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1993Proposed new tag: IMG (1997.webhistory.org)
233 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 20 comments
2011HCL: a color model that actually matches our perceptions (vis4.net)
232 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 43 comments
2017Worst-Case Scenario (theparisreview.org)
232 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2010What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki? (cstheory.stackexchange.com)
229 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 42 comments
2011Is infinity an odd or even number? (math.stackexchange.com)
229 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 373 comments
2012The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (otherhand.org)
229 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 147 comments
2008The “high-level CPU” challenge (yosefk.com)
229 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 127 comments
2015Behavioral Profiling: The password you can't change (paul.reviews)
229 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments
2017Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM (icculus.org)
228 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 111 comments
2019The man who made the “worst” video game in history (thehustle.co)
228 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 110 comments
2007PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum (scottaaronson.com)
228 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 51 comments
2019Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop (vice.com)
227 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 107 comments
2014Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology (colah.github.io)
227 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 25 comments
2015The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks (karpathy.github.io)
226 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 51 comments
2014Everyone on Earth is your cousin (qz.com)
226 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 53 comments
2018How Does an Intel Processor Boot? (binarydebt.wordpress.com)
226 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2010The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. (matt.might.net)
224 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 120 comments
2003Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet "Ginger" (hbswk.hbs.edu)
224 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 48 comments
1971Elementary Algebra (softwarepreservation.org)
224 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 4 comments
2006I survived the “Destroying Angel” (blog.mycology.cornell.edu)
224 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 4 comments
2002Homebrew CPU Home Page (homebrewcpu.com)
223 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 4 comments
2018OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world – then it all went wrong (theverge.com)
223 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 13 comments
2012The FFmpeg/Libav situation (blog.pkh.me)
223 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments
2012Understanding is poor substitute for convexity (edge.org)
223 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 25 comments
1993Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets (newyorker.com)
223 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 20 comments
2009How we made GitHub fast (github.com)
222 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 9 comments
2013The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
221 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2013Why I Regret Making My House a Smart-House (finehomebuilding.com)
221 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 167 comments
2014CPython internals: Ten-hour codewalk through the interpreter source code (pgbovine.net)
221 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 7 comments
2018Fail-slow at scale: Evidence of performance faults in large systems (dl.acm.org)
221 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2007Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (pmarchive.com)
221 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 9 comments
2019Machine Learning, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Squishy Bunnies (theorangeduck.com)
220 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 9 comments
2006GUI Architectures (martinfowler.com)
219 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 28 comments
2015How to explain the KGB's success identifying CIA agents in the field (salon.com)
219 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 64 comments
2016What Ever Happened to Scandium Bike Frames? (bikeblogordie.com)
218 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 29 comments
2009Suicide Linux (qntm.org)
218 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 170 comments
2014Oracle started as a CIA project (gizmodo.com)
218 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 90 comments
2015Kudzu, the vine that never ate the south (smithsonianmag.com)
218 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 47 comments
2018A Road to Common Lisp (stevelosh.com)
218 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2014The Door Problem (lizengland.com)
217 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2014Putting $10M into uBeam illustrates what is wrong with tech investing (lookatmeimdanny.tumblr.com)
217 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 11 comments
1994Fatal Dose – Radiation Deaths linked to AECL Computer Errors (ccnr.org)
216 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 79 comments
2014The XY Problem (xyproblem.info)
216 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 95 comments
1990Why functional programming matters (cs.kent.ac.uk)
215 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 103 comments
1981Rare cancer seen in 41 homossexuals (nytimes.com)
215 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 10 comments
2014Modern Anti-Spam and E2E Crypto (moderncrypto.org)
214 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 45 comments
2014The Legendary Study That Embarrassed Wine Experts (realclearscience.com)
214 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 173 comments
1990SJ Games vs. the Secret Service (sjgames.com)
214 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 47 comments
1999When Interfaces Kill: What Happened to John Denver (asktog.com)
214 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 119 comments
2012Doom3 Source Code Review (fabiensanglard.net)
214 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 1 comments
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