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| 2004 | | You can't tell people anything (habitatchronicles.com) |
| 1381 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 182 comments |
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| 2004 | | Zoomquilt (zoomquilt.org) |
| 878 points | 4 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2004 | | Should I just stop attempting to make these trivial patches? (lkml.org) |
| 752 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2004 | | What You Can't Say (paulgraham.com) |
| 706 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 194 comments |
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| 2004 | | Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (imaginary.org) |
| 521 points | 3 years ago with 318 comments |
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| 2004 | | Ten predictions (sites.google.com) |
| 457 points | 11 years ago with 309 comments |
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| 2004 | | Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (poignant.guide) |
| 440 points | 4 years ago with 201 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Remarkable Number 1/89 (www2.math.ou.edu) |
| 413 points | 4 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 2004 | | Soviet Venus Images (mentallandscape.com) |
| 350 points | 3 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2004 | | Why don't I take military funding? (web.eecs.umich.edu) |
| 343 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 121 comments |
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| 2004 | | Saving Lives (folklore.org) |
| 336 points | 1 year ago with 312 comments |
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| 2004 | | In emergency cases a passenger was selected and thrown out of the plane (lwn.net) |
| 329 points | 11 years ago with 115 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Python Paradox (paulgraham.com) |
| 318 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 268 comments |
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| 2004 | | I'm OK, the bull is dead (computerworld.com) |
| 315 points | 1 year ago with 173 comments |
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| 2004 | | What happens when patients find out how good their doctors are? (newyorker.com) |
| 314 points | 7 years ago with 224 comments |
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| 2004 | | TheFacebook.com’s darker side (web.archive.org) |
| 306 points | 7 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2004 | | Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (slate.com) |
| 302 points | 7 years ago with 168 comments |
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| 2004 | | How real are real numbers? (arxiv.org) |
| 299 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2004 | | Do It (folklore.org) |
| 283 points | 2 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2004 | | ABI vs. API (lists.debian.org) |
| 268 points | 8 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2004 | | If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (jasonbock.net) |
| 260 points | 7 years ago with 118 comments |
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| 2004 | | How Intelligent Are Cats? (messybeast.com) |
| 257 points | 2 years ago with 281 comments |
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| 2004 | | ZFS 128 bit storage: Are you high? (blogs.oracle.com) |
| 248 points | 6 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 2004 | | “We Are Morons” – A quick look at the Win2k source (atdt.freeshell.org) |
| 246 points | 6 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2004 | | Magician-turned-mathematician uncovers bias in coin flipping (news.stanford.edu) |
| 240 points | 3 years ago with 120 comments |
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| 2004 | | It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (paradise.caltech.edu) |
| 234 points | 6 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2004 | | It's Charisma, Stupid (paulgraham.com) |
| 233 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2004 | | Do the simplest thing that can possibly work (twasink.net) |
| 225 points | 1 year ago with 89 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Graphing Calculator Story (pacifict.com) |
| 217 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2004 | | EA: The Human Story (ea-spouse.livejournal.com) |
| 205 points | 2 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2004 | | Nuclear power is the only green solution (jameslovelock.org) |
| 199 points | 4 years ago with 372 comments |
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| 2004 | | What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are? (newyorker.com) |
| 184 points | 10 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2004 | | How a Swedish engineer saved a once-in-a-lifetime mission to Titan (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 179 points | 10 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2004 | | Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel (informatimago.com) |
| 178 points | 8 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2004 | | The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com) |
| 175 points | 4 years ago with 169 comments |
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| 2004 | | A DIY Cruise Missile (interestingprojects.com) |
| 173 points | 5 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 2004 | | Stolen from Apple (folklore.org) |
| 168 points | 1 year ago with 44 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Canon Cat: The Writing Information Appliance (canoncat.org) |
| 168 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2004 | | A Short Introduction to the Lambda Calculus (cs.bham.ac.uk) |
| 166 points | 8 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2004 | | Switcher (folklore.org) |
| 162 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2004 | | Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones? (9p.io) |
| 162 points | 5 years ago with 219 comments |
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| 2004 | | Soviet Moon Images (mentallandscape.com) |
| 160 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2004 | | Writing your own search engine is hard (queue.acm.org) |
| 160 points | 2 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2004 | | Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (web.archive.org) |
| 159 points | 2 years ago with 182 comments |
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| 2004 | | 100 Parking Tickets (100parkingtickets.com) |
| 155 points | 1 year ago with 130 comments |
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| 2004 | | A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection (cs.virginia.edu) |
| 151 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2004 | | A Conversation with Alan Kay (queue.acm.org) |
| 150 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2004 | | No, that dot in the domain name of the URL is not a mistake (jdebp.info.) |
| 148 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments |
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| 2004 | | Google’s Secret and Linear Algebra (verso.mat.uam.es) |
| 146 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2004 | | Letter to Pixar President Ed Catmull [pdf] (alvyray.com) |
| 146 points | 1 year ago with 61 comments |
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