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2017Soviet Officer Stanislav Petrov, 'The Man Who Saved the World' (npr.org)
128 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
2017How did anyone do math in Roman numerals? (washingtoncitypaper.com)
128 points | 5 years ago with 124 comments
201315 Biggest Ships Create More Pollution Than All Cars in the World (industrytap.com)
128 points | 9 years ago with 65 comments
2008Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (iquilezles.org)
128 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2015The Origin of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Album Cover Art (kottke.org)
128 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
2016Invent More, Toil Less (usenix.org)
128 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments
2016Things I did wrong as a professor (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
128 points | 7 years ago with 77 comments
2007Apollo 13: the Towing Invoice (web.archive.org)
128 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2010Stalin's daughter on her life in Wisconsin (madison.com)
128 points | 6 years ago with 121 comments
2004Great Works in Programming Languages (cis.upenn.edu)
128 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments
2000Things You Should Never Do (joelonsoftware.com)
128 points | 5 years ago with 83 comments
2004The Art of Unix Usability (catb.org)
128 points | 11 years ago with 27 comments
2008Grass makes better ethanol than corn does (scientificamerican.com)
128 points | 2 years ago with 164 comments
2008How does the calculator percent key work? (blogs.msdn.com)
128 points | 10 years ago with 57 comments
2015The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson (arxiv.org)
128 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2014Programming paradigms that change how people think about coding (ybrikman.com)
128 points | 6 years ago with 27 comments
2015Becoming a Lawyer Without Going to Law School (priceonomics.com)
128 points | 7 years ago with 92 comments
2019TROS: How IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers (righto.com)
128 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments
2017NP-hard does not mean hard (jeremykun.com)
128 points | 2 years ago with 92 comments
2015Smart kids should skip high school (sonyaellenmann.com)
128 points | 4 years ago with 186 comments
1864Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (publicdomainreview.org)
128 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
1978Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (cs.cmu.edu)
128 points | 8 years ago with 107 comments
2011A Cosmonaut's Fiery Death Retold (npr.org)
128 points | 12 years ago with 45 comments
1865To My Old Master (lettersofnote.com)
128 points | 12 years ago with 32 comments
1996Setting User-Agent Field? (groups.google.com)
127 points | 4 years ago with 64 comments
2011How secure is HTTPS today? How often is it attacked? (eff.org)
127 points | 12 years ago with 20 comments
2011Quoting command line arguments the wrong way (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
127 points | 8 years ago with 147 comments
2019Inefficient Efficiency (medium.com)
127 points | 4 years ago with 64 comments
2007Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds (wired.com)
127 points | 12 years ago with 46 comments
2009Laws of Fun (lesswrong.com)
127 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments
2016Scientific Papers That Were Rejected Before Going on to Win a Nobel Prize (sciencealert.com)
127 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments
2009You can't parse [X]HTML with regex (stackoverflow.com)
127 points | 4 years ago with 130 comments
2017Photographer Jacob Riis showed “How the Other Half Lives” in 1890s NYC (mymodernmet.com)
127 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2017A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles (nullprogram.com)
127 points | 3 years ago with 63 comments
2006Strategies of Human Mating (weimag.ch)
127 points | 9 years ago with 72 comments
2008The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (brucefwebster.com)
127 points | 5 years ago with 127 comments
2017Why Isn’t Telegram End-to-End Encrypted by Default (telegra.ph)
127 points | 4 years ago with 145 comments
2012Lisp as the Maxwell’s Equations of Software (michaelnielsen.org)
127 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments
1901“Corn-Pone Opinions” by Mark Twain (paulgraham.com)
127 points | 9 years ago with 56 comments
2017Mathematics for Computer Science (opendatastructures.org)
127 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments
2012Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Done About It (forensic.belkasoft.com)
127 points | 11 years ago with 72 comments
2016Fork() without exec() is dangerous in large programs (evanjones.ca)
127 points | 3 years ago with 135 comments
2017Topology-disturbing objects: a new class of 3D optical illusion (tandfonline.com)
127 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
1992For BSD Unix, It's Sayonara (tech-insider.org)
127 points | 2 years ago with 80 comments
2012Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox (eranki.tumblr.com)
127 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments
2018Bullshit Jobs (bloomberg.com)
127 points | 5 years ago with 157 comments
2017Sorting 2 Tons of Lego (jacquesmattheij.com)
127 points | 6 years ago with 63 comments
2019Sinkholed: A DNS Horror Story (susam.net)
127 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments
2007Stuff (paulgraham.com)
127 points | 12 years ago with 94 comments
1998Adam Smith did not mean what he is often made to say (theatlantic.com)
127 points | 3 years ago with 128 comments
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