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| Articles written 10 to 19 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1992 | | Linux’s History (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 88 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1995 | | Why Threads Are a Bad Idea (cc.gatech.edu) |
| 88 points | 7 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 1998 | | 500 years ago, a German abbot wrote a book on communication with spirits (cryptome.org) |
| 88 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1999 | | Math Bite: Irrationality of √m (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 88 points | 9 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1999 | | ‘I Had A Funny Feeling in My Gut’ (washingtonpost.com) |
| 88 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Linux Kernel Explained (tldp.org) |
| 88 points | 10 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1670 | | To make Lemmon Cakes (rarecooking.com) |
| 87 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1838 | | The first photograph of a human being (mashable.com) |
| 87 points | 9 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1932 | | Photographer Charles Ebbets takes iconic photo “Lunch atop a skyscraper” (reddit.com) |
| 87 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1979 | | Design of Lisp-Based Processors Or, LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 87 points | 10 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1992 | | The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (nybooks.com) |
| 87 points | 2 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1992 | | Fractal compression for generating resolution-independent images (books.google.com) |
| 87 points | 10 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1994 | | A Wired.com reporter was first to register mcdonalds.com (wired.com) |
| 87 points | 12 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1995 | | NSA "can – and does – listen to everyone from senators to lovers" (articles.baltimoresun.com) |
| 87 points | 12 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1996 | | Content Is King (web.archive.org) |
| 87 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1996 | | Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet (dl.acm.org) |
| 87 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1997 | | Last Page of The Great Gatsby (home.sprynet.com) |
| 87 points | 8 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1998 | | An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (cs.berkeley.edu) |
| 87 points | 11 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Cluetrain Manifesto (cluetrain.com) |
| 87 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Radioactive Boy Scout (dangerouslaboratories.org) |
| 87 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1999 | | Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (cia.gov) |
| 87 points | 5 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1738 | | Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk (engineering.purdue.edu) |
| 86 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1778 | | If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate this key (listsofnote.com) |
| 86 points | 2 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1929 | | Exposing Houdini’s Tricks of Magic (blog.modernmechanix.com) |
| 86 points | 11 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1950 | | Space-Time Structure by Erwin Schrödinger (strangebeautiful.com) |
| 86 points | 9 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1978 | | BASIC Computer Games (vintage-basic.net) |
| 86 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1981 | | Expense Calculator (c2.com) |
| 86 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1985 | | Briefing note: US Deputy Secretary Of State meeting with Andrei Gromyko (history.state.gov) |
| 86 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1986 | | The Conscience of a Hacker (textfiles.com) |
| 86 points | 1 year ago with 27 comments |
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| 1987 | | Lisp: A Language for Stratified Design (dspace.mit.edu) |
| 86 points | 12 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1989 | | Tim Berners-Lee's original WWW proposal (info.cern.ch) |
| 86 points | 13 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1991 | | Intelligence Without Reason (ijcai.org) |
| 86 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1995 | | The Myth of the Rule of Law (faculty.msb.edu) |
| 86 points | 9 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Problem of Excess Genius (visakanv.com) |
| 86 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 55 comments |
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| 1998 | | An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (eecs.berkeley.edu) |
| 86 points | 11 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1998 | | Swatch Internet Time (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 86 points | 7 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1998 | | The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web (ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090) |
| 86 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1688 | | All the goodness gone from tea (books.google.com) |
| 85 points | 7 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 1768 | | An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 85 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 1861 | | Grand Ball Given by the Whales (energyhistory.yale.edu) |
| 85 points | 1 year ago with 24 comments |
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| 1899 | | The Lost Art of Conversation (saturdayeveningpost.com) |
| 85 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1946 | | George Orwell – Politics and the English Language (orwell.ru) |
| 85 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1953 | | Hyman Rickover on Nuclear Reactor Designs (ecolo.org) |
| 85 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1976 | | “Whole Earth” origin (sb.longnow.org) |
| 85 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1977 | | The Woz Wonderbook (digibarn.com) |
| 85 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1978 | | Programming in an Interactive Environment: The Lisp Experience (ida.liu.se) |
| 85 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1984 | | Opening the Hood of a Word Processor (worrydream.com) |
| 85 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1984 | | The kremvax hoax (godfatherof.nl) |
| 85 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1985 | | The Dark Ages of AI (pdfs.semanticscholar.org) |
| 85 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Tcl War (vanderburg.org) |
| 85 points | 9 years ago with 103 comments |
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