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| 2008 | | First Recorded Usage of "Hacker" (duartes.org) |
| 46 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2008 | | Implementing Function Spreadsheets (pdfs.semanticscholar.org) |
| 46 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2008 | | What real life good habits has programming given you? (stackprinter.com) |
| 45 points | 10 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2008 | | Redundancy vs. dependencies: which is worse? (yosefk.com) |
| 45 points | 2 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2008 | | Review: Lamy Safari (penaddict.com) |
| 45 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2008 | | Representations of Uncomputable and Uncountable Sets (math.andrej.com) |
| 45 points | 3 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2008 | | English coffeehouses, French salons and the age of the enlightenment (mrjohnmiddleton.org) |
| 45 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2008 | | Why is clockwise Clockwise? (homepages.sover.net) |
| 45 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2008 | | Daphne Oram: Portrait of an electronic music pioneer (theguardian.com) |
| 45 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Myth of Multitasking (thenewatlantis.com) |
| 44 points | 3 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2008 | | They invented basic strategy (lasvegassun.com) |
| 44 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2008 | | An Extension-Oriented Compiler (pdos.csail.mit.edu) |
| 44 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2008 | | Music: A Mathematical Offering (homepages.abdn.ac.uk) |
| 43 points | 9 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2008 | | Monads are a Class of Hard Drugs (lambda-diode.com) |
| 43 points | 12 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2008 | | Competent Elites (lesswrong.com) |
| 43 points | 2 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2008 | | Static access control using phantom types (blog.janestreet.com) |
| 43 points | 6 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Magpie Developer (blog.codinghorror.com) |
| 43 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Thermocline of Truth (brucefwebster.com) |
| 43 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2008 | | Can Programming Be Liberated, Period? (wisdom.weizmann.ac.il) |
| 43 points | 7 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2008 | | Remote Code Execution Through Intel CPU Bugs (cs.dartmouth.edu) |
| 43 points | 7 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2008 | | Interview with Donald Knuth (informit.com) |
| 42 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2008 | | The blue-eyed islanders puzzle (terrytao.wordpress.com) |
| 42 points | 9 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2008 | | Professional and Home-Made Face Masks Reduce Exposure to Respiratory Infections (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 42 points | 4 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2008 | | HAProxy (Load Balancer) Architecture Guide (haproxy.org) |
| 42 points | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2008 | | JavaScript: Search and Don’t Replace (johnresig.com) |
| 42 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2008 | | SMLtoJs – A Standard ML to JavaScript Compiler (smlserver.org) |
| 42 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2008 | | Bill Gates: Creative Capitalism (time.com) |
| 42 points | 13 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Little Spaceplane That Couldn't (space-travel.com) |
| 42 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2008 | | Optimal boarding method for airline passengers (arxiv.org) |
| 41 points | 3 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2008 | | Ph.D. Completion and Attrition: Analysis of Baseline Data (google.com) |
| 41 points | 8 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2008 | | Five deep questions in computing (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 41 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2008 | | Beyond Peace and Quiet – An Addiction to Silence (theguardian.com) |
| 40 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2008 | | The koshering of the Oreo cookie (news.cornell.edu) |
| 40 points | 7 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2008 | | Can Programming Be Liberated, Period? (wisdom.weizmann.ac.il) |
| 40 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments |
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| 2008 | | Empiricism Is Not a Matter of Faith (aclweb.org) |
| 40 points | 10 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2008 | | Murder Suspect Has Witness: A MetroCard (nytimes.com) |
| 40 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2008 | | A mediocre Dutch artist cast 'the forger's spell' (npr.org) |
| 40 points | 2 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2008 | | Magnetic field applied to brain increases acceptance of false statements (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 40 points | 9 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2008 | | Making Sense of Hexdump (suse.com) |
| 38 points | 2 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2008 | | A Special Issue on Formal Proof (ams.org) |
| 38 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Itch (newyorker.com) |
| 36 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2008 | | A History of Oxford University Computing Services (web.archive.org) |
| 34 points | 2 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2008 | | Official Home Page for the PCMCIA Trade Association (web.archive.org) |
| 33 points | 1 year ago with 12 comments |
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| 2008 | | Email Is Not SMS (email.is-not-s.ms) |
| 29 points | 2 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Last Viridian Note (viridiandesign.org) |
| 29 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2008 | | How did she do it? (theguardian.com) |
| 27 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2008 | | The Game of War: Chess with Networks (cabinetmagazine.org) |
| 26 points | 3 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2008 | | GMU Sued for Zotero (crookedtimber.org) |
| 24 points | 3 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2008 | | Carrot History – Carrots in the Second World War (carrotmuseum.co.uk) |
| 23 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments |
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| 2008 | | Projectional Editing (martinfowler.com) |
| 21 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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