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2018March 5, 1981: Timex Sinclair ZX81 Launched (dayintechhistory.com)
108 points | 3 years ago with 81 comments
1992Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (theparisreview.org)
108 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
2017From zero to hero: contributing to open source (miparnisariblog.wordpress.com)
108 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments
2012Crazy fast build times, or when 10 seconds starts to make you nervous (dan.bodar.com)
108 points | 4 years ago with 137 comments
2017The Viterbi Algorithm at 50 (viterbischool.usc.edu)
108 points | 2 years ago with 25 comments
1999Unskilled and Unaware of It (psych.colorado.edu)
108 points | 7 years ago with 82 comments
2009Why Are Carrots Orange? It Is Political (nextnature.net)
108 points | 10 years ago with 37 comments
2012Raise the Crime Rate (nplusonemag.com)
108 points | 11 years ago with 76 comments
2014The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Plutocrats (politico.com)
108 points | 5 years ago with 109 comments
2015The idea maze for AI startups (cdixon.org)
108 points | 2 years ago with 41 comments
2016Eight Secret Societies (smithsonianmag.com)
108 points | 3 years ago with 109 comments
2013Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia (pnas.org)
108 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments
2019Disintermediating friends: Online dating displaces other ways of meeting (web.stanford.edu)
108 points | 4 years ago with 152 comments
2006OCaml for the Skeptical: OCaml in a Nutshell (www2.lib.uchicago.edu)
108 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments
2009The case for working with your hands (nytimes.com)
108 points | 5 years ago with 59 comments
2012Homotopy Type Theory (hottheory.files.wordpress.com)
108 points | 5 years ago with 87 comments
2017Visions of Alt-Berlin in “Man in the High Castle” (mitsap.medium.com)
108 points | 4 years ago with 53 comments
2015Clojure Don’ts: Lazy Effects (stuartsierra.com)
108 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments
2007Weird and Innovative Chips (cpushack.com)
108 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2007Scroogled (blogoscoped.com)
108 points | 13 years ago with 26 comments
2017What was the original reason for the design of AT&T assembly syntax? (stackoverflow.com)
108 points | 4 years ago with 58 comments
2011Why is subtracting these two times in 1927 giving a strange result? (stackoverflow.com)
108 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments
2016One of the earliest science fiction books was written by a 1660s duchess (atlasobscura.com)
108 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments
2016The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA symbol, /ɧ/ (possessivesuffix.tumblr.com)
108 points | 5 years ago with 150 comments
2002MinUnit – A minimal unit testing framework for C (jera.com)
108 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments
2016The “Majority Illusion” in Social Networks (journals.plos.org)
108 points | 5 years ago with 75 comments
2018A $10B Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota (smithsonianmag.com)
108 points | 5 years ago with 133 comments
1899The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (gutenberg.org)
108 points | 8 years ago with 75 comments
2009Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (reuters.com)
108 points | 10 years ago with 96 comments
2016What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? (mcmansionhell.com)
108 points | 7 years ago with 103 comments
2010Human-powered cranes and lifting devices (lowtechmagazine.com)
108 points | 7 years ago with 25 comments
2016555 timer teardown: inside the most popular IC (righto.com)
108 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2019Applied Category Theory: Textbook (ocw.mit.edu)
108 points | 2 years ago with 15 comments
2012Dynamic Programming in Python: Bayesian Blocks (jakevdp.github.io)
108 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments
2016Indigenous community built a DIY drone to fight off illegal loggers (qz.com)
108 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
1989Ada implementation of an X Window System Server (sci-hub.se)
108 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments
2004The trip to federal prison from court to your new bed (prisontalk.com)
108 points | 11 years ago with 43 comments
2014Tuple Space (wiki.c2.com)
108 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments
2011The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix (spectrum.ieee.org)
108 points | 9 years ago with 35 comments
1995A skyscraper that could have toppled over in the wind (newyorker.com)
108 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2014To make programming easier, first be conscious of what makes it hard (lighttable.com)
107 points | 4 years ago with 82 comments
2017Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead (blog.filippo.io)
107 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
2005How to Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML (hsivonen.fi)
107 points | 9 years ago with 244 comments
2014Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest (www3.imperial.ac.uk)
107 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments
2016The Evolution of Web Design (fabianburghardt.de)
107 points | 6 years ago with 27 comments
2013UCLA floor tiles decoded, pay homage to first internet message (newsroom.ucla.edu)
107 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2015“My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (digitalrepublik.com)
107 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments
2012How statically linked programs run on Linux (eli.thegreenplace.net)
107 points | 11 years ago with 7 comments
2005Bit gold (unenumerated.blogspot.co.uk)
107 points | 11 years ago with 88 comments
2015Teddy Roosevelt pursues the boat thieves (nps.gov)
107 points | 1 year ago with 60 comments
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