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2005Peer-to-Peer Communication Across Network Address Translators (brynosaurus.com)
147 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 45 comments
2019Einstein's Philosophy of Science (plato.stanford.edu)
147 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2019IBM AS/400: Databases all the way down [video] (youtube.com)
146 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 115 comments
2019Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks (nytimes.com)
146 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 40 comments
2019Incrementing Vectors (travisdowns.github.io)
146 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 17 comments
2018Tail Latency Aware Caching (blog.acolyer.org)
146 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments
2003Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (demarcken.org)
146 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2016Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing (newscientist.com)
146 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 38 comments
2004Great Hacker != Great Hire (ericsink.com)
145 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 104 comments
1987Why calculating is better than scheming (cs.kent.ac.uk)
145 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 24 comments
2017Forth: The Hacker's Language (hackaday.com)
145 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 0 comments
2007Nixie-clock using neon lamps as logic elements (pa3fwm.nl)
145 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments
2010The Shannon Limit (news.mit.edu)
144 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2017Building a new database management system in academia (cs.cmu.edu)
144 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 41 comments
2009The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (ubiquity.acm.org)
144 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 59 comments
2019How life sciences work: Findings of a year-long investigation (guzey.com)
144 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2016Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (eng.uber.com)
143 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 47 comments
2013Ultraslow radio for decentralized global digital communication (mail-archive.com)
143 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2011The Chinese Wheelbarrow (lowtechmagazine.com)
143 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 33 comments
2014Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return? (stephanpastis.wordpress.com)
143 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 28 comments
2018A Dynamic Forth Compiler for WebAssembly (el-tramo.be)
142 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2014The Ghost in the MP3 (theghostinthemp3.com)
142 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 68 comments
1993Moving Forth (bradrodriguez.com)
142 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 7 comments
2015SQL in CockroachDB: Mapping Table Data to Key-Value Storage (cockroachlabs.com)
142 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2004Unix on a PDP-11 emulator on the Game Boy Advance (kernelthread.com)
142 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 5 comments
2016Notes from the Architect (varnish-cache.org)
141 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 51 comments
1988Designing an Authentication System: A Dialogue in Four Scenes (web.mit.edu)
141 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 25 comments
2013Story of the Roku Player (fastcompany.com)
141 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 58 comments
1982The Architecture of the Burroughs B-5000 (smecc.org)
140 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 23 comments
2012Metaprogramming for Madmen (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
140 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 20 comments
2012What Is Bayesian/Frequentist Inference? (normaldeviate.wordpress.com)
139 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 23 comments
2011Cosmonaut Crashed into Earth 'Crying in Rage' (npr.org)
139 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 16 comments
1989The Relativity of Wrong (hermiene.net)
139 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 124 comments
1960LISP I Programmer's Manual (history.siam.org)
138 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments
1991The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher, by John Taylor Gatto (cantrip.org)
138 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 20 comments
1991Getting Started in Star Lisp (people.csail.mit.edu)
138 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2004What colour are your bits? (ansuz.sooke.bc.ca)
138 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments
1999Why Arabs Lose Wars (meforum.org)
137 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2016A Linux-powered microwave oven (lwn.net)
136 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 21 comments
2010Nano-nonsense: 25 years of charlatanry (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
136 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 57 comments
2012A Tour of Acme (research.swtch.com)
136 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 59 comments
2007The origin of circuits (damninteresting.com)
136 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 25 comments
2002The IPv6 mess (cr.yp.to)
136 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 129 comments
2011Donut math: how donut.c works (a1k0n.net)
136 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 0 comments
2013Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. So the DEA Put Him in Prison (wired.com)
135 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 4 comments
1977In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming (jsoftware.com)
135 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 57 comments
1999How the Internet Ruined San Francisco (salon.com)
135 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 56 comments
2000The Evolution of Operating Systems (brinch-hansen.net)
134 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 8 comments
2019Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry (theverge.com)
133 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 20 comments
2005Paul Graham Is Wrong (aaronsw.com)
133 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 12 comments
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