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2018Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain (arstechnica.com)
690 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 15 comments
2013Paper Airplane Designs (foldnfly.com)
689 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 96 comments
2011What every computer science major should know (matt.might.net)
688 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 182 comments
2013Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big (chrisstucchio.com)
688 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 352 comments
2018Fantasy Map Generator (azgaar.github.io)
684 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 24 comments
2015I may be the only evil (bit) user on the internet (blog.benjojo.co.uk)
684 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 61 comments
2019Cool, but obscure X11 tools (cyber.dabamos.de)
679 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 257 comments
2012Parody HN Homepage (linkedlistnyc.org)
678 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments
2018Professor Frisby's mostly adequate guide to functional programming (mostly-adequate.gitbooks.io)
677 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2008A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (prog21.dadgum.com)
676 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 179 comments
1910Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (calculusmadeeasy.org)
676 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 57 comments
2013Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (bbc.com)
676 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 165 comments
2013Xerox scanners randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (dkriesel.com)
673 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 60 comments
2017Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls (blog.packagecloud.io)
666 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 63 comments
2019One week of empathy training (shkspr.mobi)
664 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 286 comments
2013JVM Internals (blog.jamesdbloom.com)
664 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 126 comments
2012“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (harmful.cat-v.org)
663 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 36 comments
2019I assure you, medieval people bathed (going-medieval.com)
661 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 340 comments
2018CPU Bugs (danluu.com)
660 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 20 comments
2018Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs (jamie-wong.com)
658 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 9 comments
2007A regular expression to check for prime numbers (noulakaz.net)
655 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 97 comments
2018How to parent more predictably (jefftk.com)
655 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 76 comments
2010Concise Electronics for Geeks (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
648 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 49 comments
2018The Church of Interruption (sambleckley.com)
647 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 95 comments
1995Does memory leak? (groups.google.com)
647 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 279 comments
2016Work only 3 hours a day, but everyday (plumshell.com)
646 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 71 comments
2018The Tools I Use to Write Books (thorstenball.com)
640 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 36 comments
2007Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (cia.gov)
635 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 17 comments
2013News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (theguardian.com)
632 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 254 comments
2015Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
631 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 156 comments
2017Org Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (karl-voit.at)
631 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 60 comments
2013Pixar's Rules of Storytelling (aerogrammestudio.com)
630 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 74 comments
2017How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game (theverge.com)
628 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2019Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-blocker changes (zdnet.com)
622 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 46 comments
2013Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go (andrewkelley.me)
621 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 44 comments
2018Why aren't there C conferences? (nullprogram.com)
619 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 184 comments
2002The case of the 500-mile email (ibiblio.org)
614 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 93 comments
2016PID Without a PhD (wescottdesign.com)
612 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 106 comments
1946Einstein: The Negro Question (onbeing.org)
610 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 123 comments
2012Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (madinamerica.com)
607 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 290 comments
2018Fibonacci Hashing: An optimization that the world forgot (probablydance.com)
607 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 62 comments
1998Cool URIs don't change (w3.org)
606 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 140 comments
2018Tesla won’t give drivers their own crash data without a court order (consumeraffairs.com)
606 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 117 comments
2014Always bet on text (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
605 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments
2015A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (ecc-comp.blogspot.com)
604 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 59 comments
2015How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (bzarg.com)
603 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2013How Doctors Die (saturdayeveningpost.com)
601 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 319 comments
2013I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (theguardian.com)
601 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 124 comments
2019AWS costs every programmer should know (david-codes.hatanian.com)
598 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 156 comments
2019Timsort (skerritt.blog)
595 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 60 comments
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