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2006Dennis Ritchie Home Page (bell-labs.com)
817 points across 12 posts | 1 year ago with 79 comments
1985Byte Magazine: Declarative Languages (archive.org)
1246 points across 11 posts | 8 months ago with 52 comments
1983Byte Magazine: The C Programming Language (archive.org)
1245 points across 11 posts | 8 months ago with 275 comments
2010Why take a compiler course? (blog.regehr.org)
1745 points across 9 posts | 2 months ago with 114 comments
1987Byte Magazine: Prolog and 386 Hardware Software (archive.org)
811 points across 9 posts | 9 months ago with 8 comments
1984Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (archive.org)
811 points across 9 posts | 9 months ago with 113 comments
2014WiFi: “beamforming” only begins to describe it (apenwarr.ca)
1913 points across 8 posts | 3 months ago with 47 comments
2012Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index (swtch.com)
999 points across 8 posts | 3 months ago with 16 comments
2010Land of Lisp (landoflisp.com)
1703 points across 7 posts | 1 year ago with 80 comments
2016Beautiful Racket (beautifulracket.com)
1605 points across 7 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments
2014The Lost Art of C Structure Packing (catb.org)
1142 points across 7 posts | 1 year ago with 153 comments
2016Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side (idontplaydarts.com)
1485 points across 6 posts | 5 months ago with 185 comments
2009Keep Your Identity Small (paulgraham.com)
1415 points across 6 posts | 5 months ago with 162 comments
2008Why to start a startup in a bad economy (paulgraham.com)
1311 points across 6 posts | 4 months ago with 223 comments
2019Local-First Software (inkandswitch.com)
1119 points across 6 posts | 11 months ago with 28 comments
2011Stuff I said at Kansas City Startup Weekend that sounded smart (apenwarr.ca)
804 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments
2019A free introduction to quantum computing with spaced repetition (quantum.country)
716 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 15 comments
2005Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (lists.warhead.org.uk)
610 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 56 comments
1993The Early History of Smalltalk (worrydream.com)
407 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 26 comments
2018Mtime comparison considered harmful (apenwarr.ca)
389 points across 6 posts | 8 months ago with 33 comments
2016Life Is Short (paulgraham.com)
2385 points across 5 posts | 5 months ago with 289 comments
2017Filing taxes could be free & simple. H&R Block & Intuit lobby against it (propublica.org)
2200 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 114 comments
1998Cool URIs Don't Change (w3.org)
1470 points across 5 posts | 2 months ago with 120 comments
2015The hardest program I've ever written (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
1408 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 132 comments
2010Why GNU grep is fast (lists.freebsd.org)
1246 points across 5 posts | 10 months ago with 61 comments
2018Deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL (developer.apple.com)
1199 points across 5 posts | 11 months ago with 55 comments
2017Things we finally know about network queues (apenwarr.ca)
1148 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 45 comments
2010Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (shadyurl.com)
1037 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 52 comments
2011Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (kalzumeus.com)
885 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 89 comments
2009Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (paulgraham.com)
877 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 39 comments
1992Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (github.com)
802 points across 5 posts | 9 months ago with 81 comments
2009A stick figure guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) (moserware.com)
725 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 14 comments
2017The Lisp Curse (winestockwebdesign.com)
715 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 89 comments
2004What You Can't Say (paulgraham.com)
706 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 194 comments
2005How to be more productive (aaronsw.com)
698 points across 5 posts | 7 months ago with 1 comments
2006Tcl the Misunderstood (antirez.com)
527 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 77 comments
2014I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (slatestarcodex.com)
486 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 44 comments
2008Low-level is easy (yosefk.com)
480 points across 5 posts | 3 months ago with 24 comments
1941Who Goes Nazi? (harpers.org)
469 points across 5 posts | 4 months ago with 7 comments
2017How the blog broke the web (stackingthebricks.com)
465 points across 5 posts | 4 months ago with 115 comments
1990Choosing a Name for Your Computer (rfc-editor.org)
432 points across 5 posts | 1 week ago with 200 comments
1981Starting FORTH (forth.com)
358 points across 5 posts | 6 months ago with 23 comments
2001History of T (paulgraham.com)
344 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments
2005The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (nickbostrom.com)
331 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 63 comments
2001Java's Cover (paulgraham.com)
301 points across 5 posts | 11 months ago with 122 comments
2014Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (akkartik.name)
234 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 168 comments
2002A Retrospective on Paradigms of AI Programming (norvig.com)
184 points across 5 posts | 2 months ago with 32 comments
1998The Elements of Style: Unix as Literature (theody.net)
169 points across 5 posts | 10 months ago with 4 comments
2016H.264 is Magic (sidbala.com)
2637 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 219 comments
2018User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (userinyerface.com)
2346 points across 4 posts | 1 week ago with 113 comments
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