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1967Programming as a medium for poorly understood, sloppily-formulated ideas (github.com)
77 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
1970A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (cs.uwaterloo.ca)
77 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
1982Radio hams do battle with 'Russian Woodpecker' (qsl.net)
77 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments
1986Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival (nsscds.org)
77 points | 7 years ago with 43 comments
1987Scratch Monkey Story (edp.org)
77 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 2 comments
1987Stan Ulam, John von Neumann, and the Monte Carlo Method (permalink.lanl.gov)
77 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
1988A Forth Apologia (holonforth.com)
77 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments
1992The KeyKOS Nanokernel Architecture (cis.upenn.edu)
77 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
1992A Critique of Standard ML (cs.princeton.edu)
77 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
1996Classic SE Mistakes (cs.nmsu.edu)
77 points | 2 years ago with 45 comments
1996Why I Wrote “The Crucible” (newyorker.com)
77 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments
1997Casio Caleid XM-700 Mobile Navigator (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
77 points | 2 years ago with 37 comments
1999Richard Feynman and Computation (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
77 points | 8 years ago with 2 comments
1999And so I'm giving up the Mozilla project - Jamie Zawinski (jwz.org)
77 points | 14 years ago with 37 comments
1937World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopædia (sherlock.ischool.berkeley.edu)
76 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments
1956The Negro Travelers' Green Book (digital.tcl.sc.edu)
76 points | 7 years ago with 43 comments
1971The parable of the parking lots (nationalaffairs.com)
76 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments
1977The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones (reprints.longform.org)
76 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments
1983Put That There [video] (youtube.com)
76 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments
1984How to Expose an Eavesdropper (fermatslibrary.com)
76 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments
1985CROBOTS is a programming game, for programmers or aspiring programmers (tpoindex.github.io)
76 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
1986How Not to Lie with Statistics: Avoiding Common Mistakes (dash.harvard.edu)
76 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments
1987Superoptimizer – A Look at the Smallest Program [pdf] (web.stanford.edu)
76 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
1989Cuts and jumpers on a different scale (stuff.mit.edu)
76 points | 11 years ago with 7 comments
1991Neo Geo Programming Guide (hardmvs.com)
76 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments
1992Alienable Rights (web.media.mit.edu)
76 points | 10 years ago with 6 comments
1992Roundoff Error and the Patriot Missile (web.archive.org)
76 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments
1995A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels (microsoft.com)
76 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
1995We Owe It All to the Hippies (members.aye.net)
76 points | 11 years ago with 63 comments
1996Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (dolekemp96.org)
76 points | 3 years ago with 46 comments
1996USB, Java take center stage at Comdex (sunsite.uakom.sk)
76 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments
1999Infrequently Asked Questions in Comp.lang.c (seebs.net)
76 points | 2 years ago with 38 comments
1914Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts (archive.org)
75 points | 3 years ago with 25 comments
1950Computing machinery and intelligence (loebner.net)
75 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments
1957Flowmatic (archive.computerhistory.org)
75 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments
1975Church Committee Report on NSA Surveillance Affecting Americans (aarclibrary.org)
75 points | 12 years ago with 12 comments
1976The first photograph taken from the surface of Mars (nasa.gov)
75 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
1983John Walker's Crisis Letter to Autodesk Employees (fourmilab.ch)
75 points | 16 years ago with 17 comments
1983How and How Not to Write a Good Systems Paper (usenix.org)
75 points | 6 years ago with 0 comments
1984Reflections on Trusting Trust (cs.cmu.edu)
75 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
1992A History of CLU – Barbara Liskov (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
75 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments
1994Meme (Multitasking Extensible Messaging Environment): Multiuser Forth VR (web.archive.org)
75 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments
1994Game Design Tips from Tom Hall (3drealms.com)
75 points | 10 years ago with 15 comments
1994Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of 'Political Correctness' (brown.edu)
75 points | 7 years ago with 90 comments
1997How Many Objects Can Be Juggled (fermatslibrary.com)
75 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments
1923Carl Akeley’s fight to the death with a leopard (stuffnobodycaresabout.com)
74 points | 3 years ago with 58 comments
1967The Kidnapping of the Lunik (cia.gov)
74 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
1976The Structure of “Unstructured” Decision Processes (media.corporate-ir.net)
74 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments
1978Truisms (cs.utexas.edu)
74 points | 5 years ago with 43 comments
1981Round rectangles are everywhere (folklore.org)
74 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments

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