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| 2004 | | How to Write a Pac-Man Game in JavaScript (masswerk.at) |
| 87 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2004 | | How much oxygen for a person to survive in an air-tight enclosure? (members.shaw.ca) |
| 87 points | 8 years ago with 62 comments |
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| 2004 | | Dumpster Diving FAQ (ranprieur.com) |
| 85 points | 1 year ago with 86 comments |
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| 2004 | | Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (svn.torproject.org) |
| 84 points | 5 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2004 | | My quest for the perfect window manager (ironphoenix.org) |
| 83 points | 1 year ago with 146 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Story of Audion (panic.com) |
| 82 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2004 | | A conversation with Alan Kay (doc.ic.ac.uk) |
| 81 points | 11 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2004 | | The Structure and Interpretation of the Computer Science Curriculum (cs.brown.edu) |
| 81 points | 4 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2004 | | Life on a neutron star (daviddarling.info) |
| 81 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2004 | | What the bubble got right (paulgraham.com) |
| 81 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2004 | | Things I Won’t Touch: Hydrofluoric Acid (blogs.sciencemag.org) |
| 81 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2004 | | Great Hackers (paulgraham.com) |
| 80 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2004 | | Calculus on Graphs (arxiv.org) |
| 80 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2004 | | Homeland Security: Requirements for Security Decision Support Systems (dtic.mil) |
| 80 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2004 | | H.P. Lovecraft – Against the World, Against Life (web.archive.org) |
| 80 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2004 | | Neural Networks in Plain English (ai-junkie.com) |
| 80 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2004 | | Multithreaded toolkits: A failed dream? (weblogs.java.net) |
| 76 points | 8 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2004 | | Tales from the lunar module guidance computer (doneyles.com) |
| 76 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2004 | | How to make wealth (paulgraham.com) |
| 75 points | 10 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2004 | | Design and Evaluation of FPGA-Based Gigabit Ethernet Network Card (pdfs.semanticscholar.org) |
| 75 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2004 | | A Logarithm Too Clever by Half (people.eecs.berkeley.edu) |
| 74 points | 3 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2004 | | Acoustic Location and Sound Mirrors (douglas-self.com) |
| 74 points across 2 posts | 4 months ago with 10 comments |
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| 2004 | | James Gosling talks about virtual machines, security, and Java (queue.acm.org) |
| 74 points | 10 months ago with 3 comments |
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| 2004 | | If All Stories Were Written Like Science Fiction Stories (web.archive.org) |
| 74 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2004 | | Where Smalltalk Went Wrong (ianbicking.org) |
| 73 points | 9 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2004 | | Ancient languages: Perl (sites.google.com) |
| 73 points | 10 years ago with 88 comments |
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| 2004 | | “A calorie is a calorie” violates the second law of thermodynamics (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 73 points | 2 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2004 | | Google IPO? No Thanks (fool.com) |
| 71 points | 13 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2004 | | Closing in on the “perfect code” (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 71 points | 1 year ago with 33 comments |
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| 2004 | | Gopher: Underground Technology (wired.com) |
| 71 points | 1 year ago with 8 comments |
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| 2004 | | Prolog as Description and Implementation Language in CS Teaching (ep.liu.se) |
| 70 points | 5 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2004 | | Hundreds Register for New Facebook Website (thecrimson.com) |
| 69 points | 13 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2004 | | Being too successful is one of life's biggest risks (groups.google.com) |
| 69 points | 14 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2004 | | Static Typing Where Possible, Dynamic Typing When Needed (ics.uci.edu) |
| 68 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2004 | | Problems of Traditional Math Notation (xahlee.info) |
| 67 points | 6 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2004 | | Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (abahlali.org) |
| 67 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2004 | | Shiichan Anonymous BBS (wakaba.c3.cx) |
| 66 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2004 | | “Proof-of-work” proves not to work for spam prevention (cl.cam.ac.uk) |
| 66 points | 2 years ago with 104 comments |
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| 2004 | | If carpenters were hired like programmers (dawood.in) |
| 66 points | 10 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2004 | | Google Circles? Meh. Here's Lycos Circles (info.lycos.com) |
| 65 points | 13 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2004 | | Recording Tom Waits (soundonsound.com) |
| 64 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2004 | | Anders Hejlsberg – What brought about the birth of the CLR? (channel9.msdn.com) |
| 62 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2004 | | Why did InterlockedIncrement/Decrement only return result’s sign? (devblogs.microsoft.com) |
| 62 points | 1 year ago with 42 comments |
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| 2004 | | Handbook of Data Structures and Applications – B Trees (zgking.com:8080) |
| 61 points | 9 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2004 | | Popular misconceptions about the Golden Ratio (maa.org) |
| 61 points | 11 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2004 | | Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines (molecularassembler.com) |
| 61 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2004 | | Revisiting a 90-year-old debate: the advantages of the mean deviation (leeds.ac.uk) |
| 61 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2004 | | An incomplete history of the QED Text Editor (bell-labs.com) |
| 60 points | 5 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2004 | | Linus on kernel management style (lwn.net) |
| 60 points | 12 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2004 | | Software That Lasts 200 Years (bricklin.com) |
| 59 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments |
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