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2003Thwarted Linux backdoor hints at smarter hacks (securityfocus.com)
85 points | 10 years ago with 52 comments
2003The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview (karmak.org)
84 points | 3 years ago with 11 comments
2003Joel on The Absolute Minimum Every Developer Must Know About Unicode (joelonsoftware.com)
82 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 1 comments
2003The Earthsea Trilogy (dannyreviews.com)
81 points | 7 months ago with 86 comments
2003The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (inf.ed.ac.uk)
81 points | 2 years ago with 49 comments
2003Capability Myths Demolished (erights.org)
80 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2003Best Practices for Time Travelers (idlewords.com)
80 points | 4 months ago with 41 comments
2003Neil Postman: A civilized man in a century of barbarism (salon.com)
80 points | 10 months ago with 20 comments
2003Understanding, finding, and eliminating ground loops (web.mit.edu)
79 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2003Applications of Markov Chains (langvillea.people.cofc.edu)
79 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments
2003Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn (telegraph.co.uk)
78 points | 14 years ago with 36 comments
2003Caring for Your Introvert (theatlantic.com)
78 points | 13 years ago with 36 comments
2003Theo de Raadt on Plan 9 licensing (groups.google.com)
78 points | 8 years ago with 49 comments
2003Plan 9: The Way the Future Was (homepage.cs.uri.edu)
78 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments
2003One Frickin' User Interface for Linux (cs.anu.edu.au)
78 points | 9 years ago with 78 comments
2003Why Events Are A Bad Idea For High-Concurrency Servers (static.usenix.org)
77 points | 9 years ago with 35 comments
2003A Brief History of Just-in-Time (eecs.ucf.edu)
77 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2003The Art of Lisp and Writing (dreamsongs.com)
76 points | 10 years ago with 34 comments
2003From Philosophy to Program Size (arxiv.org)
75 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments
2003Making the Mind: Why we've misunderstood the nature-nurture debate (bostonreview.net)
73 points | 4 years ago with 75 comments
2003No evidence that parachutes prevent injuries when jumping out of planes (bmj.com)
73 points | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2003Notes on Landauer's principle, reversible computation, Maxwell's Demon (cs.princeton.edu)
73 points | 5 years ago with 0 comments
2003Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose (borrett.id.au)
72 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2003Radio frequency hearing in humans and its effects (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
72 points | 7 months ago with 41 comments
2003Adding Roman Numeral Literals to Python (peps.python.org)
71 points across 2 posts | 4 months ago with 37 comments
2003Steve's Explanation of the Viterbi Algorithm (cs.toronto.edu)
70 points | 5 months ago with 16 comments
2003Shareware Amateurs vs. Shareware Professionals (sodaware.net)
70 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 9 comments
2003Drying Fruits (nchfp.uga.edu)
69 points | 6 months ago with 42 comments
2003Can helium be mixed with hydrogen to form a non-explosive mix? (madsci.org)
69 points | 2 years ago with 117 comments
2003Your Face Is Not a Bar Code (polaris.gseis.ucla.edu)
69 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
2003Eliminating FORMAT from Lisp (cs-www.cs.yale.edu)
68 points | 1 year ago with 67 comments
2003Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (rhizome.org)
68 points | 6 years ago with 157 comments
2003Ten Years Writing Book Reviews (dannyreviews.com)
67 points | 5 months ago with 3 comments
2003Nervous system manipulation by electromagnetic fields from monitors (pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
67 points | 1 year ago with 34 comments
2003Life cycles of a hornet colony (vespa-crabro.com)
67 points | 1 year ago with 22 comments
2003OS/360 on Hercules: Overview (conmicro.com)
67 points | 2 years ago with 20 comments
200310th Rule of Programming (philip.greenspun.com)
67 points | 6 months ago with 21 comments
2003How does a nail puncture a tire? (madsci.org)
66 points | 1 year ago with 41 comments
2003Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors (erlang.org)
66 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments
2003Parametric Study of a Genetic Algorithm (genetic-programming.org)
66 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
2003Warren Buffett: Thriftville vs. Squanderville (archives.democrats.science.house.gov)
66 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
200320 Years, One Standard: The Story of TCP/IP (cbi.umn.edu)
65 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments
2003If Lisp Is So Great (paulgraham.com)
65 points | 8 years ago with 64 comments
2003A dialog on quantum gravity (arxiv.org)
65 points | 11 years ago with 19 comments
2003Caches and Lisp: faster list processing via auto-rearranging memory (cs.berkeley.edu)
65 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments
2003Linux: Using goto In Kernel Code (web.archive.org)
65 points | 2 years ago with 54 comments
2003How the Wright Brothers Blew It (forbes.com)
65 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments
2003Xhtml Friends Network (gmpg.org)
64 points | 11 months ago with 26 comments
2003Who Built the Pyramids? (harvardmagazine.com)
64 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments
2003Exceptions (joelonsoftware.com)
63 points | 10 years ago with 89 comments
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