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2016Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors (bloomberg.com)
87 points | 5 years ago with 68 comments
2017The Ornate Bird Palaces of Ottoman-Era Turkey (thisiscolossal.com)
87 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2011What Do Public Library Workers Do? (laurensmith.wordpress.com)
87 points | 9 years ago with 40 comments
2002The Law of Leaky Abstractions (joelonsoftware.com)
87 points | 11 years ago with 31 comments
2008Brian's Rules for Writing Cross Platform 'C' Code (ski-epic.com)
87 points | 11 years ago with 52 comments
2017John Berger: 90 years of looking, listening and seeing (gerryco23.wordpress.com)
87 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments
2013SimplyThick: A Tragedy No One Saw Coming (stlmag.com)
87 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments
2003The Origin of Mass (web.mit.edu)
87 points | 8 years ago with 28 comments
2012Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Using Wage Earnings to Support a New Business (frbatlanta.org)
87 points | 11 years ago with 39 comments
2013Rewriting a large production system in Go (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
87 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments
2012Management Debt (a16z.com)
87 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2013Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler (theatlantic.com)
87 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2017Getting 'Steinached' was all the rage in Roaring ’20s (mcgill.ca)
87 points | 4 years ago with 50 comments
2001Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server In-Game Protocol Design (developer.valvesoftware.com)
87 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments
1994A Wired.com reporter was first to register mcdonalds.com (wired.com)
87 points | 12 years ago with 47 comments
2018Lessons learned from creating a rich-text editor with real-time collab (ckeditor.com)
87 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2015Machine intelligence (blog.samaltman.com)
87 points | 1 year ago with 192 comments
2011Principles of Programming Languages (feederio.com)
87 points | 8 years ago with 5 comments
2015We may not be running out of helium after all (newatlas.com)
87 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments
1999The Radioactive Boy Scout (dangerouslaboratories.org)
87 points | 8 years ago with 34 comments
2015My First LLVM Compiler (wilfred.me.uk)
87 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2013Scientists have identified the potato pathogen that devastated Ireland (history.com)
87 points | 2 years ago with 99 comments
2013Napoleon’s Equine Strategy in 1813 (napoleon-series.org)
87 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments
2010How long does it take to make a context switch? (blog.tsunanet.net)
87 points | 8 years ago with 72 comments
1996Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet (dl.acm.org)
87 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments
1999Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (cia.gov)
87 points | 5 years ago with 2 comments
2006Deepest hand dug well in the world (mybrightonandhove.org.uk)
87 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments
2014PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server from the point of view of a data analyst (pg-versus-ms.com)
87 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments
2016The Case Against More Ethanol (e360.yale.edu)
87 points | 5 years ago with 151 comments
2005Why no Easter Eggs? (web.archive.org)
87 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2011Escape the scripter mentality if reliability matters (rachelbythebay.com)
87 points | 6 years ago with 52 comments
2012Obfuscated Erlang (ferd.ca)
87 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments
2011Warren Buffett: “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich” (nytimes.com)
86 points | 9 years ago with 129 comments
2018Why are ethernet jumbo frames 9000 bytes? (blog.dave.tf)
86 points | 2 years ago with 65 comments
2016The Bitter Truth About Olives (nationalgeographic.com)
86 points | 6 years ago with 85 comments
2015The Jonathan Computer (storiesofapple.net)
86 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
1778If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate this key (listsofnote.com)
86 points | 3 years ago with 56 comments
1950Space-Time Structure by Erwin Schrödinger (strangebeautiful.com)
86 points | 9 years ago with 1 comments
2016Thoughts on the Witness (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
86 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments
2009History of Tcl (web.stanford.edu)
86 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2015A survey of attacks against Intel x86 over last 10 years (blog.invisiblethings.org)
86 points | 7 years ago with 40 comments
1738Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk (engineering.purdue.edu)
86 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2017A radio station that no one claims to run (bbc.com)
86 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2003Twenty years of speedcubing (ws.binghamton.edu)
86 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
2008Two Dots Too Many (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
86 points | 10 years ago with 38 comments
2010How I became a con artist (salon.com)
86 points | 12 years ago with 64 comments
2014Reinventing the Git Interface (tonsky.me)
86 points | 8 years ago with 78 comments
1991Intelligence Without Reason (ijcai.org)
86 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2013Gödel Incompleteness for Startups (skibinsky.com)
86 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments
2010The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty (theatlantic.com)
86 points | 9 years ago with 100 comments
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