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2005Maze Design (cgl.uwaterloo.ca)
156 points | 5 years ago with 32 comments
2005Practical Common Lisp (gigamonkeys.com)
156 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments
2005The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web (webtypography.net)
152 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments
2005My coffeehouse nightmare (slate.com)
152 points | 7 years ago with 113 comments
2005A Letter from _why (aberant.tumblr.com)
149 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments
2005Peer-to-Peer Communication Across Network Address Translators (brynosaurus.com)
147 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 45 comments
2005At the Blackboard: Kurt Vonnegut diagrams the shapes of stories (laphamsquarterly.org)
146 points | 5 years ago with 32 comments
2005A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy [pdf] (gwern.net)
146 points | 1 year ago with 53 comments
2005Ten Rules for Web Startups (evhead.com)
143 points | 9 years ago with 11 comments
2005Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (fermatslibrary.com)
142 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2005Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (lists.warhead.org.uk)
141 points | 9 years ago with 47 comments
2005Summary: $200B Broadband Scandal (newnetworks.com)
140 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments
2005Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (randomhacks.net)
139 points | 8 years ago with 113 comments
2005Logarithmic Maps of the Universe (astro.princeton.edu)
139 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2005Lost in the Meritocracy (theatlantic.com)
138 points | 11 years ago with 61 comments
2005Programming with Punched Cards (columbia.edu)
138 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 4 comments
2005Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable (pmi.org)
137 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2005Ideas for Startups (paulgraham.com)
135 points | 7 years ago with 52 comments
2005How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days (gamasutra.com)
135 points | 8 years ago with 48 comments
2005Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom (damninteresting.com)
135 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments
2005How to identify and misidentify a brown recluse spider (spiders.ucr.edu)
133 points | 2 years ago with 114 comments
2005Paul Graham Is Wrong (aaronsw.com)
133 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments
2005TCP Performance problems related to Nagle’s Algorithm and Delayed ACK (stuartcheshire.org)
133 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2005Minesweeper: Advanced Tactics (nothings.org)
131 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2005Most Published Research Findings Are False (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
131 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2005The Feynman File (discovermagazine.com)
131 points | 11 years ago with 9 comments
2005Don't Shave That Yak (seths.blog)
128 points | 4 years ago with 81 comments
2005Michael Crichton: Why Speculate? (larvatus.com)
127 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 75 comments
2005Why I hate frameworks (discuss.joelonsoftware.com)
127 points | 8 years ago with 65 comments
2005Seiko 80s Computer Watches (pocketcalculatorshow.com)
126 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments
2005The Emacs Problem (sites.google.com)
125 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 14 comments
2005The Calculus Trap (artofproblemsolving.com)
125 points | 5 years ago with 58 comments
2005Windows 1.0 and the Applications of Tomorrow (charlespetzold.com)
125 points | 10 years ago with 64 comments
2005Just another Apollo? Part two (thespacereview.com)
124 points | 2 years ago with 118 comments
2005All 16,777,216 RGB colours (davidnaylor.org)
124 points | 3 years ago with 76 comments
2005Why I Hate Frameworks (discuss.joelonsoftware.com)
124 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 62 comments
2005Wendy Carlos on Bob Moog (wendycarlos.com)
123 points | 3 years ago with 57 comments
2005What’s expected of us (nature.com)
120 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments
2005Cannabinoids promote neuron growth and have antidepressant-like effects (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
120 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2005Why Reddit switched to Python (blog.reddit.com)
118 points | 12 years ago with 42 comments
2005Cool Science Tricks (daveroot.neocities.org)
117 points | 1 year ago with 9 comments
2005The Dome: A simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics (sites.pitt.edu)
117 points | 1 year ago with 119 comments
2005The free lunch is over: a fundamental turn toward concurrency in software (gotw.ca)
115 points | 3 years ago with 97 comments
2005Statistical Data Mining Tutorials (autonlab.org)
113 points | 11 years ago with 2 comments
2005Ten Rules for Web Startups (evhead.com)
113 points across 2 posts | 13 years ago with 6 comments
2005Beginners Guide to Linkers (lurklurk.org)
112 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2005Why I hate frameworks (benjismith.net)
111 points | 14 years ago with 54 comments
2005A unified theory of VC suckage (paulgraham.com)
111 points | 2 years ago with 50 comments
2005They Called It LISP for a Reason: List Processing (gigamonkeys.com)
110 points | 2 years ago with 86 comments
2005Native Intelligence (smithsonianmag.com)
110 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 2 comments
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