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2014My startup failed, and this is what it feels like (medium.com)
79 points | 10 years ago with 21 comments
2018Distractions Cause Bad Code (ntietz.com)
79 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments
1998Contact Yahoo (docs.yahoo.com)
79 points | 12 years ago with 36 comments
2017Protein folding: Much more intricate than we thought (cen.acs.org)
79 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2003Applications of Markov Chains (langvillea.people.cofc.edu)
79 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments
2008Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong (scottaaronson.com)
79 points | 13 years ago with 13 comments
2018Why smart hardworking people don't become successful (medium.com)
79 points | 5 years ago with 68 comments
2007The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (idlewords.com)
79 points | 10 years ago with 28 comments
2016Early, state-sanctioned LSD experiments in Bulgaria (atlasobscura.com)
79 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments
2007Computer Randomly Plays Classical Music (web.archive.org)
79 points | 3 years ago with 27 comments
2012Facebook tracking users with background sound (web.archive.org)
79 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2009The LED's Dark Secret (spectrum.ieee.org)
79 points | 11 years ago with 45 comments
2010Where did the Carter White House's solar panels go? (scientificamerican.com)
79 points | 2 years ago with 126 comments
1972Cognitive and Attentional Mechanisms in Delay of Gratification (fermatslibrary.com)
79 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments
2006My First BillG Review (joelonsoftware.com)
78 points | 11 years ago with 13 comments
2014Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup (web.stanford.edu)
78 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
1999The physics of information processing superobjects: Jupiter brains (jetpress.org)
78 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments
2018Accretor Cellular Automata (softologyblog.wordpress.com)
78 points | 5 years ago with 3 comments
2016Chrome: trick users into giving access to all files on local disk (bugs.chromium.org)
78 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
1975The Potentiometer Handbook (bourns.com)
78 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
1981RFC 791: Internet Protocol (datatracker.ietf.org)
78 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments
2013All you need is call/cc (pvk.ca)
78 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments
2007The Checklist (newyorker.com)
78 points | 14 years ago with 25 comments
2005The Million Dollar Homepage (milliondollarhomepage.com)
78 points | 12 years ago with 82 comments
2000Oberon – The Overlooked Jewel (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
78 points | 10 years ago with 23 comments
1992LINUX is obsolete (groups.google.com)
78 points | 11 years ago with 74 comments
1974Programming with Abstract Data Types (web.cs.iastate.edu)
78 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
2019Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity (nytimes.com)
78 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2013The Dark Silicon Problem and What It Means for CPU Designers (informit.com)
78 points | 7 years ago with 68 comments
2015C preprocessor tricks, tips, and idioms (github.com)
78 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2007Building a Self-Healing Operating System (choices.cs.illinois.edu)
78 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
2019Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company (sahillavingia.com)
78 points | 2 years ago with 71 comments
2018Pictures reveal the isolated lives of Japan’s social recluses (nationalgeographic.com)
78 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments
1990How to Print Floating-Point Numbers Accurately (lists.nongnu.org)
78 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments
2010Coming Home to Vim (stevelosh.com)
78 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments
2014How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey (chomsky.info)
78 points | 9 years ago with 36 comments
2003Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn (telegraph.co.uk)
78 points | 16 years ago with 36 comments
2013Is JPEG 2000 a preservation risk? (blogs.loc.gov)
78 points | 3 years ago with 83 comments
1991The Computer for the 21st Cenury (lri.fr)
78 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments
2014Medicine’s Uncomfortable Relationship with Math (archinte.jamanetwork.com)
78 points | 9 years ago with 43 comments
1974Cargo Cult Science (physics.brocku.ca)
78 points | 9 years ago with 37 comments
2015“Out of an abundance of caution” – An overused phrase (bifurcatedneedle.com)
78 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments
2012Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum (pastebin.com)
78 points | 10 years ago with 46 comments
2012Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime (dl.acm.org)
78 points | 2 years ago with 64 comments
2013Making Audio Plugins (martin-finke.de)
78 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments
2015A Maze of Murderscapes: Metroid II (gamedeveloper.com)
78 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments
2018Programming languages are not languages (medium.com)
78 points | 5 years ago with 78 comments
2010Even Knowingly Taking A Placebo Seems To Help (npr.org)
78 points | 11 years ago with 32 comments
2018U.S. Opposed Breast-Feeding Resolution at World Health Assembly (nytimes.com)
78 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments
2014Dual Numbers and Automatic Differentiation (blog.demofox.org)
78 points | 9 years ago with 35 comments
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