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2003Psychological Operations Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (fas.org)
63 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments
2003X86 versus other architectures (Linus Torvalds) (yarchive.net)
63 points | 10 years ago with 60 comments
2003The Trouble with Checked Exceptions (artima.com)
63 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2003Is Math a Young Man's Game? (slate.com)
61 points | 10 years ago with 82 comments
2003Email (let's drop the hyphen) (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
61 points | 10 years ago with 56 comments
2003How two students built an A-bomb (guardian.co.uk)
60 points | 16 years ago with 15 comments
2003Registers vs. stacks for interpreter design (sidhe.org)
60 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments
2003The 14 Characteristics of Fascism (ratical.org)
60 points | 8 years ago with 50 comments
2003Understanding Impedance (soundonsound.com)
60 points | 1 year ago with 8 comments
2003Burning Buried Sunshine (plus.maths.org)
59 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments
2003Gerald Sussman - An Electrical Engineering View of a Mechanical Watch (video.mit.edu)
58 points | 11 years ago with 8 comments
2003Futurese – The American Language in 3000AD (xibalba.demon.co.uk)
58 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments
2003The Emperor's New Amplifier (normankoren.com)
57 points | 9 years ago with 50 comments
2003Why doesn't Windows have an "expert mode"? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
57 points | 1 year ago with 58 comments
2003The Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely Must Know About Unicode (joelonsoftware.com)
57 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments
2003The 15-Year Layover (gq.com)
57 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2003PostScript Control Structures (nedbatchelder.com)
56 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2003Three Generations of Asynchronous Microprocessors (mail.async.caltech.edu)
56 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2003Memory Efficient Hard Real-Time Garbage Collection (liu.diva-portal.org)
55 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2003Expressive Power of SQL (homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk)
55 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2003Stop the autoconf insanity – Why we need a new build system (freecode.com)
55 points | 10 years ago with 83 comments
2003How SHRDLU got its name (hci.stanford.edu)
54 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2003Mark 2 FORTH Computer (aholme.co.uk)
54 points | 7 years ago with 2 comments
2003Roger Bacon (1214 – 1292) – Biography (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)
54 points | 1 year ago with 11 comments
2003Zen of Palm (cs.uml.edu)
54 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
2003Understanding the Stack (cs.umd.edu)
53 points | 7 years ago with 0 comments
2003Derailing illusions that kill: misperceptions at railway crossings (latimes.com)
53 points | 4 years ago with 112 comments
2003How Ants Find Food (mute-net.sourceforge.net)
53 points | 8 years ago with 5 comments
2003The Futile Pursuit of Happiness (query.nytimes.com)
52 points | 15 years ago with 19 comments
2003Are You Living In a Computer Simulation? (simulation-argument.com)
52 points | 9 years ago with 60 comments
2003Advice to Prospective Book Authors (aristeia.com)
52 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2003The idiot's guide to special variables and lexical closures (flownet.com)
51 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments
2003The xine hacker's guide (web.mit.edu)
50 points | 1 year ago with 24 comments
2003What's Wrong with C++ Templates? (people.cs.uchicago.edu)
50 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments
2003Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present (cpushack.com)
50 points | 1 year ago with 19 comments
2003Computing planetary positions – a tutorial with worked examples (stjarnhimlen.se)
49 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
2003Astronauts' Dirty Laundry (nasa.gov)
48 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments
2003PGP: Backdoors and Key Escrow (rossde.com)
48 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments
2003Low-Tech Game Systems (thegamesjournal.com)
48 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments
2003Drawing Holograms by Hand (amasci.com)
48 points | 8 years ago with 18 comments
2003NCSA creates Sony PlayStation2 cluster (ncsa30.ncsa.illinois.edu)
47 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2003“EFI? Intel has been trying to shove that down our throats for years.” (groups.google.com)
46 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments
2003The Complexity Barrier (babylon.acad.cai.cam.ac.uk)
45 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments
2003Aspects of Plant Intelligence (aob.oxfordjournals.org)
45 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments
2003Seattle Holy Rollers Killings: The End to an Oregon Love Cult (historylink.org)
45 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2003IntyOS, an operating system for the Intellivision (intyos.free.fr)
43 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2003Dance Marathons of the 1920s and 1930s (historylink.org)
43 points | 2 years ago with 15 comments
2003The Art of Unix Programming (catb.org)
43 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments
2003The harm done by tests of significance (andrewgelman.com)
43 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2003Cruel and Unusual: The Story of Leandro Andrade (scholarship.law.duke.edu)
42 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
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