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2010Bill Thurston's answer to “What's a mathematician to do?” (mathoverflow.net)
104 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2018“Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” asks Goldman Sachs (arstechnica.com)
104 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments
2014Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film (extension765.com)
104 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments
2011Magnetic core memory reborn (corememoryshield.com)
104 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments
1986The CIA's Deadly Deceits and the Vietnam War, with Ralph McGehee (ourhiddenhistory.org)
104 points | 4 years ago with 65 comments
1974Forth: A New Way to Program a Mini Computer (articles.adsabs.harvard.edu)
104 points | 3 years ago with 58 comments
2012Kindle DX as E-Ink computer monitor (tinyapps.org)
104 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments
2008Star Trek 1971 Text Game (codeproject.com)
104 points | 11 years ago with 34 comments
2012STON – Smalltalk Object Notation (github.com)
104 points | 8 years ago with 59 comments
2011A History of the Erlang VM (erlang-factory.com)
104 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
2002The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (nber.org)
104 points | 7 years ago with 99 comments
2007How Good Was Napoleon? (historytoday.com)
104 points | 10 years ago with 79 comments
2016Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter (arxiv.org)
104 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2017Alice and Bob: A History of the World’s Most Famous Cryptographic Couple (cryptocouple.com)
104 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2009The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown (wired.com)
104 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2011Where the top of the stack is on x86 (eli.thegreenplace.net)
104 points | 4 years ago with 66 comments
2008Why monads have not taken the Common Lisp world by storm (marijnhaverbeke.nl)
104 points | 11 years ago with 49 comments
2019The origins of cannabis smoking: evidence from the first millennium BCE (science.org)
104 points | 4 years ago with 61 comments
2011Spotting Field Sabotage in Meetings (whatsthepont.com)
104 points | 7 years ago with 36 comments
2005Don’t Take My Folders Away: Organizing Personal Info to Get Things Done (digital.lib.washington.edu)
104 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments
2014Difference Between Fault Tolerance, High Availability, Disaster Recovery (pbenson.net)
104 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2019The Haskell Phrasebook (typeclasses.com)
104 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2009Why Twitter is a Big Deal (paulgraham.com)
104 points | 12 years ago with 43 comments
2012Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (pnas.org)
104 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
2014Surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored (righto.com)
104 points | 3 years ago with 70 comments
2008Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code (angg.twu.net)
104 points | 5 years ago with 53 comments
1996The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering (sigchi.org)
104 points | 9 years ago with 72 comments
2009Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right (news.cnet.com)
104 points | 13 years ago with 70 comments
2015Automatic Algorithms Optimization via Fast Matrix Exponentiation (kukuruku.co)
104 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2012Have we forgotten to make heat traps? (esbe.eu)
104 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments
2016How to Allocate Memory (geocar.sdf1.org)
104 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2019A new way to make quadratic equations easy (technologyreview.com)
104 points | 3 years ago with 73 comments
2015The Beautiful Network of Ancient Roman Roads (atlasobscura.com)
104 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2014Academic urban legends (journals.sagepub.com)
104 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments
2012Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades (wired.com)
104 points | 10 years ago with 28 comments
2011Typography in 8 bits: System fonts (damieng.com)
104 points | 11 years ago with 17 comments
2017SimCities and SimCrises (molleindustria.org)
104 points | 4 years ago with 77 comments
2014Apple's Great GPL Purge (meta.ath0.com)
104 points | 9 years ago with 120 comments
2017A FactoryFactoryFactory in Production (stevenheidel.medium.com)
104 points | 2 years ago with 99 comments
2016Prolog Web Applications (metalevel.at)
104 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
1997Does OO really match the way we think (leshatton.org)
104 points | 8 years ago with 239 comments
1994The Way Things Work CD-ROM (archive.org)
104 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2019A cartographer drew a freehand map of North America (atlasobscura.com)
104 points | 1 year ago with 45 comments
2004NASA Software Safety Guidebook (hq.nasa.gov)
104 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments
2012Do the math: too much calculus? (washingtonpost.com)
104 points | 9 years ago with 212 comments
1969An Interview with Stanley Kubrick (visual-memory.co.uk)
104 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments
2017USB-C Easy Bake Oven (reclaimerlabs.com)
104 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments
2017On the trail of the 'Johatsu,' Japan's 'evaporated people' (time.com)
104 points | 2 years ago with 44 comments
2016Lessons from 20 years of hype cycles (linkedin.com)
104 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
2014100 Years Ago, a Telephone Tower in Stockholm Connected 5000 Phone Lines (twistedsifter.com)
104 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
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