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2019The genius of binary space partitioning in Doom (twobithistory.org)
374 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 159 comments
1992A Fire Upon The Deep By Vernor Vinge (archive.org)
374 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 51 comments
2010The Acceleration of Addictiveness (paulgraham.com)
373 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 38 comments
2015Increased rates of myopia linked to reduced time outside, studies suggest (nature.com)
371 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 53 comments
2018NIST's answer to “Do you need a blockchain?” (imgur.com)
369 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2016Game Critic Uses Workaround for YouTube's Copyright System (kotaku.com)
369 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 79 comments
1993The Development of the C Language (bell-labs.com)
369 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 323 comments
2019Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics (cognitivemedium.com)
368 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments
2010Zsync: Differential file downloading over HTTP using the rsync algorithm (zsync.moria.org.uk)
368 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 28 comments
2007Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste (scientificamerican.com)
368 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments
1996"Invisible Electrostatic Wall" at 3M adhesive tape plant (amasci.com)
367 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 23 comments
2012The Mathematical Hacker (evanmiller.org)
367 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 174 comments
2015Sitting and standing at work (ergo.human.cornell.edu)
366 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 130 comments
2016Clifford Stoll beat the Russians, then made useless, wondrous objects (alumni.berkeley.edu)
366 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 154 comments
2017Embracing community helps us live longer, and be happier (news.harvard.edu)
365 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 71 comments
2017Never mind the 1 percent: Let's talk about the 0.01 percent (review.chicagobooth.edu)
365 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 231 comments
2011Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (prog21.dadgum.com)
364 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2011Why Hypercard had to die (loper-os.org)
364 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 166 comments
2012USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (intel.com)
364 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 118 comments
2017Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (isglobal.org)
364 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments
2019Seeking the productive life: Some details of my personal infrastructure (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
363 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 106 comments
1999The Bastard Operator from Hell (bofh.bjash.com)
363 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 98 comments
2009A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms (blog.rongarret.info)
362 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 172 comments
2018A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit (sam.zeloof.xyz)
361 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 13 comments
2019Using Rust to scale Elixir for 11M concurrent users (discord.com)
361 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 5 comments
2017A Chicago newspaper that bought a bar (topic.com)
360 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 26 comments
2016Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger (erlang-in-anger.com)
359 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2015Markov chain Monte Carlo without the bullshit (jeremykun.com)
357 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 52 comments
2017Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (hillelwayne.com)
356 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 112 comments
2014So You Want to Write Your Own Language (drdobbs.com)
356 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 143 comments
1928Who the Hell Is This Joyce (theparisreview.org)
355 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 109 comments
1986Hacker’s Manifesto (phrack.org)
354 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 1 comments
2010Writing a Simple Operating System From Scratch (cs.bham.ac.uk)
353 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 10 comments
2014How to Write a Git Commit Message (chris.beams.io)
353 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 118 comments
2017Algorithmic Entities (papers.ssrn.com)
352 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2013Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (harthur.wordpress.com)
352 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 366 comments
2011Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (scottaaronson.com)
350 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 22 comments
2019When Google Fiber abandons your city as a failed experiment (gizmodo.com)
349 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 115 comments
1986Programmers At Work: Bill Gates (programmersatwork.wordpress.com)
348 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 175 comments
1953The Eyes Have It (gutenberg.org)
348 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 38 comments
2019I hate living in my tiny house (fastcompany.com)
347 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 180 comments
2013No Hello (nohello.com)
345 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 67 comments
2016What does any of this have to do with physics? (nautil.us)
344 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 170 comments
2018Plane accidentally flew around the world (medium.com)
343 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 69 comments
2004Why don't I take military funding? (web.eecs.umich.edu)
343 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 121 comments
2001Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player (nytimes.com)
343 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 234 comments
2019Math.Round opens the browser print dialog (github.com)
343 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 24 comments
1985Programming as Theory Building (pages.cs.wisc.edu)
342 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2007“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from userland code” (marc.info)
342 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 118 comments
2019“An Introduction to Ray Tracing” is now free for download (realtimerendering.com)
341 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 9 comments
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