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2002Cree Syllabics (omniglot.com)
53 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments
2002Laser pulse travels 300 times faster than light (optics.org)
53 points | 3 years ago with 39 comments
2002Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented (paulgraham.com)
52 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2002How to write a better weblog (alistapart.com)
52 points | 14 years ago with 14 comments
2002Thirty Years Later: Lessons from the Multics Security Evaluation (acsac.org)
52 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2002The Grand Illusion: Why consciousness exists only when you look for it (susanblackmore.co.uk)
52 points | 9 years ago with 45 comments
2002The Quantum Pascal's Triangle (math.ucr.edu)
50 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments
2002The Easiest Hard Problem (americanscientist.org)
50 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments
2002The geeks who saved Usenet (dir.salon.com)
50 points | 13 years ago with 7 comments
2002Who should your computer take its orders from? (gnu.org)
50 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments
2002The Origin of the Word Daemon (ei.cs.vt.edu)
50 points | 1 year ago with 24 comments
2002Lindows Click-N-Run (web.archive.org)
49 points | 3 years ago with 39 comments
2002How does DNS work? (cr.yp.to)
49 points | 2 years ago with 7 comments
2002The father of modern spam speaks (cnet.com)
48 points | 1 year ago with 44 comments
2002The Complexity of Coffee (poplab.stanford.edu)
48 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
2002Programming with pcap (tcpdump.org)
48 points | 10 years ago with 10 comments
2002A Short History of Computational Complexity (people.cs.uchicago.edu)
47 points | 4 years ago with 2 comments
2002What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex (ansereg.com)
45 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2002FAQ on Pi-Calculus (cs.cmu.edu)
44 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments
2002India (jimrogers.com)
44 points | 9 years ago with 55 comments
2002Objects Have Failed (dreamsongs.com)
44 points | 1 year ago with 100 comments
2002The Telltale Chart (vanguard.com)
44 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments
2002All About Cockatoos (mytoos.com)
43 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments
2002Review of A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram (bactra.org)
43 points | 8 years ago with 24 comments
2002A Plan for Spam (paulgraham.com)
43 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments
2002Notes on Postmodern Programming (mcs.vuw.ac.nz)
43 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2002Macromedia Flash – A New Hope for Web Applications (uie.com)
42 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments
2002Bcompiler – Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (rano.org)
42 points | 10 years ago with 4 comments
2002Rethinking the Rise of the West and the Industrial Revolution (csun.edu)
41 points | 9 years ago with 1 comments
2002What Languages Fix (paulgraham.com)
41 points | 11 years ago with 54 comments
2002Composing Music with LSTM Recurrent Networks – Blues Improvisation (people.idsia.ch)
41 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments
2002Landau's Theoretical Minimum (arxiv.org)
41 points | 10 years ago with 2 comments
2002The Beige Box Fades to Black (nytimes.com)
40 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments
2002Five Little Languages and How They Grew (bell-labs.com)
40 points | 9 years ago with 0 comments
2002Single-wire electric power system for renewable-based electric grid (ptp.irb.hr)
40 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments
2002Thermal transfer compound comparison (dansdata.com)
37 points | 1 year ago with 22 comments
2002Objects Have Not Failed (dreamsongs.com)
37 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments
2002Light through the ages: Ancient Greece to Maxwell (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)
36 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments
2002Entangled photon apparatus for the undergraduate laboratory (arxiv.org)
34 points | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2002Editing Binaries in DOS (susam.net)
33 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments
2002The Maximum Tension Principle in General Relativity (arxiv.org)
31 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2002How Not to Write a Microbenchmark (slideshare.net)
27 points | 1 year ago with 7 comments
2002Exploring "The Waste Land" (theworld.com)
20 points | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2002Intel sabotaged Solaris on Itanium – Sun (theregister.com)
18 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments
2002Neural Cryptography (arxiv.org)
17 points | 1 year ago with 8 comments
2002'Tatemae' and 'Honne' – White Lies and Honesty in Japanese Society (h2g2.com)
14 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2002Light through the ages: Ancient Greece to Maxwell (web.archive.org)
10 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2002Re: 100k Threads? (lkml.iu.edu)
10 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments

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