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2000How to play the guitar by ear, for mathematicians and physicists (foundationwebsite.org)
149 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments
2000Courtney Love does the math (salon.com)
148 points | 14 years ago with 56 comments
2000CIA Analyst Training Handbook (cryptome.org)
148 points | 10 years ago with 23 comments
2000Unix Wars (livinginternet.com)
145 points | 4 years ago with 87 comments
2000Bill Joy: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (wired.com)
145 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2000Red Hat Is Not Linux (web.archive.org)
143 points | 1 year ago with 184 comments
2000Basics of Concrete Barriers (highways.dot.gov)
137 points | 2 years ago with 79 comments
2000The Evolution of Operating Systems (brinch-hansen.net)
134 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2000Scooping the Loop Snooper (lel.ed.ac.uk)
133 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2000So you want to contact Brian Eno? (music.hyperreal.org)
133 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments
2000Inventing an Operation to Solve x^x = y (mathforum.org)
132 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments
2000The wet bird (oyonale.com)
132 points | 1 year ago with 33 comments
2000Paul Erdős (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)
132 points | 3 years ago with 81 comments
2000When Radiohead sampled Paul Lansky (paul.mycpanel.princeton.edu)
130 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments
2000Instinctive sleeping and resting postures: an anthropological study (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
128 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments
2000Things You Should Never Do (joelonsoftware.com)
128 points | 4 years ago with 83 comments
2000Lisp as an Alternative to Java (flownet.com)
126 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 21 comments
2000QuickCheck: A Lightweight Tool for Random Testing of Haskell Programs (cs.tufts.edu)
123 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2000“I Don't Like Your Examples” (archive.oreilly.com)
122 points | 6 years ago with 85 comments
2000Bentley Railbike (rrbike.freeservers.com)
122 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments
20004MB Laptop How-To: How to put a “grown-up” Linux on a small-spec laptop (tldp.org)
121 points | 7 years ago with 92 comments
2000Is_computer_on_fire() (everything2.com)
117 points | 9 years ago with 56 comments
2000Lifespan depends on month of birth (pnas.org)
116 points | 9 years ago with 55 comments
2000Down From the Top of Its Game: The Story of Infocom, Inc (web.mit.edu)
115 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 32 comments
2000Courtney Love does the math (salon.com)
110 points | 11 years ago with 49 comments
2000Prolog.c: a simple Prolog interpreter written in 200 LOC of C++ (cl.cam.ac.uk)
109 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
2000Signal Processing for Everyone (www-math.mit.edu)
107 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2000Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant (doc.cat-v.org)
107 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 43 comments
2000Achieving full-motion video on the Nintendo 64 (ultra64.ca)
106 points | 4 years ago with 29 comments
2000WLW: 700 kHz, 500 kW, 100% modulation, no limiter (ominous-valve.com)
105 points | 8 years ago with 25 comments
2000Learning the Language of Mathematics (wac.colostate.edu)
103 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments
2000John Carmack on shadow volumes (fabiensanglard.net)
102 points | 9 years ago with 40 comments
2000A Visual Approach to Calculus Problems (mamikon.com)
102 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2000An Introduction to Quantum Computation and Quantum Communication (herpolhode.com)
101 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments
2000Reasoning, and What It Is To Be Rational (akat.com)
99 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments
2000A Repairman's View of Portable Minidisc Recorders (minidisc.org)
99 points | 1 year ago with 59 comments
2000Well vs. Equal Temperament (math.uwaterloo.ca)
99 points | 9 years ago with 62 comments
2000Eating a manchineel “beach apple” (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
98 points | 8 years ago with 72 comments
2000Coups, lies, dirty tricks: Stewart Copeland on his CIA agent father (theguardian.com)
97 points | 4 years ago with 107 comments
2000Algorithmic Theories of Everything (arxiv.org)
96 points | 4 years ago with 32 comments
2000The PlayStation2 vs. the PC (arstechnica.com)
91 points | 10 years ago with 41 comments
2000The Gay Nabokov (salon.com)
90 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments
2000A Dao of Web Design (alistapart.com)
89 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2000The AdaOS Operating System (web.archive.org)
87 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments
2000Statistical mechanics of money (arxiv.org)
86 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2000Nuclear Pulse Propulsion – Orion and Beyond (ntrs.nasa.gov)
86 points | 8 years ago with 99 comments
2000The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments (usenix.org)
82 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2000BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code (salon.com)
82 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments
2000Self-Determination: The Tyranny of Freedom (swarthmore.edu)
81 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2000Theft of the Mona Lisa (pbs.org)
81 points | 1 year ago with 45 comments
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