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2006The Unix spirit set free: Plan 9 from Bell Labs (docs.huihoo.com)
133 points | 9 years ago with 80 comments
2006The great Polish Sea or We forgot Poland (devblogs.microsoft.com)
132 points | 9 months ago with 31 comments
2006Why We Banned Legos (rethinkingschools.org)
131 points | 2 years ago with 408 comments
2006Do Portia Spiders Have a Mind? (dichotomistic.com)
130 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments
2006Copy What You Like (paulgraham.com)
129 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2006Object-Relational Mapping Is the Vietnam of Computer Science (blogs.tedneward.com)
129 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 5 comments
2006Twttr sketch (flickr.com)
129 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2006The sad truth about depressive realism (researchgate.net)
128 points | 7 years ago with 122 comments
2006Strategies of Human Mating (weimag.ch)
127 points | 7 years ago with 72 comments
2006“Startup Names” by Paul Graham (aux.messymatters.com)
125 points | 9 years ago with 65 comments
2006Users protest over 'creepy' Facebook update (theregister.co.uk)
124 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2006Java call stack – from HTTP upto JDBC as a picture (ptrthomas.wordpress.com)
124 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2006NYC Fire Department Forcible Entry Manual (brothersinbattlellc.com)
123 points | 8 years ago with 38 comments
2006Styling with Classy CSS (thedailywtf.com)
123 points | 6 months ago with 66 comments
2006The Development of Chez Scheme (cs.indiana.edu)
122 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2006Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work (cogtech.usc.edu)
122 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments
2006The truth about Lisp (secretgeek.net)
120 points | 7 years ago with 155 comments
2006Time Travel (scottaaronson.com)
119 points | 5 years ago with 82 comments
2006Amazon EC2 Beta (aws.amazon.com)
119 points | 7 years ago with 68 comments
2006APL – A Glimpse of Heaven (archive.vector.org.uk)
119 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2006What Gives Gold that Mellow Glow? (fourmilab.ch)
119 points | 10 years ago with 23 comments
2006The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (codinghorror.com)
118 points | 10 years ago with 27 comments
2006Shop Class as Soulcraft (thenewatlantis.com)
113 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2006IKEA: Flat-pack accounting (economist.com)
113 points | 14 years ago with 31 comments
2006The Management Myth (theatlantic.com)
113 points | 15 years ago with 22 comments
2006Mark 1 Forth Computer (aholme.co.uk)
112 points | 3 years ago with 43 comments
2006How not to Pitch To Y Combinator (damienkatz.net)
112 points | 13 years ago with 22 comments
2006Dave Prosser's C Preprocessing Algorithm (spinellis.gr)
112 points | 4 years ago with 6 comments
2006Emacs Modernization: Simple Changes Emacs Should Adopt (ergoemacs.org)
112 points | 2 years ago with 169 comments
2006How to Do What You Love (paulgraham.com)
111 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 18 comments
2006NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls (usatoday30.usatoday.com)
110 points | 10 years ago with 14 comments
2006OCaml for the Skeptical: OCaml in a Nutshell (www2.lib.uchicago.edu)
108 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments
2006Why Systems Programmers Still Use C (bitc-lang.org)
107 points | 12 years ago with 63 comments
2006My baby, the finite state machine (blogs.msdn.com)
106 points | 13 years ago with 17 comments
2006My favourite interview question (weblog.raganwald.com)
105 points | 9 years ago with 95 comments
2006Customizing the Cocoa Text System (hcs.harvard.edu)
103 points | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2006The Management Myth (theatlantic.com)
103 points | 13 years ago with 32 comments
2006My Most Important C++ Aha Moments (artima.com)
100 points | 7 years ago with 81 comments
2006Rapid recovery from major depression using magnesium treatment (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
98 points | 8 years ago with 79 comments
2006The Problem with Threads (www2.eecs.berkeley.edu)
98 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 7 comments
2006Coding4Fun Hardware Boneyard – Using the CueCat with .NET (hanselman.com)
98 points | 5 months ago with 70 comments
2006Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken (research.googleblog.com)
98 points | 6 years ago with 86 comments
2006Tips for Startup Companies (philip.greenspun.com)
98 points | 14 years ago with 7 comments
2006Herb Kelleher: Manage in Good Times So You'll Do Well in the Bad Times (gsb.stanford.edu)
96 points | 1 year ago with 36 comments
2006Optimization: An Introduction (www3.imperial.ac.uk)
96 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2006Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (steve-yegge.blogspot.de)
94 points | 11 years ago with 67 comments
2006Three States and a Plan: The A.I. of F.E.A.R (alumni.media.mit.edu)
94 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2006Geek business myths (blog.rongarret.info)
93 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2006Why Darwin failed (synack.net)
93 points | 1 year ago with 123 comments
2006Reasons to use Haskell as a Mathematician (blog.sigfpe.com)
93 points | 9 years ago with 74 comments
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