| 2009 | | Selective Unit Testing – Costs and Benefits (blog.stevensanderson.com) |
| 46 points | 3 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2012 | | Chaining, or why you should stop returning void (jamie-wong.com) |
| 44 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2013 | | Apple’s $13k operating system (cnet.com) |
| 140 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2002 | | Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? (theodoregray.com) |
| 99 points | 3 years ago with 163 comments |
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| 2018 | | Why the Job Search Sucks (blog.webb.page) |
| 80 points | 3 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 2016 | | Web fonts, boy, I don't know (meowni.ca) |
| 76 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 1997 | | Fuck.com (links.net) |
| 196 points | 3 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 2019 | | Why time “speeds up” as we get older (sitn.hms.harvard.edu) |
| 167 points | 3 years ago with 159 comments |
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| 1985 | | Swiss German is not context-free (unlike virtually all other languages) (eecs.harvard.edu) |
| 54 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2012 | | The surprising subtleties of zeroing a register (randomascii.wordpress.com) |
| 276 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2016 | | The HP Way: Dave Packard on How to Operate a Company (fs.blog) |
| 66 points | 3 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2019 | | Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org (gitlab.com) |
| 103 points | 3 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2011 | | Linux x86 program start up – How the heck do we get to main()? (dbp-consulting.com) |
| 187 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2019 | | Language is The Scaffold of The Mind (nautil.us) |
| 59 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2012 | | I introduced my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to startx and xmonad (changelog.complete.org) |
| 205 points | 3 years ago with 190 comments |
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| 2019 | | Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery (twitter.com) |
| 168 points | 3 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2006 | | Common Bean Myths (captious.wordpress.com) |
| 64 points | 3 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 1988 | | Fabrik – A Visual Programming Environment (web.archive.org) |
| 108 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2003 | | Can helium be mixed with hydrogen to form a non-explosive mix? (madsci.org) |
| 69 points | 3 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2019 | | DownThemAll (addons.mozilla.org) |
| 257 points | 3 years ago with 131 comments |
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| 2018 | | The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (listennotes.com) |
| 431 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2014 | | How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One (jichu4n.com) |
| 276 points | 3 years ago with 244 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx (aosabook.org) |
| 119 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2018 | | The history of Unix's confusing set of low-level ways to allocate memory (utcc.utoronto.ca) |
| 97 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2019 | | Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (blog.danslimmon.com) |
| 804 points | 3 years ago with 230 comments |
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| 2018 | | William Morris and wallpaper design (vam.ac.uk) |
| 58 points | 3 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2019 | | How to Read “Gilgamesh” (newyorker.com) |
| 179 points | 3 years ago with 118 comments |
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| 2019 | | SPARCbook 3000ST: The coolest 90s laptop (jasoneckert.github.io) |
| 291 points | 3 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 1989 | | Ada implementation of an X Window System Server (sci-hub.se) |
| 108 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2019 | | The high cost of software in the 1980s (robservatory.com) |
| 65 points | 3 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2010 | | A little backtracking Prolog interpreter in Tcl (wiki.tcl-lang.org) |
| 56 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2012 | | Engelbart's Violin (loper-os.org) |
| 168 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2018 | | How to build a low-tech website? (solar.lowtechmagazine.com) |
| 379 points | 3 years ago with 216 comments |
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| 2000 | | The Great Tree-List Recursion Problem (cslibrary.stanford.edu) |
| 153 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Personal Analytics of My Life (wired.com) |
| 100 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 1974 | | Live Not by Lies (solzhenitsyncenter.org) |
| 140 points | 3 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 1998 | | The Pentium F00F Bug (rcollins.org) |
| 99 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2014 | | The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits (grantland.com) |
| 98 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2010 | | Timing with curl (susam.in) |
| 50 points | 3 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2019 | | I Miss the Old Internet (misc-stuff.terraaeon.com) |
| 186 points | 3 years ago with 178 comments |
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| 1991 | | Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 1083 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 405 comments |
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| 2005 | | Vim Sudo Write Trick (susam.in) |
| 44 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2019 | | Study: Better sleep habits lead to better college grades (news.mit.edu) |
| 99 points | 3 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 1998 | | An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (people.eecs.berkeley.edu) |
| 115 points | 3 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2018 | | When did the English discover the Anglo-Saxons? (etymonline.com) |
| 43 points | 3 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2017 | | Hexing the Technical Interview (aphyr.com) |
| 866 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2015 | | The brain as a universal learning machine (lesswrong.com) |
| 85 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2011 | | Generation X Is Sick of Your Bullshit (gizmodo.com) |
| 60 points | 3 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2018 | | Meow Hash (mollyrocket.com) |
| 377 points | 3 years ago with 108 comments |
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| 2019 | | The Bicycle Thief (chicagomag.com) |
| 115 points | 3 years ago with 42 comments |
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