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2016Why I Don't Like Golang (teamten.com)
527 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 215 comments
2016When negotiating a price, never bid with a round number (hbswk.hbs.edu)
522 points | 2 years ago with 239 comments
2016Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (yosefk.com)
517 points | 2 years ago with 196 comments
2016Art student’s 407-piece hand-carved wooden clock (ablogtowatch.com)
512 points | 2 years ago with 74 comments
2016I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (blog.haschek.at)
508 points | 4 years ago with 174 comments
2016The Linux scheduler: A decade of wasted cores (blog.acolyer.org)
494 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 26 comments
2016Why can’t women get pregnant without the menstrual cycle? (quora.com)
488 points | 6 years ago with 111 comments
2016Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M (blog.zamzar.com)
488 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 189 comments
2016A comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters (unicodepowersymbol.com)
488 points | 4 years ago with 186 comments
2016Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (blog.burntsushi.net)
487 points across 2 posts | 5 months ago with 187 comments
2016The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen (bunniefoo.com)
485 points | 4 years ago with 192 comments
2016Xz format considered inadequate for long-term archiving (nongnu.org)
483 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 157 comments
2016The memory models that underlie programming languages (canonical.org)
481 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 101 comments
2016The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product managers (qz.com)
479 points | 5 years ago with 351 comments
2016So You Want to Learn Physics (susanjfowler.com)
478 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 124 comments
2016How I Almost Destroyed a £50M War Plane and the Normalisation of Deviance (fastjetperformance.com)
473 points | 5 years ago with 181 comments
2016How to get the most out of next year (alexvermeer.com)
473 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 26 comments
2016How to rapidly improve at any programming language (cbui.dev)
468 points | 2 years ago with 123 comments
2016Giraffes Added to the Endangered Species List (smithsonianmag.com)
465 points | 6 years ago with 191 comments
2016Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (quora.com)
465 points | 4 years ago with 229 comments
2016Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (thelegalartist.com)
459 points | 1 year ago with 306 comments
2016I could do that in a weekend (danluu.com)
459 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 84 comments
2016Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (github.com)
451 points | 5 years ago with 198 comments
2016Teaching C (blog.regehr.org)
446 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 93 comments
2016Your Idea Is Brilliant, Your Idea Is Worthless (stonemaiergames.com)
440 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments
2016Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (science.org)
437 points | 2 years ago with 157 comments
2016Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (ezali.substack.com)
434 points | 4 months ago with 131 comments
2016The Zen of Erlang (ferd.ca)
428 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 79 comments
2016Website allows you to experience what it is like to live with dyslexia (geon.github.io)
428 points | 3 years ago with 181 comments
2016What’s a fire and why does it burn? (qchu.wordpress.com)
423 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 56 comments
2016Don't Design Your Emails (gkogan.co)
420 points across 2 posts | 5 months ago with 10 comments
2016Why Learn Awk? (blog.jpalardy.com)
420 points | 4 years ago with 235 comments
2016Shitlist Driven Development (sirupsen.com)
414 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 137 comments
2016Oh shit, git (ohshitgit.com)
412 points | 4 years ago with 272 comments
2016Excess management is costing the U.S. $3T per year (hbr.org)
411 points | 1 year ago with 375 comments
2016The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (medium.com)
411 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments
2016Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (blog.thermoworks.com)
410 points | 2 years ago with 301 comments
2016Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack? (blog.unity.com)
409 points | 2 years ago with 144 comments
2016Photographer sues Getty Images for $1B for being billed for her own photo (latimes.com)
402 points | 4 years ago with 120 comments
2016JSON as configuration files: please don’t (arp242.net)
401 points | 5 years ago with 426 comments
2016GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (about.gitlab.com)
401 points | 5 years ago with 99 comments
2016Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform (fs.blog)
397 points | 5 years ago with 139 comments
2016The greatest sales deck I've ever seen (medium.com)
395 points | 5 years ago with 163 comments
2016Attrs – the Python library everyone needs (glyph.twistedmatrix.com)
395 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 106 comments
2016Maybe we could tone down the JavaScript (eev.ee)
393 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 215 comments
2016Does a compiler use all x86 instructions? (pepijndevos.nl)
381 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 95 comments
2016I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know (tech.davis-hansson.com)
380 points | 11 months ago with 159 comments
2016We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (devonzuegel.com)
380 points | 5 years ago with 335 comments
2016So you think you know C? (wordsandbuttons.online)
378 points | 4 years ago with 322 comments
2016Drop Table “Companies”;– LTD (find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk)
377 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 79 comments
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