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1997Inside Nintendo 64 (n64.icequake.net)
83 points | 11 years ago with 28 comments
2017We’re Dropping Google Ads (groundup.org.za)
83 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments
2012Whiteboard exercises are a terrible way to investigate coding ability (exratione.com)
83 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments
2016Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done” (hbr.org)
83 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
1998High Performance Computing: Are We Just Getting Wrong Answers Faster? (www3.nd.edu)
83 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2017Formal Reasoning About Programs (adam.chlipala.net)
83 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2017Systems smart enough to know when they're not smart enough (bigmedium.com)
83 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2013An expensive line of code: scaling Node.js on Heroku (micheljansen.org)
83 points | 9 years ago with 23 comments
2016Surveillance of reporter a 'serious attack on freedom of the press in Canada' (cbc.ca)
83 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2012Anatomy of an Attack: How I Hacked StackOverflow (blog.ircmaxell.com)
83 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments
2013The Real Cuban Missile Crisis (theatlantic.com)
83 points | 10 years ago with 49 comments
2014Cache coherency primer (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
83 points | 9 years ago with 6 comments
2016The Buddhist history of moveable type before Gutenberg (tricycle.org)
83 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments
2008World's Oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC (reuters.com)
83 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments
2015Ancient Computers (ethw.org)
83 points | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2012Ian Stewart's top popular mathematics books (theguardian.com)
83 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
2018Problems with AI-based monitoring startups (yesthatblog.com)
83 points | 4 years ago with 71 comments
2009Freeman Dyson takes on the climate establishment (e360.yale.edu)
83 points | 5 years ago with 100 comments
2012Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (stackoverflow.com)
83 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2015Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe root causes of war (theecologist.org)
83 points | 2 years ago with 62 comments
2012Patoline: A modern digital typesetting system (patoline.org)
83 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments
2008Computation and State Machines (lamport.azurewebsites.net)
83 points | 7 years ago with 8 comments
2017Detecting SSH Tunnels (trisul.org)
83 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments
2018The Lisp 2 Project (mcjones.org)
83 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2011A look at EarthBound's text system and scripting language (earthboundcentral.com)
83 points | 10 years ago with 10 comments
1946ENIAC Operating Manual (archive.org)
83 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
2007Chemical weapons dumped in the Baltic sea (mir.gdynia.pl)
83 points | 11 years ago with 7 comments
2013Intel i7 loop performance anomaly (eli.thegreenplace.net)
83 points | 7 years ago with 40 comments
2010The only build system that might someday replace make (apenwarr.ca)
83 points | 5 years ago with 47 comments
2018What Is a Game? (magic.wizards.com)
83 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
1964META II: A Syntax-Oriented Compiler Writing Language (ibm-1401.info)
83 points | 8 years ago with 32 comments
2017Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act (newyorker.com)
83 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments
2007R.I.P. Macromedia FreeHand (losingfight.com)
83 points | 2 years ago with 77 comments
1969Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Violence (nybooks.com)
83 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments
2019Haskell2020 Is Dead, but All Hope Is Not Lost (reasonablypolymorphic.com)
83 points | 3 years ago with 63 comments
2016Designing Schemaless, Uber Engineering’s Scalable Datastore Using MySQL (eng.uber.com)
83 points | 7 years ago with 33 comments
2017Signs that can reveal a fake photo (bbc.com)
83 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments
2015The Man Who Got No Whammies (priceonomics.com)
83 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments
2002A gentle introduction to the FFT (earlevel.com)
83 points | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2016Death of a startup founder (factordaily.com)
83 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments
1996Some rules kids won't learn in school (ime.usp.br)
83 points | 14 years ago with 67 comments
2015The unreasonable effectiveness of character-level language models (colab.research.google.com)
83 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments
2015Teaching My Computer to Write Its Own Music (nautil.us)
83 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2015Russian researchers expose U.S. spying program (reuters.com)
83 points | 8 years ago with 90 comments
2008Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competitors Nearby (mindyourdecisions.com)
83 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments
2009Tail calls, tailrec and trampolines (blog.richdougherty.com)
83 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
2013Philosophical Landmines (lesswrong.com)
83 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments
2014In 1914, a 200ft wave at Trinidad, California (briantissot.com)
83 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2012Exploring Zork (filfre.net)
83 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments
2017What happened to the Semantic Web? (ht.acm.org)
83 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments
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