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2015Running Lisp in Production (tech.grammarly.com)
305 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 60 comments
1958I, Pencil (econlib.org)
304 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 131 comments
2015What Is Code? (bloomberg.com)
303 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 41 comments
2017Assume Positive Intent (rickmanelius.com)
302 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 34 comments
2014X Window System Basics (magcius.github.io)
302 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 89 comments
1997The Right to Read (gnu.org)
302 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2014We are all confident idiots (psmag.com)
302 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 52 comments
2010Paul Rand's NeXT Logo (logodesignlove.com)
301 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 74 comments
2014The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought for $19B (highscalability.com)
300 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2008Operating System Development Series (brokenthorn.com)
300 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 36 comments
2004How real are real numbers? (arxiv.org)
299 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 112 comments
2013Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time (cam.ac.uk)
299 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 45 comments
2014Lisp, Smalltalk, and the power of symmetry (insearchofsecrets.com)
298 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 86 comments
1998HyperPhysics (hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu)
297 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 17 comments
2019To reinvent the processor (medium.com)
297 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments
2018Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (SSC) (slatestarcodex.com)
297 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2015Files Are Hard (danluu.com)
297 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 50 comments
2016Laws of Showrunning (okbjgm.weebly.com)
297 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments
2010The Economics of Seinfeld (yadayadayadaecon.com)
297 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 28 comments
2017Specter – Clojure API for immutable programming (nathanmarz.com)
297 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 37 comments
2015Severely deficient autobiographical memory (SDAM) in healthy adults (sciencedirect.com)
296 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 57 comments
2016Titanpointe: The NSA’s spy hub in New York, hidden in plain sight (theintercept.com)
296 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 73 comments
2010Workman Keyboard Layout (workmanlayout.org)
294 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 231 comments
2014Quadratic voting (ericposner.com)
294 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 109 comments
2002The rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab (flownet.com)
292 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 142 comments
1982The Byzantine Generals Problem (lamport.azurewebsites.net)
290 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 56 comments
2014Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True (newyorker.com)
290 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2012LaTeX Coffee Stains (hanno-rein.de)
289 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments
1993How To Deconstruct Almost Anything (fudco.com)
289 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2019Ian Fleming explains how to write a thriller (lithub.com)
289 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 122 comments
2015What's new in CPUs since the 80s? (danluu.com)
289 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 106 comments
2014The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness (theguardian.com)
289 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 213 comments
2012NASA solved a $100M problem for five bucks (gizmodo.com)
288 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 123 comments
2016DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector (bigmessowires.com)
288 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 48 comments
2015JanOS: Turn your phone into an IoT board (janos.io)
287 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 30 comments
2016Optimizing Things in the USSR (chris-said.io)
287 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 200 comments
2014The Toxoplasma of Rage (slatestarcodex.com)
286 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2017A study of musical scales (ianring.com)
284 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 48 comments
1996Build Your Own Flight Sim in C++ (archive.org)
284 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 59 comments
2013Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (adit.io)
284 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 112 comments
2017Portal for Apple II (deater.net)
284 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2015How Shazam Works (coding-geek.com)
283 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 6 comments
2013Hard Disk Hacking (spritesmods.com)
283 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 18 comments
2012How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (daedtech.com)
283 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 2 comments
2000The Two Cultures of Mathematics (dpmms.cam.ac.uk)
283 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 69 comments
2006Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (norvig.com)
282 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 95 comments
2016Walking While Black (lithub.com)
282 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2018Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days (nature.com)
281 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 144 comments
2014The Naked Truth About Writing a Programming Language (digitalmars.com)
281 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments
1989Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (longnow.org)
280 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 49 comments
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