| HN Mirror

> if we add old articles for the last century from other sources, the HN will be flooded over.

HN has been doing it for... I think a decade already? The situation so far looks good to me.

* “Corn-Pone Opinions” by Mark Twain (1901)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10822133

127 points, 56 comments

* Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19968114

798 points, 147 comments

* G.K. Chesterton: The fallacy of success (1909)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6512288

198 points, 97 comments

* The Basic Problem of Democracy (1919)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21893486

206 points, 189 comments

* Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14418877

866 points, 316 comments

* Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7437643

387 points, 264 comments

* War Is a Racket (1933)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22012255

336 points, 181 comments

* A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948) [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23035107

197 points, 39 comments

* Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning (1952)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919006

209 points, 51 comments

* Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester (1954)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25959571

135 points, 31 comments

* Kurt Gödel's Letter to John von Neumann (1956) [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19281633

183 points, 85 comments

* An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Expressions (1958) [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14885779

171 points, 12 comments

* America's Cult of Ignorance (1980) [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14778856

169 points, 113 comments

* How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24741029

384 points, 390 comments

* Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22977448

288 points, 354 comments

* Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611

273 points, 229 comments