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1983Hints for Computer System Design (bwlampson.site)
81 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments
1986Ada is not just another programming language (sci-hub.se)
81 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments
1989Notes on Programming in C (doc.cat-v.org)
81 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments
1982“I Was Tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse” by Bobby Fischer (timkr.home.xs4all.nl)
80 points | 2 years ago with 91 comments
1983The story of Mel (pbm.com)
80 points | 15 years ago with 22 comments
1985Design case history: the Commodore 64 (spectrum.ieee.org)
80 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
1986Unix Recovery Legend (ecb.torontomu.ca)
80 points | 1 year ago with 26 comments
1987The Key of Lisp (iment.com)
80 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments
1980Beam Me Out of This Death Trap, Scotty (iasa-intl.com)
79 points | 1 year ago with 44 comments
1982Loglisp: An Alternative to Prolog (aitopics.org)
79 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments
1983Hints for Computer System Design (research.microsoft.com)
79 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 9 comments
1986Behind the Scenes of a Bank Takeover by FDIC (latimes.com)
79 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments
1986Simulating Fluid Dynamics with Cellular Automata (content.wolfram.com)
79 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments
1981RFC 791: Internet Protocol (datatracker.ietf.org)
78 points | 3 years ago with 43 comments
1981History of Ball Bearings (ntrs.nasa.gov)
78 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments
1981The truth about Unix: The user interface is horrid (ceri.memphis.edu)
78 points | 9 years ago with 87 comments
1982Alan Perlis: Epigrams on Programming (gwern.net)
78 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments
19841984, the Year of the 32-bit Microprocessor (archive.org)
78 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments
1986“Little Languages” by Jon Bentley (staff.um.edu.mt)
78 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
1989On hygiene, intellectual and otherwise (cs.utexas.edu)
78 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
1982Radio hams do battle with 'Russian Woodpecker' (qsl.net)
77 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments
1986Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival (nsscds.org)
77 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments
1987Scratch Monkey Story (edp.org)
77 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 2 comments
1987Stan Ulam, John von Neumann, and the Monte Carlo Method (permalink.lanl.gov)
77 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
1988A Forth Apologia (holonforth.com)
77 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments
1983Put That There [video] (youtube.com)
76 points | 2 years ago with 16 comments
1984How to Expose an Eavesdropper (fermatslibrary.com)
76 points | 8 years ago with 5 comments
1985CROBOTS is a programming game, for programmers or aspiring programmers (tpoindex.github.io)
76 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
1986How Not to Lie with Statistics: Avoiding Common Mistakes (dash.harvard.edu)
76 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments
1987Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program [pdf] (web.stanford.edu)
76 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
1989Cuts and jumpers on a different scale (stuff.mit.edu)
76 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments
1983John Walker's Crisis Letter to Autodesk Employees (fourmilab.ch)
75 points | 16 years ago with 17 comments
1983How and How Not to Write a Good Systems Paper (usenix.org)
75 points | 5 years ago with 0 comments
1984Reflections on Trusting Trust (cs.cmu.edu)
75 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
1981Round rectangles are everywhere (folklore.org)
74 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments
1988Dijkstra on the cruelty of really teaching computing science (userweb.cs.utexas.edu)
74 points | 14 years ago with 47 comments
1989Kazuo Ishiguro (bombmagazine.org)
74 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
1980Omikron TRS-80 Boards, NEWDOS+ and Sundry Other Matters (archive.org)
73 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments
1982“Blade Runner” has its own look, and a place in film history (newyorker.com)
73 points | 2 years ago with 64 comments
1982Doing a Job (bebekim.wordpress.com)
73 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
1985Thinking Like a Mathematician (news.psu.edu)
73 points | 9 years ago with 4 comments
1986My Life as a Forth Interpreter (bit-player.org)
73 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments
1987The Outsiders (worlddreambank.org)
73 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 7 comments
1987The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race (ditext.com)
73 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 49 comments
1985The Case Against Credentialism (theatlantic.com)
72 points | 9 years ago with 22 comments
1984Metafont (tug.ctan.org)
71 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments
1980Yet Another Modest Proposal: The Roentgen Standard (larryniven.net)
70 points | 11 years ago with 13 comments
1981Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy and childless (nytimes.com)
70 points | 9 years ago with 94 comments
1982Epigrams in Programming (cpsc.yale.edu)
70 points | 1 year ago with 37 comments
1983The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce (web.stanford.edu)
70 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 6 comments

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