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2016Why I'm using Fossil SCM instead of other source control systems (andreiclinciu.net)
100 points | 3 years ago with 126 comments
2010How do I delete bytes from the beginning of a file? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
100 points | 6 years ago with 86 comments
2013CamelCase vs. underscores revisited (whatheco.de)
100 points | 2 years ago with 257 comments
1989Stack Computers: the new wave (ece.cmu.edu)
100 points | 13 years ago with 37 comments
2012The Personal Analytics of My Life (wired.com)
100 points | 4 years ago with 21 comments
1854Life Without Principle (thoreau.eserver.org)
100 points | 11 years ago with 16 comments
2012Hardware Isn't Generally Copyrightable (web.archive.org)
100 points | 5 years ago with 56 comments
2014The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary (bbc.com)
100 points | 9 years ago with 41 comments
2015On journeys (lcamtuf.blogspot.com)
100 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments
2007Why the iPhone will fail (suckbusters2.blogspot.com)
100 points | 15 years ago with 87 comments
2019Exercises for understanding Haskell Lenses (williamyaoh.com)
100 points | 2 years ago with 81 comments
2006My Most Important C++ Aha Moments (artima.com)
100 points | 9 years ago with 81 comments
1981Jim Blinn and Ed Catmull – graphics class at Berkeley (youtube.com)
100 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2013An insect that has the only mechanical gears ever found in nature (smithsonianmag.com)
100 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2003Implementing VisiCalc (landley.net)
100 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2013What polymorphism and garbage collection have in common (okmij.org)
100 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2011Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (forbes.com)
100 points | 5 years ago with 148 comments
1992The birth of Prolog (alain.colmerauer.free.fr)
100 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments
201799% code coverage (rachelcarmena.github.io)
100 points | 6 years ago with 97 comments
2014The vanished grandeur of accounting (bostonglobe.com)
100 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
1999Who Can Name the Bigger Number? (scottaaronson.com)
100 points | 5 years ago with 43 comments
1999Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. Why? (st.cs.uni-saarland.de)
100 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments
2002The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution (msl1.mit.edu)
100 points | 8 years ago with 65 comments
2014Teacher spends two days as a student (washingtonpost.com)
100 points | 8 years ago with 103 comments
2010Dublin Core's dirty little secret (reprog.wordpress.com)
100 points | 4 years ago with 53 comments
2019What is: Linux keyring, gnome-keyring, Secret Service, and D-Bus (rtfm.co.ua)
100 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments
2009Information, Physics and Computation (web.stanford.edu)
100 points | 9 years ago with 14 comments
2017Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photos of Japanese American Internment Camps (anchoreditions.com)
100 points | 6 years ago with 66 comments
2008Assertions in Production Code? (drdobbs.com)
100 points | 7 years ago with 87 comments
2019The Dangers of Dimethylmercury (chemistryworld.com)
100 points | 3 years ago with 77 comments
2013How to use Gmail more efficiently (klinger.io)
100 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments
1984A Generative Grammar for Jazz Chord Sequences (sci-hub.tf)
100 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
1993Inside the Windows Messaging System (drdobbs.com)
100 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments
2011Make a document look like it was written by a Cthulhu-worshipping madman? (tex.stackexchange.com)
100 points | 4 years ago with 4 comments
2012Happiness and the Art of Being (happinessofbeing.com)
100 points | 3 years ago with 71 comments
2009Levels of programmers (codinghorror.com)
100 points | 13 years ago with 38 comments
2014Hints for Writing Unix Tools (monkey.org)
100 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2017Scientific integrity in a climate of perverse incentives and competition (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
100 points | 3 years ago with 18 comments
2014Are you breathing? Do you have email apnea? (lindastone.net)
100 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
2009How does our language shape the way we think? (edge.org)
100 points | 12 years ago with 62 comments
1974Representing Graphs by Knuth Trees (cs.virginia.edu)
100 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2019Why Alexa won't wake up when hearing "Alexa" in Amazon's Super Bowl ad (amazon.science)
100 points | 2 years ago with 119 comments
2012It is time to stop teaching frequentism to non-statisticians (arxiv.org)
100 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments
2011Logic is Metaphysics (philpapers.org)
100 points | 7 years ago with 60 comments
2015Give Yourself More Playtime (martinrue.com)
100 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
1981Flipping your Disk (atarimagazines.com)
100 points | 6 years ago with 61 comments
2003Interview with Dennis Ritchie (anders.unix.se)
100 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2018DIY High Resolution Spectrometer (publiclab.org)
100 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2017PulseAudio Under the Hood (gavv.github.io)
100 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments
2012The Making Of “Homer At The Bat,” The Episode That Conquered Prime Time (deadspin.com)
100 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments
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