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| 2002 | | Forgotten Employee (sites.google.com) |
| 1490 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 124 comments |
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| 2002 | | Can’t send email more than 500 miles (web.mit.edu) |
| 1158 points | 1 week ago with 195 comments |
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| 2002 | | The case of the 500-mile email (ibiblio.org) |
| 614 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 93 comments |
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| 2002 | | Why Russians do not smile (chicagomaroon.com) |
| 548 points | 2 years ago with 481 comments |
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| 2002 | | Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu) |
| 523 points | 9 years ago with 173 comments |
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| 2002 | | Wi Flag (asheron.fandom.com) |
| 501 points | 7 months ago with 205 comments |
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| 2002 | | “Design Patterns” Aren't (perl.plover.com) |
| 451 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 2002 | | Nothing like this will be built again (antipope.org) |
| 408 points | 1 year ago with 259 comments |
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| 2002 | | My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (gnu.org) |
| 339 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2002 | | A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (dwheeler.com) |
| 304 points | 2 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2002 | | The rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab (flownet.com) |
| 292 points across 2 posts | 8 months ago with 142 comments |
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| 2002 | | Linus Torvalds on Garbage Collection (gcc.gnu.org) |
| 279 points | 12 years ago with 204 comments |
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| 2002 | | Computers Without Clocks – Ivan Sutherland (cs.virginia.edu) |
| 272 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2002 | | Linked List Problems (cslibrary.stanford.edu) |
| 271 points | 5 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2002 | | How to find hidden cameras (tentacle.franken.de) |
| 265 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2002 | | The IBM Black Team (t3.org) |
| 260 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2002 | | How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| 254 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2002 | | Yahoo admits mangling e-mail (news.bbc.co.uk) |
| 252 points | 1 year ago with 133 comments |
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| 2002 | | Minimalism: Practical Guide to Writing Less Code (two-sdg.demon.co.uk) |
| 242 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 116 comments |
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| 2002 | | The Antidesktop (web.archive.org) |
| 238 points across 2 posts | 1 month ago with 6 comments |
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| 2002 | | Engineering Pornography (jwz.org) |
| 235 points | 10 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2002 | | Some things every C programmer should know about C (web.archive.org) |
| 223 points | 3 years ago with 108 comments |
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| 2002 | | Homebrew CPU Home Page (homebrewcpu.com) |
| 223 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2002 | | Why Software Should Be Free (gnu.org) |
| 218 points | 3 years ago with 143 comments |
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| 2002 | | Secret Service Interrogation of Wozniak (archive.woz.org) |
| 214 points | 8 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2002 | | If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (sellsbrothers.com) |
| 213 points | 2 years ago with 199 comments |
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| 2002 | | A guide on how to be a Programmer (github.com) |
| 207 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2002 | | Non-PhotoRealistic Quake (research.cs.wisc.edu) |
| 199 points | 5 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2002 | | “The effects of lifelong exposure to a perverse contingency” (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 197 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2002 | | FastCGI – The Forgotten Treasure (nongnu.org) |
| 195 points | 2 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2002 | | Kademlia: A Peer-To-peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric (pdos.csail.mit.edu) |
| 191 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2002 | | Tips for Success in Undergraduate Math Courses (web.stanford.edu) |
| 190 points | 6 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2002 | | If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (sellsbrothers.com) |
| 189 points | 12 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2002 | | What Made Lisp Different (paulgraham.com) |
| 184 points | 5 years ago with 201 comments |
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| 2002 | | A Retrospective on Paradigms of AI Programming (norvig.com) |
| 184 points across 5 posts | 6 months ago with 32 comments |
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| 2002 | | The Etherkiller and Friends (fiftythree.org) |
| 180 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 26 comments |
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| 2002 | | Reading Mathematics (math.cornell.edu) |
| 172 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2002 | | Cityspeak from Blade Runner (brmovie.com) |
| 167 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2002 | | Why Wolfram Mathematica did not use Lisp (ymeme.com) |
| 166 points | 8 years ago with 140 comments |
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| 2002 | | Levels of code in Forth programming (ultratechnology.com) |
| 163 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2002 | | A Mathematician’s Lament (maa.org) |
| 159 points | 6 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2002 | | Internet Explorer is EVIL! (toastytech.com) |
| 157 points across 2 posts | 2 months ago with 66 comments |
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| 2002 | | The Abolition of Work (theanarchistlibrary.org) |
| 157 points | 2 years ago with 221 comments |
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| 2002 | | How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (samizdat.mines.edu) |
| 155 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2002 | | How complex systems fail (web.mit.edu) |
| 154 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2002 | | Don't Trust Google (idlewords.com) |
| 152 points | 9 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2002 | | A Mathematician’s Lament (maa.org) |
| 152 points | 10 years ago with 119 comments |
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| 2002 | | Why GNU su does not support the `wheel' group (ftp.gnu.org) |
| 147 points | 1 month ago with 141 comments |
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| 2002 | | Kit Kat Conspiracy (everything2.com) |
| 147 points | 9 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 2002 | | Types and Programming Languages (mitpress.mit.edu) |
| 147 points | 1 year ago with 28 comments |
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