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1997Inconstant Moon: The Moon at Perigee and Apogee (fourmilab.ch)
81 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments
2008Vegetable Oil for Lubricating Chainsaws (fs.fed.us)
81 points | 3 years ago with 134 comments
2003The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (inf.ed.ac.uk)
81 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments
2015The Mobile-Home Trap (seattletimes.com)
81 points | 6 years ago with 66 comments
2013Understanding Simpson’s Paradox (ftp.cs.ucla.edu)
81 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2013The Birth of Standard Error (spinellis.gr)
81 points | 10 years ago with 12 comments
2014How a Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment (priceonomics.com)
81 points | 8 years ago with 67 comments
2011How to Avoid Equidistant HSV Colors (vis4.net)
81 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2014Rich Command Shells (waywardmonkeys.org)
81 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2016London’s Super-Recognizer Police Force (newyorker.com)
81 points | 7 years ago with 32 comments
2018Deep Learning – The “Why” Question (blog.piekniewski.info)
81 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments
2019The Fascinating Influence of the Cyclone Language (pling.jondgoodwin.com)
81 points | 2 years ago with 27 comments
2014Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks (youtube.com)
81 points | 4 years ago with 108 comments
1983Hints for Computer System Design (bwlampson.site)
81 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments
1994Source code for Glider Pro (github.com)
81 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2004Things I Won’t Touch: Hydrofluoric Acid (blogs.sciencemag.org)
81 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments
1994Coherent: Unix variant for DOS compatible PCs (autometer.de)
81 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
1998For Sale: Free Operating System (archive.nytimes.com)
81 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2014In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (raft.github.io)
81 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2012The surprising and continuing influence of Swami Vivekananda (online.wsj.com)
81 points | 11 years ago with 19 comments
1857US time zones (en.wikipedia.org)
81 points | 10 years ago with 36 comments
2016Excerpt from Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez (wired.com)
81 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments
2008How Ruby on Rails Could Be Much Better (dreamhost.com)
81 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2013Low-Level Thinking in High-Level Shading Languages (humus.name)
81 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
2011Node.js is Cancer (pages.citebite.com)
81 points | 12 years ago with 39 comments
2011Why did Japan surrender? (boston.com)
81 points | 10 years ago with 71 comments
2012Why are glasses so expensive? (cbsnews.com)
81 points | 10 years ago with 113 comments
2010Towards a Better Notation for Mathematics (christopherolah.files.wordpress.com)
81 points | 8 years ago with 32 comments
2018The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate (smithsonianmag.com)
81 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments
2018Replace GRUB2 with systemd-boot on Ubuntu 18.04 (blobfolio.com)
81 points | 5 years ago with 83 comments
2012How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost? (arxiv.org)
80 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments
1976Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative (dspace.mit.edu)
80 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2018Availability of cookies affects evaluation of teaching (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
80 points | 5 years ago with 62 comments
2013Oldest recovered TV images (tvdawn.com)
80 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
2013The coupon code is a slap in the face (justinjackson.ca)
80 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
1976Smalltalk-72 Instruction Manual (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
80 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
1987The Key of Lisp (iment.com)
80 points | 3 years ago with 2 comments
2015A circuit-like notation for lambda calculus (csvoss.github.io)
80 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments
2011The Wiki is in French (hccp.org)
80 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2011Why doesn't Britain make things any more? (theguardian.com)
80 points | 6 years ago with 109 comments
2016The Plan-9 Effect or why you should not fix it if it ain't broken (groups.di.unipi.it)
80 points | 2 years ago with 156 comments
2016Getting Pagination Wrong (blog.jooq.org)
80 points | 5 years ago with 70 comments
2016Toward Psychoinformatics: Computer Science Meets Psychology (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
80 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments
2019An intro to Pen Plotters (medium.com)
80 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments
2014Must-See Tech Talks for Every Programmer (ybrikman.com)
80 points | 7 years ago with 8 comments
1852“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” (teachingamericanhistory.org)
80 points | 4 years ago with 32 comments
2010Where the Printf Rubber Meets the Road (blog.hostilefork.com)
80 points | 11 years ago with 43 comments
2010C++ design goals in the context of Rust (pcwalton.blogspot.com)
80 points | 11 years ago with 56 comments
1982“I Was Tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse” by Bobby Fischer (timkr.home.xs4all.nl)
80 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments
2017There’s Toxicity, and There’s Toxicity (blogs.sciencemag.org)
80 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments
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