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1973Features of a successful therapeutic fast of 382 days' duration (pmj.bmj.com)
148 points | 5 years ago with 154 comments
2014Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985 (studioforcreativeinquiry.org)
148 points | 7 years ago with 71 comments
2018How communist Bulgaria became a leader in technology, robotics and sci-fi (aeon.co)
148 points | 5 years ago with 73 comments
2019Why the American shoe disappeared and is hard to bring back (npr.org)
148 points | 4 years ago with 244 comments
1999Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula (academics.rowan.edu)
148 points | 7 years ago with 54 comments
2009The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur (kauffman.org)
148 points | 12 years ago with 106 comments
1956The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien (newrepublic.com)
148 points | 9 years ago with 114 comments
2016Immutability is not enough (codewords.recurse.com)
148 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments
2014Systems Past: software innovations we actually use (davidad.github.io)
148 points | 8 years ago with 110 comments
2019I give up on free software phones (yotam.net)
148 points | 2 years ago with 202 comments
1999How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (mud.co.uk)
148 points | 7 years ago with 35 comments
1996Linux Logo (lkml.org)
147 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
2002Why GNU su does not support the `wheel' group (ftp.gnu.org)
147 points | 2 years ago with 141 comments
2016How You Wound Up Playing ‘The Oregon Trail’ in Computer Class (smithsonianmag.com)
147 points | 4 years ago with 97 comments
2019Stop using low DNS TTLs (blog.apnic.net)
147 points | 3 years ago with 105 comments
1942Looking Back on the Spanish War (orwellfoundation.com)
147 points | 5 years ago with 128 comments
2016Bayesian Networks – An Introduction (bayesserver.com)
147 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
2013There's Just No Getting Around It: You're Building a Distributed System (queue.acm.org)
147 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2014Accidental Pinhole and Pinspeck Cameras (people.csail.mit.edu)
147 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2016The Myth of the Barter Economy (theatlantic.com)
147 points | 5 years ago with 172 comments
2013When FP? And When OOP? (raganwald.com)
147 points | 6 years ago with 151 comments
2017Rumble, an open source, offline, censorship resistant microblog (github.com)
147 points | 4 years ago with 83 comments
1980Lisp Comes of Age (microship.com)
147 points | 5 years ago with 110 comments
2018When do we become unable to learn a language like a native speaker? (scientificamerican.com)
147 points | 5 years ago with 183 comments
2009My favorite liar (zenmoments.org)
147 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2016McDonald's holds communities together (theguardian.com)
147 points | 5 years ago with 144 comments
2014The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (medium.com)
147 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
2019Why is there no open source firmware for laser or inkjet printers? (hackaday.io)
147 points | 2 years ago with 73 comments
2007Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable version of DR-DOS (msfn.org)
147 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments
2014Gauss’s “Remarkable Theorem” and the best way to hold a pizza slice (aatishb.com)
147 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments
2010Regrets of the Dying (bronnieware.com)
147 points | 3 years ago with 140 comments
2007The “bicameral mind” 30 years on: A reappraisal of Jaynes’ hypothesis (functionalneurology.com)
147 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments
2002Kit Kat Conspiracy (everything2.com)
147 points | 11 years ago with 164 comments
2003Origins and History of Unix, 1969-1995 (catb.org)
147 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments
1999Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices (academic.oup.com)
147 points | 2 years ago with 113 comments
2007Derivatives of Regular Expressions (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
147 points | 7 years ago with 49 comments
2014That famous Pixar lunch of 1994 (gointothestory.blcklst.com)
147 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments
2018Ibn Battuta: A Scholar's Epic Journey (jurnalanas.com)
147 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2018No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (bloomberg.com)
147 points | 4 years ago with 279 comments
2015How Some Consultants Fake an 80-Hour Workweek (nytimes.com)
147 points | 7 years ago with 99 comments
2013Why is Tcl syntax so weird (wiki.tcl-lang.org)
147 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments
1976How to run a meeting (hbr.org)
147 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2012Scaling to millions of simultaneous connections (erlang-factory.com)
147 points | 11 years ago with 81 comments
2009The Life of a Cherry Drying Pilot (aneclecticmind.com)
147 points | 6 years ago with 96 comments
2009“Peak Civilization”: The Fall of the Roman Empire (europe.theoildrum.com)
147 points | 7 years ago with 91 comments
1976The Unix Command Language (github.com)
147 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
2012Geometric Algebra (arxiv.org)
147 points | 4 years ago with 57 comments
2006Destroy All Monsters: A Journey into the Caverns of Dungeons and Dragons (believermag.com)
147 points | 8 years ago with 49 comments
2019A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All over the Universe (wired.com)
147 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments
2002Types and Programming Languages (mitpress.mit.edu)
147 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments
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