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1985Miranda: A non-strict functional language with polymorphic types (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
95 points | 8 years ago with 37 comments
1987Case Study: IBM's System/360-370 Architecture (cs.tufts.edu)
95 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
1987History of Cartography: Volumes One, Two, Three, Four, and Six (press.uchicago.edu)
95 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments
1988The World Is Built on Probability (archive.org)
95 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments
1989Stack Computers: the new wave (users.ece.cmu.edu)
95 points | 2 years ago with 48 comments
1990Linear types can change the world (cs.ioc.ee)
95 points | 7 years ago with 45 comments
1990Mathematical Education (arxiv.org)
95 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments
1994Niels Bohr’s Argument for the Irreducibility of Biology to Physics (link.springer.com)
95 points | 6 years ago with 90 comments
1995Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism (theanarchistlibrary.org)
95 points | 3 years ago with 121 comments
1996The PowerPC Compiler Writer's Guide (cr.yp.to)
95 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments
1996Generative Music – Brian Eno (inmotionmagazine.com)
95 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments
1997“It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture..encryption products” (thomas.loc.gov)
95 points | 10 years ago with 42 comments
1997Publication of Hiroshima in the New Yorker (herseyhiroshima.com)
95 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 68 comments
1999How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift (allstar.fiu.edu)
95 points | 9 years ago with 51 comments
1869Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion (bartleby.com)
94 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments
1939Feynman’s first paper (fermatslibrary.com)
94 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments
1943Dietrich Bonhoeffer on stupidity (platoscave.org)
94 points | 2 years ago with 69 comments
1968“God is a Verb” by R. Buckminster Fuller (wholeearth.com)
94 points | 7 years ago with 107 comments
1971The Making of “The Godfather” – Sort of a home movie (thestacksreader.com)
94 points | 4 years ago with 6 comments
1972The original Unix init system (code.google.com)
94 points | 9 years ago with 36 comments
1978Video: 24 year-old Steve Jobs prepping for his first TV appearance (youtube.com)
94 points | 14 years ago with 14 comments
1980Vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple (computerhistory.org)
94 points | 13 years ago with 22 comments
1981Apple II Mouse Card (folklore.org)
94 points | 4 years ago with 50 comments
1984The 2 Sigma Problem (web.mit.edu)
94 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 46 comments
1986The Design of Postgres (db.cs.berkeley.edu)
94 points | 8 years ago with 0 comments
1994NetScape: A Sneak Preview of the shape of WWW Browsers to come (web.archive.org)
94 points | 3 years ago with 57 comments
1997Yahoo and FreeBSD (zer0.org)
94 points | 9 years ago with 51 comments
1998The Story of PDP-1 (gordonbell.azurewebsites.net)
94 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
1999PostScript Language Reference (adobe.com)
94 points | 4 years ago with 65 comments
1945Freedom of the Press: Orwell's Proposed Preface to Animal Farm (home.iprimus.com.au)
93 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments
1973Why They Lost the Wheel (archive.aramcoworld.com)
93 points | 7 years ago with 25 comments
1974A History of The Rochester, NY Camera and Lens Companies (nwmangum.com)
93 points | 4 years ago with 66 comments
1979The Quantum Theory and Reality (scientificamerican.com)
93 points | 7 years ago with 163 comments
1983Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work (hbr.org)
93 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
1989The Joys of Victimhood (nytimes.com)
93 points | 7 years ago with 68 comments
1991“The WorldWideWeb (WWW) project aims to allow links to information” (groups.google.com)
93 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments
1992GUIs Considered Harmful (porkmail.org)
93 points | 6 years ago with 146 comments
1996Why Software Jewels Are Rare (cse.msu.edu)
93 points | 4 years ago with 73 comments
1996Is Sony's 140MB MiniDisc Drive the Next Betamax? (web.archive.org)
93 points | 4 years ago with 125 comments
1996Ray-Casting Tutorial for Game Development and Other Purposes (permadi.com)
93 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
1997Why I Left the Law (spectacle.org)
93 points | 10 years ago with 22 comments
1964System/360 Announcement (ibm.com)
92 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 66 comments
1974The Unix Time-Sharing System (cs.berkeley.edu)
92 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments
1981Landing the Nostromo (archive.org)
92 points | 10 years ago with 42 comments
1981Xerox Star 8010 Interfaces, high quality polaroids (digibarn.com)
92 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments
1984Cottage Computer Programming (atariarchives.org)
92 points | 10 years ago with 30 comments
1992A Memo on the Secret Features of the Hitachi 6309 processor (en.wikichip.org)
92 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
1994Modular C: Reusable and Maintainable Code Using the C Language (metamodular.com)
92 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments
1995Against Intellectual Property (uow.edu.au)
92 points | 11 years ago with 56 comments
1995Toyota Children's Web Site (toyota.co.jp)
92 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
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