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1997The Internet Free Zone (arachnoid.com)
119 points | 2 years ago with 41 comments
2017Why you should re-read Paradise Lost (bbc.com)
119 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments
2017Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (theatlantic.com)
119 points | 6 years ago with 156 comments
2018Make Patterns Pop Out of Heatmaps with Seriation (nicolas.kruchten.com)
119 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2019JVM Anatomy Quark #10: String.intern (shipilev.net)
119 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2014Halo was written with a Lisp dialect called blamscript (opencarnage.net)
119 points | 6 years ago with 36 comments
1998How Complex Systems Fail (ctlab.org)
119 points | 11 years ago with 16 comments
2016The Riemann Hypothesis, explained (medium.com)
119 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2017Software Rot (geoff.greer.fm)
119 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments
2013A few examples of Lisp code typography (kazimirmajorinc.com)
119 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments
2007HTML Design Principles (w3.org)
119 points | 2 years ago with 41 comments
2019For many widows, the hardest part is mealtime (nytimes.com)
119 points | 2 years ago with 121 comments
2001Confessions of a Car Salesman (edmunds.com)
119 points | 10 years ago with 52 comments
2006What Gives Gold that Mellow Glow? (fourmilab.ch)
119 points | 11 years ago with 23 comments
1993A Cypherpunk's Manifesto (w2.eff.org)
119 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2018Why Skylake CPUs Are Sometimes 50% Slower (aloiskraus.wordpress.com)
119 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments
2011Lead Bullets (a16z.com)
119 points | 8 years ago with 43 comments
2018Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity (themarshallproject.org)
119 points | 4 years ago with 90 comments
2012Sculpting text with regex, grep, sed, awk, emacs and vim (matt.might.net)
119 points | 11 years ago with 32 comments
2010Pendulum Waves (sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu)
119 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2016A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning (meltingasphalt.com)
119 points | 2 years ago with 226 comments
2014Estimate the size of your English vocabulary (vocabulary.ugent.be)
119 points | 6 years ago with 108 comments
2015Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (joearms.github.io)
119 points | 5 years ago with 81 comments
2013Keeping a Lab Notebook [pdf] (training.nih.gov)
118 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments
2015Can I exec a new process without an executable file? (unix.stackexchange.com)
118 points | 3 years ago with 42 comments
1985Weizsäcker's speech on 40th anniversary of WW2's end (bundespraesident.de)
118 points | 5 years ago with 105 comments
2015Nothing Is Cheaper Than Proof of Work (truthcoin.info)
118 points | 7 years ago with 114 comments
2008Using uninitialized memory for fun and profit (research.swtch.com)
118 points | 2 years ago with 65 comments
2013Give in to Procrastination and Stop Prefetching (people.csail.mit.edu)
118 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
2015Czech Passive Radar Detecting B-2 at 150 miles (defence-blog.com)
118 points | 5 years ago with 119 comments
2015What's worked in Computer Science (danluu.com)
118 points | 7 years ago with 62 comments
1999How to Get Rich (edge.org)
118 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2014Implementing and Understanding Type Classes (okmij.org)
118 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments
2005Why Reddit switched to Python (blog.reddit.com)
118 points | 13 years ago with 42 comments
2017Switching from Common Lisp to Julia (tamaspapp.eu)
118 points | 6 years ago with 81 comments
2009Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (infoq.com)
118 points | 10 years ago with 21 comments
2006The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (codinghorror.com)
118 points | 11 years ago with 27 comments
2019Flight characteristics of anomalous unidentified aerial vehicles (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
118 points | 3 years ago with 116 comments
1998Why Ada isn't Popular (adapower.com)
118 points | 11 years ago with 112 comments
2014How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company (priceonomics.com)
118 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2019Linux Capabilities in a nutshell (k3a.me)
118 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
2003Will Coke Dissolve a Nail? (joshmadison.com)
118 points | 9 years ago with 99 comments
2001Atari Vax Mail, Memos and Status Reports: 1982-1992 (jmargolin.com)
118 points | 9 years ago with 33 comments
2015Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive? (nytimes.com)
118 points | 7 years ago with 92 comments
2013SaaS Pricing (training.kalzumeus.com)
118 points | 8 years ago with 22 comments
1984Early computer art by Barbara Nessim (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
118 points | 2 years ago with 5 comments
2015Urine, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes in Pools (smithsonianmag.com)
118 points | 7 years ago with 93 comments
2016The Origin of Banking (jonathanstray.com)
118 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2018The cyanide tooth is a cold war fairy-tale (atlasobscura.com)
118 points | 2 years ago with 145 comments
1975“Houston, We've Had a Problem” (hq.nasa.gov)
118 points | 10 years ago with 47 comments
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