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2017UV B LEDs More Effective in Producing Vitamin D3 in Human Skin (nature.com)
107 points | 5 years ago with 66 comments
2008They told you not to reply (voices.washingtonpost.com)
107 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments
1970The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved (liamk.org)
107 points | 11 years ago with 60 comments
2001The Cornell Note-taking System (lsc.cornell.edu)
107 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
2016Leaving Spellcheck Enabled Is a Privacy Risk (github.com)
107 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2008EFF's “Yellow Dots of Mystery” (eff.org)
107 points | 10 years ago with 30 comments
1959A Corner in Piggly Wiggly (newyorker.com)
107 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments
2015How both TCP and Ethernet checksums fail (evanjones.ca)
107 points | 8 years ago with 43 comments
2016Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon Valley (computerhistory.org)
107 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2000Signal Processing for Everyone (www-math.mit.edu)
107 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments
2018Bats in Portuguese Libraries (smithsonianmag.com)
107 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2018On ELF, Part 2 (kestrelcomputer.github.io)
107 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2014The Upspin manifesto: On the ownership and sharing of data (commandcenter.blogspot.com)
107 points | 8 years ago with 34 comments
2017Diabetes Drug Metformin Reduces All-Cause Mortality and Diseases of Aging (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
107 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments
2016The way out of burnout (economist.com)
107 points | 2 years ago with 84 comments
1900Tesla: Art of Transmitting Electrical Energy through the Natural Mediums (patents.google.com)
107 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
2015First unmanned factory takes shape in Dongguan City (en.people.cn)
107 points | 8 years ago with 61 comments
1961Marvin Minsky: Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence (worrydream.com)
107 points | 9 years ago with 1 comments
2013What Happened to Jai Alai? (sbnation.com)
107 points | 2 years ago with 138 comments
2012Android Full Disk Encryption Cold Boot Attack (www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de)
107 points | 9 years ago with 49 comments
2013Fast Non-Standard Data Structures for Python (kmike.ru)
107 points | 10 years ago with 2 comments
2007A History of Erlang (dl.acm.org)
107 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments
2019Mind Grenade (fourmilab.ch)
107 points | 2 years ago with 23 comments
20192450MHz radiation induces stress and anxiety like behavior in rats (sciencedirect.com)
107 points | 4 years ago with 90 comments
2018The first thing that ever sold online was pizza (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
107 points | 3 years ago with 85 comments
2015Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing (eff.org)
107 points | 7 years ago with 89 comments
2009Godson-3: A Scalable Multicore RISC Processor with x86 Emulation (computer.org)
107 points | 6 years ago with 30 comments
2006Why Systems Programmers Still Use C (bitc-lang.org)
107 points | 13 years ago with 63 comments
2015I requested my photographs from the Department of Homeland Security (arstechnica.com)
107 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments
1999“That Deep Romantic Chasm”: Libertarianism and the Computer Culture (uvm.edu)
107 points | 6 years ago with 91 comments
2009Technology is Heroin (whattofix.com)
107 points | 12 years ago with 25 comments
2003How to Index Anything (linuxjournal.com)
107 points | 3 years ago with 8 comments
2012Haskell Is Exceptionally Unsafe (existentialtype.wordpress.com)
107 points | 11 years ago with 122 comments
2013Dirk's Lego Globe (mocpages.com)
107 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
2019Wi-LE: Can WiFi replace Bluetooth? (web.cs.ucla.edu)
107 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments
1990Taxonomies of Visual Programming (cs.cmu.edu)
107 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments
2016Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (goughlui.com)
107 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2010C0, an Imperative Programming Language for Novice Computer Scientists (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
106 points | 8 years ago with 111 comments
2010$vau: the ultimate abstraction (web.wpi.edu)
106 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2019How Big Pharma reaps profits while hurting everyday Americans (americanprogress.org)
106 points | 2 years ago with 65 comments
2019A Soviet test pilot ejected two seconds before the crash of his MiG-29 (theaviationgeekclub.com)
106 points | 3 years ago with 104 comments
2016The Code It Yourself Manifesto (pestilenz.org)
106 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments
2015Understanding LSTM Networks (colah.github.io)
106 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
2014Snibgo's ImageMagick Pages (im.snibgo.com)
106 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments
2008“Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape (blog.rjmetrics.com)
106 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2005Tantrums as Status Symbols (marginalrevolution.com)
106 points | 9 years ago with 59 comments
2011How To Get Your First 1,000 Users (viniciusvacanti.com)
106 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments
2017An Algorithmic Solution to Insomnia (ilya.sukhar.com)
106 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2019Video Games Inspire Great UX (jenson.org)
106 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments
1945As We May Think (theatlantic.com)
106 points | 13 years ago with 34 comments
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