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1997Jacques Derrida Interviews Ornette Coleman (ubu.com)
59 points | 10 years ago with 50 comments
1997Early History of Unix: Unix Is Born and the Introduction of Pipes (people.fas.harvard.edu)
59 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments
1997Logo 15-word challenge (mathcats.com)
58 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
1997Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere (nuclearweaponarchive.org)
57 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
1997Assassination Politics (jya.com)
56 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments
1997The Evolution of US Restrictions on Using and Exporting Encryption (foia.cia.gov)
55 points | 10 years ago with 30 comments
1997Herbert Dow, the Monopoly Breaker (mackinac.org)
55 points | 11 years ago with 11 comments
1997The Gold Standard and the Great Depression (nber.org)
54 points | 3 years ago with 144 comments
1997Exact String Matching Algorithms (www-igm.univ-mlv.fr)
54 points | 9 years ago with 1 comments
1997Quantum Honeybees (discovermagazine.com)
53 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 1 comments
1997Strange Things LINK Knows about 80x86 Processors (geoffchappell.com)
53 points | 3 years ago with 2 comments
1997Integer Hash Function (gist.github.com)
53 points | 11 years ago with 15 comments
1997The Impact of “Blind” Auditions on Female Musicians (nber.org)
52 points | 9 years ago with 52 comments
1997The High Cost of Free Parking (uctc.net)
52 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments
1997Flux OSKit: Reusable Components for OS Implementation (cs.utah.edu)
52 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments
1997Was Cleopatra Beautiful? (penelope.uchicago.edu)
51 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
1997Gurdjieff and the Women of ‘The Rope’ (gurdjieff.org)
51 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments
1997Lookup Tables – Forth Dimensions (benhoyt.com)
50 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments
1997To Test a Powerful Computer, Play an Ancient Game (nytimes.com)
50 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
1997The Object-Oriented Toaster (danielsen.com)
49 points | 9 years ago with 28 comments
1997Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity (theatlantic.com)
49 points | 11 years ago with 13 comments
1997The Inferno Operating System (vitanuova.com)
48 points | 9 years ago with 11 comments
1997John Le Carré, the Art of Fiction No. 149 (theparisreview.org)
48 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments
1997Tossing Algebraic Flowers Down the Great Divide (cseweb.ucsd.edu)
47 points | 7 years ago with 7 comments
1997Seymour Cray: An Appreciation (cs.man.ac.uk)
46 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
1997Paradoxes of Material Implication (legacy.earlham.edu)
46 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 23 comments
1997The Gift of Fear: Chapter One (archive.nytimes.com)
46 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
1997The Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow, and Trusted Third-Party Encryption (groups.csail.mit.edu)
46 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments
1997How to Build an Inverse Parser (erasmatazz.com)
45 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments
1997Emulating Games - Getting Started (atarihq.com)
45 points | 10 years ago with 0 comments
1997Myths Over Miami (miaminewtimes.com)
44 points | 7 years ago with 5 comments
1997XML, Java, and the Future of the Web (xml.com)
43 points | 3 years ago with 93 comments
1997The Forgetfulness of Beings (maritain.nd.edu)
42 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
1997The Death of Xenix (linuxjournal.com)
41 points | 10 years ago with 23 comments
1997DoubleClick Tries to Force Hand into Cookie Jar (wired.com)
41 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
1997Oberon/F for Mac OS (mactech.com)
41 points | 10 years ago with 2 comments
1997The Challenge of Separating All Things Seen from All Things Unseen (jagregory.com)
41 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
1997Apple to lay off a third of its workers (wired.com)
33 points | 2 years ago with 5 comments
1997UML: The Positive Spin (archive.eiffel.com)
32 points | 2 years ago with 15 comments
1997Yost Serial Device Wiring Standard (yost.com)
26 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments
1997Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia (u20.freesoft.org)
25 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments
1997You have to be educated to be educated (lrb.co.uk)
24 points | 1 year ago with 48 comments
1997Software Transactional Memory (dl.acm.org)
24 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments
1997How the Ear Works: Nature's solutions for listening (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
23 points | 1 year ago with 1 comments
1997The Epic Saga of the Well (wired.com)
22 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments
1997How is the speed of light measured? (web.archive.org)
19 points | 1 year ago with 28 comments
1997Application Performance and Flexibility on Exokernel Systems (pdos.csail.mit.edu)
16 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments
1997Getting Started with Macintosh Programming: Circa 1998 (preserve.mactech.com)
11 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments
1997Welcome to Dino's Tomato Pie website online (dinostomatopie.com)
11 points | 2 years ago with 6 comments
1997The Telephone (pbs.org)
10 points | 1 year ago with 1 comments
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