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2012Black mamba venom is 'better painkiller' than morphine (bbc.com)
90 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments
2017Breaking our Latin-1 assumptions (manishearth.github.io)
90 points | 3 years ago with 55 comments
2016Police in the US shoot dogs so often, an expert calls it an “epidemic” (qz.com)
90 points | 4 years ago with 91 comments
2007Accomplish more by doing less (calnewport.com)
90 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments
2010Makefile hacks: print the value of any variable (blog.melski.net)
90 points | 8 years ago with 25 comments
2012Cracking a 250-Year-Old Code to Reveal a Secret Society (wired.com)
90 points | 10 years ago with 15 comments
2015Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens (journals.plos.org)
90 points | 4 years ago with 81 comments
2018iOS First Impressions (basicbitch.software)
90 points | 5 years ago with 150 comments
1792A treatise concerning the properties and effects of coffee (publicdomainreview.org)
90 points | 2 years ago with 25 comments
2017Symbolic Maths in Python (alexandrugris.github.io)
90 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2015How to drive in India (theforeignchallenge.com)
90 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments
2013Efficiency is fundamentally at odds with elegance (yosefk.com)
90 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments
2017Fingerprints could be stolen from V sign selfies (eandt.theiet.org)
90 points | 6 years ago with 57 comments
1985American Pictures (american-pictures.com)
90 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
2017People who get goosebumps from music have different brains (indy100.com)
90 points | 6 years ago with 66 comments
2015Implementing VisiCalc (rmf.vc)
90 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2012Design and Implementation of Modern Column-Oriented Databases (db.csail.mit.edu)
90 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2019Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol [pdf] (eprint.iacr.org)
90 points | 4 years ago with 70 comments
1998Rules of Card Games: I Doubt It (pagat.com)
90 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2014Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing (blogs.wsj.com)
90 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments
201020 Questions: A Strategy Guide (zephauerbach.com)
90 points | 7 years ago with 7 comments
1999Big Ball of Mud (laputan.org)
90 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2018Open offices have driven Panasonic to make horse blinders for humans (techcrunch.com)
90 points | 4 years ago with 71 comments
2018Presentation: Four programming languages from forty years ago (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
90 points | 3 years ago with 20 comments
2015Fear and Loathing in APL (theburningmonk.com)
90 points | 7 years ago with 25 comments
1994Airport ABCs: An Explanation of Airport Identifier Codes (skygod.com)
90 points | 11 years ago with 36 comments
2013Closos: Specification of a Lisp operating system (metamodular.com)
90 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments
2018Study: Cheap gas, not renewables, caused nuclear woes (utilitydive.com)
90 points | 5 years ago with 104 comments
2018Me and Monotropism: A unified theory of autism (bps.org.uk)
90 points | 3 years ago with 115 comments
2017Gauss's Principle of Least Constraint (preetum.nakkiran.org)
90 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2011The unfortunate math behind consulting companies (longform.asmartbear.com)
90 points | 1 year ago with 82 comments
2016There is no good reason to buy an inkjet printer (jasonlefkowitz.net)
90 points | 6 years ago with 108 comments
2013Our Favorite Narrative Cliche: A World Filled with Idiots (davidbrin.com)
90 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments
2008Group theoretical methods in machine learning (people.cs.uchicago.edu)
90 points | 8 years ago with 5 comments
1971Twenty Things to do with a Computer (stager.org)
90 points | 11 years ago with 13 comments
2014Recognizing Speech from Smartphone Gyroscopes (crypto.stanford.edu)
90 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments
2001Symbolics, Inc.: A failure of heterogeneous engineering (web.mit.edu)
90 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments
2010DIA Study: Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and Manipulation of Extra Dimensions (publicintelligence.net)
90 points | 7 years ago with 75 comments
2015Reverse Engineering Wipeout (phoboslab.org)
90 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments
2015Mast Brothers: $10 a bar for crappy hipster chocolate (qz.com)
90 points | 6 years ago with 66 comments
2016Time to move to C11 atomics? (lwn.net)
90 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
2001Mathematical Theory of Claude Shannon (web.mit.edu)
90 points | 10 years ago with 2 comments
2002The Emacs Commune (oreilly.com)
90 points | 11 years ago with 24 comments
2018Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) (adr.github.io)
89 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments
2007The Billionaire Next Door (dmagazine.com)
89 points | 6 years ago with 58 comments
2017The Sony “Star Eater” (markshelley.co.uk)
89 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
2005Make a Pseudoscope (pseudoscope.blogspot.com)
89 points | 7 years ago with 27 comments
2018Let’s Talk about PAKE (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
89 points | 4 years ago with 68 comments
2019The Product-Minded Software Engineer (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
89 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments
2018Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics (plato.stanford.edu)
89 points | 4 years ago with 119 comments
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