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2009What is the best way to programatically detect porn images? (stackoverflow.com)
142 points | 12 years ago with 104 comments
2014IBM Blue Lightning: World’s Fastest 386? (os2museum.com)
142 points | 2 years ago with 38 comments
1982Apple IIe Design Guidelines (apple2scans.net)
142 points | 8 years ago with 34 comments
2011Solving the Wrong Problem (azarask.in)
142 points | 6 years ago with 42 comments
2017How is GNU `yes` so fast? (old.reddit.com)
142 points | 3 years ago with 63 comments
2013Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs (rafalcieslak.wordpress.com)
142 points | 7 years ago with 86 comments
2015Unsong, a fantasy novel where the universe is programmable with Hebrew (unsongbook.com)
142 points | 4 years ago with 58 comments
2003Simpson Fan Grows Tomacco (simpsonsarchive.com)
142 points | 2 years ago with 98 comments
2001MacOS X 10.1 (toastytech.com)
142 points | 2 years ago with 180 comments
2015Understanding Convolution in Deep Learning (timdettmers.com)
142 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments
2017Four Column ASCII (garbagecollected.org)
142 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2017The ancient Roman secret to concrete resilience in seawater (als.lbl.gov)
142 points | 2 years ago with 76 comments
2003Do Teachers Need to Include the History of Mathematics in Their Teaching? (researchgate.net)
142 points | 8 years ago with 114 comments
2014Why I am betting on Julia (evanmiller.org)
142 points | 9 years ago with 109 comments
2011Simultaneous cat and external keyboard input causing kernel panic (lore.kernel.org)
141 points | 1 year ago with 25 comments
2014Apple’s First Phone, from 1983, Never Made It to Market (lowendmac.com)
141 points | 9 years ago with 54 comments
2013What No One Told You About Z-Index (philipwalton.com)
141 points | 9 years ago with 26 comments
2001Eighteenth Century English mail hacks (deadmedia.org)
141 points | 7 years ago with 36 comments
1998Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic words (groups.google.com)
141 points | 11 years ago with 82 comments
2015How to Become a Data Scientist – On Your Own (datasciencecentral.com)
141 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
1947Von Neumann’s critique of automata theory and logic in computer science (yodaiken.com)
141 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments
2006Pork's Dirty Secret (rollingstone.com)
141 points | 15 years ago with 103 comments
2015A Swiss Dress from the 16th Century (whiljascorner.wordpress.com)
141 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2016Men Without Work (time.com)
141 points | 2 years ago with 446 comments
1905Photovoltaic Solar Panels (lowtechmagazine.com)
141 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments
2010DIY ventilation heat exchanger (ecorenovator.org)
141 points | 1 year ago with 92 comments
2014Facts about smell (alicebartlett.co.uk)
141 points | 6 years ago with 42 comments
1983BYTE Magazine: The C Language (archive.org)
141 points | 10 years ago with 46 comments
2016The Math Myth (econlib.org)
141 points | 3 years ago with 316 comments
2007The Foundations of Mathematics (math.wisc.edu)
141 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2013Modes, Medians and Means: A Unifying Perspective (johnmyleswhite.com)
141 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2018Programming at the REPL (clojure.org)
141 points | 5 years ago with 121 comments
2019Android Studio’s “Code contains easter egg” inspection (wh0.github.io)
141 points | 3 years ago with 40 comments
2017The Search for the Extra Pedal (mclaren.com)
141 points | 6 years ago with 57 comments
2013Plugging a 1986 Mac Plus into the Modern Web (keacher.com)
141 points | 10 years ago with 48 comments
2012How should mathematics be taught to non-mathematicians? (gowers.wordpress.com)
141 points | 9 years ago with 86 comments
2017How cheap digital verniers work (mjt.me.uk)
141 points | 2 years ago with 94 comments
2007Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters (weblog.raganwald.com)
141 points | 10 years ago with 34 comments
1995Financial Institution Letters: Vacation Policies (fdic.gov)
141 points | 3 years ago with 88 comments
2010Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? (alan.blog-city.com)
141 points | 12 years ago with 72 comments
2014Redshift – A better flux program for Linux (techblog.jeppson.org)
141 points | 7 years ago with 81 comments
2017How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games (nautil.us)
141 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments
2017Documenting architecture: Wireshark, PlantUML and a REPL to glue them all (danlebrero.com)
141 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments
2005Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (lists.warhead.org.uk)
141 points | 10 years ago with 47 comments
2009Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why (wired.com)
141 points | 14 years ago with 60 comments
2012Fun with fluorescence in olive oil (aapt.scitation.org)
141 points | 2 years ago with 66 comments
2019Tokyo public schools will stop forcing students to dye their hair black (japantoday.com)
141 points | 4 years ago with 136 comments
2017Seeing Theory (seeing-theory.brown.edu)
141 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2017Picture Hanging Knot (blog.ukpictureframingsupplies.co.uk)
141 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
1999How my startup failed (alumni.stanford.edu)
141 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
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