Ask HN: What was the best paper you read in your life?
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I posted this a few months ago..
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/greatworks/shannon38.pdf
Claude Shannon's 'A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits'
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
[1]: https://physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2_noafterword.pdf
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
[1]: https://physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2_noafterword.pdf
Computer Science as empirical inquiry : Symbols and Search.
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kuipers/readings/Newell+Simon-cac...
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.)
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.
Proof of an external world, G. E. Moore.
Have a link?
I had a photocopy for more than twenty years. But it's gone. A university library will probably be your best bet.
Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity.
Classic. Schrodinger's quantum biology