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2000Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (cs.cmu.edu)
1655 points | 6 months ago with 498 comments
2017C89 compiler produces printable executables from C code [pdf] (cs.cmu.edu)
448 points across 2 posts | 8 months ago with 15 comments
2006Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (cs.cmu.edu)
409 points across 2 posts | 7 months ago with 146 comments
2015The Next 50 Years of Databases (cs.cmu.edu)
327 points | 4 years ago with 139 comments
2006A CD Spectrometer (cs.cmu.edu)
307 points across 3 posts | 7 months ago with 47 comments
2014Applying to PhD Programs in Computer Science (cs.cmu.edu)
256 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 101 comments
1995How Software Companies Die by Orson Scott Card (cs.cmu.edu)
230 points | 10 years ago with 168 comments
1956Kurt Gödel's Letter to John von Neumann (cs.cmu.edu)
183 points | 5 years ago with 86 comments
2009Reasonable Person Principle (cs.cmu.edu)
152 points | 2 years ago with 109 comments
2017Building a new database management system in academia (cs.cmu.edu)
144 points across 2 posts | 10 months ago with 41 comments
2007A Computer Scientist's guide to cell biology (cs.cmu.edu)
142 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments
2013The Future of Standard ML (cs.cmu.edu)
138 points | 7 years ago with 79 comments
1990Prefix Sums and Their Applications (cs.cmu.edu)
129 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments
1997Machine Learning (cs.cmu.edu)
129 points | 1 year ago with 10 comments
1978Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (cs.cmu.edu)
128 points | 7 years ago with 107 comments
1997Three sins of authors in computer science and math (cs.cmu.edu)
126 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments
1989What's hidden in the hidden layers? (cs.cmu.edu)
124 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
1998Recreating Medieval English Ales (cs.cmu.edu)
112 points | 11 months ago with 72 comments
1990Taxonomies of Visual Programming (cs.cmu.edu)
107 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments
2013Introduction to Data Compression (cs.cmu.edu)
90 points | 4 years ago with 1 comments
1992Linux’s History (cs.cmu.edu)
88 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments
1978Communicating Sequential Processes (cs.cmu.edu)
88 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2010Using a laser pointer and a matrix LED as a two-dimensional input device (cs.cmu.edu)
83 points | 2 years ago with 17 comments
1996Purely Functional Data Structures (cs.cmu.edu)
83 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments
2015A portmanteau of every word in English (cs.cmu.edu)
80 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
1998The “Only” Coke Machine on the Internet (cs.cmu.edu)
79 points | 8 years ago with 34 comments
1984Reflections on Trusting Trust (cs.cmu.edu)
75 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2011Programming in Standard ML (cs.cmu.edu)
66 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
1993Antique Roman Dishes – Collection (cs.cmu.edu)
62 points | 1 year ago with 25 comments
2013A general technique for automating NES games (cs.cmu.edu)
61 points | 5 years ago with 2 comments
2000An Interview with Brian Kernighan (cs.cmu.edu)
60 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2002Smiley Lore :-) (cs.cmu.edu)
54 points | 2 years ago with 20 comments
2014Cache-Efficient Functional Algorithms (cs.cmu.edu)
46 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments
2002FAQ on Pi-Calculus (cs.cmu.edu)
44 points | 8 years ago with 5 comments
1994Welcome to the CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository (cs.cmu.edu)
44 points | 7 years ago with 2 comments
2008Five deep questions in computing (cs.cmu.edu)
41 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments
2003Porting the GNU Hurd to the L4 Microkernel (cs.cmu.edu)
40 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments

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