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| Articles written 10 to 19 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1996 | | NSA is monitoring key Internet routers (marc.info) |
| 266 points | 10 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1996 | | ML for the Working Programmer, 2nd Edition (cl.cam.ac.uk) |
| 266 points | 7 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Mandelbrot Monk (users.math.yale.edu) |
| 265 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Cathedral and the Bazaar (catb.org) |
| 264 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 164 comments |
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| 1984 | | Window System X (talisman.org) |
| 263 points | 3 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 1999 | | Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (thetaoofwealth.wordpress.com) |
| 262 points | 1 year ago with 231 comments |
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| 1983 | | The Theory of Relational Databases (web.cecs.pdx.edu) |
| 261 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 1945 | | Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hall (germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org) |
| 258 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 1978 | | On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (cs.utexas.edu) |
| 258 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 63 comments |
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| 1990 | | WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project (w3.org) |
| 258 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1993 | | Object oriented programming with ANSI-C (cs.rit.edu) |
| 258 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1897 | | The most important scientific problems have yet to be solved (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu) |
| 257 points | 5 years ago with 148 comments |
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| 1995 | | A dream of an ultimate OS (okmij.org) |
| 256 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 1976 | | The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 255 points | 3 years ago with 158 comments |
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| 1992 | | Lively Linear Lisp – 'Look Ma, No Garbage' (home.pipeline.com) |
| 255 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1997 | | Motive.c: The Soul of the Sims (donhopkins.com) |
| 255 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1998 | | How Complex Systems Fail (web.mit.edu) |
| 255 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 1985 | | Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (longform.org) |
| 253 points | 10 years ago with 148 comments |
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| 1998 | | Praise for Intelligence Can Undermine Children's Motivation (psychology.stanford.edu) |
| 253 points | 8 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 1978 | | Microsoft BASIC for 6502 – Original Source Code (pagetable.com) |
| 250 points | 10 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 1979 | | BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (ia902603.us.archive.org) |
| 250 points | 7 years ago with 151 comments |
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| 1993 | | The Turn (theatlantic.com) |
| 249 points across 2 posts | 12 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 1993 | | The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (shitpost.plover.com) |
| 249 points | 7 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 1995 | | All Circuits are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse (users.csc.calpoly.edu) |
| 249 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1996 | | Why Three Prongs? (amasci.com) |
| 249 points | 5 years ago with 232 comments |
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| 1996 | | Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (math.tamu.edu) |
| 249 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Story of the Ping Program (ftp.arl.army.mil) |
| 249 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1983 | | CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of the Absolute (cia.gov) |
| 248 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 1986 | | For every 1% increase in the number of lawyers, economic growth falls 3% (sciencedirect.com) |
| 248 points | 4 years ago with 89 comments |
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| 1986 | | The Hacker's Manifesto (usc.edu) |
| 248 points | 8 years ago with 146 comments |
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| 1991 | | Linus Torvalds announces Linux (web.archive.org) |
| 248 points | 6 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 1996 | | The long strange trip to Java (blinkenlights.com) |
| 247 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 1939 | | The usefulness of useless knowledge (library.ias.edu) |
| 246 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1985 | | The Orange Juice Test (intercom.com) |
| 246 points | 6 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 1985 | | East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures (twitter.com) |
| 246 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1994 | | A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (user.eng.umd.edu) |
| 246 points | 4 years ago with 276 comments |
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| 1996 | | Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (people.math.osu.edu) |
| 246 points | 8 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Tao of Programming (textfiles.com) |
| 245 points | 6 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Relativity of Wrong (chem.tufts.edu) |
| 245 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1996 | | Sergey Brin’s Resume (infolab.stanford.edu) |
| 243 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 1998 | | Amazon’s distributed computing manifesto (allthingsdistributed.com) |
| 242 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (lysator.liu.se) |
| 241 points | 4 years ago with 128 comments |
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| 1992 | | WordPerfect for UNIX (lock.cmpxchg8b.com) |
| 241 points | 2 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 1955 | | They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (press.uchicago.edu) |
| 240 points | 4 years ago with 382 comments |
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| 1961 | | Harrison Bergeron (archive.org) |
| 240 points | 2 years ago with 268 comments |
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| 1998 | | America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Million (nytimes.com) |
| 239 points | 11 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 1955 | | John Nash's letters to the NSA (nsa.gov) |
| 238 points | 9 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1964 | | The Truth, by Stanisław Lem (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu) |
| 238 points | 3 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 1984 | | Dynamic Programming: The Name (learning.cis.upenn.edu) |
| 238 points | 8 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1995 | | Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism (theanarchistlibrary.org) |
| 238 points | 4 years ago with 191 comments |
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