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2005Forgotten Language: Jorf could have been Python or Ruby (ralsina.me)
170 points | 9 years ago with 69 comments
2006Early Retirement (philip.greenspun.com)
170 points | 3 years ago with 296 comments
2008The forbidden railway: Vienna - Pyongyang (vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.de)
170 points | 12 years ago with 34 comments
2008The Narcissism of Small Code Differences (raganwald.com)
170 points | 11 years ago with 126 comments
2008Ten Years of Purely Functional Data Structures (okasaki.blogspot.ru)
170 points | 11 years ago with 24 comments
2010Are closed social networks inevitable? (danluu.com)
170 points | 8 years ago with 91 comments
2011Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes” (longform.asmartbear.com)
170 points | 1 year ago with 60 comments
2012Beej's Guide to Network Programming (beej.us)
170 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments
2012The Japanese Iced Coffee Method (petergiuliano.tumblr.com)
170 points | 8 years ago with 127 comments
2012Common Lisp: The Untold Story (nhplace.com)
170 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 30 comments
2000Lynn Conway's Story (ai.eecs.umich.edu)
169 points | 1 year ago with 40 comments
2005Accelerando (antipope.org)
169 points | 2 years ago with 81 comments
2007Introduction to Hacking PostgreSQL (neilconway.org)
169 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
2009Extinct goat was cold-blooded (phys.org)
169 points | 1 year ago with 99 comments
2009The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? (econ.ucsb.edu)
169 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 108 comments
2010Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
169 points | 7 years ago with 156 comments
201175-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's internet (spectrum.ieee.org)
169 points | 5 years ago with 97 comments
2000What You'll Need to Know in 2020 That You Don't Know Now (discovermagazine.com)
168 points | 4 years ago with 147 comments
2004Stolen from Apple (folklore.org)
168 points | 1 year ago with 44 comments
2004The Canon Cat: The Writing Information Appliance (canoncat.org)
168 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 42 comments
2008How Computers Boot Up (manybutfinite.com)
168 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2008Sand won’t save you this time (science.org)
168 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2009Typing the Letters A-E-S Into Your Code (chargen.matasano.com)
168 points | 10 years ago with 63 comments
2009Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (raphkoster.com)
168 points | 4 years ago with 172 comments
2011Simple Made Easy (infoq.com)
168 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments
2011Fast and easy Levenshtein distance using a trie (stevehanov.ca)
168 points | 10 years ago with 38 comments
2012The significance of plot without conflict (stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com)
168 points | 7 years ago with 94 comments
2012Are U.S companies legally obligated to maximize profits for shareholders? (skeptics.stackexchange.com)
168 points | 2 years ago with 193 comments
2012Engelbart's Violin (loper-os.org)
168 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments
2012Prescription drugs and grapefruit a 'deadly mix' (nhs.uk)
168 points | 5 years ago with 82 comments
2012How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (behind-the-enemy-lines.com)
168 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments
2012Hacker’s Delight (books.google.com)
168 points | 2 years ago with 37 comments
2002Cityspeak from Blade Runner (brmovie.com)
167 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments
2009Why Google Employees Quit (techcrunch.com)
167 points | 9 years ago with 101 comments
2010Python's Innards: Introduction (tech.blog.aknin.name)
167 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2010Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs (lwn.net)
167 points | 3 years ago with 75 comments
2012A mathematical formalization of dimensional analysis (terrytao.wordpress.com)
167 points | 1 year ago with 54 comments
2002Why Wolfram Mathematica did not use Lisp (ymeme.com)
166 points | 9 years ago with 140 comments
2004A Short Introduction to the Lambda Calculus (cs.bham.ac.uk)
166 points | 8 years ago with 18 comments
2006Rules for Writing Safety Critical Code (spinroot.com)
166 points | 8 years ago with 81 comments
2008The New Old Way of Learning Languages (theamericanscholar.org)
166 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 38 comments
2010Digital Photocopiers Loaded with Secrets (cbsnews.com)
166 points | 6 years ago with 56 comments
2011Deep C (pvv.org)
166 points | 7 years ago with 59 comments
2011North American versus European distribution systems (electrical-engineering-portal.com)
166 points | 5 years ago with 236 comments
2012Learnable Programming (worrydream.com)
166 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments
2012Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs (blog.regehr.org)
166 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2012Far Cry: How the Fire Burns and Spreads (jflevesque.com)
166 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments
2000Tips from the Pragmatic Programmer (pragprog.com)
165 points | 8 years ago with 72 comments
2001RMS on the Ogg Vorbis license (lwn.net)
165 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 82 comments
2001A History of Lua (lua.org)
165 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 119 comments
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