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20161min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness as much as 3x aerobics (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
375 points | 1 year ago with 490 comments
2016Simpson’s Paradox (forrestthewoods.com)
370 points | 5 years ago with 82 comments
2016Game Critic Uses Workaround for YouTube's Copyright System (kotaku.com)
369 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 79 comments
2016Clifford Stoll beat the Russians, then made useless, wondrous objects (alumni.berkeley.edu)
366 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 154 comments
2016Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (programmingisterrible.com)
365 points | 3 years ago with 109 comments
2016Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger (erlang-in-anger.com)
359 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2016I turned down $500k, pissed off my investors, and shut down my startup (disruptingjapan.com)
359 points | 1 year ago with 141 comments
2016How is bamboo lumber made? (bambooimport.com)
356 points | 2 years ago with 222 comments
2016The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (atlasobscura.com)
353 points | 2 years ago with 365 comments
2016We do not use foreign keys (github.com)
349 points | 4 years ago with 320 comments
2016Antenna Theory (antenna-theory.com)
345 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments
2016What does any of this have to do with physics? (nautil.us)
344 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 170 comments
2016Can you use a magnifying glass and moonlight to light a fire? (what-if.xkcd.com)
340 points | 5 years ago with 269 comments
2016Be kind (briangilham.com)
338 points | 5 years ago with 76 comments
2016You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (physiqonomics.com)
338 points | 2 years ago with 463 comments
2016Car Hacker's Handbook (opengarages.org)
337 points | 6 years ago with 72 comments
2016What does it feel like to do maths? (plus.maths.org)
327 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 19 comments
2016The differences between tinkering and research (togelius.blogspot.com)
324 points | 6 years ago with 129 comments
2016Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7 (simonschreibt.de)
323 points | 2 years ago with 55 comments
2016Jo – a shell command to create JSON (jpmens.net)
323 points | 2 years ago with 94 comments
2016Releasing an indie game on 3 consoles at once and failing financially (juicybeast.com)
322 points | 11 months ago with 271 comments
2016Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (mobile.nytimes.com)
319 points | 6 years ago with 262 comments
2016Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (news.ycombinator.com)
318 points | 3 years ago with 257 comments
2016Raytracing in One Weekend (raytracing.github.io)
316 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments
2016Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful (medium.com)
315 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments
2016tcpdump is amazing (jvns.ca)
314 points | 1 year ago with 83 comments
2016Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture (vox.com)
313 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 195 comments
2016John Carmack on shorter work weeks (news.ycombinator.com)
309 points | 11 months ago with 431 comments
2016The code I’m still ashamed of (freecodecamp.org)
306 points | 3 years ago with 172 comments
2016Writing An Interpreter In Go (interpreterbook.com)
305 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments
2016NY Man Arrested for Cutting Wires to Red Light Cameras (newsmaven.io)
301 points | 5 years ago with 165 comments
2016Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Consensus (stellar.org)
301 points | 6 years ago with 61 comments
2016How to see bright, vivid images in your mind’s eye (photographyinsider.info)
299 points | 7 months ago with 203 comments
2016Caltech glassblower's retirement has scientists sighing (beta.latimes.com)
299 points | 5 years ago with 216 comments
2016Laws of Showrunning (okbjgm.weebly.com)
297 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2016Titanpointe: The NSA’s spy hub in New York, hidden in plain sight (theintercept.com)
296 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 73 comments
2016A Famous Photo of Chernobyl’s Most Dangerous Radioactive Material (atlasobscura.com)
295 points | 5 years ago with 93 comments
2016Burnout and the Brain (psychologicalscience.org)
294 points | 4 years ago with 104 comments
2016CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (slashgeek.net)
293 points | 4 years ago with 173 comments
2016Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (gnu.org)
293 points | 5 years ago with 213 comments
2016The Typography of Blade Runner (typesetinthefuture.com)
292 points | 4 years ago with 114 comments
2016Four common mistakes in audio development (atastypixel.com)
291 points | 4 years ago with 143 comments
20161800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images (nypl.org)
289 points | 2 years ago with 71 comments
2016Dallas Has Now Lost 82 Cases Against Robert Groden (dallasobserver.com)
289 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments
2016DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (bigmessowires.com)
288 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 48 comments
2016Why do we use the Linux kernel's TCP stack? (jvns.ca)
287 points | 3 years ago with 121 comments
2016Optimizing Things in the USSR (chris-said.io)
287 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 200 comments
2016Algorithm No One Knows About (getkerf.wordpress.com)
286 points | 4 years ago with 190 comments
2016Signaling in tech is some fucked up shit (daiyi.co)
286 points | 5 years ago with 194 comments
2016Don’t pay for 95% (5kids1condo.com)
282 points | 3 years ago with 432 comments
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