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1946Hiroshima (newyorker.com)
486 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 158 comments
1993Space After Periods (1997.webhistory.org)
478 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 178 comments
1951How to Grow Old (sites.google.com)
476 points | 6 years ago with 79 comments
1941Who Goes Nazi? (harpers.org)
469 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 7 comments
1932In Praise of Idleness (harpers.org)
468 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 170 comments
1989Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (users.ece.utexas.edu)
466 points | 1 year ago with 258 comments
1974Cargo cult science (calteches.library.caltech.edu)
455 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 156 comments
1979Byte Magazine: LISP (archive.org)
445 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 107 comments
1983The Story of Mel (cs.utah.edu)
443 points | 2 years ago with 166 comments
1981Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (nytimes.com)
440 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 354 comments
1996The Anti-Mac User Interface (nngroup.com)
440 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 149 comments
1982Why numbering should start at zero (cs.utexas.edu)
439 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 220 comments
1985Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (reprints.longform.org)
439 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 99 comments
1991The WorldWideWeb application is now available as an alpha release (groups.google.com)
438 points | 12 years ago with 125 comments
1997The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death (outsideonline.com)
437 points | 12 years ago with 184 comments
1990Choosing a Name for Your Computer (rfc-editor.org)
432 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 200 comments
1999In the Beginning was the Command Line (cristal.inria.fr)
426 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 64 comments
1990RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (tools.ietf.org)
425 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 121 comments
1914Calculus Made Easy (gutenberg.org)
424 points | 4 years ago with 67 comments
1995Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (web.stanford.edu)
423 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 234 comments
1924Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (en.wikisource.org)
419 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments
1988The Awk Programming Language (archive.org)
415 points | 7 years ago with 103 comments
1990Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (drive.google.com)
413 points | 6 years ago with 98 comments
1998The Guy I Almost Was (electricsheepcomix.com)
410 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 203 comments
1943Albert Hofmann discovers the effects of LSD (laphamsquarterly.org)
408 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 96 comments
1993The Early History of Smalltalk (worrydream.com)
407 points across 6 posts | 2 years ago with 26 comments
1932In Praise of Idleness (zpub.com)
401 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments
1986People Simply Empty Out (lettersofnote.com)
399 points | 5 years ago with 226 comments
1991What would you like to see most in minix? (groups.google.com)
398 points | 11 years ago with 186 comments
1996“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (twitter.com)
396 points | 2 years ago with 403 comments
1996John Carmack on QuakeWorld latency and business model (raw.githubusercontent.com)
395 points | 5 years ago with 162 comments
1933The Triumph of Stupidity (russell-j.com)
392 points | 9 years ago with 269 comments
1979Notation as a Tool of Thought (jsoftware.com)
391 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 61 comments
1998Back Orifice (web.archive.org)
389 points | 3 years ago with 221 comments
1999Big Ball of Mud (laputan.org)
389 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 31 comments
1944Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (svn.cacert.org)
387 points | 3 years ago with 208 comments
1981How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (straightdope.com)
384 points | 4 years ago with 390 comments
1998A Beginner’s Guide to the Mathematics of Neural Networks (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
384 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 2 comments
1935War Is a Racket (archive.org)
383 points | 1 year ago with 534 comments
1971Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (rollingstone.com)
382 points | 4 years ago with 111 comments
1972Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (library.sciencemadness.org)
382 points across 4 posts | 5 years ago with 34 comments
1985The result would be a catastrophe (lettersofnote.com)
381 points | 8 years ago with 187 comments
1985The Parable of the Two Programmers (csd.uwo.ca)
381 points | 9 years ago with 160 comments
1998Why ML/OCaml are good for writing compilers (flint.cs.yale.edu)
381 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 147 comments
1997The Right to Read (gnu.org)
379 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments
1993Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (wiki.debian.org)
378 points | 1 year ago with 131 comments
1992A Fire Upon The Deep By Vernor Vinge (archive.org)
374 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 51 comments
1983New UNIX implementation (groups.google.com)
370 points | 11 years ago with 159 comments
1988The Awk Programming Language (ia802309.us.archive.org)
370 points | 6 years ago with 207 comments
1999Windows Refund Day (marc.merlins.org)
370 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments
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