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2006Geek business myths (blog.rongarret.info)
93 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments
2006Why Darwin failed (synack.net)
93 points | 2 years ago with 123 comments
2006Reasons to use Haskell as a Mathematician (blog.sigfpe.com)
93 points | 10 years ago with 74 comments
2007An Introduction to Sine-Wave Speech (mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk)
93 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments
2008LispMe – the Scheme system for PalmOS (lispme.de)
93 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2009The Duct Tape Programmer (joelonsoftware.com)
93 points | 4 years ago with 50 comments
2009Is Haskell a Good Choice for Web Applications? (jekor.com)
93 points | 13 years ago with 21 comments
2001Measures of Complexity: A non-exhaustive list (web.mit.edu)
92 points | 7 years ago with 7 comments
2001Problems with Bruce Schneier's “Solitaire” (ciphergoth.org)
92 points | 8 years ago with 42 comments
2002It's the Effect Size, Stupid: What effect size is and why it is important (leeds.ac.uk)
92 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments
2003Memoirs from the Browser Wars (ericsink.com)
92 points | 9 years ago with 26 comments
2004Demoscene (demoscene.info)
92 points | 1 year ago with 38 comments
2004Nitric oxide inhibits the replication cycle of SARS coronavirus (jvi.asm.org)
92 points | 4 years ago with 112 comments
2004Working at Microsoft (qbrundage.com)
92 points | 9 years ago with 45 comments
2005A brief history of microprogramming (people.cs.clemson.edu)
92 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2005Sometimes We Suck (blog.flickr.net)
92 points | 2 years ago with 7 comments
2005My Lobotomy: Howard Dully's Journey (npr.org)
92 points | 1 year ago with 74 comments
2006Who Writes Wikipedia? (aaronsw.com)
92 points | 4 years ago with 68 comments
2007Size isn't everything for the modest creator of SQLite (theguardian.com)
92 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
2007Rich Programmer Food (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
92 points | 8 years ago with 72 comments
2007What actually happens when you plug in a USB device? (technovelty.org)
92 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments
2008Start a side project, says GitHub founder (gist.github.com)
92 points | 5 years ago with 73 comments
2008Booting Linux in five seconds (lwn.net)
92 points | 2 years ago with 114 comments
2008The Neanderthal correlation (nature.com)
92 points | 10 years ago with 44 comments
2009Let It Crash the Right Way (mazenharake.wordpress.com)
92 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments
2009Forgetting a Child in a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime? (washingtonpost.com)
92 points | 7 years ago with 220 comments
2000The PlayStation2 vs. the PC (arstechnica.com)
91 points | 10 years ago with 41 comments
2002Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming (pubsonline.informs.org)
91 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2003Who Needs an Architect? (martinfowler.com)
91 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments
2003Are dynamic languages going to replace static languages? (artima.com)
91 points | 3 years ago with 427 comments
2005Sinclair Zx Spectrum: absolutely better than Commodore 64 (alfonsomartone.itb.it)
91 points | 5 years ago with 74 comments
2006Google exec challenges Berners-Lee (web.archive.org)
91 points | 3 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 | 5 years ago with 51 comments
2007How to get people to work on your project (somethingsimilar.com)
91 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2008Mistakes companies make with their online communities (computerworld.com)
91 points | 2 years ago with 17 comments
2008Linus Torvalds on the "security circus" (lkml.org)
91 points | 13 years ago with 54 comments
2008Distributed Hash Table Protocol (bittorrent.org)
91 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments
2009Lovelace – The Origin (sydneypadua.com)
91 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments
2009The TRIBES Engine Networking Model (gamedevs.org)
91 points | 8 years ago with 66 comments
2009“I have already used the name for my programming language” (github.com)
91 points | 9 years ago with 74 comments
2009Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor (theguardian.com)
91 points | 6 years ago with 30 comments
2000The Gay Nabokov (salon.com)
90 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments
2001Symbolics, Inc.: A failure of heterogeneous engineering (web.mit.edu)
90 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments
2001Mathematical Theory of Claude Shannon (web.mit.edu)
90 points | 9 years ago with 2 comments
2002The Emacs Commune (oreilly.com)
90 points | 10 years ago with 24 comments
2003How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think (speakeasy.org)
90 points | 11 years ago with 38 comments
2004Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (static.usenix.org)
90 points | 11 years ago with 9 comments
2005David Foster Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Speech (web.archive.org)
90 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments
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