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2008Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa (economist.com)
85 points | 11 years ago with 31 comments
2017On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (arxiv.org)
85 points | 3 years ago with 95 comments
2001The Area Under an ROC Curve (gim.unmc.edu)
85 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2015Lexical Distance Among Languages of Europe (alternativetransport.wordpress.com)
84 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2011The DJB Legacy (skarnet.org)
84 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments
2011Super Mario Melodies (losdoggies.com)
84 points | 12 years ago with 9 comments
2014After Your First Big Startup Success, What’s Next? (feld.com)
84 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments
2012The Tyranny of the Clock – Ivan Sutherland (worrydream.com)
84 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments
1976FBI Records: Bigfoot (vault.fbi.gov)
84 points | 6 years ago with 52 comments
2015Bunnyhopping from the Programmer's Perspective (adrianb.io)
84 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments
2009How London buses are numbered (markhadfield.typepad.com)
84 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments
2019How Do You Keep a Subway from Flooding in the Age of Rising Seas? (atlasobscura.com)
84 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments
2010How to Avoid the Assignment Statement (loup-vaillant.fr)
84 points | 5 years ago with 101 comments
2008“Assault on Reason” Endangers Democracy (npr.org)
84 points | 5 years ago with 100 comments
1981Computing e to 116,000 Places with a Personal Computer (archive.org)
84 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
2010Are you an Asker or a Guesser? (theguardian.com)
84 points | 2 years ago with 65 comments
2003The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview (karmak.org)
84 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments
2017It’s Okay to Store Data in Apache Kafka (confluent.io)
84 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments
2018Checking Firewall Equivalence with Z3 (ahelwer.ca)
84 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2017Pro Rata and User Centric Distribution Models: A Comparative Study (digitalmedia.fi)
84 points | 5 years ago with 86 comments
2015Packard Merlin: How Detroit Mass-Produced Britain’s Hand-Built Powerhouse (tested.com)
84 points | 7 years ago with 75 comments
1980Beam Me Out Of This Death Trap, Scotty (washingtonmonthly.com)
84 points | 11 years ago with 74 comments
2016Linux bcc/BPF tcplife: TCP Lifespans (brendangregg.com)
84 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments
2016Ubiq: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Log Processing Infrastructure (ai.google)
84 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
2013Patent: Electronic flashcards (patents.google.com)
84 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
2013Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field (frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com)
84 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments
2017Build, gather, brawl, repeat: The history of real-time strategy games (arstechnica.com)
84 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments
2015Why do we still permit tobacco use? (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
84 points | 3 years ago with 221 comments
2011Learn Elisp the Hard Way (github.com)
84 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments
1952Reminiscences from the end of the horse era in New York City (untappedcities.com)
84 points | 1 year ago with 52 comments
2014While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as in baby (danielcompton.net)
84 points | 9 years ago with 50 comments
2016ALTEXXANET - 90s Internet Experience (altexxanet.org)
84 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments
2017The CIA’s human experiments with mind control (history.com)
84 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments
1998Inmos and the Transputer (transputer.net)
84 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments
1701Leibniz's Explanation of Binary Arithmetic (leibniz-translations.com)
84 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2011TrackPoint (research.microsoft.com)
84 points | 10 years ago with 66 comments
2016Efficient Integer Overflow Checking in LLVM (blog.regehr.org)
84 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments
1994Neural Nets (teamten.com)
84 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
2011Owsley Stanley: The King of LSD (rollingstone.com)
84 points | 3 years ago with 57 comments
2004Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (svn.torproject.org)
84 points | 6 years ago with 71 comments
2016Paternoster Lifts: Cyclic Chain Elevators with No Buttons, Doors or Stops (99percentinvisible.org)
84 points | 7 years ago with 112 comments
2018A long view of globalisation in short: The agricultural revolution (voxeu.org)
84 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2014Fidonet Rules (wiki.c2.com)
84 points | 2 years ago with 45 comments
1953Disneyland's original prospectus (boingboing.net)
84 points | 11 years ago with 16 comments
2009J Has the Best Development Environment (prog21.dadgum.com)
84 points | 11 years ago with 41 comments
2013Angry Programmers (selectedintelligence.com)
84 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments
2012How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma (blog.jgc.org)
84 points | 10 years ago with 88 comments
2011Parsing with Derivatives: A Functional Pearl (matt.might.net)
84 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments
2016Building and Motivating Engineering Teams (elidedbranches.com)
84 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments
2019Google Is Not a Search Engine – It's an Advertising Platform (pageonepower.com)
84 points | 3 years ago with 79 comments
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