The conondrum is: do we consider this trolling for karma or shouldn't we care how often this link comes up, because the papers are supposed to be invaluable. But honestly, how many people actually bother to read them, instead of just giving them lipservice?

Which raises the question: submitter smanek, have you actually read these papers?

Not all of them. I've read Ultimate Imperative, Ultimate GOTO, and Ultimate Opcode (along with Sussman's SICP, which covers some similar ground).

To the best of my recollection, I haven't seen these on HN before. Have they been posted before?

Oh, and for the record, I'm hardly in need of any karma.

I admit I'm not sure I've seen these on HN before, but I've definitely seen them in my Google Reader at least four times before in the past six months.

I'm interested to learn SICP covers some of the same stuff BTW: I have started working through that book and your remark encourages me to read the papers afterwards, as I might actually find myself able to understand them (faster than now) then :).

As for the karma: I checked the amount you had before posting and was primarily leaning towards my "or ..." :).