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2016Dog insurer: 'jumping, running, slipping, tripping, playing' not covered (cbc.ca)
88 points | 5 years ago with 106 comments
2019I Started Journaling (herman.bearblog.dev)
88 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2013A history of the Amiga – The demo scene (arstechnica.com)
88 points | 10 years ago with 23 comments
2004Why was cycling not included in the ancient Olympics? (web.stanford.edu)
88 points | 4 years ago with 108 comments
2009Kind of Bloop (kindofbloop.com)
87 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
1992The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (nybooks.com)
87 points | 2 years ago with 40 comments
2016Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC (bbc.com)
87 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments
1932Photographer Charles Ebbets takes iconic photo “Lunch atop a skyscraper” (reddit.com)
87 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2015Galileo was right, but so were his critics (strangenotions.com)
87 points | 5 years ago with 74 comments
2016On Reading Issues of Wired from 1993 to 1995 (newyorker.com)
87 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2017Comparing Floating-Point Numbers Is Tricky (bitbashing.io)
87 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments
1979Design of Lisp-Based Processors Or, LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode (dspace.mit.edu)
87 points | 10 years ago with 46 comments
2018Aristotle's Lost Book on Magic (ancientmedicine.org)
87 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments
2011In Nuclear Silos, Death Wears a Snuggie (wired.com)
87 points | 9 years ago with 58 comments
1995NSA "can – and does – listen to everyone from senators to lovers" (articles.baltimoresun.com)
87 points | 12 years ago with 16 comments
2017Raising the American Weakling (nautil.us)
87 points | 6 years ago with 71 comments
2017Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (blog.thelifeofkenneth.com)
87 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
2012A Personal Lisp Crisis (blog.jacius.info)
87 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments
1999The Cluetrain Manifesto (cluetrain.com)
87 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments
2007A Prayer for Archimedes (sciencenews.org)
87 points | 9 years ago with 33 comments
2016The future of microwave cooking is solid-state (electronicsweekly.com)
87 points | 5 years ago with 93 comments
1838The first photograph of a human being (mashable.com)
87 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments
2019Object-Oriented Programming in C (state-machine.com)
87 points | 4 years ago with 92 comments
2004The Stick of Jan Sloot (spronck.net)
87 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments
2019WWWBrowser – a Haskell web browser (cth.altocumulus.org)
87 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments
2008A logarithmic image transformation (josleys.com)
87 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2018Augmenting long-term memory (augmentingcognition.com)
87 points | 1 year ago with 25 comments
2009Someone Stole My Startup Idea: They Raised Money with My Slides? (steveblank.com)
87 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
1997Last Page of The Great Gatsby (home.sprynet.com)
87 points | 8 years ago with 30 comments
2018The Last Naval Battle of World War 2 (navygeneralboard.com)
87 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments
2014The Math Behind the Rolling Shutter Phenomenon (petapixel.com)
87 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2004How to Write a Pac-Man Game in JavaScript (masswerk.at)
87 points | 10 years ago with 16 comments
1670To make Lemmon Cakes (rarecooking.com)
87 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments
1996Content Is King (web.archive.org)
87 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments
2011Tresor – CPU-only AES implementation resistant to RAM cold-boot attacks (www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de)
87 points | 9 years ago with 14 comments
2016North Korea's Loch Ness Monster (earthnutshell.com)
87 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments
2018The Siberian unicorn lived at the same time as modern humans (nhm.ac.uk)
87 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments
1992Fractal compression for generating resolution-independent images (books.google.com)
87 points | 10 years ago with 35 comments
1998An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (cs.berkeley.edu)
87 points | 11 years ago with 17 comments
2013Where Did the Fear of Poisoned Halloween Candy Come From? (smithsonianmag.com)
87 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments
2016The Neural Network Zoo (asimovinstitute.org)
87 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2017The Future of Computing Depends on Making It Reversible (spectrum.ieee.org)
87 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2000The AdaOS Operating System (web.archive.org)
87 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments
2004How much oxygen for a person to survive in an air-tight enclosure? (members.shaw.ca)
87 points | 9 years ago with 62 comments
2013Silicon Valley’s Ultimate Exit (genius.com)
87 points | 8 years ago with 47 comments
2018Falsehoods programmers believe about names – with examples (shinesolutions.com)
87 points | 4 years ago with 107 comments
2003Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (swans.com)
87 points | 5 years ago with 166 comments
2008Late Bloomers: Why Do We Equate Genius with Precocity? (newyorker.com)
87 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments
2009The miracle of Smalltalk’s become: (gbracha.blogspot.com)
87 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
2003It Can Be Done (multicians.org)
87 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
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