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1995The prospects for 128 bit processors (yarchive.net)
85 points | 3 years ago with 99 comments
1996White Collars Turn Blue (mit.edu)
85 points | 15 years ago with 40 comments
1997Electronic lottery tickets as micropayments (fermatslibrary.com)
85 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
1998The Joy of Perl (salon.com)
85 points | 5 years ago with 81 comments
1998Why No One Uses Functional Languages (ugcs.caltech.edu)
85 points | 10 years ago with 112 comments
1999Why I will never have a girlfriend (logological.org)
85 points | 8 years ago with 118 comments
1701Leibniz's Explanation of Binary Arithmetic (leibniz-translations.com)
84 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
1841Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (math.dartmouth.edu)
84 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments
1952Reminiscences from the end of the horse era in New York City (untappedcities.com)
84 points | 1 year ago with 52 comments
1953Disneyland's original prospectus (boingboing.net)
84 points | 11 years ago with 16 comments
1971Memristor – The missing circuit element (cpmt.org)
84 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
1976FBI Records: Bigfoot (vault.fbi.gov)
84 points | 6 years ago with 52 comments
1976For God’s Sake, Margaret (oikos.org)
84 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments
1979The Timeless Way of Building (archive.org)
84 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments
1980Beam Me Out Of This Death Trap, Scotty (washingtonmonthly.com)
84 points | 11 years ago with 74 comments
1981Computing e to 116,000 Places with a Personal Computer (archive.org)
84 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
1981Byte Magazine: Future Computers (archive.org)
84 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments
1984Thinking Forth (thinking-forth.sourceforge.net)
84 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments
1984All these companies were a lot smarter than us. What we had was luck (atariarchives.org)
84 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments
1994Neural Nets (teamten.com)
84 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
1998Inmos and the Transputer (transputer.net)
84 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments
1998The Radioactive Boy Scout (harpers.org)
84 points | 3 years ago with 54 comments
1999Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut interview each other (robertcaro.com)
84 points | 4 years ago with 46 comments
1670What Our Diversions Reveal about Us (stmaryvalleybloom.org)
83 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
1946ENIAC Operating Manual (archive.org)
83 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
1963Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care (fermatslibrary.com)
83 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 29 comments
1964META II: A Syntax-Oriented Compiler Writing Language (ibm-1401.info)
83 points | 8 years ago with 32 comments
1965The Next 700 Programming Languages (homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk)
83 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
1969Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Violence (nybooks.com)
83 points | 4 years ago with 34 comments
1970APL\B5500: The Language and Its Implementation – Gary A. Kildall (cs.washington.edu)
83 points | 9 years ago with 27 comments
1981Captain Grace M. Hopper: The Mother of COBOL (books.google.nl)
83 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
1985Super Mario Bros Coin Sound (365blanc.blogspot.com)
83 points | 12 years ago with 10 comments
1985Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It? (hpl.hp.com)
83 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 3 comments
1988The Original Hacker's Dictionary (dourish.com)
83 points | 12 years ago with 24 comments
1995Holography Without Lasers: Hand-Drawn Holograms (eskimo.com)
83 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments
1996Some rules kids won't learn in school (ime.usp.br)
83 points | 14 years ago with 67 comments
1996Purely Functional Data Structures (cs.cmu.edu)
83 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments
1997Inside Nintendo 64 (n64.icequake.net)
83 points | 10 years ago with 28 comments
1998High Performance Computing: Are We Just Getting Wrong Answers Faster? (www3.nd.edu)
83 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
1939Graphic Presentation (archive.org)
82 points | 10 years ago with 16 comments
1953Computers and Automata (fermatslibrary.com)
82 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments
1969Arcology: The city in the image of man (organism.earth)
82 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
1977Sweet 16: The 6502 Dream Machine (amigan.1emu.net)
82 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments
1982DEC's No Output Division Memo (archive.computerhistory.org)
82 points | 9 years ago with 40 comments
1982Why Systolic Architectures? (eecs.harvard.edu)
82 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments
1983The Apple II Circuit Description (archive.org)
82 points | 1 year ago with 17 comments
1984Photography's new bag of tricks (nytimes.com)
82 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 20 comments
198668000 Tricks and Traps – Some assembly language programming guidelines (easy68k.com)
82 points | 8 years ago with 34 comments
1993NCSA Mosaic for X 1.0 available (groups.google.com)
82 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments
1993Why Cryptosystems Fail (cl.cam.ac.uk)
82 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments
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