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| 2006 | | Diamonds Suck (diamondssuck.com) |
| 1779 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2006 | | How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (downes.ca) |
| 827 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2006 | | Dennis Ritchie Home Page (bell-labs.com) |
| 817 points across 12 posts | 1 year ago with 79 comments |
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| 2006 | | The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (teslamotors.com) |
| 631 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 194 comments |
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| 2006 | | Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (math.dartmouth.edu) |
| 558 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2006 | | Tcl the Misunderstood (antirez.com) |
| 527 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 77 comments |
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| 2006 | | Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (regex.info) |
| 468 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2006 | | How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (coding.derkeiler.com) |
| 454 points | 5 years ago with 419 comments |
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| 2006 | | The $25B eigenvector (rose-hulman.edu) |
| 438 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 68 comments |
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| 2006 | | “Illegal” Lego Builds (bramlambrecht.com) |
| 387 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2006 | | How to Destroy the Earth (qntm.org) |
| 385 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2006 | | Busy Person Patterns (hillside.net) |
| 350 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2006 | | MP3 for Image Compression (keyj.emphy.de) |
| 344 points | 6 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2006 | | The Nature of Lisp (defmacro.org) |
| 340 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2006 | | The Rule of Silence (linfo.org) |
| 338 points | 6 years ago with 310 comments |
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| 2006 | | The Windows Shutdown crapfest (moishelettvin.blogspot.com) |
| 322 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 43 comments |
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| 2006 | | I Hate the News (aaronsw.com) |
| 320 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2006 | | Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (norvig.com) |
| 282 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2006 | | Every time we lift a pallet from the shipping room, the server times out (reddit.com) |
| 281 points | 6 years ago with 82 comments |
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| 2006 | | Number systems of the world, sorted by complexity of counting (sf.airnet.ne.jp) |
| 271 points | 5 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 2006 | | Finger Trees: A Simple General-Purpose Data Structure (staff.city.ac.uk) |
| 267 points | 6 years ago with 75 comments |
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| 2006 | | Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acceleration (files.eric.ed.gov) |
| 263 points | 3 years ago with 249 comments |
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| 2006 | | An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu) |
| 263 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments |
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| 2006 | | Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken (googleresearch.blogspot.com) |
| 259 points across 3 posts | 9 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2006 | | In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (nytimes.com) |
| 255 points | 5 years ago with 197 comments |
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| 2006 | | My First BillG Review (joelonsoftware.com) |
| 251 points across 2 posts | 8 months ago with 153 comments |
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| 2006 | | The management myth (theatlantic.com) |
| 240 points | 6 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2006 | | The tragic birth of FM radio (damninteresting.com) |
| 229 points | 6 months ago with 65 comments |
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| 2006 | | How Google keeps employees by treating them like kids (aaronsw.com) |
| 228 points | 9 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 2006 | | The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (vqronline.org) |
| 228 points | 4 months ago with 177 comments |
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| 2006 | | I survived the “Destroying Angel” (blog.mycology.cornell.edu) |
| 224 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 2006 | | Hell is a multi-threaded C++ program (codemines.blogspot.com) |
| 223 points | 5 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2006 | | Eating less and more than needed on alternate days prolongs life (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 220 points | 6 years ago with 123 comments |
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| 2006 | | GUI Architectures (martinfowler.com) |
| 219 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2006 | | A bad citizen in Javaland (darrenhobbs.com) |
| 219 points | 7 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2006 | | The DOOM 3 Network Architecture (fabiensanglard.net) |
| 217 points | 6 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2006 | | LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (archive.wired.com) |
| 215 points | 8 years ago with 215 comments |
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| 2006 | | Refuse to be terrorized (wired.com) |
| 207 points | 11 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2006 | | Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp (steve-yegge.blogspot.com) |
| 207 points across 3 posts | 9 years ago with 47 comments |
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| 2006 | | F (nsl.com) |
| 204 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2006 | | Do What You Love and Starve? (martynemko.com) |
| 199 points | 5 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2006 | | Why the internet only just works (fermatslibrary.com) |
| 198 points | 6 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2006 | | APL – A Glimpse of Heaven (vector.org.uk) |
| 196 points | 4 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2006 | | Mistakes That Kill Startups (paulgraham.com) |
| 196 points | 3 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2006 | | The Complete History of Lemmings (javalemmings.com) |
| 189 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2006 | | Introduction to Clifford Algebra (av8n.com) |
| 189 points | 3 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2006 | | Writing device drivers in Linux: A brief tutorial (freesoftwaremagazine.com) |
| 186 points | 10 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2006 | | 10 people who don't matter (money.cnn.com) |
| 183 points | 11 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2006 | | Windows XP minimal-requirement experiments (winhistory.de) |
| 181 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2006 | | Tcl the misunderstood (antirez.com) |
| 181 points | 10 years ago with 108 comments |
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