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1994Bug in the Pentium FPU (trnicely.net)
116 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 30 comments
1995The Internet? Bah (newsweek.com)
116 points | 15 years ago with 71 comments
1995How to read Plato (plato-dialogues.org)
116 points | 7 years ago with 73 comments
1996Why I am called "the Father of Visual Basic" (cooper.com)
116 points | 10 years ago with 80 comments
1999Introduction to AOLserver, Part 1 (philip.greenspun.com)
116 points | 5 years ago with 43 comments
1966A Lecture on Johnson and Boswell by Jorge Luis Borges (nybooks.com)
115 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments
1967What a Programmer Does (archive.computerhistory.org)
115 points | 8 years ago with 45 comments
1973The Tyranny of Structurelessness (jofreeman.com)
115 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
1988Germans Who Refused to Execute Civilians During World War II (sci-hub.tw)
115 points | 6 years ago with 104 comments
1989The Mundanity of Excellence (fermatslibrary.com)
115 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
1990Why Schools Don’t Educate (thesunmagazine.org)
115 points | 3 years ago with 139 comments
1993Assemblers and Loaders (davidsalomon.name)
115 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments
1993The Problem with Music (thebaffler.com)
115 points | 2 years ago with 94 comments
1996The Twelve Networking Truths (ietf.org)
115 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 17 comments
1998An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
115 points | 3 years ago with 76 comments
1999Why didn't we patent the spreadsheet? Were we stupid? (bricklin.com)
115 points | 11 years ago with 135 comments
1999What Is RPN? Why Did/Does HP Use RPN? Learning RPN (hpmuseum.org)
115 points | 4 years ago with 117 comments
1999Put 1.7MB onto 1.44MB Floppies (trevormarshall.com)
115 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments
1972The Limits to Growth (donellameadows.org)
114 points | 1 year ago with 104 comments
1984Whole Earth Software Catalog (archive.org)
114 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
1985The Connection Machine (dspace.mit.edu)
114 points | 9 years ago with 59 comments
1996RAM Doubler 2 (tidbits.com)
114 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
1997History of Computing at Bell Labs (research.swtch.com)
114 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 2 comments
1922Follow This Rule — If You Want To Be Popular (mikecanex.wordpress.com)
113 points | 12 years ago with 27 comments
1922The Chaos (ncf.idallen.com)
113 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 25 comments
1936Shooting an Elephant (orwellfoundation.com)
113 points | 3 years ago with 88 comments
1960The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences (maths.ed.ac.uk)
113 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments
1971SHRDLU (hci.stanford.edu)
113 points | 8 years ago with 30 comments
1973The original “Hello World”: B. W. Kernighan's intro to B (web.archive.org)
113 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments
1974Computer programming as an art (dl.acm.org)
113 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
1982Report warns computers may threaten constitutional rights (archive.org)
113 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
1996What is Electricity? (amasci.com)
113 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments
1998A Brief Guide to CLOS (aiai.ed.ac.uk)
113 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
1998Yahoo buys Viaweb for $49 million (news.cnet.com)
113 points | 12 years ago with 52 comments
1971What Made Apollo a Success? (ntrs.nasa.gov)
112 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments
1985Inside Macintosh (weihenstephan.org)
112 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
1997On teaching mathematics, by V.I. Arnold (pauli.uni-muenster.de)
112 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 14 comments
1998Recreating Medieval English Ales (cs.cmu.edu)
112 points | 2 years ago with 72 comments
1999Ford 021C Concept Car (marc-newson.com)
112 points | 2 years ago with 72 comments
1957“Profession” (inf.ufpr.br)
111 points | 10 years ago with 22 comments
1960Man-Computer Symbiosis (groups.csail.mit.edu)
111 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments
1962Wiring and Cabling: How to Lace Cable Harnesses (dairiki.org)
111 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
1980Dune Genesis (moodleshare.org)
111 points | 11 years ago with 72 comments
1988Dijkstra: On the cruelty of really teaching computer science (cs.utexas.edu)
111 points | 11 years ago with 61 comments
1992Advanced Amiga Architecture (archive.org)
111 points | 2 years ago with 97 comments
1994Pentium floating-point division bug (en.wikipedia.org)
111 points | 2 years ago with 62 comments
1995Let's Build a Compiler (xmonader.github.io)
111 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
1995The Fifty-Nine-Story Crisis (duke.edu)
111 points | 14 years ago with 18 comments
1995Roger Ebert: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (rogerebert.com)
111 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments
1999Intel won't back down on chip ID feature (zdnet.com)
111 points | 2 years ago with 111 comments
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