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2004In Praise of Lectures (dpmms.cam.ac.uk)
59 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 8 comments
2004Judy Arrays (judy.sourceforge.net)
59 points | 2 years ago with 23 comments
2004Design Your Own Database (dartmouth.edu)
59 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments
2004Compiler Construction Using Flex and Bison (research.microsoft.com)
59 points | 9 years ago with 0 comments
2004Elevator Control Panels (www2.isye.gatech.edu)
59 points | 1 year ago with 30 comments
2004The Energy Cost of Electric and Human-Powered Bicycles (ebikes.ca)
58 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2004Why don't we use functional programming languages more? (tratt.net)
57 points | 14 years ago with 31 comments
2004WordPress was b2/cafelog (cafelog.com)
57 points | 9 years ago with 32 comments
2004Real wireframe teapot mounted inside a Commodore Pet display (vimeo.com)
56 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2004Linux Filesystem Hierarchy (tldp.org)
56 points | 1 year ago with 55 comments
2004Sexual Economics [pdf] (assets.csom.umn.edu)
55 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2004Why type systems are interesting (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
55 points | 11 years ago with 19 comments
2004Corporate Gibberish Generator (andrewdavidson.com)
55 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments
2004Lock-Free Data Structures (drdobbs.com)
55 points | 10 years ago with 11 comments
2004The Tunnel of Samos (fermatslibrary.com)
54 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2004The US Sabotaged a USSR Natural Gas Pipeline in 1982 (smh.com.au)
53 points | 2 years ago with 20 comments
2004Why Specs Matter (web.archive.org)
53 points | 3 years ago with 15 comments
2004Survival in the first hours of the Cenozoic (uahost.uantwerpen.be)
53 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2004How long does your nanosleep() really sleep? (dragonflybsd.org)
53 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2004Hacking Perl in Nightclubs (perl.com)
52 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2004Why Learning Assembly Language Is Still a Good Idea (onlamp.com)
52 points | 11 years ago with 48 comments
2004The Haskell Road to Logic, Math and Programming (fldit-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de)
52 points | 11 years ago with 16 comments
2004Cal 9 1752 (susam.net)
52 points | 1 year ago with 22 comments
2004They Came. They Sawed (texasmonthly.com)
51 points | 10 years ago with 6 comments
2004What Colour are your bits? (ansuz.sooke.bc.ca)
51 points | 10 years ago with 34 comments
2004Lifestyle, Inc. (plope.com)
50 points | 10 years ago with 4 comments
2004Commodore/MOS KIM-1 (dunfield.classiccmp.org)
49 points | 1 year ago with 12 comments
2004The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot (paper-dragon.com)
49 points | 5 years ago with 3 comments
2004Pixel interpolation methods in ImageMagick (imagemagick.org)
48 points | 8 years ago with 5 comments
2004Assembly Optimization Tips (mark.masmcode.com)
48 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2004DHTML Lemmings in JavaScript (elizium.nu)
47 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments
2004Diary of a Disaster: General Magic Goes Poof (grosen.dk)
47 points | 8 years ago with 38 comments
2004The Sun is more active now than over the last 8000 years (mpg.de)
47 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2004Understanding Virtual Memory (redhat.com)
47 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments
2004Pitfalls of self-guided science (pubs.acs.org)
46 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments
2004What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits (nytimes.com)
46 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments
2004Weather Forecasting Tricks Series: Timing a Front (theweatherprediction.com)
45 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments
2004The Tools of Technomadics (microship.com)
45 points | 10 years ago with 5 comments
2004Introduction to J Programming Language (kukuruku.co)
45 points | 9 years ago with 26 comments
2004All About Erasure Codes (web.eecs.utk.edu)
44 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2004Home Built Laser Projector (elm-chan.org)
44 points | 10 years ago with 15 comments
2004You Had Me, And You Lost Me: Why I don't read Megatokyo (websnark.com)
44 points | 5 years ago with 43 comments
2004Installing Linux on a Dead Badger (strangehorizons.com)
44 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments
2004The economics of the Internet backbone (ideas.repec.org)
44 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2004The 90 minute Scheme to C compiler (churchturing.org)
43 points | 9 years ago with 3 comments
2004Functional Pearl: I am not a Number – I am a Free Variable (cs.ru.nl)
43 points | 5 years ago with 1 comments
2004Design Issues for Foreign Function Interfaces (web.archive.org)
43 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments
2004Viaweb FAQ (paulgraham.com)
42 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments
2004The Causes and Consequences of Distinctly Black Names (pricetheory.uchicago.edu)
42 points | 9 years ago with 22 comments
2004The Word "Hacker" (paulgraham.com)
42 points across 2 posts | 12 years ago with 9 comments
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