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| Articles written 10 to 19 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1997 | | The Right to Read (gnu.org) |
| 379 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 1993 | | Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (wiki.debian.org) |
| 378 points | 1 year ago with 131 comments |
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| 1992 | | A Fire Upon The Deep By Vernor Vinge (archive.org) |
| 374 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 51 comments |
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| 1983 | | New UNIX implementation (groups.google.com) |
| 370 points | 11 years ago with 159 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Awk Programming Language (ia802309.us.archive.org) |
| 370 points | 6 years ago with 207 comments |
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| 1999 | | Windows Refund Day (marc.merlins.org) |
| 370 points | 4 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 1975 | | Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (depauw.edu) |
| 369 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 1993 | | The Development of the C Language (bell-labs.com) |
| 369 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 323 comments |
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| 1998 | | A 1970s Teenager's Bedroom (rocketroberts.com) |
| 369 points | 6 years ago with 135 comments |
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| 1996 | | "Invisible Electrostatic Wall" at 3M adhesive tape plant (amasci.com) |
| 367 points across 2 posts | 12 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1996 | | Will Wright on designing user interfaces to simulation games (donhopkins.medium.com) |
| 367 points | 2 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 1998 | | How Complex Systems Fail (how.complexsystems.fail) |
| 366 points | 4 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 1998 | | How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children (pages.cs.wisc.edu) |
| 366 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Bastard Operator from Hell (bofh.bjash.com) |
| 363 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 1996 | | Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (sfwriter.com) |
| 362 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1981 | | Starting FORTH (forth.com) |
| 358 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1983 | | A Story About ‘Magic' (catb.org) |
| 358 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1928 | | Who the Hell Is This Joyce (theparisreview.org) |
| 355 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 1992 | | The Document Which Used to Be Called the MIT Lockpicking Guide (blurofinsanity.com) |
| 355 points | 8 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 1986 | | Hacker’s Manifesto (phrack.org) |
| 354 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1995 | | Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (newsweek.com) |
| 353 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1979 | | History of Lisp (jmc.stanford.edu) |
| 352 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1992 | | Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (news.lettersofnote.com) |
| 352 points | 2 years ago with 320 comments |
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| 1999 | | Linus Torvalds on semaphores (yarchive.net) |
| 349 points | 10 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 1953 | | The Eyes Have It (gutenberg.org) |
| 348 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 38 comments |
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| 1986 | | Programmers At Work: Bill Gates (programmersatwork.wordpress.com) |
| 348 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 1992 | | Albini pitching Nirvana: “I would like to be paid like a plumber” (news.lettersofnote.com) |
| 345 points | 3 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 1985 | | Programming as Theory Building (pages.cs.wisc.edu) |
| 342 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1995 | | A Pixel Is Not a Little Square (alvyray.com) |
| 342 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 1997 | | Ten lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations (math.toronto.edu) |
| 338 points | 9 years ago with 118 comments |
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| 1997 | | Introduction to A* (theory.stanford.edu) |
| 337 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1933 | | War Is a Racket (wanttoknow.info) |
| 336 points | 5 years ago with 181 comments |
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| 1985 | | Xerox PARC’s engineers on how they invented the future and Xerox lost it (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 336 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 1997 | | The currency of the new economy won't be money, but attention (wired.com) |
| 336 points | 2 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 1987 | | Nuclear War Survival Skills (oism.org) |
| 334 points | 7 years ago with 213 comments |
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| 1988 | | The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 330 points | 7 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 1959 | | Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (technologyreview.com) |
| 328 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1990 | | The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (algorithmicbotany.org) |
| 328 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1987 | | Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (pessimistsarchive.substack.com) |
| 327 points | 3 years ago with 381 comments |
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| 1992 | | Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (pinyin.info) |
| 325 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1830 | | The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (blissbat.net) |
| 322 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1993 | | Burning a NeXTCube (simson.net) |
| 322 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 1981 | | Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (cs.virginia.edu) |
| 321 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 1999 | | Doors I touched today (fluxus.org) |
| 321 points | 2 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 1967 | | Why Programming Is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly Understood Ideas (web.media.mit.edu) |
| 320 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 1982 | | Report on an Unidentified Space Station (geosci.uchicago.edu) |
| 320 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1981 | | Changing San Francisco Is Foreseen as a Haven for Wealthy and Childless (nytimes.com) |
| 318 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 1933 | | War Is a Racket by General Smedley D. Butler (wanttoknow.info) |
| 317 points | 8 years ago with 152 comments |
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| 1949 | | Why Socialism? (monthlyreview.org) |
| 315 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 630 comments |
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| 1987 | | Higher Math for Beginners (archive.org) |
| 315 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments |
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