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| Articles written 10 to 19 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1998 | | Washington Pizza Index (washingtonpost.com) |
| 80 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1999 | | Side Effects of the Growth of Wealth (nytimes.com) |
| 80 points | 8 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1930 | | The Proposal of the Neutrino (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 79 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1951 | | Tom Lehrer's Mathematical Songs (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk) |
| 79 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1971 | | There Should Be No Computer Art (bbk.ac.uk) |
| 79 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 1972 | | Cognitive and Attentional Mechanisms in Delay of Gratification (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 79 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1980 | | Beam Me Out of This Death Trap, Scotty (iasa-intl.com) |
| 79 points | 1 year ago with 44 comments |
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| 1982 | | Loglisp: An Alternative to Prolog (aitopics.org) |
| 79 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1983 | | Hints for Computer System Design (research.microsoft.com) |
| 79 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1986 | | Behind the Scenes of a Bank Takeover by FDIC (latimes.com) |
| 79 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1986 | | Simulating Fluid Dynamics with Cellular Automata (content.wolfram.com) |
| 79 points | 4 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1993 | | Object oriented programming with ANSI-C (ritdml.rit.edu) |
| 79 points | 11 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1993 | | Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration (acypher.com) |
| 79 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Newton Application Architecture (waltersmith.us) |
| 79 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1997 | | For Inventor of Eudora, Great Fame, No Fortune (nytimes.com) |
| 79 points | 9 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1998 | | The “Only” Coke Machine on the Internet (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 79 points | 9 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1998 | | Foundations by Greg Egan (gregegan.net) |
| 79 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1998 | | Contact Yahoo (docs.yahoo.com) |
| 79 points | 12 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 1999 | | A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass (docs.freebsd.org) |
| 79 points | 11 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1839 | | Lin Zexu's Letter to Queen Victoria (cyber.harvard.edu) |
| 78 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 1928 | | Plotto: A new method of plot suggestion for writers of creative fiction (archive.org) |
| 78 points | 3 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1952 | | Creative Thinking (www1.ece.neu.edu) |
| 78 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1961 | | Surgeon stationed in Antarctica removes his own appendix (bmj.com) |
| 78 points | 15 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1964 | | IBM System/360 Principles of Operation (bitsavers.org) |
| 78 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1974 | | Programming with Abstract Data Types (web.cs.iastate.edu) |
| 78 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1974 | | Cargo Cult Science (physics.brocku.ca) |
| 78 points | 8 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1975 | | The Potentiometer Handbook (bourns.com) |
| 78 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1978 | | The Joys of Unix – NSA Cryptolog (archive.org) |
| 78 points | 10 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1981 | | RFC 791: Internet Protocol (datatracker.ietf.org) |
| 78 points | 3 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1981 | | History of Ball Bearings (ntrs.nasa.gov) |
| 78 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1981 | | The truth about Unix: The user interface is horrid (ceri.memphis.edu) |
| 78 points | 10 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 1982 | | Alan Perlis: Epigrams on Programming (gwern.net) |
| 78 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1984 | | 1984, the Year of the 32-bit Microprocessor (archive.org) |
| 78 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1986 | | “Little Languages” by Jon Bentley (staff.um.edu.mt) |
| 78 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1989 | | On hygiene, intellectual and otherwise (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 78 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1990 | | How to Print Floating-Point Numbers Accurately (lists.nongnu.org) |
| 78 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1990 | | Computer-related horror stories, folklore and anecdotes (speedygrl.com) |
| 78 points | 11 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1991 | | The Computer for the 21st Cenury (lri.fr) |
| 78 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1992 | | LINUX is obsolete (groups.google.com) |
| 78 points | 10 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 1992 | | A BNF Parser in Forth (bradrodriguez.com) |
| 78 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1993 | | Symbolics Lisp: Using the DEC Alpha as a Programmable Micro-Engine (pt.withington.org) |
| 78 points | 6 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Scheme Machine (burgerrg.github.io) |
| 78 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 1994 | | Object-Oriented Programming in Oberon-2 [pdf] (ssw.jku.at) |
| 78 points | 1 year ago with 25 comments |
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| 1996 | | Design Patterns in Dynamic Languages (norvig.com) |
| 78 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1999 | | The physics of information processing superobjects: Jupiter brains (jetpress.org) |
| 78 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1930 | | America’s skepticism toward the first automobiles (saturdayeveningpost.com) |
| 77 points | 2 years ago with 118 comments |
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| 1934 | | H. G. Wells interviewing J. V. Stalin (redsails.org) |
| 77 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1939 | | The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics (damtp.cam.ac.uk) |
| 77 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1945 | | As We May Think (theatlantic.com) |
| 77 points | 14 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1956 | | The Bandwagon – Claude Shannon (ieeexplore.ieee.org) |
| 77 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments |
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