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1948A Mathematical Theory of Communication (people.math.harvard.edu)
197 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
1994Introduction to Permaculture (archive.org)
197 points | 5 years ago with 58 comments
1995The decline of unfettered research (dtc.umn.edu)
197 points | 3 years ago with 111 comments
1989The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov (chem.tufts.edu)
196 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 60 comments
1989Why Adventure Games Suck (grumpygamer.com)
196 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 57 comments
1993Algebra and the Lambda Calculus (people.csail.mit.edu)
196 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
1997Fuck.com (links.net)
196 points | 3 years ago with 103 comments
1999Don't Become a Scientist (wuphys.wustl.edu)
195 points | 10 years ago with 159 comments
1990Bell Labs' Plan 9 research project looks to tomorrow (doc.cat-v.org)
194 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 65 comments
1993The Evolution of Lisp (dreamsongs.com)
194 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 39 comments
1955A Proposal for the Dartmouth Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (www-formal.stanford.edu)
193 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments
1985Programming as Theory Building (gist.github.com)
193 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
1988The Complete Hypercard Handbook (archive.org)
193 points | 3 years ago with 68 comments
1880The Art of Money Getting or Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (gutenberg.org)
192 points | 2 years ago with 68 comments
1979Land without Plea Bargaining: How the Germans Do It (digitalcommons.law.yale.edu)
192 points | 12 years ago with 45 comments
1998The Hardy Boys - The final chapter (washingtonpost.com)
192 points | 14 years ago with 91 comments
1987The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages (research.microsoft.com)
190 points | 9 years ago with 45 comments
1999Napster: A New Killer Internet App (evolt.org)
190 points | 6 years ago with 144 comments
1999A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (muppetlabs.com)
190 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 22 comments
1994On-Line Pizza Idea Is Clever but Only Half-Baked (latimes.com)
189 points | 5 years ago with 157 comments
1998Data Structures for Text Sequences (cs.unm.edu)
189 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments
1989Notes on Programming in C – Rob Pike (lysator.liu.se)
188 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 39 comments
1995One hundred rules for NASA project managers (oliverlehmann.com)
188 points | 10 years ago with 34 comments
1999The Cabal: Valve’s Design Process for Creating Half-Life (gamasutra.com)
188 points | 4 years ago with 84 comments
1981Feynman: Simulating Physics with Computers (cs.berkeley.edu)
187 points | 8 years ago with 22 comments
1996SoftRAM 95 (drdobbs.com)
187 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments
1998Set Up to Fail: How Bosses Create Their Own Poor Performers (insead.edu)
187 points | 10 years ago with 60 comments
1992This Place Is Not a Place of Honor (web.archive.org)
186 points | 5 years ago with 119 comments
1994An Insulin Index of Foods (fermatslibrary.com)
186 points | 6 years ago with 117 comments
1996Steve Jobs Introduces WebObjects [video] (channel9.msdn.com)
186 points | 10 years ago with 98 comments
1998Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (itprotoday.com)
186 points | 6 years ago with 96 comments
1998Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (norvig.com)
186 points | 12 years ago with 86 comments
1999Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher (ils.unc.edu)
185 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 42 comments
1999Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (cia.gov)
185 points | 7 years ago with 25 comments
1944The Inner Ring (lewissociety.org)
184 points | 1 year ago with 82 comments
1947The Mathematician (www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk)
184 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 15 comments
1991Tim Berners-Lee's Original Announcement (groups.google.com)
184 points | 12 years ago with 35 comments
1956Kurt Gödel's Letter to John von Neumann (cs.cmu.edu)
183 points | 6 years ago with 86 comments
1974Bill Gates Resume (image.cnbcfm.com)
183 points | 5 years ago with 130 comments
1975Everything I Know: Buckminster Fuller (bfi.org)
183 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
1997Gattaca draft script (sfy.ru)
183 points | 2 years ago with 131 comments
1999Interface Hall of Shame – QuickTime 4.0 Player (hallofshame.gp.co.at)
183 points | 6 years ago with 145 comments
1969In Event of Moon Disaster (lettersofnote.com)
182 points | 8 years ago with 78 comments
1987Neural Network on a Commodore 64 (fourmilab.ch)
182 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 14 comments
1995Black Art of 3D Game Programming (archive.org)
182 points | 1 year ago with 47 comments
1984Why Functional Programming Matters (cse.chalmers.se)
181 points | 8 years ago with 140 comments
1994The Basic Ideas in Neural Networks (www-isl.stanford.edu)
181 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments
1996Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit (phrack.org)
181 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments
1981M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story (theatlantic.com)
180 points | 6 years ago with 191 comments
1990Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (web.mit.edu)
180 points | 1 year ago with 52 comments
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