EVERYONE should read this MIT memo. And then go on to read Hank Warren's Hackers Delight. Knuth's Volume IV of the Art of the Computer Programming also has some interesting material. If this does not fascinate you, perhaps you should consider another profession.

The site as a whole is interesting too.

HAKMEM might have focused interest for those involved in computing history and Lisp.

Apparently not on Hacker news ... possibly should have included "in <language du jour>" in the post title.

The original's scan: http://w3.pppl.gov/~hammett/work/2009/AIM-239-ocr.pdf