |
| 384 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 53 comments |
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| 1981 | | How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (straightdope.com) |
| 384 points | 4 years ago with 390 comments |
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| 1998 | | A Beginner’s Guide to the Mathematics of Neural Networks (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu) |
| 384 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1935 | | War Is a Racket (archive.org) |
| 383 points | 1 year ago with 534 comments |
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| 1971 | | Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (rollingstone.com) |
| 382 points | 5 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 1972 | | Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (library.sciencemadness.org) |
| 382 points across 4 posts | 5 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1985 | | The result would be a catastrophe (lettersofnote.com) |
| 381 points | 9 years ago with 187 comments |
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| 1985 | | The Parable of the Two Programmers (csd.uwo.ca) |
| 381 points | 10 years ago with 160 comments |
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| 1998 | | Why ML/OCaml are good for writing compilers (flint.cs.yale.edu) |
| 381 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 147 comments |
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