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2004Where Smalltalk Went Wrong (ianbicking.org)
73 points | 11 years ago with 71 comments
2014Kolmogorov Complexity (informationtheory.weebly.com)
73 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments
1992MIT 6.001 Spellbook (hacks.mit.edu)
73 points | 10 years ago with 2 comments
1994Microsoft Space Simulator (archive.org)
73 points | 4 years ago with 29 comments
2007Dummy houses in the heart of London (urban75.org)
73 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments
2004Ancient languages: Perl (sites.google.com)
73 points | 12 years ago with 88 comments
2012What Is Not in Plan Nine (wiki.c2.com)
73 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2008Defender of the Favicon (p01.org)
73 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2005Hand Tools for Trail Work (fs.fed.us)
73 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
2018ODNS: Oblivious DNS (odns.cs.princeton.edu)
73 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2010On Keeping a Logbook (austinkleon.com)
73 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments
1985Thinking Like a Mathematician (news.psu.edu)
73 points | 10 years ago with 4 comments
2012Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modelling and Speech Recognition [pdf] (research.microsoft.com)
73 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2017The Day I Found Out My Life Was Hanging by a Thread (wired.com)
73 points | 5 years ago with 73 comments
1982“Blade Runner” has its own look, and a place in film history (newyorker.com)
73 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments
2013Additional Notes on “Drawing Dynamic Visualizations” (worrydream.com)
73 points | 9 years ago with 4 comments
2014What I learned from competing against a ConvNet on ImageNet (karpathy.github.io)
73 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments
1997The Attention Economy and the Net (firstmonday.org)
73 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments
2013Jane Austen's concept of information (Not Claude Shannon's) (cs.bham.ac.uk)
73 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
1869Harvard Admission Exam (peterkrantz.com)
73 points | 11 years ago with 63 comments
2016On academic writing: a personal note (sci-hub.do)
73 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments
1980Omikron TRS-80 Boards, NEWDOS+ and Sundry Other Matters (archive.org)
73 points | 7 years ago with 35 comments
2017Dickbars and Other Readability Excrement (shindoisshin.net)
73 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments
2019Teaching Tech Together (teachtogether.tech)
73 points | 4 years ago with 9 comments
2017The worrying state of Mediterranean fish stocks (ec.europa.eu)
73 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2014Vegetables get freakish in the land of the midnight sun (npr.org)
73 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
1990The Science of Scientific Writing (americanscientist.org)
73 points | 3 years ago with 9 comments
1978Programming in an Interactive Environment: The “Lisp” Experience (softwarepreservation.org)
73 points | 7 years ago with 2 comments
2006Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
73 points | 11 years ago with 25 comments
2007Story of XMLHTTP (alexhopmann.com)
73 points | 9 years ago with 23 comments
2019The Caves of Mars (usgs.gov)
73 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments
1982Doing a Job (bebekim.wordpress.com)
73 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2019Biking while Black: Racial bias in Oakland policing (bike-lab.org)
73 points | 4 years ago with 69 comments
1946Tanks Are Mighty Fine Things (imperialclub.com)
73 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2009SICP distilled (programming-musings.org)
73 points | 12 years ago with 11 comments
1993Bill Gates Interview (americanhistory.si.edu)
73 points | 9 years ago with 24 comments
2010Elmore Leonard's Rules for Writers (theguardian.com)
73 points | 8 years ago with 64 comments
2017How close is RISC-V to RISC-I? (web.archive.org)
73 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments
2011The MIME guys: How two Internet gurus changed e-mail (networkworld.com)
73 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
1994Welcome to Netscape (home.mcom.com)
73 points | 10 years ago with 37 comments
1994Inside the Irish Republican Army (spin.com)
73 points | 3 years ago with 118 comments
2009Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger (xent.com)
73 points | 11 years ago with 36 comments
2019The End of Online Anonymity (pointersgonewild.com)
73 points | 4 years ago with 73 comments
2012Military's 15-year quest for perfect radio is a blueprint for failing big (arstechnica.com)
73 points | 10 years ago with 62 comments
2017The persistence of prog rock (newyorker.com)
73 points | 2 years ago with 54 comments
2010Things I Won’t Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (blogs.sciencemag.org)
73 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments
2008What it means to be a hacker (nettime.org)
73 points | 15 years ago with 3 comments
2006Pulsed terawatt lasers have surprising effects when shone through the air (americanscientist.org)
73 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments
1851A Fine Map from Alexander von Humboldt (longstreet.typepad.com)
73 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2013Our path to $1M in Sales (wiwillia.com)
73 points | 9 years ago with 6 comments
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