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| Articles written 10 to 19 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1997 | | The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (dspguide.com) |
| 238 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1979 | | Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (medium.com) |
| 237 points | 8 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 1995 | | RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines (rfc-editor.org) |
| 237 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1909 | | The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (archive.ncsa.illinois.edu) |
| 235 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1989 | | Microsoft Word for Windows 1.0 Postmortem (antitrust.slated.org) |
| 235 points | 6 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1991 | | Paradigms of A.I. Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (norvig.github.io) |
| 235 points | 1 year ago with 95 comments |
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| 1997 | | FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (telecommander.com) |
| 234 points | 6 years ago with 211 comments |
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| 1979 | | Vela incident (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 233 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 54 comments |
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| 1993 | | Proposed new tag: IMG (1997.webhistory.org) |
| 233 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1975 | | Ex‐FBI operative says he worked to disrupt political activities up to '74 (nytimes.com) |
| 232 points | 4 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 1999 | | Introduction to Nintendo 64 Programming (n64.icequake.net) |
| 232 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 1984 | | The UNIX Programming Environment (archive.org) |
| 231 points | 2 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 1990 | | The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat (web.stanford.edu) |
| 231 points | 1 year ago with 91 comments |
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| 1995 | | How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 230 points | 11 years ago with 168 comments |
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| 1944 | | Simple Sabotage Field Manual (gist.github.com) |
| 228 points | 2 years ago with 129 comments |
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| 1998 | | She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (generationterrorists.com) |
| 228 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 1999 | | If English were written like Chinese (zompist.com) |
| 228 points | 8 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 1997 | | Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (ams.org) |
| 226 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1999 | | QNX DEMO disk (qnx.puslapiai.lt) |
| 226 points | 2 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 1999 | | Homo sapiens declared extinct (bruces.medium.com) |
| 226 points | 1 year ago with 62 comments |
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| 1984 | | Thinking Forth – A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems (1scyem2bunjw1ghzsf1cjwwn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com) |
| 225 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1971 | | Elementary Algebra (softwarepreservation.org) |
| 224 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1982 | | Doing a Job (govleaders.org) |
| 224 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 16 comments |
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| 1989 | | The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (theatlantic.com) |
| 223 points | 12 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 1993 | | Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets (newyorker.com) |
| 223 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Development of Erlang (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 223 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1998 | | How a Tax Law Helps Insure a Scarcity of Programmers (nytimes.com) |
| 223 points | 15 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 1999 | | Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge (supermemo.com) |
| 223 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 1880 | | The Awful German Language (cs.utah.edu) |
| 222 points | 6 years ago with 311 comments |
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| 1992 | | Source Code for SunOS 4.1.3 (github.com) |
| 222 points | 2 years ago with 127 comments |
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| 1998 | | Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (xlinux.nist.gov) |
| 222 points | 8 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1990 | | Are sockets the wave of the future? (groups.google.com) |
| 221 points | 1 year ago with 90 comments |
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| 1991 | | IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (ibiblio.org) |
| 220 points | 10 years ago with 105 comments |
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| 1993 | | A Timeline of CIA Atrocities (huppi.com) |
| 219 points | 3 years ago with 258 comments |
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| 1978 | | Connections by James Burke (topdocumentaryfilms.com) |
| 218 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 1999 | | The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (analog.com) |
| 218 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1983 | | The man who mistook his wife for a hat (lrb.co.uk) |
| 217 points | 9 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1994 | | How I Met My Wife (newyorker.com) |
| 217 points | 4 years ago with 125 comments |
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| 1856 | | First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 216 points | 5 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 1970 | | The Tyranny of Structurelessness (bopsecrets.org) |
| 216 points | 11 years ago with 120 comments |
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| 1994 | | Fatal Dose – Radiation Deaths linked to AECL Computer Errors (ccnr.org) |
| 216 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 1994 | | Haskell, Ada, C++: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (haskell.cs.yale.edu) |
| 216 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 1981 | | Rare cancer seen in 41 homossexuals (nytimes.com) |
| 215 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1990 | | Why functional programming matters (cs.kent.ac.uk) |
| 215 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 1997 | | The computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (catonmat.net) |
| 215 points | 4 years ago with 179 comments |
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| 1998 | | By 1995, it'll be evident that the Internet means as little as fax (web.archive.org) |
| 215 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 1998 | | Memorandum on Microsoft’s strategy against Linux and Open Source software (catb.org) |
| 215 points | 6 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1990 | | SJ Games vs. the Secret Service (sjgames.com) |
| 214 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1998 | | Does Gravity Travel at the Speed of Light? (math.ucr.edu) |
| 214 points | 11 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 1999 | | When Interfaces Kill: What Happened to John Denver (asktog.com) |
| 214 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 119 comments |
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