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1974Computer Programming as an Art (cacm.acm.org)
96 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
1976Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity (homepage.univie.ac.at)
95 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 8 comments
1971The Making of “The Godfather” – Sort of a home movie (thestacksreader.com)
94 points | 3 years ago with 6 comments
1972The original Unix init system (code.google.com)
94 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments
1978Video: 24 year-old Steve Jobs prepping for his first TV appearance (youtube.com)
94 points | 13 years ago with 14 comments
1973Why They Lost the Wheel (archive.aramcoworld.com)
93 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments
1974A History of The Rochester, NY Camera and Lens Companies (nwmangum.com)
93 points | 2 years ago with 66 comments
1979The Quantum Theory and Reality (scientificamerican.com)
93 points | 6 years ago with 163 comments
1974The Unix Time-Sharing System (cs.berkeley.edu)
92 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
1978Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (web.stanford.edu)
91 points | 8 years ago with 57 comments
1971Twenty Things to do with a Computer (stager.org)
90 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments
1974The UNIX Time-Sharing System (chsasank.github.io)
90 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments
1974LIL, the Little Implementation Language (ultimate.com)
89 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
1977Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide? (library.sciencemadness.org)
89 points | 9 years ago with 6 comments
1978Combinatorial Algorithms (math.upenn.edu)
88 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments
1978Communicating Sequential Processes (cs.cmu.edu)
88 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
1979Design of Lisp-Based Processors Or, LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode (dspace.mit.edu)
87 points | 9 years ago with 46 comments
1978BASIC Computer Games (vintage-basic.net)
86 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments
1976“Whole Earth” origin (sb.longnow.org)
85 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
1977The Woz Wonderbook (digibarn.com)
85 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
1978Programming in an Interactive Environment: The Lisp Experience (ida.liu.se)
85 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 4 comments
1971Memristor – The missing circuit element (cpmt.org)
84 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
1976FBI Records: Bigfoot (vault.fbi.gov)
84 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments
1976For God’s Sake, Margaret (oikos.org)
84 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
1979The Timeless Way of Building (archive.org)
84 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
1970APL\B5500: The Language and Its Implementation – Gary A. Kildall (cs.washington.edu)
83 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments
1977Sweet 16: The 6502 Dream Machine (amigan.1emu.net)
82 points | 9 years ago with 20 comments
1971First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (web.archive.org)
81 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments
1970Von Neumann's First Computer Program (fermatslibrary.com)
80 points | 1 year ago with 9 comments
1974Cybernetics A to Z (archive.org)
80 points | 1 year ago with 17 comments
1976Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative (dspace.mit.edu)
80 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments
1976Smalltalk-72 Instruction Manual (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
80 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
1971There Should Be No Computer Art (bbk.ac.uk)
79 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments
1972Cognitive and Attentional Mechanisms in Delay of Gratification (fermatslibrary.com)
79 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
1974Programming with Abstract Data Types (web.cs.iastate.edu)
78 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
1974Cargo Cult Science (physics.brocku.ca)
78 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments
1975The Potentiometer Handbook (bourns.com)
78 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments
1978The Joys of Unix – NSA Cryptolog (archive.org)
78 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments
1970A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (cs.uwaterloo.ca)
77 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments
1971The parable of the parking lots (nationalaffairs.com)
76 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
1977The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones (reprints.longform.org)
76 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments
1975Church Committee Report on NSA Surveillance Affecting Americans (aarclibrary.org)
75 points | 10 years ago with 12 comments
1976The first photograph taken from the surface of Mars (nasa.gov)
75 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments
1976The Structure of “Unstructured” Decision Processes (media.corporate-ir.net)
74 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments
1978Truisms (cs.utexas.edu)
74 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments
1973Intel 4004 programming manual (bitsavers.trailing-edge.com)
73 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
1977Thoughts on Man's Purpose in Life (govleaders.org)
73 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments
1978Programming in an Interactive Environment: The “Lisp” Experience (softwarepreservation.org)
73 points | 5 years ago with 2 comments
1971Felicia, the Pipe-Cleaning Ferret of Fermilab (history.fnal.gov)
70 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments
1971Project Cybersyn (en.wikipedia.org)
70 points | 10 years ago with 36 comments
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