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Ask HN: What was the best paper you read in your life?

17 points by Siira 8y ago

hodder 8y ago
Not strictly a paper, but Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.
WaltPurvis 8y ago
The Sunday Boston Globe in 1998/1999 -- every week there were literally over 100 pages of help wanted ads, a large percentage of them software-related. (Some weeks the Help Wanted section was 150+ pages.)
- crashbunny 8y ago
  Oh, I was confused by your comment at first. I was looking for the reference to the academic/scientific paper in your comment but got to the end and wondered if the comment was truncated or something. Then I got it, the Sunday Boston globe was the paper you were talking about. Nice.
brudgers 8y ago
Proof of an external world, G. E. Moore.
- rosegarden0 8y ago
  Have a link?
  - brudgers 8y ago
    I had a photocopy for more than twenty years. But it's gone. A university library will probably be your best bet.
  - elyrly 8y ago
    http://selfpace.uconn.edu/class/ana/MooreProof.pdf http://selfpace.uconn.edu/class/ana/MooreProof.pdf
AnimalMuppet 8y ago
Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity.
- HNLurker2 8y ago
  Classic. Schrodinger's quantum biology
otras 8y ago
I studied physics and literary theory, and I greatly enjoyed the paper at the center of the Sokal affair [0]: Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity. [1] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair [1]: https://physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2_noafterword.pdf https://physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2_noafterword.pdf
jcgr 8y ago
I posted this a few months ago.. https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/greatworks/shannon38.pdf https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/greatworks/shannon38.pdf Claude Shannon's 'A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits'
imakwana 8y ago
Computer Science as empirical inquiry : Symbols and Search. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kuipers/readings/Newell+Simon-cacm-76.pdf https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kuipers/readings/Newell+Simon-cac...

17 points by Siira 8y ago

Not strictly a paper, but Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.

The Sunday Boston Globe in 1998/1999 -- every week there were literally over 100 pages of help wanted ads, a large percentage of them software-related. (Some weeks the Help Wanted section was 150+ pages.)

crashbunny 8y ago
Oh, I was confused by your comment at first. I was looking for the reference to the academic/scientific paper in your comment but got to the end and wondered if the comment was truncated or something. Then I got it, the Sunday Boston globe was the paper you were talking about. Nice.

brudgers 8y ago

Proof of an external world, G. E. Moore.

rosegarden0 8y ago
Have a link?
- brudgers 8y ago
  I had a photocopy for more than twenty years. But it's gone. A university library will probably be your best bet.
- elyrly 8y ago
  http://selfpace.uconn.edu/class/ana/MooreProof.pdf http://selfpace.uconn.edu/class/ana/MooreProof.pdf

AnimalMuppet 8y ago

Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity.

HNLurker2 8y ago
Classic. Schrodinger's quantum biology

otras 8y ago

I studied physics and literary theory, and I greatly enjoyed the paper at the center of the Sokal affair [0]: Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity. [1] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair [1]: https://physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2_noafterword.pdf https://physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2_noafterword.pdf

jcgr 8y ago

I posted this a few months ago.. https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/greatworks/shannon38.pdf https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/greatworks/shannon38.pdf Claude Shannon's 'A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits'

imakwana 8y ago

Computer Science as empirical inquiry : Symbols and Search. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kuipers/readings/Newell+Simon-cacm-76.pdf https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kuipers/readings/Newell+Simon-cac...