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2010Free Software Needs Free Tools (mako.cc)
86 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
2017Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
86 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2013WTF Is T_paamayim_nekudotayim (phil.tech)
86 points | 2 years ago with 74 comments
2016Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cats (journals.plos.org)
86 points | 4 years ago with 156 comments
2010Go's Declaration Syntax (blog.golang.org)
86 points | 10 years ago with 38 comments
2016It pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered (bbc.com)
86 points | 5 years ago with 109 comments
2011What happens to Asian-American overachievers when the test-taking ends? (nymag.com)
86 points | 6 years ago with 105 comments
2007Quantum mechanics and Tomb Raider (terrytao.wordpress.com)
86 points | 3 years ago with 17 comments
2008Clojure Rationale (clojure.org)
86 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments
2013The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: From Plausible to Proven (tofspot.blogspot.com)
86 points | 2 years ago with 55 comments
2003A letter to the Editorial Board, Journal of Algorithms (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
86 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments
1995The Myth of the Rule of Law (faculty.msb.edu)
86 points | 9 years ago with 69 comments
2014Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms (spin.atomicobject.com)
86 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2013Is huh a universal word? (huh.ideophone.org)
86 points | 6 years ago with 86 comments
2005Every character has a story: U+213a (rotated Q) (web.archive.org)
86 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments
1929Exposing Houdini’s Tricks of Magic (blog.modernmechanix.com)
86 points | 11 years ago with 11 comments
2017React Internals (mattgreer.dev)
86 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2016Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera (antipope.org)
86 points | 4 years ago with 79 comments
2013Readable Lisp S-expressions Project (readable.sourceforge.io)
86 points | 6 years ago with 76 comments
1998An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (eecs.berkeley.edu)
86 points | 12 years ago with 21 comments
2012Life after detonation (sciencemadness.org)
86 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments
1985Briefing note: US Deputy Secretary Of State meeting with Andrei Gromyko (history.state.gov)
86 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments
2008I can't believe I'm praising Tcl (yosefk.com)
86 points | 2 years ago with 52 comments
2016Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power? (lowtechmagazine.com)
86 points | 4 years ago with 230 comments
2001Re: What is acceptable for -ffast-math? (gcc.gnu.org)
86 points | 8 years ago with 37 comments
2013Useful old technologies: ASN.1 (ttsiodras.github.io)
86 points | 10 years ago with 29 comments
2013Cryptography Discussion: Speculation on "BULLRUN" (mail-archive.com)
86 points | 8 years ago with 47 comments
2013Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk (robohub.org)
86 points | 4 years ago with 10 comments
2017The vintage 74181 ALU chip: how it works and why it’s so strange (righto.com)
86 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2017Mobile Electronics Workbench (nisker.net)
86 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2018The History of Fire Escapes (noidea.dog)
86 points | 2 years ago with 22 comments
2010Crinkler secrets, 4k intro executable compressor at its best (code4k.blogspot.com)
86 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments
1978BASIC Computer Games (vintage-basic.net)
86 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments
2014How Surround Sound for Headphones Works (hajo.me)
86 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2013Programming an HP-15C (blog.plover.com)
86 points | 5 years ago with 59 comments
2000Statistical mechanics of money (arxiv.org)
86 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2010The Floating-Point Guide (floating-point-gui.de)
86 points | 6 years ago with 98 comments
2008Examining the Legendary Hurd Kernel (informit.com)
86 points | 10 years ago with 63 comments
2018Alabama Sheriff Legally Took $750k Meant to Feed Inmates, Bought Beach House (npr.org)
86 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2018Creating a bash completion script (iridakos.com)
86 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments
2011Fixing the World (zguide.zeromq.org)
86 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
1989Tim Berners-Lee's original WWW proposal (info.cern.ch)
86 points | 13 years ago with 18 comments
2016Egyptian Gods – The Complete List (worldhistory.org)
86 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
2014A brief history of Elasticsearch (jaxenter.com)
86 points | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2017Component Graph System (github.com)
86 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2013Sacred Retreats of California (nytimes.com)
86 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments
1986The Conscience of a Hacker (textfiles.com)
86 points | 2 years ago with 27 comments
2015Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the almost first, forgotten microprocessor (righto.com)
86 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2013Emacs Users Are Like Terry Pratchett’s Igors (chrisdone.com)
86 points | 6 years ago with 57 comments
1998Swatch Internet Time (en.wikipedia.org)
86 points | 7 years ago with 78 comments
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