Ask HN: What are some articles that have aged well?

21 points·mohamedzahid··17 comments

Have you tried to sell a diamond?, The Atlantic (1982) http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you...

War Is A Racket (1935): http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

Written by a retired USMC Major General who won the Medal of Honor. Twice. And then saved the USA from a coup as a civilian.

In addition to writing a very well informed criticism of the 'war economy', he's definitely someone I'd buy a beer for if he were still alive.

Thank you for providing the additional context on the author to those unfamiliar. This came straight from the sausage factory.

Mother Earth, Mother Board (1996) http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html

How Do People Get New Ideas? (1959) [http://www.technologyreview.com/view/531911/isaac-asimov-ask...]

Its hard to believe, someone was able to think something so relevant today, more than five decades back.

The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964): http://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-ame...

Why Men Love War, Esquire (1984) http://public.wsu.edu/~hughesc/why_men_love_war.htm

The Ketchup Conundrum (2004) http://gladwell.com/the-ketchup-conundrum/

The Economics of the Colonial Cringe, The Atlantic (1991) http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/1991/10/-quot-...

Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite?, New York Times (1984) https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddi...

M.I.A.’s Agitprop Pop, New York Times (2010) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/magazine/30mia-t.html?page...

The Duke In His Domain, New Yorker (1957) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/11/09/the-duke-in-his...

"1,000 True Fans" by Kevin Kelly.

http://kk.org/thetechnium/2008/03/1000-true-fans/

The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved, Scanlan's Monthly (1970) http://brianb.freeshell.org/a/kddd.pdf

They write the right stuff : http://m.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

I don't have a link, but I once saw a circa-1900 cartoon that depicted a city covered in advertisements. On the side of a building one read "We'll advertise anywhere - churches our specialty!"

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