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2018I Paid $400 to Eat Olive Garden in Times Square on New Year's (vice.com)
30 points | 9 months ago with 6 comments
2015I am the fold (iamthefold.com)
98 points | 9 months ago with 43 comments
2015How random is xkcd? (hardmath123.github.io)
195 points | 9 months ago with 124 comments
2012Unix as IDE (blog.sanctum.geek.nz)
106 points | 9 months ago with 60 comments
2014The Curse of the Excluded Middle (queue.acm.org)
98 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 33 comments
1903The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (publicdomainreview.org)
17 points | 9 months ago with 2 comments
2019Schumpeter on Strategy (reactionwheel.net)
92 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 19 comments
2009Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (codersatwork.com)
252 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 32 comments
2016Thanks to Don Bateman, airplanes don't crash into mountains anymore (bloomberg.com)
207 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 67 comments
2010Humans are not automatically strategic (lesswrong.com)
57 points | 9 months ago with 33 comments
2017History of Alice and Bob (cryptocouple.com)
306 points across 3 posts | 9 months ago with 34 comments
2013Multicellularity arose several times in the evolution of eukaryotes (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
41 points | 9 months ago with 9 comments
1988Let's Build a Compiler (compilers.iecc.com)
611 points across 3 posts | 9 months ago with 14 comments
2017Shelf life: novelist Hanya Yanagihara on living with 12,000 books (theguardian.com)
20 points | 9 months ago with 15 comments
2014Black Triangles (rampantgames.com)
266 points | 9 months ago with 65 comments
2007Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (twitter.com)
368 points across 3 posts | 9 months ago with 44 comments
2019Challenging projects every programmer should try (austinhenley.com)
568 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 324 comments
2018DIY Night Clock Projector (microengineer.eu)
166 points | 9 months ago with 48 comments
1996Differences Between NT Server and Workstation Are Minimal (digiater.nl)
19 points | 9 months ago with 6 comments
2011Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (english.stackexchange.com)
305 points | 9 months ago with 274 comments
1990Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (web.mit.edu)
180 points | 9 months ago with 52 comments
2018Why isn't the new year on the winter solstice? (slj.ma)
60 points | 9 months ago with 38 comments
1972The Limits to Growth (donellameadows.org)
114 points | 9 months ago with 104 comments
2015The Art of Electronics (artofelectronics.net)
370 points | 9 months ago with 97 comments
2005BBS: The Documentary (bbsdocumentary.com)
727 points across 3 posts | 9 months ago with 59 comments
1988Xmas.c (udel.edu)
544 points | 9 months ago with 92 comments
2011The unfortunate math behind consulting companies (longform.asmartbear.com)
90 points | 9 months ago with 82 comments
2019The Johnson Solids (qfbox.info)
52 points | 9 months ago with 21 comments
2010DIY ventilation heat exchanger (ecorenovator.org)
141 points | 9 months ago with 92 comments
2013Linus Torvalds: I will not change Linux to "deep-throat Microsoft" (arstechnica.com)
10 points | 9 months ago with 2 comments
2012Schrödinger equation emerges mathematically from classical mechanics (researchgate.net)
182 points | 9 months ago with 84 comments
2017From Nand to Tetris (nand2tetris.org)
953 points across 3 posts | 9 months ago with 173 comments
2012How to Build a Windmill (jacquesmattheij.com)
122 points | 9 months ago with 20 comments
2019IP over Spaghetti (github.com)
187 points | 9 months ago with 59 comments
2018Do I need to get out the soldering iron again? (naughtycomputer.uk)
143 points | 9 months ago with 124 comments
2013Earthquakes make gold veins in an instant (nature.com)
98 points | 9 months ago with 29 comments
2000Telavar's Mysterious Sosaria (surfing.net)
10 points | 9 months ago with 1 comments
1982Epigrams in Programming (cpsc.yale.edu)
70 points | 9 months ago with 37 comments
2019A cartographer drew a freehand map of North America (atlasobscura.com)
104 points | 9 months ago with 45 comments
2010The CEO and the Three Envelopes (kevinkruse.com)
52 points | 9 months ago with 46 comments
2014C Object Oriented Programming (nullprogram.com)
83 points | 9 months ago with 58 comments
2010DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need (secretgeek.net)
310 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 43 comments
2014All our patent are belong to you (tesla.com)
64 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 24 comments
2010Wikipedia: Articles for Deletion/Minecraft (en.wikipedia.org)
28 points | 9 months ago with 15 comments
2015Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (washingtonpost.com)
491 points across 5 posts | 9 months ago with 9 comments
1944The Inner Ring (lewissociety.org)
184 points | 9 months ago with 82 comments
2008Blogging Like a Hacker (tom.preston-werner.com)
89 points | 9 months ago with 38 comments
2015Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up (nytimes.com)
47 points | 9 months ago with 51 comments
2019The Illustrated GPT-2: Visualizing Transformer Language Models (jalammar.github.io)
277 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 5 comments
2019My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s (gwern.net)
887 points across 3 posts | 9 months ago with 61 comments
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