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2006“Startup Names” by Paul Graham (aux.messymatters.com)
125 points | 11 years ago with 65 comments
2015A remote island's battle against seabird-killing ants (audubon.org)
125 points | 4 years ago with 34 comments
2011How 'OK' took over the world (bbc.com)
125 points | 8 years ago with 99 comments
2017Chase had ads on 400K sites then on just 5K and got the same results (nytimes.com)
125 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
2014When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees (theatlantic.com)
125 points | 8 years ago with 75 comments
2015No sane compiler would optimize atomics (open-std.org)
125 points | 4 years ago with 250 comments
1999The In-game Economics of Ultima Online (mine-control.com)
125 points | 12 years ago with 43 comments
2012Symptoms of Groupthink (courses.washington.edu)
125 points | 5 years ago with 56 comments
1955ПП-BESM – a Soviet language (xav.io)
125 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
2012Linux on an 8-bit micro (dmitry.gr)
125 points | 10 years ago with 44 comments
2013Interface Builder's Alternative Lisp Timeline (paulhammant.com)
125 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments
2005The Calculus Trap (artofproblemsolving.com)
125 points | 6 years ago with 58 comments
2018The Accidental HFT Firm (web.archive.org)
125 points | 2 years ago with 90 comments
2016An introduction to libuv (nikhilm.github.io)
125 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2013Usenet Tradecraft: Survival in an Extremely Adversarial Environment (grugq.github.io)
125 points | 9 years ago with 46 comments
2017Adventure Games and Eigenvalues (evanmiller.org)
125 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2008Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof (perlmonks.org)
125 points | 12 years ago with 38 comments
2012A review of Dominion, 4000 plays later (dominionstrategy.com)
125 points | 4 years ago with 74 comments
20113D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (nothings.org)
125 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments
2005Windows 1.0 and the Applications of Tomorrow (charlespetzold.com)
125 points | 11 years ago with 64 comments
2018What Is Systems Programming, Really? (willcrichton.net)
125 points | 2 years ago with 76 comments
2015Defining the Undefinedness of C (fsl.cs.illinois.edu)
124 points | 8 years ago with 88 comments
2018Full cycle developers – Operate what you build (netflixtechblog.com)
124 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
1989What's hidden in the hidden layers? (cs.cmu.edu)
124 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
2019Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (macadie.net)
124 points | 4 years ago with 123 comments
2016How MSG Got a Bad Rap (fivethirtyeight.com)
124 points | 6 years ago with 173 comments
2014How Netflix Reinvented HR (hbr.org)
124 points | 9 years ago with 112 comments
2009All about Linux signals (linuxprogrammingblog.com)
124 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
1975How to Entertain with Your Pocket Calculator (archive.org)
124 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
2005Just another Apollo? Part two (thespacereview.com)
124 points | 3 years ago with 118 comments
2009Body by Victoria (hackerfactor.com)
124 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments
2012Old Techies Never Die; They Just Can’t Get Hired as an Industry Moves On (nytimes.com)
124 points | 10 years ago with 132 comments
2010The Benefits of Thinking Small (blog.eladgil.com)
124 points | 7 years ago with 32 comments
1982Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (archive.org)
124 points | 4 years ago with 84 comments
2007Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours (en.wikibooks.org)
124 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2019Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction into High Art (theringer.com)
124 points | 4 years ago with 142 comments
2013Foucault’s lecture notes from 1970–71 demolish caricatures of his thought (thenewinquiry.com)
124 points | 10 years ago with 132 comments
2014Challenging Clojure in Common Lisp (chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com)
124 points | 8 years ago with 75 comments
1999Hugh Laurie: Wodehouse Saved my Life (pgwodehousebooks.com)
124 points | 12 years ago with 56 comments
2013WWII Propaganda Popularized Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (smithsonianmag.com)
124 points | 6 years ago with 84 comments
2018Pinocchio Dies, Bambi Gets Shot, and Other Changes to Disney Movies (saturdayeveningpost.com)
124 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments
2016Why did a humpback whale save a seal's life? (sciencemag.org)
124 points | 6 years ago with 96 comments
1999Hey Ho, GIFs Must Go (theatlantic.com)
124 points | 6 years ago with 122 comments
2017The Perils and Pleasures of Bartending in Antarctica (atlasobscura.com)
124 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2012Good Sleep, Good Learning (super-memory.com)
124 points | 9 years ago with 27 comments
2018Beyond Markdown (johnmacfarlane.net)
124 points | 2 years ago with 126 comments
1987The Beginning of the Monte Carlo Method (fermatslibrary.com)
124 points | 7 years ago with 31 comments
1985How to Write with Style (peterstekel.com)
124 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments
2018Does Parkinson’s Begin in the Gut? (scientificamerican.com)
124 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments
2016My diatribe against “skeptics” (johnhorgan.org)
124 points | 2 years ago with 201 comments
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