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2006Mistakes That Kill Startups (paulgraham.com)
196 points | 4 years ago with 96 comments
2006The Complete History of Lemmings (javalemmings.com)
189 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2006Introduction to Clifford Algebra (av8n.com)
189 points | 4 years ago with 71 comments
2006Writing device drivers in Linux: A brief tutorial (freesoftwaremagazine.com)
186 points | 11 years ago with 33 comments
200610 people who don't matter (money.cnn.com)
183 points | 12 years ago with 134 comments
2006Windows XP minimal-requirement experiments (winhistory.de)
181 points | 4 years ago with 74 comments
2006Tcl the misunderstood (antirez.com)
181 points | 11 years ago with 108 comments
2006We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow (frank.geekheim.de)
180 points | 9 years ago with 196 comments
2006Ssss: Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme (point-at-infinity.org)
179 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 41 comments
2006The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy (scienceblogs.com)
173 points | 12 years ago with 127 comments
2006How to be interesting (russelldavies.typepad.com)
173 points | 12 years ago with 33 comments
2006Early Retirement (philip.greenspun.com)
170 points | 2 years ago with 296 comments
2006Rules for Writing Safety Critical Code (spinroot.com)
166 points | 7 years ago with 81 comments
2006Argentina on Two Steaks a Day (idlewords.com)
165 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 4 comments
2006Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (ai.googleblog.com)
163 points | 1 year ago with 193 comments
2006So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (varnish-cache.org)
163 points | 2 years ago with 102 comments
2006Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained (rgoarchitects.com)
161 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 3 comments
2006Bloomberg Runs on 25M lines of Fortran (etrading.wordpress.com)
160 points | 8 years ago with 149 comments
2006“The default name prefix is changed to be ‘sqlite’ spelled backwards” (github.com)
157 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
2006An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (schemeworkshop.org)
157 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2006Why Can't Database Tables Index Themselves? (blog.codinghorror.com)
157 points | 1 year ago with 119 comments
2006Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (ronpatrickstuff.com)
156 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2006Ruby in Twenty Minutes (ruby-lang.org)
154 points | 5 years ago with 112 comments
2006Patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across life course (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
153 points | 10 months ago with 194 comments
2006If you want to be rich, first stop being so frightened (timesonline.co.uk)
153 points | 14 years ago with 109 comments
2006NYC Fire Department forcible entry reference guide [pdf] (ia800207.us.archive.org)
153 points | 1 year ago with 42 comments
2006We Tried Baseball and It Didn't Work (ronjeffries.com)
153 points | 2 years ago with 118 comments
2006Don't forget randomness is still just a hypothesis (nature.com)
152 points | 4 years ago with 129 comments
2006The halting problem is decidable on a set of asymptotic probability one (projecteuclid.org)
151 points | 10 months ago with 119 comments
2006The Last Great Steam Car (damninteresting.com)
150 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments
2006Inside the Linux boot process (ibm.com)
149 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2006Gödel and the limits of logic (plus.maths.org)
148 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments
2006HashLife: An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time (drdobbs.com)
148 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 4 comments
2006Destroy All Monsters: A Journey into the Caverns of Dungeons and Dragons (believermag.com)
147 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments
2006List of price of medieval items (medieval.ucdavis.edu)
146 points | 6 years ago with 48 comments
2006How JPEG actually works (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
144 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2006A book list for OS kernel developers and device driver writers (jdebp.eu.)
144 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2006The “C Is Efficient” Language Fallacy (scienceblogs.com)
144 points | 7 years ago with 102 comments
2006Why I often implement things from scratch (armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com)
144 points | 4 years ago with 144 comments
2006RSS Autodiscovery (rssboard.org)
144 points | 10 months ago with 46 comments
2006Web designers should get good training in typography (ia.net)
143 points | 5 months ago with 100 comments
2006A Note to Google Users on Net Neutrality, by Eric Schmidt (google.com)
143 points | 14 years ago with 33 comments
2006Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
143 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments
2006Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code (pixelscommander.com)
143 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2006Pork's Dirty Secret (rollingstone.com)
141 points | 14 years ago with 103 comments
2006Loopless Code (jsoftware.com)
136 points | 2 years ago with 129 comments
2006Ten Commandments of How to Write an IMAP Client (washington.edu)
134 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2006Andrew Mason asking for advice on "selling a website idea" (sitepoint.com)
134 points | 11 years ago with 24 comments
2006PC Assembly Book (pacman128.github.io)
134 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
2006Brain researcher hacks Who Wants to be a Millionaire using memory tricks (seedmagazine.com)
133 points | 14 years ago with 19 comments
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