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2009Toilet Paper History: How America Convinced the World to Wipe (mentalfloss.com)
102 points | 7 years ago with 100 comments
2019Tcled: Pure Tcl Console Text Editor (github.com)
102 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments
2018Passing for Human: Philip K. Dick in Vancouver (bctimeslip.skullcrackersuite.org)
102 points | 2 years ago with 68 comments
2009Dammit LinkedIn, I'm a college dropout (paulholmes.ca)
102 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments
2011Boolean parameters to API functions considered harmful (jlebar.com)
102 points | 10 years ago with 82 comments
2015Intro to graph compression techniques for in-memory graph computation (cs.umd.edu)
102 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2001Why Plan 9? (marc.info)
102 points | 9 years ago with 53 comments
2019Visual programming with Elixir: Learning to write binary parsers (hansonkd.medium.com)
102 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2001Why Unicode Won’t Work on the Internet (hastingsresearch.com)
102 points | 9 years ago with 110 comments
2014The Eccentric Lives of Steinhaus, Banach and Ulam (culture.pl)
102 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2012Social Login Buttons Aren't Worth It (blog.mailchimp.com)
102 points | 11 years ago with 74 comments
2012Your Body Wasn’t Built To Last: A Lesson From Human Mortality Rates (singularityhub.com)
102 points | 10 years ago with 152 comments
2011Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (kalzumeus.com)
102 points | 11 years ago with 44 comments
2011A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (lesswrong.com)
102 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments
1996To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus (dkeenan.com)
102 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
2013Toyota's killer firmware: Bad design and its consequences (edn.com)
102 points | 10 years ago with 71 comments
2015What happened to all the non-programmers? (benkuhn.net)
102 points | 5 years ago with 120 comments
2012What “Worse is Better vs. The Right Thing” is really about (yosefk.com)
102 points | 9 years ago with 35 comments
2011Ebtrees: Elastic Binary Trees (wtarreau.blogspot.com)
102 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
201350 Bytes of Code That Took 4 GB to Compile (randomascii.wordpress.com)
102 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments
2007When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (craphound.com)
102 points | 11 years ago with 18 comments
1931Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (fermatslibrary.com)
102 points | 8 years ago with 71 comments
2011Mr. Rodgers's Neighborhood (nilerodgers.com)
102 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2019Machu Picchu was built over major fault zones (science.org)
102 points | 4 years ago with 46 comments
2001The Tyranny of Nicespeak (web.archive.org)
102 points | 2 years ago with 102 comments
2011Introduction to Algorithms (youtube.com)
102 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2013Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (journals.plos.org)
102 points | 7 years ago with 45 comments
2000A Visual Approach to Calculus Problems (mamikon.com)
102 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments
2012How Eduardo Saverin sold Facebook ads in 2004 (digiday.com)
102 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments
1998The myth of the $600 hammer (govexec.com)
101 points | 2 years ago with 185 comments
2000An Introduction to Quantum Computation and Quantum Communication (herpolhode.com)
101 points | 7 years ago with 1 comments
2015The Impacts of Video Games on Cognition (greenlab.psych.wisc.edu)
101 points | 8 years ago with 84 comments
2009Physics, Topology, Logic, and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (arxiv.org)
101 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
1972The Limits to Growth (donellameadows.org)
101 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments
2012EFI Sucks (plus.google.com)
101 points | 7 years ago with 72 comments
2010Humans Who See Time (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
101 points | 9 years ago with 53 comments
2015Differentiation Under Integral Sign (web.williams.edu)
101 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2017Tupolev Tu-144: The Soviets' doomed rival to Concorde (edition.cnn.com)
101 points | 4 years ago with 136 comments
2008Implementing strcmp, strlen, and strstr using SSE 4.2 instructions (strchr.com)
101 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
2008Linear Circuit Design Handbook (analog.com)
101 points | 4 years ago with 37 comments
2014What I would do if I ran Tarsnap (kalzumeus.com)
101 points | 2 years ago with 84 comments
2014Cycling: Why Tunnels are Better than Bridges (notechmagazine.com)
101 points | 3 years ago with 72 comments
1911Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months (timesmachine.nytimes.com)
101 points | 9 years ago with 91 comments
2007Bytecode interpreters for tiny computers (dercuano.github.io)
101 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments
1999DIY Spectrum Analyzer 0 to 1750MHz (lea.hamradio.si)
101 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
1982An Overview of TUNIS: A UNIX Look-Alike Written in Concurrent Euclid (archive.org)
101 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments
2014GEMM: From Pure C to SSE Optimized Micro Kernels (apfel.mathematik.uni-ulm.de)
101 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
2019Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This (nytimes.com)
101 points | 4 years ago with 101 comments
2002Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
101 points | 4 years ago with 61 comments
2009Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” (byorgey.wordpress.com)
101 points | 4 years ago with 79 comments
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