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2016I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know (tech.davis-hansson.com)
194 points | 7 hours ago with 81 comments
2014Email apnea – are you breathing? (lindastone.net)
44 points | 15 hours ago with 7 comments
2016Filial Piety in Chinese Culture (china-journal.org)
52 points | 18 hours ago with 38 comments
2005A Coder in Courierland (web.archive.org)
45 points | 23 hours ago with 13 comments
2014Circles rolling on circles (plus.maths.org)
54 points | 1 day ago with 19 comments
2014Chocolate and the Steam Engine (chocolateclass.wordpress.com)
20 points | 1 day ago with 0 comments
1988The C Interpreter: A Tutorial for Cin (tuhs.org)
33 points | 1 day ago with 11 comments
2006The halting problem is decidable on a set of asymptotic probability one (projecteuclid.org)
147 points | 1 day ago with 118 comments
2017Octopuses are building small “cities” off the coast of Australia (arstechnica.com)
270 points | 1 day ago with 162 comments
2017In every country people think others are less happy than they themselves say (ourworldindata.org)
97 points | 1 day ago with 92 comments
1954The First Sherpa to Climb to the Top of Mt. Everest (newyorker.com)
55 points | 1 day ago with 18 comments
2014Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (ahf.nuclearmuseum.org)
61 points | 2 days ago with 73 comments
2017Bread Board Wristwatch (ingep.net)
59 points | 2 days ago with 4 comments
2016Superintelligence: An idea that eats smart people (idlewords.com)
246 points across 2 posts | 2 days ago with 350 comments
2016TV doctors say annual checkups save lives – real doctors call bullshit (vox.com)
250 points | 2 days ago with 435 comments
2013Scar tissues make relationships wear out (gist.github.com)
690 points | 2 days ago with 190 comments
2007Requirements (ericsink.com)
35 points | 3 days ago with 30 comments
2018Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (codingnest.com)
590 points across 2 posts | 3 days ago with 88 comments
2018How the lemon was invented (trueorbetter.com)
163 points | 3 days ago with 152 comments
1975A Spreading Activation Theory of Semantic Processing (researchgate.net)
13 points | 3 days ago with 3 comments
2019Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (masteringmonero.com)
165 points | 3 days ago with 164 comments
2015Don't abuse su for dropping user privileges (jdebp.uk)
50 points | 4 days ago with 23 comments
1953Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' Memo (whatisnuclear.com)
126 points | 4 days ago with 45 comments
2018A Short History of Chaosnet (twobithistory.org)
122 points across 3 posts | 4 days ago with 5 comments
2000Microsoft asks slashdot to remove readers' posts about Kerberos protocol (slashdot.org)
42 points | 4 days ago with 2 comments
2014The Burden of Writing: Scribes in Medieval Manuscripts (blogs.bl.uk)
12 points | 4 days ago with 0 comments
1935War Is a Racket (archive.org)
383 points | 4 days ago with 534 comments
2009Attacked from Within (web.archive.org)
23 points | 4 days ago with 2 comments
1966Before the Fire: Saturn-Apollo Applications (wired.com)
16 points | 5 days ago with 4 comments
2014The XY Problem (xyproblem.info)
216 points across 2 posts | 5 days ago with 95 comments
2017How Life (and Death) Spring from Disorder (quantamagazine.org)
25 points | 5 days ago with 2 comments
2017State of the Union (inference-review.com)
11 points | 6 days ago with 0 comments
1988Let's Build a Compiler (xmonader.github.io)
132 points | 6 days ago with 19 comments
2014Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (metalintheory.com)
323 points | 1 week ago with 246 comments
2014Using livestock guardian dogs in a small-scale commercial sheep operation (flyingmule.blogspot.com)
59 points | 1 week ago with 22 comments
2012Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (slate.com)
977 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 733 comments
2005Polyphonic Audio Key Finding Using the Spiral Array CEG Algorithm (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
20 points | 1 week ago with 6 comments
2013The Alien-Life Summit (slate.com)
11 points | 1 week ago with 2 comments
2011Stippling and Blue Noise (joesfer.com)
51 points | 1 week ago with 8 comments
2017The many faces of DISTINCT in Postgres (hakibenita.com)
187 points | 1 week ago with 69 comments
2018Safety I vs. Safety II: An overview (safety4sea.com)
26 points | 1 week ago with 6 comments
2010Programming with natural language is going to work (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
95 points | 1 week ago with 233 comments
1990Choosing a Name for Your Computer (rfc-editor.org)
432 points across 5 posts | 1 week ago with 200 comments
1994Source code for Glider Pro (github.com)
81 points | 1 week ago with 13 comments
2017A Chicago newspaper that bought a bar (topic.com)
360 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 26 comments
2017How to Be a Know-It-All (newyorker.com)
241 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 21 comments
2018Plotinus (plato.stanford.edu)
30 points | 1 week ago with 5 comments
2016The Demon Core and the Strange Death of Louis Slotin (newyorker.com)
128 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 59 comments
2018Deep neural networks as computational graphs (medium.com)
102 points | 1 week ago with 44 comments
1955ПП-BESM – a Soviet language (xav.io)
125 points | 1 week ago with 28 comments
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