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2005Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (randomhacks.net)
139 points | 9 years ago with 113 comments
2016Taking PHP Seriously (slack.engineering)
139 points | 4 years ago with 138 comments
2013Downsampling Time Series for Visual Representation [pdf] (skemman.is)
139 points | 4 years ago with 32 comments
2015A 1950s proposal to nuke Alaska (atlasobscura.com)
139 points | 5 years ago with 144 comments
2018How Crossrail was affected by the curvature of the Earth (ianvisits.co.uk)
139 points | 3 years ago with 54 comments
2013OAuth1, OAuth2, OAuth..? (homakov.blogspot.com)
139 points | 10 years ago with 45 comments
2009How do trains stay on track? (materials.mcmaster.ca)
139 points | 10 years ago with 29 comments
2015Babies On Display: When a Hospital Couldn't Save Them, a Sideshow Did (npr.org)
139 points | 8 years ago with 45 comments
2014Life is a game, this is your strategy guide (oliveremberton.com)
139 points | 2 years ago with 109 comments
1982Photos from the Surface of Venus (twitter.com)
139 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments
2009Cloudflare Beta (projecthoneypot.org)
139 points | 3 years ago with 46 comments
2014Let’s write a Kernel with keyboard and screen support (arjunsreedharan.org)
139 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments
2012What will programming look like in 2020? (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
139 points | 4 years ago with 146 comments
2005Logarithmic Maps of the Universe (astro.princeton.edu)
139 points | 4 years ago with 34 comments
2014Open Decision-Making (web.stanford.edu)
139 points | 4 years ago with 37 comments
2018"Attention is all you need" paper digested (youtube.com)
139 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
2017ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications (bailis.org)
139 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
2019A second look at "no code" tools (webflow.com)
139 points | 4 years ago with 154 comments
2017How to Tell a Mathematician You Love Them (mathwithbaddrawings.com)
139 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2018F# Data Type Providers in .Net Core (lukemerrett.com)
139 points | 5 years ago with 95 comments
2017I Lost My Past (glineq.blogspot.com)
139 points | 3 years ago with 175 comments
2013Evidence that parasite prevalence predicts authoritarianism (journals.plos.org)
139 points | 5 years ago with 86 comments
2014Ginger milk curd (blog.khymos.org)
139 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments
2017Britain’s destruction and concealment of colonial records (tandfonline.com)
139 points | 4 years ago with 71 comments
2017An Afternoon in Tokyo with the Man Who Designs Casio G-Shock Watches (ablogtowatch.com)
139 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments
2014Effects on the lips of horn players seated too close to the timpani (newt.phys.unsw.edu.au)
139 points | 2 years ago with 50 comments
2012Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (250bpm.com)
139 points | 3 years ago with 100 comments
2013Amputated fingertips sometimes grow back (npr.org)
138 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments
1996A Unified Mathematical Language for Physics and Engineering (mrao.cam.ac.uk)
138 points | 11 years ago with 29 comments
2007The art of sharpening pencils (matthewjamestaylor.com)
138 points | 3 years ago with 25 comments
2007Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (greem.co.uk)
138 points | 2 years ago with 49 comments
2010Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950 (scientificamerican.com)
138 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments
2018Philosophy of the GNU Project (gnu.org)
138 points | 4 years ago with 113 comments
2015Your live coding demo is boring me (inconshreveable.com)
138 points | 6 years ago with 88 comments
1992On the Typography of Flight-Deck Documentation (ti.arc.nasa.gov)
138 points | 12 years ago with 27 comments
2012Re: MemSQL the “world's fastest database”? (postgresql.org)
138 points | 11 years ago with 45 comments
2012From Java code to Java heap (ibm.com)
138 points | 9 years ago with 85 comments
2007Sleep and Mortality: A Population-Based 22-Year Follow-Up Study (fermatslibrary.com)
138 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments
2016Clojure – Fascinated, Disappointed, Astonished (lewandowski.io)
138 points | 5 years ago with 112 comments
2016The Interstellar Style of Sun Ra (pitchfork.com)
138 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2015The high-frequency trading arms race: frequent batch auctions (academic.oup.com)
138 points | 4 years ago with 87 comments
1959Feynman: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (zyvex.com)
138 points | 11 years ago with 35 comments
2018The story of the PDF (vice.com)
138 points | 5 years ago with 91 comments
2014The Wire in HD (davidsimon.com)
138 points | 4 years ago with 120 comments
2015State considered harmful: A proposal for a stateless laptop (blog.invisiblethings.org)
138 points | 7 years ago with 65 comments
2018How France Changed the Tides of the American Revolution (battlefields.org)
138 points | 2 years ago with 107 comments
2005Lost in the Meritocracy (theatlantic.com)
138 points | 12 years ago with 61 comments
2012What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (tor.com)
138 points | 8 years ago with 85 comments
2013The Future of Standard ML (cs.cmu.edu)
138 points | 9 years ago with 79 comments
2018How to buck a tree: Cutting logs for maximum yield (thebalancesmb.com)
138 points | 3 years ago with 42 comments
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