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1993Typeful Programming (lucacardelli.name)
82 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 0 comments
1996The Year on the Net (wsj.com)
82 points | 7 years ago with 45 comments
1997Paul Graham: The 10 Secrets of Selling Online (web.archive.org)
82 points | 16 years ago with 51 comments
1998Installing Debian Linux 2.0 (archive.debian.org)
82 points | 5 years ago with 82 comments
1999Web Design Mistakes of 1999 (nngroup.com)
82 points | 1 year ago with 15 comments
1999D-Expressions: Lisp Power, Dylan Style (people.csail.mit.edu)
82 points | 8 years ago with 89 comments
1999The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome (improbable.com)
82 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
1857US time zones (en.wikipedia.org)
81 points | 10 years ago with 36 comments
1946How to Pick a Mate (gutenberg.org)
81 points | 2 years ago with 146 comments
1954The First Sherpa to Climb to the Top of Mt. Everest (newyorker.com)
81 points | 2 years ago with 43 comments
1958Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace (youtube.com)
81 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
1971First Edition Unix Manual 'Miscellaneous' Section (web.archive.org)
81 points | 3 years ago with 51 comments
1981A.I. (newyorker.com)
81 points | 2 years ago with 50 comments
1983Hints for Computer System Design (bwlampson.site)
81 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments
1986Ada is not just another programming language (sci-hub.se)
81 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments
1989Notes on Programming in C (doc.cat-v.org)
81 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments
1992For Shame: Why Americans Should Be Wary of Self-Esteem (newrepublic.com)
81 points | 7 years ago with 27 comments
1992Riding the Rays (douglasadams.com)
81 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments
1994Source code for Glider Pro (github.com)
81 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments
1994Coherent: Unix variant for DOS compatible PCs (autometer.de)
81 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
1995ResEdit Reference (developer.apple.com)
81 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments
1995Letter from Unabomber to Dr. David Gelernter (montanaheritageproject.org)
81 points | 7 years ago with 85 comments
1996Internet addiction: The emergence of a new clinical disorder (netaddiction.com)
81 points | 3 years ago with 78 comments
1997Inconstant Moon: The Moon at Perigee and Apogee (fourmilab.ch)
81 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments
1998For Sale: Free Operating System (archive.nytimes.com)
81 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
1999The Alternative History of Public-Key Cryptography (cryptome.org)
81 points | 14 years ago with 17 comments
1852“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (teachingamericanhistory.org)
80 points | 4 years ago with 32 comments
1880Electricity as Power (science.sciencemag.org)
80 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
1930Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (econ.yale.edu)
80 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments
1946Ideas that Have Harmed Mankind (panarchy.org)
80 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments
1953A Most Important Discovery (lettersofnote.com)
80 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 7 comments
1955Can we survive technology? (geosci.uchicago.edu)
80 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments
1961Quicksort (cs.ox.ac.uk)
80 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
1965A City Is Not a Tree (patternlanguage.com)
80 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
1966Theory of self-reproducing automata (archive.org)
80 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
1970Von Neumann's First Computer Program (fermatslibrary.com)
80 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments
1974Cybernetics A to Z (archive.org)
80 points | 2 years ago with 17 comments
1976Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative (dspace.mit.edu)
80 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
1976Smalltalk-72 Instruction Manual (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
80 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
1982“I Was Tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse” by Bobby Fischer (timkr.home.xs4all.nl)
80 points | 2 years ago with 91 comments
1983The story of Mel (pbm.com)
80 points | 16 years ago with 22 comments
1985Design case history: the Commodore 64 (spectrum.ieee.org)
80 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
1986Unix Recovery Legend (ecb.torontomu.ca)
80 points | 1 year ago with 26 comments
1987The Key of Lisp (iment.com)
80 points | 3 years ago with 2 comments
1991The undeserved status of the pigeon-hole principle (cs.utexas.edu)
80 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments
1994NetScape: A Sneak Preview of the shape of WWW Browsers to come (web.archive.org)
80 points | 3 years ago with 43 comments
1995A Simple Graph-Based Intermediate Representation (paperhub.s3.amazonaws.com)
80 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
1996How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (bioperl.org)
80 points | 12 years ago with 63 comments
1996One person's war on junk mail (langston.com)
80 points | 4 years ago with 89 comments
1996Internet Explorer is evil (toastytech.com)
80 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments
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