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1996On FPGAs as PC Coprocessors (fpgacpu.org)
128 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 32 comments
1998Microsoft TerraServer (msdn.microsoft.com)
128 points | 12 years ago with 50 comments
1999Lightweight Living (aldha.org)
128 points | 15 years ago with 71 comments
1901“Corn-Pone Opinions” by Mark Twain (paulgraham.com)
127 points | 9 years ago with 56 comments
1944The Inner Ring (lewissociety.org)
127 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 13 comments
1963Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force (patents.google.com)
127 points | 2 years ago with 202 comments
1974Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet and PC (youtube.com)
127 points | 10 years ago with 36 comments
1978Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu: The End of Hot Metal Typesetting at the NY Times (archive.org)
127 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments
1983Silence Is a Commons (davidtinapple.com)
127 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
1992For BSD Unix, It's Sayonara (tech-insider.org)
127 points | 2 years ago with 80 comments
1996Setting User-Agent Field? (groups.google.com)
127 points | 4 years ago with 64 comments
1998Adam Smith did not mean what he is often made to say (theatlantic.com)
127 points | 3 years ago with 128 comments
1903The PhD Octopus (uky.edu)
126 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments
1953Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' Memo (whatisnuclear.com)
126 points | 2 years ago with 45 comments
1986Grace Hopper on Late Night with David Letterman (youtube.com)
126 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
1997Three sins of authors in computer science and math (cs.cmu.edu)
126 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments
1998Fifty Years of Shannon Theory (princeton.edu)
126 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
1999The Evolution of Roller Coaster Tycoon (nicscorner.com)
126 points | 11 years ago with 16 comments
1955ПП-BESM – a Soviet language (xav.io)
125 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
1980Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (worrydream.com)
125 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments
1982Inside the Soviet Army (militera.lib.ru)
125 points | 11 years ago with 107 comments
1988Inventing PostScript, the tech that took the pain out of printing (spectrum.ieee.org)
125 points | 3 years ago with 51 comments
1993Disneyland with the Death Penalty (archive.wired.com)
125 points | 10 years ago with 71 comments
1997S-Expressions (people.csail.mit.edu)
125 points | 7 years ago with 45 comments
1998DC Circuit Water Analogy (hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu)
125 points | 3 years ago with 73 comments
1999The In-game Economics of Ultima Online (mine-control.com)
125 points | 12 years ago with 43 comments
1975How to Entertain with Your Pocket Calculator (archive.org)
124 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
1982Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (archive.org)
124 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments
1985How to Write with Style (peterstekel.com)
124 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments
1987The Beginning of the Monte Carlo Method (fermatslibrary.com)
124 points | 7 years ago with 31 comments
1989What's hidden in the hidden layers? (cs.cmu.edu)
124 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
1989Tao Te Ching – Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English Translation (terebess.hu)
124 points | 1 year ago with 89 comments
1999Hugh Laurie: Wodehouse Saved my Life (pgwodehousebooks.com)
124 points | 12 years ago with 56 comments
1999Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (theatlantic.com)
124 points | 5 years ago with 122 comments
1999Among the Norse Tribes: The Remarkable Account of Ibn Fadlan (archive.aramcoworld.com)
124 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments
1962LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual (softwarepreservation.org)
123 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
1980How to Get into Farming with No Money (smallfarmersjournal.com)
123 points | 6 years ago with 42 comments
1982Perlis' Epigrams (cs.yale.edu)
123 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 5 comments
1991What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic (docs.oracle.com)
123 points | 5 years ago with 85 comments
1992Dylan: A New Language Is Blowin' in the Wind (schneier.com)
123 points | 8 years ago with 101 comments
1997The Effects of Computer Use on Eye Health and Vision (aoa.org)
123 points | 7 years ago with 99 comments
1998Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (infolab.stanford.edu)
123 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 7 comments
1945Orwell's Proposed Preface to ‘Animal Farm’ (orwell.ru)
122 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments
1979Stories about the B5000 and people who were there (ed-thelen.org)
122 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments
1983Smalltalk 80 – Blue Book (stephane.ducasse.free.fr)
122 points | 6 years ago with 42 comments
1983Free Unix (article.olduse.net)
122 points | 11 years ago with 35 comments
1985Underwater Exploring Is Banned in Brazil (nytimes.com)
122 points | 6 years ago with 100 comments
1997Linux: A Portable Operating System (cs.helsinki.fi)
122 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
1999Jobs at Google (web.archive.org)
122 points | 6 years ago with 126 comments
1999The mathematics of Magic: the Gathering (kibble.net)
122 points | 7 years ago with 95 comments
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