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    70 points by bookofjoe 6 days | 16 comments
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    784 points by todsacerdoti 1 day | 579 comments
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    179 points by chmaynard 1 day | 89 comments
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    13 points by oceansprayed about 3 hours | discuss
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    84 points by bdcravens 4 days | 29 comments
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    52 points by anarbadalov 6 days | 12 comments
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  22. Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011) (martin.kleppmann.com)
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  23. A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015) (nullprogram.com)
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  25. The rsync algorithm (1996) [pdf] (www.andrew.cmu.edu)
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  30. Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal (unixv4.dev)
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