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2014Becoming a better developer (gist.github.com)
468 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 6 comments
1932In Praise of Idleness (harpers.org)
468 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 170 comments
2015Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (news.yale.edu)
465 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 144 comments
2019Racket Is an Acceptable Python (dustycloud.org)
460 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 128 comments
2016I could do that in a weekend (danluu.com)
459 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 84 comments
2017Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing (mango.pdf.zone)
458 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 43 comments
2019How random can you be? (expunctis.com)
457 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 56 comments
2003An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (web.mit.edu)
457 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 31 comments
2018Snowboarding for Geeks: An Ultimate Guide (xfive.co)
457 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 192 comments
2018Learning BASIC Like It's 1983 (twobithistory.org)
455 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 85 comments
2019Is Everything an MLM? (annehelen.substack.com)
453 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 109 comments
2002“Design Patterns” Aren't (perl.plover.com)
451 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 114 comments
2014Wage Theft Is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft (epi.org)
450 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 124 comments
2017Xbox360 –> Windows Executable Converter (github.com)
450 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 54 comments
2005Being Poor (whatever.scalzi.com)
449 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 216 comments
2017C89 compiler produces printable executables from C code [pdf] (cs.cmu.edu)
448 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 15 comments
2019US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries (theconversation.com)
448 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2011I hate almost all software (tinyclouds.org)
446 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 135 comments
2016Teaching C (blog.regehr.org)
446 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 93 comments
2017The Philosophy of Computer Science (plato.stanford.edu)
446 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 81 comments
1979Byte Magazine: LISP (archive.org)
445 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 107 comments
2013Kill Sticky Headers (alisdair.mcdiarmid.org)
443 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 81 comments
2018Data-Oriented Design (dataorienteddesign.com)
443 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 19 comments
2010Readme Driven Development (tom.preston-werner.com)
443 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 42 comments
2019Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search (opensourceconnections.com)
442 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 33 comments
1996The Anti-Mac User Interface (nngroup.com)
440 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 149 comments
2016Your Idea Is Brilliant, Your Idea Is Worthless (stonemaiergames.com)
440 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments
2018The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s (perceptivetravel.com)
440 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 144 comments
1981Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (nytimes.com)
440 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 354 comments
2018How to get kids to do chores: Does the Maya method work? (npr.org)
439 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 140 comments
1985Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (reprints.longform.org)
439 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 99 comments
2006The $25B eigenvector (rose-hulman.edu)
438 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 68 comments
2018I Quit My Job to Live on Donations to Zig (andrewkelley.me)
434 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2011Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (blog.fogus.me)
432 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 6 comments
2013On Hacking MicroSD Cards (bunniestudios.com)
431 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 18 comments
2018The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (listennotes.com)
431 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 56 comments
2016The Zen of Erlang (ferd.ca)
428 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 79 comments
2014Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU? (danluu.com)
427 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2015Experts once predicted that Americans would face excess leisure time (newyorker.com)
427 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 352 comments
2017The Cube Rule (cuberule.com)
427 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 136 comments
2019Elements of Programming (elementsofprogramming.com)
426 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments
1990RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (tools.ietf.org)
425 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 121 comments
2018Reasons Python Sucks (hackerfactor.com)
425 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 46 comments
2019Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (jarv.is)
425 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 204 comments
1995Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (web.stanford.edu)
423 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 234 comments
2016What’s a fire and why does it burn? (qchu.wordpress.com)
423 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 56 comments
2015The Raft Consensus Algorithm (raft.github.io)
423 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 76 comments
2016Don't Design Your Emails (gkogan.co)
420 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments
2019The day the dinosaurs died (newyorker.com)
419 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 17 comments
2015Why I Am a Sociomediapath (nealstephenson.com)
418 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 9 comments
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