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1996Why the Best Doesn't Always Win (nytimes.com)
66 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
1996When the shoeshine boys talked stocks it was a great sell signal in 1929 (archive.fortune.com)
64 points | 3 years ago with 82 comments
1996Turing Machines Are Recurrent Neural Networks (lipas.uwasa.fi)
63 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments
1996Aum: The Cult at the End of the World (wired.com)
62 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
1996More Sex is Safer Sex (slate.msn.com)
62 points | 14 years ago with 36 comments
1996Frank Siegert’s collection of NeXTSTEP programs (wizards.de)
61 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments
1996Remembrance Agent (alumni.media.mit.edu)
60 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments
1996The Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM-Tree) (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
59 points | 9 years ago with 24 comments
1996A Pint a Day (chemistryworld.com)
59 points | 3 years ago with 57 comments
1996Why I'm Not a Writer (philip.greenspun.com)
58 points | 15 years ago with 20 comments
1996Poisoning Daddy (texasmonthly.com)
58 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
1996The Digital Wallet of the Future (buffalonews.com)
58 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments
1996Intuition, Incubation, and Insight: Implicit Cognition in Problem Solving (ist-socrates.berkeley.edu)
58 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
1996Steve Jobs’s Interview with Red Herring (evgenymorozov.tumblr.com)
58 points | 9 years ago with 61 comments
1996Star Tek–Exploiting the Final Frontier: Counterspace Operations in 2025 (theblackvault.com)
57 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments
1996On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise (harpers.org)
56 points | 11 years ago with 22 comments
1996The Melancholy of Infinite Space (geoffreylandis.com)
55 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
1996A comment about Christian Queinnec's book Lisp in Small Pieces (pages.lip6.fr)
55 points | 1 year ago with 12 comments
1996The Twelve Networking Truths (tools.ietf.org)
54 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 11 comments
1996Netscape's Internet Foundation Classes (phdcc.com)
53 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments
1996Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager (khoslaventures.com)
52 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments
1996Lists and Lists (eblong.com)
52 points | 9 years ago with 23 comments
1996Programming Languages: Survivors and Wannabes (nytimes.com)
52 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments
1996Visualizing Large Trees Using the Hyperbolic Browser (youtube.com)
51 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments
1996Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players Who Suit MUDs (mud.co.uk)
50 points | 11 years ago with 39 comments
1996An overflow error costing 500M dollars (around.com)
50 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments
1996How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (gwern.net)
48 points | 8 years ago with 82 comments
1996Content Is King (web.archive.org)
48 points | 9 years ago with 28 comments
1996A tutorial on learning with Bayesian networks (research.microsoft.com)
48 points | 9 years ago with 4 comments
1996To Learn About the Voice Modem Extensions for Windows 95, Press 1 Now (web.archive.org)
47 points | 2 years ago with 6 comments
1996The dark side of the Internet (web.archive.org)
47 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments
1996Challenge Problems for Artificial Intelligence (erichorvitz.com)
46 points | 7 years ago with 0 comments
1996Caltech Potato Chips (async.caltech.edu)
46 points | 9 years ago with 18 comments
1996Triple-Triple Redundant 777 Primary Flight Computer (citemaster.net)
46 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
1996Time, frequency, phase and delay (libinst.com)
45 points | 1 year ago with 7 comments
1996The Decline and Rise of IBM (sloanreview.mit.edu)
45 points | 1 year ago with 44 comments
1996How To Make A Mint: The Cryptography Of Anonymous Electronic Cash (cryptome.org)
45 points | 11 years ago with 20 comments
1996Maruti Hard Real-Time OS (web.archive.org)
45 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments
1996Billy Wilder: The Art of Screenwriting (theparisreview.org)
45 points | 2 years ago with 12 comments
1996Microkernels Meet Recursive Virtual Machines (brynosaurus.com)
44 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
1996How NASA writes 'perfect' software (fastcompany.com)
43 points | 15 years ago with 29 comments
1996To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (dkeenan.com)
42 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments
1996The Origins of Pattern Theory: Christopher Alexander at OOPSLA (patternlanguage.com)
42 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments
1996Ricardo's Difficult Idea by Paul Krugman (web.mit.edu)
41 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 46 comments
1996San Jose Is Hell On Earth (jwz.org)
41 points | 10 years ago with 56 comments
1996Economy and distribution of land rents in Singapore (ink.library.smu.edu.sg)
39 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments
1996The Art and Science of Cause and Effect (singapore.cs.ucla.edu)
37 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments
1996Technology shock, fewer shotgun marriages, and the rise in unwed births (brookings.edu)
37 points | 2 years ago with 61 comments
1996Beyond RISC – The Post-RISC Architecture (cse.msu.edu)
26 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments
1996Catching Kevin Mitnick (wired.com)
26 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments
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