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2001Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips (greenharbor.com)
262 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 120 comments
2019It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (arxiv.org)
261 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 52 comments
20163D reproduction of TSA Master keys (github.com)
261 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 76 comments
2014Java for Everything (teamten.com)
261 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 246 comments
2002The IBM Black Team (t3.org)
260 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 5 comments
20133D Lightning (calculatedimages.blogspot.com)
260 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 17 comments
2017Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (newyorker.com)
260 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 122 comments
2015The time it takes to change the time (blog.poormansmath.net)
259 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2017A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard (bloomberg.com)
259 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 55 comments
2015Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (theatlantic.com)
259 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 63 comments
2016We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews (blog.interviewing.io)
258 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 259 comments
1978On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (cs.utexas.edu)
258 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 63 comments
2019Time Series and FoundationDB (github.com)
258 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 86 comments
1945Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hall (germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org)
258 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 114 comments
2019Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System (research.google)
258 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 95 comments
2008Why it is important that software projects fail (berglas.org)
258 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 72 comments
2009Apple’s Mistake (paulgraham.com)
258 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 261 comments
2001The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer (willamette.edu)
258 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 34 comments
2019How to support open-source software and stay sane (nature.com)
258 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 48 comments
1993Object oriented programming with ANSI-C (cs.rit.edu)
258 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 57 comments
2014Diplomacy: The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (grantland.com)
257 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 87 comments
2017JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption is a bad standard (paragonie.com)
257 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 72 comments
2016The LaTeX fetish (danielallington.net)
257 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 249 comments
2014The Lava Layer Anti-Pattern (mikehadlow.blogspot.com)
257 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 61 comments
2015Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (blog.burntsushi.net)
256 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 10 comments
2013How I Used Eve Online to Predict the Great Recession (gamasutra.com)
256 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 105 comments
2014SBCL: Assembly code breadboard (pvk.ca)
256 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 4 comments
2014Applying to PhD Programs in Computer Science (cs.cmu.edu)
256 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 101 comments
1995A dream of an ultimate OS (okmij.org)
256 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 175 comments
2010Ways to break your systems code using volatile (blog.regehr.org)
255 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 62 comments
1992Lively Linear Lisp – 'Look Ma, No Garbage' (home.pipeline.com)
255 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2015The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman (priceonomics.com)
255 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 303 comments
2013The Shape of Rome (exurbe.com)
255 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 14 comments
2012The true power of regular expressions (nikic.github.io)
254 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 38 comments
2018IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (cnn.com)
254 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 375 comments
2007Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (fliptomato.wordpress.com)
254 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 116 comments
2001Don't allow animated favicons (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
254 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 84 comments
2010Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (conal.net)
253 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 82 comments
2015Main is usually a function. So then when is it not? (jroweboy.github.io)
253 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 47 comments
2009Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (codersatwork.com)
252 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 32 comments
2006My First BillG Review (joelonsoftware.com)
251 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 153 comments
2016Superintelligence: An idea that eats smart people (idlewords.com)
251 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 359 comments
2017In Chile three border collies are planting seeds (ibtimes.co.uk)
250 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 38 comments
2013Man who created own credit card sues bank for not sticking to terms (telegraph.co.uk)
250 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2019Re-implementing an old DOS game in C++ 17 (lethalguitar.wordpress.com)
250 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 25 comments
2012R, the master troll of statistical languages (talyarkoni.org)
250 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 148 comments
1995All Circuits are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse (users.csc.calpoly.edu)
249 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 42 comments
1997The Story of the Ping Program (ftp.arl.army.mil)
249 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 35 comments
1993The Turn (theatlantic.com)
249 points across 2 posts | 12 years ago with 23 comments
2011The German School of Lisp (blog.fogus.me)
249 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 72 comments
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