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1975“Houston, We've Had a Problem” (hq.nasa.gov)
118 points | 10 years ago with 47 comments
1983Hints for Computer System Design (microsoft.com)
118 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 1 comments
1984Early computer art by Barbara Nessim (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
118 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments
1985Weizsäcker's speech on 40th anniversary of WW2's end (bundespraesident.de)
118 points | 5 years ago with 105 comments
1987Unix Text Processing (oreilly.com)
118 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 0 comments
1992Implementing functional languages: a tutorial (research.microsoft.com)
118 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
1995If operating systems were beers (beerme.com)
118 points | 3 years ago with 70 comments
1996Browser Bloat (miken.com)
118 points | 8 years ago with 82 comments
1998Why Ada isn't Popular (adapower.com)
118 points | 11 years ago with 112 comments
1999How to Get Rich (edge.org)
118 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
1967The ABC's of Guiding the Child (centervideo.forest.usf.edu)
117 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments
1979Design of Lisp-based Processors (dspace.mit.edu)
117 points | 12 years ago with 35 comments
1985Crabs: The bitmap terror (lucacardelli.name)
117 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 9 comments
1991Understand (ktxr.rs)
117 points | 2 years ago with 38 comments
1992Linux is Obsolete (groups.google.com)
117 points | 7 years ago with 168 comments
1994Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open (nytimes.com)
117 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 20 comments
1997Why Awk for AI? (wra1th.plus.com)
117 points | 12 years ago with 53 comments
1998The Mind Has No Firewall (press.armywarcollege.edu)
117 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments
1998Cyberpunk in the Nineties (streettech.com)
117 points | 1 year ago with 114 comments
1927H. G. Wells reviews "Metropolis" (erkelzaar.tsudao.com)
116 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments
1940Ladle Rat Rotten Hut (exploratorium.edu)
116 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments
1963Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system (cl.cam.ac.uk)
116 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments
1981Operating the Lisp Machine (bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
116 points | 9 years ago with 41 comments
1983Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – Physical Mathematician (sci-hub.se)
116 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments
1988Why some things are darker when wet (fermatslibrary.com)
116 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments
1991Beyond Cyberpunk: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Future (archive.org)
116 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
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 | 6 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 | 6 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 | 2 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 | 8 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
1874The Bicycle: Growing Popularity of the New Vehicle (query.nytimes.com)
113 points | 9 years ago with 60 comments
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