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2005Advantages of Tcl over Lisp (wiki.tcl.tk)
75 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments
2005Real estate agent-owned homes are on the market longer and sell for more (nber.org)
74 points | 3 years ago with 100 comments
2005Hand Tools for Trail Work (fs.fed.us)
73 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
20051491: New revelations of the Americas before Columbus (kirkusreviews.com)
72 points | 1 year ago with 77 comments
2005Training in chess: A scientific approach (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
72 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments
2005Using an IDE Hard Drive with a 8051 Board and 82C55 Chip (pjrc.com)
72 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2005The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology (philpapers.org)
71 points | 7 years ago with 89 comments
2005Physics of Cricket (physics.usyd.edu.au)
71 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments
2005Backtracking, Interleaving, and Terminating Monad Transformers (okmij.org)
71 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2005Buying an entire Egghead Software store (devblogs.microsoft.com)
71 points | 1 year ago with 22 comments
2005Writing the Fastest Code, by Hand, for Fun (nytimes.com)
71 points | 12 years ago with 15 comments
2005The fate of reduce() in Python 3000 (artima.com)
70 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments
2005The Economics of Programming Languages (welton.it)
70 points | 3 years ago with 25 comments
2005No Housing Bubble Trouble (cato.org)
70 points | 11 years ago with 30 comments
2005Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS power supply (kioan.users.uth.gr)
70 points | 1 year ago with 50 comments
2005How to change symlinks atomically (blog.moertel.com)
70 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments
2005Modern Science and the Bayesian-Frequentist Controversy (statweb.stanford.edu)
70 points | 10 years ago with 35 comments
2005Vim :smile (github.com)
69 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2005Java Optimized Processor (jopdesign.com)
69 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments
2005Organizing Files (onlamp.com)
69 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments
2005Trusted third parties are security holes (web.archive.org)
69 points | 1 year ago with 24 comments
2005Why USB sucks (technozeal.com)
69 points | 10 years ago with 96 comments
2005Locks and Security (mattblaze.org)
69 points | 1 year ago with 7 comments
2005DEC Alpha: A History in Facts and Comments (alasir.com)
68 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
2005DOS Ain't Done Til Lotus Won't Run? (proudlyserving.com)
68 points | 9 years ago with 79 comments
2005The High Cost of Free Parking (en.wikipedia.org)
67 points | 1 year ago with 94 comments
2005Why I Hate Frameworks (discuss.joelonsoftware.com)
65 points | 11 years ago with 36 comments
2005KLOS: Kernel-Less Operating System Architecture (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
65 points | 9 years ago with 20 comments
2005How to Forget Your Mother Tongue and Remember Your National Language (pinyin.info)
64 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments
2005Your Body Is Younger Than You Think (nytimes.com)
64 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2005The Economics of Privacy (heinz.cmu.edu)
64 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments
2005AES timing variability at a glance (cr.yp.to)
64 points | 11 years ago with 7 comments
2005Designing File Formats (fadden.com)
64 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2005Longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons (bmj.com)
64 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2005C++ vs. OCaml: Ray tracer comparison (ffconsultancy.com)
63 points | 9 years ago with 46 comments
2005An insomniac's guide to the group theory of mattress flipping (americanscientist.org)
62 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments
2005Researchers recover typed text using audio recording of keystrokes (berkeley.edu)
62 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments
2005The Story of Mac: A Just-So Story (gigamonkeys.com)
62 points | 8 years ago with 0 comments
2005Of Modes and Men (spectrum.ieee.org)
62 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2005Exploit Mitigation Techniques in OpenBSD (openbsd.org)
62 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments
2005Polyphasic Sleep: One Man's 6-Month Experiment (stevepavlina.com)
60 points | 15 years ago with 61 comments
2005Self-reference and Logic (imm.dtu.dk)
60 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2005Ncurses Programming How to (tldp.org)
60 points | 8 years ago with 20 comments
2005Triple Entry Accounting (iang.org)
60 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments
2005First time Microsoft 'acknowledged' wine (winehq.org)
59 points | 3 years ago with 15 comments
2005Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme (point-at-infinity.org)
59 points | 10 years ago with 33 comments
2005GM crops created superweed, say scientists (theguardian.com)
58 points | 9 years ago with 27 comments
2005Teaching a Bayesian spam filter to play chess (dbacl.sourceforge.net)
58 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments
2005You Should Write Blogs (sites.google.com)
58 points | 10 years ago with 18 comments
2005An Elementary Proof of Wallis’ Product Formula for Pi (fermatslibrary.com)
58 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
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