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2004Real-Time Programming (www2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
99 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2004Consider the Lobster (columbia.edu)
99 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2005GNU Pascal (gnu-pascal.de)
99 points | 1 year ago with 121 comments
2005The Art of Metaprogramming (ibm.com)
99 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2005Quines: self-replicating programs (madore.org)
99 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 28 comments
2007The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda (salon.com)
99 points | 7 years ago with 60 comments
2007Chernobyl Fungus Feeds On Radiation (scienceagogo.com)
99 points | 11 years ago with 53 comments
2008How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem undecidable (ebiquity.umbc.edu)
99 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2008Ooh Ooh My Turn Why Lisp? (smuglispweeny.blogspot.com)
99 points | 8 years ago with 157 comments
2008Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? (smithsonianmag.com)
99 points | 8 years ago with 43 comments
2009The Art of the Propagator (dspace.mit.edu)
99 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2000Eating a manchineel “beach apple” (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
98 points | 8 years ago with 72 comments
2001Worse Is Better (dreamsongs.com)
98 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments
20021491 (theatlantic.com)
98 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 18 comments
2002The Case Against Delaware (newrepublic.com)
98 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2003Lost Causes of Theoretical Physics (web.archive.org)
98 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
2004FedEx vs. UPS: opposing models in the delivery business raise questions (braunconsulting.com)
98 points | 7 years ago with 79 comments
2006Rapid recovery from major depression using magnesium treatment (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
98 points | 9 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 | 1 year ago with 70 comments
2006Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken (research.googleblog.com)
98 points | 7 years ago with 86 comments
2006Tips for Startup Companies (philip.greenspun.com)
98 points | 15 years ago with 7 comments
2007My Son Won't Do His Homework (talentism.com)
98 points | 11 years ago with 119 comments
2007The Science of Sword-Swallowing (twistedphysics.typepad.com)
98 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments
2008Is it possible to write games like Pac-Man in a functional language? (prog21.dadgum.com)
98 points | 1 year ago with 144 comments
2008The Y Combinator (mvanier.livejournal.com)
98 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2009Pi Formulas, Algorithms and Computations (bellard.org)
98 points | 2 years ago with 27 comments
2009Masterminds of Programming: Chuck Moore (oreilly.com)
98 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments
2009802.11 with Multiple Antennas for Dummies (djw.cs.washington.edu)
98 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2009Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (johndcook.com)
98 points | 6 years ago with 69 comments
2009IPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over-Blown Visuals (smashingmagazine.com)
98 points | 13 years ago with 28 comments
2009Coding Machines (teamten.com)
98 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 6 comments
2000Coups, lies, dirty tricks: Stewart Copeland on his CIA agent father (theguardian.com)
97 points | 4 years ago with 107 comments
2002Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War (isreview.org)
97 points | 6 years ago with 86 comments
2002The P=?NP Poll (cs.umd.edu)
97 points | 8 years ago with 83 comments
2003Two students built an A-bomb (theguardian.com)
97 points | 1 year ago with 93 comments
2005Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work (legacy.igda.org)
97 points | 10 years ago with 57 comments
2005Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You (eff.org)
97 points | 9 years ago with 49 comments
2005A Short Talk about Richard Feynman (stephenwolfram.com)
97 points | 11 years ago with 31 comments
2007The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (idlewords.com)
97 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 40 comments
2007Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (bloomberg.com)
97 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 12 comments
200715B More Reasons to Worry About Facebook (allthingsd.com)
97 points | 9 years ago with 36 comments
2008Computation and State Machines (research.microsoft.com)
97 points | 8 years ago with 24 comments
2008Drawing an elephant with four complex parameters (fermatslibrary.com)
97 points | 6 years ago with 33 comments
2009Who Are These Economists, Anyway? (levyinstitute.org)
97 points | 6 years ago with 96 comments
2009Most interesting mathematics mistake? (mathoverflow.net)
97 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2009Well-Kept Gardens Die by Pacifism (lesswrong.com)
97 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
2009POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES (lwn.net)
97 points | 1 year ago with 71 comments
2000Algorithmic Theories of Everything (arxiv.org)
96 points | 4 years ago with 32 comments
2001What Makes a Good Teacher? (unicef.org)
96 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
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