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2009The coolest way to generate combinations (sciencedirect.com)
96 points | 2 years ago with 7 comments
2014A History of Tug-Of-War Fatalities (priceonomics.com)
96 points | 8 years ago with 20 comments
2014Locks, Mutexes, and Semaphores: Types of Synchronization Objects (justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk)
96 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments
2016Date Masamune: the samurai who inspired Darth Vader (nipponrama.com)
96 points | 2 years ago with 23 comments
2011The man who won the right to discuss his National Security Letter (onthemedia.org)
96 points | 12 years ago with 14 comments
2019Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers (industryweek.com)
96 points | 3 years ago with 43 comments
2013What I Didn't Say (paulgraham.com)
96 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
2011What a good commit message looks like (github.com)
96 points | 8 years ago with 95 comments
2010Confessions of a Book Pirate (themillions.com)
96 points | 5 years ago with 85 comments
2016Pressure and vacuum marination does not work (genuineideas.com)
96 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments
1996Improbable Inspiration: Bayesian Networks (cs.ubc.ca)
96 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments
2013Toyota Unintended Acceleration and the Big Bowl of “Spaghetti” Code (safetyresearch.net)
96 points | 10 years ago with 106 comments
1945The Scientists Take Over: George Orwell Reviews “That Hideous Strength” (lewisiana.nl)
96 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments
2018Creating a handwritten TrueType font in Linux (gordonlesti.com)
96 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2017I love my paper dictionary (austinkleon.com)
96 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments
2014Eigenmorality (scottaaronson.com)
96 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
2004Type Systems (lucacardelli.name)
96 points | 8 years ago with 56 comments
2010MacPaint and QuickDraw 1984 source code (computerhistory.org)
96 points | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2019An experiment caught a quantum system in the middle of a jump (quantamagazine.org)
96 points | 4 years ago with 84 comments
2006Optimization: An Introduction (www3.imperial.ac.uk)
96 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2003Almost Too Beautiful (cnvill.net)
95 points | 12 years ago with 47 comments
2013Compiling Dynamic Languages (www2.imm.dtu.dk)
95 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
1989Stack Computers: the new wave (users.ece.cmu.edu)
95 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments
2008Disciplined Minds (fromthearchives.blogspot.com)
95 points | 4 years ago with 34 comments
2008The Making Of Dwarf Fortress (gamasutra.com)
95 points | 14 years ago with 7 comments
2010Programming with natural language is going to work (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
95 points | 2 years ago with 233 comments
2008The tiniest C sort function? (cs.dartmouth.edu)
95 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments
1997“It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture..encryption products” (thomas.loc.gov)
95 points | 10 years ago with 42 comments
2007AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance (wired.com)
95 points | 12 years ago with 13 comments
2004Most of us won't be inventing little languages (slesinsky.org)
95 points | 2 years ago with 87 comments
2003How to Read a Textbook (cuesta.edu)
95 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments
2009Summary of Donella Meadows' “Thinking in Systems” (consciouscapitalism.typepad.com)
95 points | 9 years ago with 25 comments
2011Empirical Study of the Anatomy of Modern SAT Solvers (cs.toronto.edu)
95 points | 8 years ago with 2 comments
2015Lost at sea: a man who vanished for 14 months (theguardian.com)
95 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments
2018Make a Fair Coin from a Biased Coin (xarg.org)
95 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments
2015Thank you for calling tech support, now please die (arstechnica.com)
95 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments
2009E. W. Dijkstra Archive: “Why is software so expensive?” (cs.utexas.edu)
95 points | 10 years ago with 63 comments
1985Terry Prachett: Why Gandalf Never Married (ansible.co.uk)
95 points | 16 years ago with 39 comments
2014On the rheology of cats (drgoulu.com)
95 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2015Omega-3: Intervention for childhood behavioral problems? (sciencedaily.com)
95 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2005My Time with Richard Feynman (backchannel.com)
95 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments
2014Data Analysis and Visualization Using R (varianceexplained.org)
95 points | 9 years ago with 24 comments
2009The HTML5 drag and drop disaster (quirksmode.org)
95 points | 11 years ago with 71 comments
2016Mary Somerville, the woman for whom the word “scientist” was coined (brainpickings.org)
95 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2008Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism (blog.codinghorror.com)
95 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2017Do You Need a Blockchain? (doyouneedablockchain.com)
95 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments
1985Miranda: A non-strict functional language with polymorphic types (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
95 points | 8 years ago with 37 comments
2005Clustering of Time Series Subsequences Is Meaningless (cs.ucr.edu)
95 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments
2012The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius (psychologytoday.com)
95 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2012Kolmogorov Complexity – A Primer (jeremykun.com)
95 points | 9 years ago with 20 comments
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