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2017Hexing the Technical Interview (aphyr.com)
866 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2013Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (npr.org)
865 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 167 comments
2015Windows 98 icons are great (alexmeub.com)
865 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 318 comments
2016A first person shooter in 571 lines of GNU Awk (github.com)
859 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 106 comments
2017Stupid Security Things (troyhunt.com)
857 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 150 comments
2016Why does calloc exist? (vorpus.org)
855 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 163 comments
2016Permission.site (permission.site)
853 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 14 comments
2019I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape (castel.dev)
851 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 76 comments
2017Reversing the Technical Interview (aphyr.com)
849 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2017The limitations of deep learning (blog.keras.io)
846 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 18 comments
2009Start all of your commands with a comma (rhodesmill.org)
845 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 121 comments
2016Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes (mzucker.github.io)
843 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 13 comments
2018The City of Seattle accidentally gave me 32M emails for $40 (mchap.io)
836 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 217 comments
2006How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (downes.ca)
827 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 33 comments
2019National Park Typeface (nationalparktypeface.com)
824 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 31 comments
1930How to Draw Animals (dessinoprimaire.blogspot.com)
819 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 95 comments
2013Project managers, ducks, and dogs marking territory (rachelbythebay.com)
811 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 57 comments
2014The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (rexegg.com)
809 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 191 comments
2012Hacker's guide to Neural Networks (karpathy.github.io)
807 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2014Typography in Alien (typesetinthefuture.com)
802 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 97 comments
2018Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea (qz.com)
798 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments
1910Calculus Made Easy (calculusmadeeasy.org)
795 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 97 comments
2019Intel's “Cripple AMD” Function (agner.org)
794 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 107 comments
2017The worst volume control UI in the world (uxdesign.cc)
785 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 477 comments
2014How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (gizmodo.com)
783 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 238 comments
2019Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years (arstechnica.com)
780 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 128 comments
2014SQLite as an Application File Format (sqlite.org)
778 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 301 comments
2017Time.gif (hookrace.net)
777 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 40 comments
2018Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine (marctenbosch.com)
772 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2018The lost art of lacing cable (thebroadcastbridge.com)
771 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 170 comments
2016HN: The Good Parts (danluu.com)
770 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 45 comments
2015Write Like You Talk (paulgraham.com)
768 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 144 comments
2019History and effective use of Vim (begriffs.com)
763 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 95 comments
2016Bicycles from Sketches (gianlucagimini.it)
759 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 95 comments
2019Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people (mcdreeamiemusings.com)
753 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 196 comments
2019Google's PageRank patent has expired (patents.google.com)
749 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 167 comments
2017The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (gizmodo.com)
749 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 171 comments
2019Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
744 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2008Print this file, your printer will jam (nedbatchelder.com)
740 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 208 comments
2013“Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robust and reliable (redsymbol.net)
739 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 142 comments
2016Let's code a TCP/IP stack (saminiir.com)
727 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2017Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly (blog.chromium.org)
725 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2016The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest (qz.com)
718 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 255 comments
2016Why SQLite succeeded as a database (changelog.com)
716 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 84 comments
2016How to Read a Paper (blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca)
715 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 40 comments
2018Slack is the opposite of organizational memory (abe-winter.github.io)
712 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 191 comments
2014What if OpenDocument used SQLite? (sqlite.org)
711 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 290 comments
2017Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple. But H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against It (propublica.org)
708 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2012Vim Clutch – A hardware pedal for improved text editing (github.com)
706 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 165 comments
2013Hexagonal Grids (redblobgames.com)
705 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 74 comments
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