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1994The X-Windows Disaster (art.net)
105 points | 5 years ago with 160 comments
2008What on earth possessed me... (fontforge.github.io)
105 points | 8 years ago with 34 comments
2016What's in a Parser Combinator? (remusao.github.io)
105 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
2012You Are Not Your Code (sstephenson.us)
105 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments
2010The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire but Reject Creative Ideas (digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu)
105 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments
1964Sartre on the Nobel Prize (nybooks.com)
105 points | 11 years ago with 33 comments
1997Lecture Notes on General Relativity (arxiv.org)
105 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2018How to avoid being a secretary for engineers (idratherbewriting.com)
105 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2011Ken and Roberta (filfre.net)
105 points | 7 years ago with 48 comments
2017Cognitive psychology findings that passed a stringent replicability test (digest.bps.org.uk)
105 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments
1974On the Road with Aristotle: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (the-tls.co.uk)
105 points | 8 years ago with 32 comments
2016Why Did ArchLinux Embrace Systemd? (reddit.com)
105 points | 6 years ago with 126 comments
2013Domain knowledge or a lack thereof (jacquesmattheij.com)
105 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments
2017Some Were Meant For C (cs.kent.ac.uk)
105 points | 4 years ago with 186 comments
2015Racket: John Carmack’s VRScript Samples (github.com)
105 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2008Tunguska: Ternary Computer Emulator (tunguska.sourceforge.net)
105 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments
2015Clark Foam’s demise, 10 years later (surfer.com)
105 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments
2015In 1850, Ignaz Semmelweis saved lives with three words: wash your hands (pbs.org)
105 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2011How Bad Luck and Bad Networking Cost Douglas Prasher a Nobel Prize (discovermagazine.com)
105 points | 10 years ago with 35 comments
2016The Constitutionality of Civil Forfeiture (yalelawjournal.org)
105 points | 3 years ago with 113 comments
2015The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
105 points | 8 years ago with 48 comments
2013Go and Rust – objects without class (lwn.net)
105 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments
2000WLW: 700 kHz, 500 kW, 100% modulation, no limiter (ominous-valve.com)
105 points | 9 years ago with 25 comments
1966Properties of expanding universes (repository.cam.ac.uk)
105 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments
2008Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans (abcnews.go.com)
105 points | 12 years ago with 11 comments
2013The Apprentice Programmer (tobi.lutke.com)
105 points | 10 years ago with 48 comments
2019“It Started as a Joke”: On the Design of Idle Games (dl.acm.org)
105 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments
2015A circuit-like notation for lambda calculus (csvoss.com)
105 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2010The Failure Mode of Clever (whatever.scalzi.com)
105 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments
2015German Kindergarten Campouts Test Helicopter Parents (wsj.com)
105 points | 7 years ago with 101 comments
2015The Big Dig: Istanbul’s city planners have a problem: too much history (newyorker.com)
105 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
2018Bland God: Notes on Mark Zuckerberg (stingingfly.org)
105 points | 5 years ago with 79 comments
2008Spore Prototypes (spore.com)
105 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2016Moving to Germany as an Australian (blog.alexanderdickson.com)
105 points | 5 years ago with 206 comments
2017The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned (atlasobscura.com)
105 points | 4 years ago with 85 comments
1945Notes on Nationalism (orwell.ru)
105 points | 7 years ago with 89 comments
2016An In-Depth Look at What/How/Why Books Sell (electricliterature.com)
105 points | 4 years ago with 50 comments
201360 FPS Retro Gaming on Mobile – Master System Emulator in JavaScript (gmarty.github.io)
105 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments
2018The design thinking movement is absurd (sts-news.medium.com)
105 points | 2 years ago with 72 comments
2011Physical Intuition, Not Mathematics (realphysics.blogspot.com)
105 points | 10 years ago with 65 comments
2017Structure of recent philosophy (homepage.univie.ac.at)
105 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2018APL: An Array Oriented Programming Language (medium.com)
105 points | 2 years ago with 96 comments
2011The OpenSSD Project (openssd-project.org)
105 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments
2019Film grain synthesis in AV1 (norkin.org)
105 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments
1985Programmimg Pearls (dl.acm.org)
105 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
2013Reverse engineering a Hit Clip (ch00ftech.com)
105 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2010Windows Kernel Architecture Internals (research.microsoft.com)
105 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments
2012A Gentle Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (theclevermachine.wordpress.com)
105 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2006My favourite interview question (weblog.raganwald.com)
105 points | 10 years ago with 95 comments
2015What it's like to go blind (vox.com)
105 points | 2 years ago with 47 comments
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