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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
1725The Odyssey – Alexander Pope translation (gutenberg.org)
112 points | 4 years ago with 116 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 | 1 year ago with 72 comments
1748Advice to a Young Tradesman (founders.archives.gov)
111 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
1868Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (books.google.com)
111 points | 12 years ago with 25 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 | 10 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 | 1 year 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
1999Outdoor Sound Propagation in the U.S. Civil War (wesclark.com)
111 points | 2 years ago with 52 comments
1944Simple Sabotage Field Manual (cia.gov)
110 points | 9 years ago with 68 comments
1965An introductory course in computer programming (repository.cmu.edu)
110 points | 8 years ago with 20 comments
1982The Byzantine Generals Problem (research.microsoft.com)
110 points | 10 years ago with 27 comments
1987HyperCard Users Guide (vintageapple.org)
110 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
1991The Taos Operating System (dickpountain.co.uk)
110 points | 10 years ago with 93 comments
1993Kirby’s Adventure – Nintendo Developer Interview (shmuplations.com)
110 points | 3 years ago with 39 comments
1994OK for Apple to Call Sagan 'Butt-Head Astronomer' (web.archive.org)
110 points | 3 years ago with 95 comments
1995Finite State Machines in Forth (galileo.phys.virginia.edu)
110 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments
1930Senate Considers Banning Dial Phones (senate.gov)
109 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
1944What Is Life? (dlab.clemson.edu)
109 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
1960The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (gizmodo.com)
109 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments
1962Augmenting Human Intellect (dougengelbart.org)
109 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments
1972Viktor Frankl: Why believe in others [video] (ted.com)
109 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments
1978A micro manual for Lisp – Not the whole truth (ee.ryerson.ca)
109 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
1982Computer Spacegames (drive.google.com)
109 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments
1984Why Men Love War (public.wsu.edu)
109 points | 10 years ago with 92 comments
1986Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle (history.nasa.gov)
109 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
1997A difficult case: Diagnosis made by hallucinatory voices (researchgate.net)
109 points | 5 years ago with 75 comments
1899The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (gutenberg.org)
108 points | 8 years ago with 75 comments
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