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1965Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerrilla Warfare (archive.org)
133 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
1973Outbreak of common colds at Antarctic base after 17 weeks of isolation (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
133 points | 5 years ago with 76 comments
1975On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B (web.mit.edu)
133 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments
1982A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory (bkent.net)
133 points | 10 years ago with 65 comments
1992Ambition: How we manage success and failure throughout our lives (ambition-book.com)
133 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments
1992The Birth of Prolog (web.stanford.edu)
133 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
1995Ropes, an Alternative to Strings [pdf] (cs.rit.edu)
133 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments
1996Quake's Lighting Model: Surface Caching (bluesnews.com)
133 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments
1934Was My Life Worth Living? (ucblibrary3.berkeley.edu)
132 points | 11 years ago with 101 comments
1937The Nature of the Firm (en.wikipedia.org)
132 points | 3 years ago with 56 comments
1964The Paranoid Style in American Politics (harpers.org)
132 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments
1968Mr. Rogers Introduces Kids to Experimental Electronic Music (openculture.com)
132 points | 10 years ago with 26 comments
1974What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (www2.warwick.ac.uk)
132 points | 8 years ago with 95 comments
1978The Theory of Interstellar Trade (princeton.edu)
132 points | 10 years ago with 57 comments
1984Thinking Forth (thinking-forth.sourceforge.net)
132 points | 2 years ago with 49 comments
1986You and Your Research (cs.utexas.edu)
132 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
1988Let's Build a Compiler (xmonader.github.io)
132 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments
1988The Minitel system in France (fermatslibrary.com)
132 points | 2 years ago with 62 comments
1991The Rise of Worse Is Better (dreamsongs.com)
132 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 37 comments
1992J one-page interpreter fragment (code.jsoftware.com)
132 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 43 comments
1993TCP in 30 instructions (pdl.cmu.edu)
132 points | 11 years ago with 38 comments
1994Ways to implement computer languages on 6502s (dwheeler.com)
132 points | 8 years ago with 37 comments
1996Peter's Evil Overlord List (eviloverlord.com)
132 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
1996Hydrofluoric Acid: An Invisible Fire (discovermagazine.com)
132 points | 7 years ago with 62 comments
1996Giftedness and Genius: Crucial Differences (gwern.net)
132 points | 7 years ago with 31 comments
1997All People in Canada are the Same Age (math.toronto.edu)
132 points | 4 years ago with 91 comments
1998U.S. Torpedo Troubles During World War II (historynet.com)
132 points | 5 years ago with 84 comments
1986Notation as a Tool of Thought (eecg.utoronto.ca)
131 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments
1991Functional programming with bananas, lenses, envelopes and barbed wire [pdf] (ris.utwente.nl)
131 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments
1991Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big (dreamsongs.com)
131 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 21 comments
1996Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (web.media.mit.edu)
131 points | 1 year ago with 35 comments
1998Processor Design: An Introduction (gamezero.com)
131 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
1999Secrets of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler Inliner (microsoft.com)
131 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments
1974How to Spot a Spook (cryptome.org)
130 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments
1979Constructive mathematics and computer programming (cs.cornell.edu)
130 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments
1983The Coming Crisis in Home Computers (nytimes.com)
130 points | 6 years ago with 180 comments
19991x Forth (ultratechnology.com)
130 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 30 comments
1909The Machine Stops (web.cs.ucdavis.edu)
129 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments
1948Death of a Pig (theatlantic.com)
129 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments
1964FBI Investigation: “Louie Louie”, The Song (vault.fbi.gov)
129 points | 8 years ago with 142 comments
1984Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story (spectrum.ieee.org)
129 points | 1 year ago with 57 comments
1990Prefix Sums and Their Applications (cs.cmu.edu)
129 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments
1995ANSI Common Lisp (paulgraham.com)
129 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments
1996Cassidy Curtis's Marvelous Surface Drawings (math.brown.edu)
129 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments
1997Machine Learning (cs.cmu.edu)
129 points | 2 years ago with 10 comments
1938Tolkien Snubs a German Publisher Asking for Proof of His “Aryan Descent” (openculture.com)
128 points | 11 years ago with 49 comments
1978Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (cs.cmu.edu)
128 points | 8 years ago with 107 comments
1985The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker (rheingold.com)
128 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments
1986The perplexing life of Ernő Rubik (fei.edu.br)
128 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments
1994Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (pmichaud.com)
128 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments
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