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| Articles written 10 to 19 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1985 | | Bumper Sticker Computer Science (bowdoin.edu) |
| 312 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1986 | | Why Read the Classics? (nybooks.com) |
| 310 points | 6 years ago with 160 comments |
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| 1963 | | I Have a Dream (americanrhetoric.com) |
| 309 points | 3 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 1936 | | Physics as a Way of Thinking (kb.osu.edu) |
| 307 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1992 | | Ordering burritos from my SPARC (mit.edu) |
| 307 points | 4 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 1986 | | Unix Recovery Legend (ee.ryerson.ca) |
| 306 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 1940 | | George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (docs.google.com) |
| 305 points | 10 years ago with 240 comments |
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| 1945 | | Transcript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (ghdi.ghi-dc.org) |
| 305 points | 1 year ago with 282 comments |
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| 1958 | | I, Pencil (econlib.org) |
| 304 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 131 comments |
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| 1998 | | Furby source code (archive.org) |
| 304 points | 2 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Net Is a Waste of Time (nytimes.com) |
| 303 points | 12 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Right to Read (gnu.org) |
| 302 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1946 | | George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (mtholyoke.edu) |
| 301 points | 8 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 1943 | | A Short Guide to Iraq (history.navy.mil) |
| 300 points | 3 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 1972 | | The Charles Mingus CAT-alog (charlesmingus.com) |
| 299 points | 3 years ago with 141 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Art of Assembly Language (web.archive.org) |
| 297 points | 7 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 1998 | | HyperPhysics (hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu) |
| 297 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 17 comments |
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| 1971 | | A Short Introduction to the Art of Programming (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 296 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1973 | | A Parable by Dijkstra (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 296 points | 6 years ago with 102 comments |
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| 1945 | | As We May Think (theatlantic.com) |
| 294 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 55 comments |
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| 1996 | | “Invisible Electrostatic Wall” at 3M adhesive tape plant (amasci.com) |
| 293 points | 7 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 1868 | | 507 Mechanical Movements (507movements.com) |
| 291 points | 9 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 1982 | | The Byzantine Generals Problem (lamport.azurewebsites.net) |
| 290 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1984 | | The World is Built on Probability (archive.org) |
| 290 points | 1 year ago with 91 comments |
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| 1991 | | A TCP/IP Tutorial (tools.ietf.org) |
| 290 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1993 | | How To Deconstruct Almost Anything (fudco.com) |
| 289 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 1960 | | Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions Computation by Machine (www-formal.stanford.edu) |
| 288 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1963 | | The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Algebra (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu) |
| 288 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1933 | | War Is a Racket (man.fas.org) |
| 287 points | 3 years ago with 210 comments |
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| 1995 | | Terry Pratchett warns Bill Gates about fake news (twitter.com) |
| 287 points | 5 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 1980 | | Byte Magazine: The Forth Language (archive.org) |
| 285 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 1918 | | God be with you till we meet again (lettersofnote.com) |
| 284 points | 5 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 1996 | | Build Your Own Flight Sim in C++ (archive.org) |
| 284 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 59 comments |
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| 1999 | | Why I Don't Use Netscape (complang.tuwien.ac.at) |
| 283 points | 2 years ago with 275 comments |
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| 1996 | | The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (nytimes.com) |
| 282 points across 3 posts | 9 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Sims Game Design Documents (donhopkins.com) |
| 282 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1999 | | How To Write With Style (novelr.com) |
| 281 points | 8 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 1989 | | Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (longnow.org) |
| 280 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1989 | | Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (longnow.org) |
| 279 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1943 | | Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun (orwell.ru) |
| 278 points | 6 years ago with 263 comments |
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| 1990 | | The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (algorithmicbotany.org) |
| 277 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1995 | | Ur-Fascism (nybooks.com) |
| 275 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 1996 | | Lessons I wish I had been taught (alumni.media.mit.edu) |
| 275 points | 2 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1977 | | The CIA and the Media (carlbernstein.com) |
| 274 points | 3 years ago with 152 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Craft of Text Editing (finseth.com) |
| 272 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1964 | | Feynman's Messenger Lectures (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu) |
| 271 points | 1 year ago with 76 comments |
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| 1959 | | Isaac Asimov Mulls “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (technologyreview.com) |
| 269 points | 10 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Tao of Programming (mit.edu) |
| 269 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1986 | | You and Your Research (cs.virginia.edu) |
| 268 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 90 comments |
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| 1978 | | The Theory of Interstellar Trade (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 267 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 103 comments |
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