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2014Facebook will lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers (theguardian.com)
280 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 206 comments
2016500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (blog.leahhanson.us)
280 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 91 comments
2005We Are Sorry to Inform You (fang.ece.ufl.edu)
279 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 50 comments
2012The Nature of Code (natureofcode.com)
279 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 22 comments
2011Coffee and its Effects on Feature Creep (royrapoport.blogspot.com)
279 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 46 comments
2012Quake GPL Source Release (github.com)
279 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments
2017House Address “Twins” Proximity (paulplowman.com)
279 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 40 comments
2018Lessons Learned Reproducing a Deep Reinforcement Learning Paper (amid.fish)
279 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments
1989Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (longnow.org)
279 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 33 comments
2014A sound so loud that it circled the Earth four times (nautil.us)
278 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2008Cities and Ambition (paulgraham.com)
278 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 58 comments
1990The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants (algorithmicbotany.org)
277 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 14 comments
2019The Illustrated GPT-2: Visualizing Transformer Language Models (jalammar.github.io)
277 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 5 comments
2016How to Be a Stoic (newyorker.com)
277 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 64 comments
2014Syntax highlighter is wrong (jameshfisher.com)
276 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2016How we built Uber Engineering's highest query-per-second service using Go (eng.uber.com)
276 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 117 comments
1995Ur-Fascism (nybooks.com)
275 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 37 comments
2010Will It Optimize? (ridiculousfish.com)
275 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 26 comments
2015K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system (cbc.ca)
274 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 38 comments
2007I Think You're Fat (esquire.com)
274 points across 2 posts | 13 years ago with 111 comments
2009Climbing the wrong hill (cdixon.org)
273 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 101 comments
2015One Billion Dollars Short, Bill Ackman, and the Siege Of Herbalife (fortune.com)
273 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 136 comments
2011Why developers never use state machines (skorks.com)
273 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 112 comments
1999The Craft of Text Editing (finseth.com)
272 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 1 comments
2018Running servers and services well is not trivial (utcc.utoronto.ca)
272 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 83 comments
2012The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies (cryptome.org)
272 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 187 comments
2010The US government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (slate.com)
271 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 98 comments
2014Rooms and mazes: A procedural dungeon generator (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
270 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2013How to Get Good at Chess, Fast (gautamnarula.com)
270 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 1 comments
2016The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (scottaaronson.blog)
270 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 94 comments
2014Myths about /dev/urandom (2uo.de)
268 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 35 comments
2017Coroutine Theory (lewissbaker.github.io)
268 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 2 comments
1986You and Your Research (cs.virginia.edu)
268 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 90 comments
2016Docker Considered Harmful (catern.com)
268 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 49 comments
2010A successful Git branching model (nvie.com)
268 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 74 comments
2009The /bin/true Command and Copyright (trillian.mit.edu)
267 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 83 comments
1978The Theory of Interstellar Trade (fermatslibrary.com)
267 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 103 comments
2013Turbo Pascal Compiler (teamten.com)
267 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 93 comments
2011How Doctors Die (zocalopublicsquare.org)
266 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 45 comments
2014The Technology (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
266 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments
1999The Mandelbrot Monk (users.math.yale.edu)
265 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 56 comments
2013The Strange Disappearance of Cooperation in America (peterturchin.com)
264 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 105 comments
1999The Cathedral and the Bazaar (catb.org)
264 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 164 comments
2013Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (hbr.org)
264 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 155 comments
2017Why JWTs Suck as Session Tokens (developer.okta.com)
264 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 82 comments
2009The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (steveblank.com)
264 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 198 comments
2016Stop Using JWT for Sessions (cryto.net)
263 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 6 comments
2014Vector Animations with Python (zulko.github.io)
263 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 15 comments
2010Fuck the Super Game Boy (loveconquersallgam.es)
262 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 39 comments
2019What’s causing the rise of hoarding disorder? (daily.jstor.org)
262 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 214 comments
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