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| Articles written 10 to 19 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1978 | | Raiders of the Lost Ark Story Conference (nloewen.com) |
| 213 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 52 comments |
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| 1969 | | Apollo 11 implementation of Trigonometric functions (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 212 points | 3 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1974 | | Richard Feynman: Cargo Cult Science (neurotheory.columbia.edu) |
| 212 points | 11 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1996 | | Bill Gates: I'm literally losing sleep over Java (techemails.com) |
| 212 points | 2 years ago with 229 comments |
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| 1998 | | “The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (harpers.org) |
| 212 points | 8 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 1992 | | On the typography of flight deck documentation – NASA (ntrs.nasa.gov) |
| 211 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 1998 | | Processor Design: An Introduction (gamezero.com) |
| 211 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1995 | | How Software Companies Die (gist.github.com) |
| 210 points | 2 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 1996 | | Mother Earth Mother Board (wired.com) |
| 210 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1999 | | Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 210 points | 5 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 1852 | | The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (historyisaweapon.com) |
| 209 points | 6 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 1952 | | Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning (techchannel.att.com) |
| 209 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 1982 | | Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (theatlantic.com) |
| 209 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments |
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| 1974 | | Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (paulgraham.com) |
| 208 points | 9 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 1979 | | Notation as a Tool of Thought (eecg.toronto.edu) |
| 208 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1985 | | Microsoft Has It All—Almost (nytimes.com) |
| 208 points | 7 years ago with 146 comments |
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| 1996 | | How Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (sfgate.com) |
| 208 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1997 | | Ways to save Apple (archive.wired.com) |
| 208 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 1982 | | Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal (web.mit.edu) |
| 207 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1996 | | How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (gwern.net) |
| 207 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 1909 | | G.K. Chesterton: The fallacy of success (mustapha.svbtle.com) |
| 206 points | 11 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 1919 | | The Basic Problem of Democracy (theatlantic.com) |
| 206 points | 5 years ago with 189 comments |
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| 1946 | | George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (alexgolec.github.io) |
| 206 points | 11 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 1987 | | The Goiânia Accident (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 205 points | 3 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 1996 | | Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anybody'” (groups.google.com) |
| 205 points | 6 years ago with 189 comments |
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| 1999 | | Practical file system design with the Be File System (nobius.org) |
| 205 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Knot Book: Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots (math.harvard.edu) |
| 204 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 1945 | | How to Solve It (math.utah.edu) |
| 203 points | 1 year ago with 101 comments |
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| 1994 | | Ursula Le Guin on Star Trek: TNG (gentlier.tumblr.com) |
| 203 points | 2 years ago with 152 comments |
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| 1995 | | Bookbinding: A Tutorial (homepage.divms.uiowa.edu) |
| 203 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1997 | | Doc Searls on Steve Jobs (scripting.com) |
| 203 points across 2 posts | 12 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 1960 | | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (dartmouth.edu) |
| 202 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1970 | | Every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system (pespmc1.vub.ac.be) |
| 202 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 1977 | | Can Programming Be Liberated From The Von Neumann Style? (worrydream.com) |
| 202 points | 8 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 1983 | | The Story of Mel (catb.org) |
| 202 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 1987 | | Letter from the Carnation Company (pleacher.com) |
| 202 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 1991 | | Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved (erowid.org) |
| 202 points | 3 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 1993 | | Programming Bottom-Up (paulgraham.com) |
| 202 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 32 comments |
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| 1999 | | A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything (arxiv.org) |
| 202 points | 8 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 1970 | | Deschooling Society (davidtinapple.com) |
| 201 points | 4 years ago with 195 comments |
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| 1979 | | Photos at Microsoft Corp (sound-photo.com) |
| 200 points | 9 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 1981 | | Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers (history.com) |
| 200 points | 4 years ago with 251 comments |
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| 1989 | | Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (groups.google.com) |
| 200 points | 1 year ago with 103 comments |
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| 1996 | | Retrospective review of Gödel, Escher, Bach (cs.nyu.edu) |
| 200 points | 4 years ago with 150 comments |
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| 1928 | | On being the right size (marxists.org) |
| 199 points | 11 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 1970 | | How to write Mathematics (math.utah.edu) |
| 199 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 1984 | | KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (youtube.com) |
| 199 points | 3 years ago with 154 comments |
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| 1975 | | Billiards Is a Good Game (mag.uchicago.edu) |
| 198 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 1991 | | Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages (bertrandmeyer.com) |
| 198 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1996 | | The Art of Assembly Language Programming (phatcode.net) |
| 198 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments |
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