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1983Inventing the Atari 2600 (spectrum.ieee.org)
103 points | 3 years ago with 47 comments
1985Forth BBS 2 (github.com)
103 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments
1999Reading code from top to bottom (iq0.com)
103 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 14 comments
1931Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (fermatslibrary.com)
102 points | 8 years ago with 71 comments
1960Cyborgs and Space (web.mit.edu)
102 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 10 comments
1968Reality Is Perplexing Enough: An Interview with Jorge Luis Borges (commonwealmagazine.org)
102 points | 4 years ago with 10 comments
1984The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (urbigenous.net)
102 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
1993AT&T's predictions of the future (youtube.com)
102 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments
1994The 10,000,000,000th Prime Number (code.jsoftware.com)
102 points | 5 years ago with 73 comments
1994Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ an Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity (cs.yale.edu)
102 points | 8 years ago with 59 comments
1995How transistors really work (amasci.com)
102 points | 9 years ago with 22 comments
1996Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing (archive.wired.com)
102 points | 10 years ago with 86 comments
1996Netheads vs. Bellheads (wired.com)
102 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
1996To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (dkeenan.com)
102 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
1999TetrisRant (tcrf.net)
102 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments
1911Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months (timesmachine.nytimes.com)
101 points | 9 years ago with 91 comments
1972The Limits to Growth (donellameadows.org)
101 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments
1972HAKMEM (dspace.mit.edu)
101 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
1982An Overview of TUNIS: A UNIX Look-Alike Written in Concurrent Euclid (archive.org)
101 points | 2 years ago with 45 comments
1984Ken Thompson: Reflections on Trusting Trust (cm.bell-labs.com)
101 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 9 comments
1985Why Forth Isn't Slow (archive.org)
101 points | 4 years ago with 65 comments
1989Steve Jobs: Out for Revenge (nytimes.com)
101 points | 5 years ago with 107 comments
1991The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (jstor.org)
101 points | 3 years ago with 71 comments
1995The Construction of a Yurt (pbm.com)
101 points | 7 years ago with 54 comments
1996It's the Latency, Stupid (rescomp.stanford.edu)
101 points | 11 years ago with 52 comments
1996With every good film I see, I feel reborn (sabzian.be)
101 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
1998The myth of the $600 hammer (govexec.com)
101 points | 2 years ago with 185 comments
1999DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (lea.hamradio.si)
101 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
1999Thomas Friedman: Amazon.you (nytimes.com)
101 points | 14 years ago with 38 comments
1854Life Without Principle (thoreau.eserver.org)
100 points | 11 years ago with 16 comments
1958The Coming Ice Age (harpers.org)
100 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 63 comments
1974Representing Graphs by Knuth Trees (cs.virginia.edu)
100 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
1981Jim Blinn and Ed Catmull – graphics class at Berkeley (youtube.com)
100 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments
1981Flipping your Disk (atarimagazines.com)
100 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments
1984A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences (sci-hub.tf)
100 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
1989Stack Computers: the new wave (ece.cmu.edu)
100 points | 12 years ago with 37 comments
1992The birth of Prolog (alain.colmerauer.free.fr)
100 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments
1993Inside the Windows Messaging System (drdobbs.com)
100 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments
1997Anatomy of a Catastrophic Boiler Accident (nationalboard.org)
100 points | 3 years ago with 47 comments
1999Who Can Name the Bigger Number? (scottaaronson.com)
100 points | 5 years ago with 43 comments
1999Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. Why? (st.cs.uni-saarland.de)
100 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments
1851Iconographic Encyclopædia of Science, Literature, and Art (c82.net)
99 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments
1883The Buffalo Public Library in 1983 (en.wikisource.org)
99 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments
1951The Use of Sub-Routines in Programmes (laputan.org)
99 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 4 comments
1953A Study of Assassination – CIA (gwu.edu)
99 points | 12 years ago with 46 comments
1955David Ogilvy: "I am a lousy copywriter" (lettersofnote.com)
99 points | 13 years ago with 15 comments
1988Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and Value Cells (nhplace.com)
99 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 12 comments
1989Roll your own minilanguages with mini-interpreters (textfiles.com)
99 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments
1990Lithium in drinking water and crimes, suicides related to drug addictions (researchgate.net)
99 points | 6 years ago with 56 comments
1993The Hypertext annotated version of “A Fire Upon the Deep” (groups.google.com)
99 points | 4 years ago with 108 comments
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