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2006Who Writes Wikipedia? (aaronsw.com)
92 points | 4 years ago with 68 comments
2006Google exec challenges Berners-Lee (web.archive.org)
91 points | 2 years ago with 61 comments
2006The Eternal Value of Privacy (schneier.com)
91 points | 11 years ago with 5 comments
2006YouTube is not a real business (calacanis.com)
91 points | 9 years ago with 58 comments
2006Gibberish Asian Font Mystery Solved (hanzismatter.blogspot.com)
91 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2006The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond (philosophynow.org)
89 points | 6 years ago with 166 comments
2006The future will have to wait (longnow.org)
89 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments
2006Internet in Paradise (100r.co)
88 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2006Deepest hand dug well in the world (mybrightonandhove.org.uk)
87 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2006Wi-Fi over Coaxial (wifiovercoax.mcleodnet.com)
85 points | 1 year ago with 44 comments
2006The Rise and Fall of CORBA (queue.acm.org)
85 points | 1 year ago with 150 comments
2006OCaml Resources (www2.lib.uchicago.edu)
85 points | 9 years ago with 72 comments
2006Learning Python and Haskell has not improved my programming (lukeplant.me.uk)
83 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2006A student's guide to startups (paulgraham.com)
82 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 35 comments
2006Music: A Mathematical Offering (freecomputerbooks.com)
80 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments
2006When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission (dig.csail.mit.edu)
80 points | 15 years ago with 37 comments
2006A History of Interactive Fiction (maher.filfre.net)
79 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2006How long are dams like Hoover Dam engineered to last? (straightdope.com)
79 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments
2006My First BillG Review (joelonsoftware.com)
78 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments
2006A recall earned Lexus a top reputation (autonews.com)
77 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments
2006A Solution to the RWP for Exam 1 – Stealing Power (users.physics.unc.edu)
77 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2006Division by three (arxiv.org)
76 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 7 comments
2006A Taxonomy of Privacy (law.upenn.edu)
76 points | 4 years ago with 8 comments
2006Object Oriented Programming in C (ldeniau.web.cern.ch)
75 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2006Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science (codinghorror.com)
75 points | 10 years ago with 85 comments
2006Rarely-Asked Questions (paulgraham.com)
75 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2006Self-Management of Fatal Familial Insomnia: Case Report (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
74 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2006The S stands for Simple (harmful.cat-v.org)
74 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments
2006Peter Norvig's Address at the UC Berkeley Computer Science Commencement (norvig.com)
74 points | 11 years ago with 8 comments
2006Are Software Patents Evil? (paulgraham.com)
74 points | 13 years ago with 74 comments
2006Monoid machines: a O(log n) parser for regular languages (dcc.fc.up.pt)
74 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2006Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
73 points | 10 years ago with 25 comments
2006Pulsed terawatt lasers have surprising effects when shone through the air (americanscientist.org)
73 points | 8 years ago with 30 comments
2006Blindsight (rifters.com)
73 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2006A Short History of Complex Numbers (math.uri.edu)
73 points | 7 years ago with 8 comments
2006How Google Maps splits the world in 2^20 256x256 tiles (cfis.savagexi.com)
72 points | 14 years ago with 22 comments
2006The Reykjavik File: Secret U.S. And Soviet Documents on 1986 Summit (nsarchive2.gwu.edu)
72 points | 5 years ago with 3 comments
2006The Economics of Status (daviddfriedman.blogspot.com)
72 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments
2006On System Design (scholar.harvard.edu)
71 points | 4 years ago with 8 comments
2006Stiff asks, great programmers answer (web.archive.org)
71 points | 2 years ago with 16 comments
2006The stability of the bicycle (scitation.aip.org)
71 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments
2006Hidden in Plain Sight (queue.acm.org)
71 points across 2 posts | 10 months ago with 2 comments
2006Defeating Feature Fatigue (hbr.org)
71 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2006Closing The Collapse Gap: The USSR was better prepared than the US (resilience.org)
71 points | 4 years ago with 83 comments
2006Has Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark? (codinghorror.com)
70 points | 11 years ago with 83 comments
2006Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (vintagecomputing.com)
70 points | 8 years ago with 60 comments
2006Siag Office – A Free Office Package for Unix (siag.nu)
70 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2006Lunar bases may need to be quake-proof (science.nasa.gov)
69 points | 7 years ago with 60 comments
2006High Dynamic Time Range Images (mkweb.bcgsc.ca)
68 points | 1 year ago with 19 comments
2006Czech Trail Marking System (blog.myczechrepublic.com)
68 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments
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