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1990Origins of the finger command (groups.google.com)
150 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments
1996Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design (users.monash.edu)
150 points | 3 years ago with 110 comments
1998The Great Filter – Are We Almost Past It? (mason.gmu.edu)
150 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 174 comments
1999The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (gamasutra.com)
150 points | 11 years ago with 107 comments
1969Alan Kay Thesis: The Reactive Engine (chilton-computing.org.uk)
149 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments
1971Unix Edition Zero (doc.cat-v.org)
149 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments
1995Down with Determinants (axler.net)
149 points | 7 years ago with 83 comments
1998The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (nytimes.com)
149 points | 10 years ago with 29 comments
1999VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC (bricklin.com)
149 points | 3 years ago with 53 comments
1928On Being the Right Size (irl.cs.ucla.edu)
148 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 10 comments
1956The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien (newrepublic.com)
148 points | 8 years ago with 114 comments
1973Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration (pmj.bmj.com)
148 points | 5 years ago with 154 comments
1996Java JDK 1.0 (github.com)
148 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments
1999In the beginning was the command line (faculty.georgetown.edu)
148 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments
1999Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula (academics.rowan.edu)
148 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
1999How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (mud.co.uk)
148 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments
1942Looking Back on the Spanish War (orwellfoundation.com)
147 points | 4 years ago with 128 comments
1976How to run a meeting (hbr.org)
147 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
1976The Unix Command Language (github.com)
147 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
1979Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation (multicians.org)
147 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 12 comments
1980Lisp Comes of Age (microship.com)
147 points | 5 years ago with 110 comments
1983Ironies of Automation (ise.ncsu.edu)
147 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments
1996Linux Logo (lkml.org)
147 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
1999Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices (academic.oup.com)
147 points | 2 years ago with 113 comments
1977Cards as Weapons (archive.org)
146 points | 1 year ago with 49 comments
1993A Taste of Linear Logic (homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk)
146 points | 6 years ago with 62 comments
1995A Plea for Lean Software (blog.frantovo.cz)
146 points | 3 years ago with 137 comments
1995Anonymity on the Internet Must Be Protected (groups.csail.mit.edu)
146 points | 6 years ago with 71 comments
1997Steve Jobs negotiates Apple's deal with Microsoft (techemails.com)
146 points | 2 years ago with 88 comments
1961I hope you will never see this letter (news.lettersofnote.com)
145 points | 2 years ago with 114 comments
1979Atari Star Raiders Source Code (archive.org)
145 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments
1987Why calculating is better than scheming (cs.kent.ac.uk)
145 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 24 comments
1994Just a Drop in the Bucket (milk.com)
145 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments
1995Interview with Anders Hejlsberg on Delphi (theopenforce.com)
145 points | 3 years ago with 53 comments
1995x86 Is an Octal Machine (gist.github.com)
145 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments
1973Why They Lost The Wheel (saudiaramcoworld.com)
144 points | 10 years ago with 23 comments
1981EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable Display Editor (gnu.org)
144 points | 10 years ago with 57 comments
1994Callbacks in C++ using template functors (tutok.sk)
144 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 50 comments
1995The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal (nytimes.com)
144 points | 11 years ago with 71 comments
1999F***ing Learn to Code Again (blog.kebby.org)
144 points | 10 years ago with 64 comments
1919My Inventions – Nikola Tesla (archive.org)
143 points | 2 years ago with 61 comments
1972Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (sciencemadness.org)
143 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments
1982AT&T Archives: The Unix Operating System [video] (youtube.com)
143 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments
1986Unix Recovery Legend (ee.ryerson.ca:8080)
143 points | 9 years ago with 60 comments
1998AOL acquires Netscape in $4.2B deal (money.cnn.com)
143 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
1999Shhh: The Undocumented DOS Commands (the-eye.eu)
143 points | 5 years ago with 53 comments
1977Applied Mathematical Programming (web.mit.edu)
142 points | 9 years ago with 27 comments
1982Apple IIe Design Guidelines (apple2scans.net)
142 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
1984Lisp Machine Manual (hanshuebner.github.io)
142 points | 7 years ago with 152 comments
1987Statecharts: A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems (inf.ed.ac.uk)
142 points | 4 years ago with 64 comments
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