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2005All 16,777,216 RGB colours (davidnaylor.org)
124 points | 4 years ago with 76 comments
2013The Tyranny of ‘The Plan' (chrisgagne.com)
124 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments
1989Tao Te Ching – Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English Translation (terebess.hu)
124 points | 2 years ago with 89 comments
2004The first image on the very first Macintosh (folklore.org)
124 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments
2016Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (eng.uber.com)
124 points | 4 years ago with 129 comments
2014How People Used to Download Games from the Radio (kotaku.co.uk)
124 points | 7 years ago with 40 comments
2001The Roots of Lisp (paulgraham.com)
124 points | 5 years ago with 90 comments
1999Among the Norse Tribes: The Remarkable Account of Ibn Fadlan (archive.aramcoworld.com)
124 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments
2006Users protest over 'creepy' Facebook update (theregister.co.uk)
124 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2016The Weirdness of Kentucky Route Zero (blog.joshhaas.com)
124 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
2019Princeton lab simulates nuclear war (sgs.princeton.edu)
124 points | 3 years ago with 273 comments
2017Chromium: Secretly stores referer and url for downloaded files (bugs.debian.org)
124 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments
2008Copy-protection for vinyl in the 1970s (currybet.net)
124 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments
2006Java call stack – from HTTP upto JDBC as a picture (ptrthomas.wordpress.com)
124 points | 7 years ago with 60 comments
2008Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt out seawater? (scientificamerican.com)
124 points | 2 years ago with 353 comments
2000QuickCheck: A Lightweight Tool for Random Testing of Haskell Programs (cs.tufts.edu)
123 points | 8 years ago with 38 comments
2015Gambiarra: repair culture (efeefe-arquivo.github.io)
123 points | 8 years ago with 37 comments
2018The Undocumented Microsoft “Rich” Header (bytepointer.com)
123 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2008In Memory of Jesse Helms and the Condom on His House (poz.com)
123 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments
2015Unix Is Not an Acceptable Unix (mkremins.github.io)
123 points | 8 years ago with 139 comments
2016The GPL-Violations.org Project (gpl-violations.org)
123 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
2011Lead Bullets (bhorowitz.com)
123 points | 12 years ago with 46 comments
2010What's wrong with 2006 programming? (oldblog.antirez.com)
123 points | 8 years ago with 52 comments
2013Your USB cable, the spy: the NSA’s catalog of surveillance magic (arstechnica.com)
123 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments
2012Brainfuck beware: JavaScript is after you (patriciopalladino.com)
123 points | 11 years ago with 37 comments
1991What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic (docs.oracle.com)
123 points | 5 years ago with 85 comments
2017Decentralized trust graph for online value exchange without a blockchain (web.archive.org)
123 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2015Oberon System Implemented on a Low-Cost FPGA Board (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
123 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2011Sorting in Japanese – An Unsolved Problem (localizingjapan.com)
123 points | 6 years ago with 112 comments
2009Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (johndcook.com)
123 points | 14 years ago with 76 comments
2012The fine art of Italian hand gestures: A vintage visual dictionary (themarginalian.org)
123 points | 3 years ago with 46 comments
2004Attacked By Thugs (idlewords.com)
123 points | 11 years ago with 115 comments
2013Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2 (arstechnica.com)
123 points | 5 years ago with 88 comments
2015The Content Marketing Handbook (priceonomics.com)
123 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2006NYC Fire Department Forcible Entry Manual (brothersinbattlellc.com)
123 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments
2014Impending kOS (archive.vector.org.uk)
123 points | 6 years ago with 84 comments
2012Growing One's Consulting Business (training.kalzumeus.com)
123 points | 10 years ago with 35 comments
2012Anthrax Guitarist Turned Master Watchmaker (hodinkee.com)
123 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
2003Why doesn’t the clock in the taskbar display seconds? (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
123 points | 8 years ago with 116 comments
2017Glass viscosity calculations debunk the myth of flow in medieval windows (ceramics.org)
123 points | 5 years ago with 160 comments
2013A Brief History of Intel CPU Microarchitectures (people.apache.org)
123 points | 10 years ago with 11 comments
1980How to Get into Farming with No Money (smallfarmersjournal.com)
123 points | 6 years ago with 42 comments
2012Mice fed a time-restricted, high-fat diet show reduced metabolic disease (sciencedirect.com)
123 points | 8 years ago with 85 comments
2006Styling with Classy CSS (thedailywtf.com)
123 points | 2 years ago with 66 comments
2009U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry (reuters.com)
123 points | 3 years ago with 305 comments
2014A Random Walk Through Ada (cowlark.com)
123 points | 9 years ago with 88 comments
2007My Life Countdown (kk.org)
123 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments
2007The Art of Programming Contest (comp.nus.edu.sg)
123 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
2005Wendy Carlos on Bob Moog (wendycarlos.com)
123 points | 4 years ago with 57 comments
2007Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (bloomberg.com)
123 points | 11 years ago with 125 comments
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