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1995Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (web.archive.org)
1086 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 301 comments
1995Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (web.archive.org)
755 points | 3 years ago with 455 comments
1998Back Orifice (web.archive.org)
389 points | 3 years ago with 221 comments
2014What's been wrought using the Piece Table? (web.archive.org)
354 points | 7 years ago with 83 comments
2010Never pay for online dating (web.archive.org)
350 points | 2 years ago with 469 comments
2009An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (web.archive.org)
347 points | 5 years ago with 129 comments
2012Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (web.archive.org)
341 points | 2 years ago with 198 comments
2012Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (web.archive.org)
323 points | 2 years ago with 352 comments
2013The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (web.archive.org)
307 points | 2 years ago with 268 comments
2004TheFacebook.com’s darker side (web.archive.org)
306 points | 7 years ago with 132 comments
1996The Art of Assembly Language (web.archive.org)
297 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments
2001Wikipedia is up (web.archive.org)
291 points | 3 years ago with 198 comments
2013Always Multiply Your Estimates by π (web.archive.org)
268 points | 3 years ago with 119 comments
2001Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (web.archive.org)
264 points | 2 years ago with 132 comments
1991Linus Torvalds announces Linux (web.archive.org)
248 points | 6 years ago with 140 comments
2007Risk Everything (web.archive.org)
244 points | 2 years ago with 134 comments
2002The Antidesktop (web.archive.org)
238 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2015Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development (web.archive.org)
232 points | 4 years ago with 151 comments
2012Rides of Glory – Uber Blog (web.archive.org)
224 points | 9 years ago with 112 comments
2002Some things every C programmer should know about C (web.archive.org)
223 points | 4 years ago with 108 comments
1998By 1995, it'll be evident that the Internet means as little as fax (web.archive.org)
215 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 68 comments
2019Why isn't Titan classed? (web.archive.org)
213 points | 1 year ago with 283 comments
2000The Passport Payment (web.archive.org)
209 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments
2013Does Life End at 35? (web.archive.org)
207 points | 6 years ago with 85 comments
2003Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (web.archive.org)
205 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments
2000The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (web.archive.org)
201 points | 3 years ago with 98 comments
2015Instagram's Million Dollar Bug (web.archive.org)
201 points | 3 years ago with 93 comments
2000A Few Rules for Predicting the Future (web.archive.org)
196 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments
2003A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (web.archive.org)
193 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments
2012Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell (web.archive.org)
187 points | 4 years ago with 74 comments
1992This Place Is Not a Place of Honor (web.archive.org)
186 points | 5 years ago with 119 comments
2008I Still Use Windows 95 (web.archive.org)
184 points | 1 year ago with 307 comments
2010So You Wanna Be a Chef (web.archive.org)
183 points | 2 years ago with 105 comments
2005Why is the DOS path character "\"? (web.archive.org)
182 points | 3 years ago with 158 comments
2013I Wasn’t Prepared for Work (web.archive.org)
180 points | 4 years ago with 74 comments
2005The Psychology of Human Misjudgment (web.archive.org)
178 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments
2010Never Pay for Online Dating (web.archive.org)
176 points | 3 years ago with 265 comments
2000BANCStar (web.archive.org)
175 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments
2003AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software WASTE (web.archive.org)
172 points | 1 year ago with 115 comments
2010Taco Bell Programming (web.archive.org)
172 points | 8 years ago with 109 comments
1999Advice I Wish I'd Been Told (web.archive.org)
170 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments
2017The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture (web.archive.org)
168 points | 1 year ago with 84 comments
2011Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (web.archive.org)
162 points | 5 years ago with 101 comments
2004Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (web.archive.org)
159 points | 2 years ago with 182 comments
2010Noprocrast (web.archive.org)
155 points | 4 years ago with 102 comments
1999The Story of Maxis Software (web.archive.org)
154 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments
2003Principles of the American Cargo Cult (web.archive.org)
151 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments
2013Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (web.archive.org)
150 points | 3 years ago with 138 comments
2019Pocket gets worse the more you use it (web.archive.org)
144 points | 1 year ago with 156 comments
2000Red Hat Is Not Linux (web.archive.org)
143 points | 1 year ago with 184 comments
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