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| Articles written 10 to 19 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 1995 | | Structured Procrastination (structuredprocrastination.com) |
| 180 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 1986 | | The History of FoxPro: Interview with Wayne Ratliff (foxprohistory.org) |
| 179 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 1999 | | Can Google's search engine find profits? (zdnet.com) |
| 179 points | 10 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 1963 | | The Principia Discordia (principiadiscordia.com) |
| 178 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 1970 | | Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (ivolo.me) |
| 178 points | 12 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 1977 | | Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (thocp.net) |
| 177 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 1987 | | Nuclear War Survival Skills (oism.org) |
| 176 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 205 comments |
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| 1993 | | History of Fidonet (olografix.org) |
| 176 points | 5 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 1997 | | Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible? (math.ucr.edu) |
| 176 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 1999 | | Perl, the first postmodern computer language (wall.org) |
| 176 points | 2 years ago with 210 comments |
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| 1949 | | The Principles of Newspeak (berfrois.com) |
| 175 points | 3 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 1972 | | Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (wheels.org) |
| 175 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1986 | | No Silver Bullet (worrydream.com) |
| 175 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1993 | | A Stroke of Genius: Striving for Greatness in All You Do (mccurley.org) |
| 175 points | 7 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1911 | | Einstein's Letter to Marie Curie (einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu) |
| 174 points | 10 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 1963 | | Probability (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu) |
| 174 points | 2 years ago with 154 comments |
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| 1988 | | Introduction to Functional Programming (usi-pl.github.io) |
| 174 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1994 | | The Infamous SCSH Scheme Shell “Acknowledgements” (scsh.net) |
| 174 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 1998 | | American Summer: Before Air-Conditioning (newyorker.com) |
| 174 points | 11 years ago with 85 comments |
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| 1995 | | Modern art was CIA 'weapon' (independent.co.uk) |
| 173 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 1996 | | "How do I set the User-Agent string in Java?" - L. Page (guyro.typepad.com) |
| 173 points | 15 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1997 | | Reality is a Shared Hallucination (reactor-core.org) |
| 173 points | 8 years ago with 66 comments |
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| 1980 | | Bell Labs Org Chart (neil.computer) |
| 172 points | 3 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 1996 | | Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming (norvig.com) |
| 172 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1997 | | Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours (aelinik.free.fr) |
| 172 points | 7 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 1955 | | The night I met Einstein (rd.com) |
| 171 points | 2 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1958 | | An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Expressions (softwarepreservation.org) |
| 171 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1995 | | The Web is the Next Platform (benslivka.com) |
| 171 points | 5 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 1995 | | A plea for lean software (cr.yp.to) |
| 171 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 1997 | | The Story of the PING Program (ftp.arl.mil) |
| 171 points | 10 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 1984 | | The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (downlode.org) |
| 170 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 1997 | | The raster tragedy at low resolution (microsoft.com) |
| 170 points | 13 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1999 | | Ken Thompson flies a MiG-29 (cm.bell-labs.com) |
| 170 points | 10 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1999 | | Advice I Wish I'd Been Told (web.archive.org) |
| 170 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 1948 | | A Mathematical Theory of Communication (worrydream.com) |
| 169 points | 8 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 1978 | | Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style? (dl.acm.org) |
| 169 points | 3 years ago with 129 comments |
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| 1980 | | America's Cult of Ignorance (aphelis.net) |
| 169 points | 7 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Elements of Style: Unix as Literature (theody.net) |
| 169 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1999 | | Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp (dept-info.labri.fr) |
| 169 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments |
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| 1913 | | What is Money? (moslereconomics.com) |
| 168 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 1955 | | Can we survive technology? (drive.google.com) |
| 168 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 1990 | | Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] (youtube.com) |
| 168 points | 1 year ago with 112 comments |
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| 1993 | | Almost perfect: the rise and fall of WordPerfect Corporation (wordplace.com) |
| 168 points | 10 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 1859 | | On Liberty (socialsciences.mcmaster.ca) |
| 167 points | 4 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 1861 | | Is democracy a failure? (nytimes.com) |
| 167 points | 8 years ago with 266 comments |
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| 1962 | | Augmenting Human Intellect (dougengelbart.org) |
| 167 points across 3 posts | 9 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 1977 | | Jorge Luis Borges Interview (denisdutton.com) |
| 167 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 1981 | | A Review of Modern Sail Theory (ljjensen.net) |
| 167 points | 8 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 1990 | | Someone is stealing your life (lycaeum.org) |
| 167 points | 14 years ago with 157 comments |
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| 1996 | | They Write the Right Stuff (fastcompany.com) |
| 167 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 32 comments |
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