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2009OpenBSD Server Rack (openbsd.org)
75 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2009The frame rate of the universe (librador.com)
75 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments
2009Rules for Writing Technical Documentation (developer.com)
74 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2009Introducing Ring -3 Rootkits: BIOS rootkit targeting vPro chipsets (blackhat.com)
74 points | 10 years ago with 26 comments
2009The first Apple Tablet, from 1979 (edibleapple.com)
74 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2009SICP distilled (programming-musings.org)
73 points | 11 years ago with 11 comments
2009Programming languages, operating systems, despair and anger (xent.com)
73 points | 10 years ago with 36 comments
2009List of prices of medieval items (luminarium.org)
73 points | 8 years ago with 38 comments
2009Computer Programming Using GNU Smalltalk (canol.info)
73 points | 7 years ago with 56 comments
2009Joe Is Wrong (goran.krampe.se)
72 points | 3 years ago with 83 comments
2009Go Data Structures (research.swtch.com)
72 points | 11 years ago with 25 comments
2009Soros: General Theory of Reflexivity (ft.com)
72 points | 11 years ago with 24 comments
2009Microsoft Ships Python Code in 1996 (python-history.blogspot.com)
72 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
2009The Python Paradox Is Now the Scala Paradox (martin.kleppmann.com)
72 points | 8 years ago with 105 comments
2009Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood (nybooks.com)
72 points | 8 years ago with 52 comments
2009On Intelligence in Cells: The Case for Whole Cell Biology (brianjford.com)
72 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2009I disagree with Linus Torvalds about C++ (johndcook.com)
72 points | 5 years ago with 92 comments
2009Compiled tips 'n tricks guide for PIC microcontrollers (ww1.microchip.com)
71 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2009Freud's nephew and the origins of public relations (apa.org)
71 points | 2 years ago with 44 comments
2009The Official Aztec C Online Museum (aztecmuseum.ca)
71 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2009PwdHash (crypto.stanford.edu)
71 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments
2009One Man's Life of No Regret (synodwithlife.blogspot.com)
71 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments
2009A Mysterious Death at the South Pole (mensjournal.com)
70 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments
2009Build System Rules and Algorithms (gittup.org)
70 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments
2009Differential Synchronization (neil.fraser.name)
70 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2009Threads Basics (hpl.hp.com)
70 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2009What F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tax returns reveal about his life and times (theamericanscholar.org)
69 points | 9 years ago with 35 comments
2009Correlation implies Causation (web.archive.org)
68 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments
2009Nordic Quack (slate.com)
68 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments
2009The dark secrets of Whopper Sacrifice (cnet.com)
67 points | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2009No Surprises (blog.mozilla.org)
67 points | 9 years ago with 62 comments
2009Pong using browser windows as the paddles and ball (stewd.io)
67 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2009DNS SRV Records for HTTP (datatracker.ietf.org)
67 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2009The Last Days of the Polymath (moreintelligentlife.com)
66 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments
2009The DCI Architecture: A New Vision of Object-Oriented Programming (artima.com)
66 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2009Get out of my building (steveblank.com)
66 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments
2009One Reason That MIT Should Reinstate Scheme and 6.001 (dekudekuplex.wordpress.com)
65 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments
2009Software Updates: Courgette (chromium.org)
65 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 11 comments
2009The disappointingly ongoing success of WvDial (apenwarr.ca)
65 points | 1 year ago with 37 comments
2009A Tradecraft Primer (cia.gov)
64 points | 1 year ago with 45 comments
2009$300 Billion Broadband Scandal (teletruth.org)
64 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments
2009My Life in Pens (iamjamesward.com)
64 points | 6 years ago with 30 comments
2009Amish Hackers (kk.org)
64 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments
2009The mystery of the three hares (news.bbc.co.uk)
63 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments
2009Why I Hate Star Trek (antipope.org)
62 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 69 comments
2009Minecraft (jvm-gaming.org)
62 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments
2009Coloured Petri Nets: Modelling and Validation of Concurrent Systems (artamonoviv.ru)
62 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments
2009Tongue Twisters: In search of the world’s hardest language (economist.com)
62 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2009The Radioactive Boy Scout (talesfromthenuclearage.wordpress.com)
61 points | 2 years ago with 37 comments
2009Lumosity: a warning to users (indregard.no)
61 points | 10 years ago with 32 comments
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