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1869MIT Entrance exam (libraries.mit.edu)
135 points | 14 years ago with 66 comments
1910How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (gutenberg.org)
135 points | 12 years ago with 34 comments
1949How to Study Physics (lhup.edu)
135 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
1954Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester (collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk)
135 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
1977In Praise of APL: A Language for Lyrical Programming (jsoftware.com)
135 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 57 comments
1980LSD – My Problem Child (maps.org)
135 points | 5 years ago with 93 comments
1986Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle (science.ksc.nasa.gov)
135 points | 11 years ago with 79 comments
1994Letter to the Patent Office From Professor Donald Knuth (pluto.it)
135 points | 11 years ago with 48 comments
1995Viaweb's First Business Plan (paulgraham.com)
135 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments
1997The Impact of the Lambda Calculus (www-users.mat.umk.pl)
135 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
1998How to build a Linux-based wireless router out of spare parts (rage.net)
135 points | 2 years ago with 100 comments
1999Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk)
135 points | 5 years ago with 96 comments
1999How the Internet Ruined San Francisco (salon.com)
135 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 56 comments
1883The Right to Be Lazy (marxists.org)
134 points | 2 years ago with 209 comments
1962Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework (dougengelbart.org)
134 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
1969I Am Sitting in a Room (en.wikipedia.org)
134 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments
1989High Tech High Life: William Gibson and Timothy Leary in Conversation (mondo2000.com)
134 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
1992Motorola M68000 Family Programmer’s Reference Manual (cache.nxp.com)
134 points | 7 years ago with 99 comments
1998PHP 3.0 Final is out (web.archive.org)
134 points | 4 years ago with 169 comments
1916A Soldier Explains What It Was Like in the World War I Trenches (newrepublic.com)
133 points | 10 years ago with 41 comments
1962Miles Davis: A candid conversation (erenkrantz.com)
133 points | 2 years ago with 72 comments
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 | 5 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 | 3 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 | 5 years ago with 91 comments
1998U.S. Torpedo Troubles During World War II (historynet.com)
132 points | 5 years ago with 84 comments
1897Symbolic Logic (gutenberg.org)
131 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments
1986Notation as a Tool of Thought (eecg.utoronto.ca)
131 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments
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