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1922Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son (gutenberg.org)
98 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
1994The Netscape Dorm (jwz.org)
98 points | 14 years ago with 28 comments
2014Seven deadly sins of talking about “types” (cl.cam.ac.uk)
98 points | 5 years ago with 86 comments
2014A Theory of Jerks (aeon.co)
98 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments
1995How to ensure that your program does not run under Windows 95 (ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com)
98 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2010Take It to the Limit (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
98 points | 11 years ago with 14 comments
2006Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts Are Broken (research.googleblog.com)
98 points | 8 years ago with 86 comments
2015I am the fold (iamthefold.com)
98 points | 1 year ago with 43 comments
2016On Having No Head: Cognition Throughout Biological Systems (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
98 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2017The Health Hazards of Plug-In Air Fresheners (indoordoctor.com)
98 points | 4 years ago with 98 comments
2017Japanese Play-by-Postcard RPGs: Net Games (dampfkraft.com)
98 points | 6 years ago with 33 comments
2012Logical difficulties in modern mathematics (njwildberger.com)
98 points | 6 years ago with 90 comments
2008Is it possible to write games like Pac-Man in a functional language? (prog21.dadgum.com)
98 points | 2 years ago with 144 comments
2018Infantilism as a norm (iq.hse.ru)
98 points | 2 years ago with 221 comments
2003Lost Causes of Theoretical Physics (web.archive.org)
98 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments
2008The Y Combinator (mvanier.livejournal.com)
98 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments
2014Surreal numbers (ianopolous.peergos.me)
98 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2019The Hyper-Specialist Shops of Berlin (theguardian.com)
98 points | 4 years ago with 57 comments
2000Eating a manchineel “beach apple” (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
98 points | 9 years ago with 72 comments
2018US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage, figures show (theguardian.com)
98 points | 4 years ago with 126 comments
2009Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (johndcook.com)
98 points | 7 years ago with 69 comments
2014Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (arxiv.org)
98 points | 8 years ago with 61 comments
2007My Son Won't Do His Homework (talentism.com)
98 points | 12 years ago with 119 comments
2015Optimizing Hash-Array Mapped Tries for Fast Immutable JVM Collections (michael.steindorfer.name)
98 points | 8 years ago with 25 comments
2014The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits (grantland.com)
98 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments
2017Inconvenient EU piracy study kept hidden for years (ghacks.net)
98 points | 2 years ago with 38 comments
2002The Case Against Delaware (newrepublic.com)
98 points | 7 years ago with 40 comments
2006Tips for Startup Companies (philip.greenspun.com)
98 points | 16 years ago with 7 comments
2014REST and long-running jobs (farazdagi.com)
98 points | 6 years ago with 59 comments
2007The Science of Sword-Swallowing (twistedphysics.typepad.com)
98 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments
196517 year old Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret" (youtube.com)
98 points | 15 years ago with 11 comments
1991Forth – The Early Years (colorforth.com)
98 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments
2016Momofuku Ando invented instant ramen (vox.com)
98 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments
2013Earthquakes make gold veins in an instant (nature.com)
98 points | 1 year ago with 29 comments
2018The Shockwave Rider: A sci-fi classic, whose future we live in (factordaily.com)
98 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
1993The Mail from Budapest (cia.gov)
98 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
1994Wavelets (cybertester.com)
98 points | 6 years ago with 46 comments
2009IPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Over-Blown Visuals (smashingmagazine.com)
98 points | 14 years ago with 28 comments
2018How to crash an email server with a single email (snyk.io)
98 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2014A Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia (theatlantic.com)
98 points | 2 years ago with 78 comments
2016Why can't software engineers work from home most of the time? (workplace.stackexchange.com)
98 points | 4 years ago with 93 comments
2018The Prosecutor's Fallacy (cebm.ox.ac.uk)
98 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments
2018Mystery of superior Leeuwenhoek microscope solved after 350 years (phys.org)
97 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2015Bass: The physical sensation of sound (audioholics.com)
97 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments
2018The future of data storage is still magnetic tape (spectrum.ieee.org)
97 points | 4 years ago with 105 comments
2013Layoffs Taboo, Japan Workers Are Sent to the Boredom Room (nytimes.com)
97 points | 8 years ago with 174 comments
2016Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper (atlasobscura.com)
97 points | 4 years ago with 41 comments
2013Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit (spiegel.de)
97 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments
2011Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (tratt.net)
97 points | 11 years ago with 70 comments
2010Low-cost portable ventilator (news.mit.edu)
97 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
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