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2015Rolex's Manufacturing Facilities (hodinkee.com)
197 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 52 comments
2007Gamma error in picture scaling (4p8.com)
197 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 32 comments
2017Michael Lewis and the parable of the lucky man taking the extra cookie (kottke.org)
196 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2001Handbook of Applied Cryptography (cacr.uwaterloo.ca)
196 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 17 comments
1989The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov (chem.tufts.edu)
196 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 60 comments
1989Why Adventure Games Suck (grumpygamer.com)
196 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 57 comments
2013How Not to Die of Botulism (theatlantic.com)
195 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 98 comments
2012The Heart of Deterrence (blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
195 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 1 comments
1990Bell Labs' Plan 9 research project looks to tomorrow (doc.cat-v.org)
194 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 65 comments
2010The Failure Mode of Clever (whatever.scalzi.com)
194 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 46 comments
1993The Evolution of Lisp (dreamsongs.com)
194 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2017Directly converting CO2 into a gasoline fuel (nature.com)
193 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 68 comments
1955A Proposal for the Dartmouth Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (www-formal.stanford.edu)
193 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 10 comments
2018Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix (grahamc.com)
193 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 7 comments
2013How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
192 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2014How misaligning data can increase performance by reducing cache misses (danluu.com)
192 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 15 comments
201916-bit RISC-V processor made with carbon nanotubes (arstechnica.com)
191 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 7 comments
1999A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (muppetlabs.com)
190 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 22 comments
2011Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (corte.si)
190 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2007What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (people.freebsd.org)
189 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 26 comments
2012The Effects of Computer Programming on the Brain (virtuecenter.com)
189 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 22 comments
2013Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (github.com)
189 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 40 comments
2019Build your own WebAssembly Compiler (blog.scottlogic.com)
189 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 31 comments
1989Notes on Programming in C – Rob Pike (lysator.liu.se)
188 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 39 comments
2007A Regular Expression Matcher (cs.princeton.edu)
188 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 22 comments
2003Why events are a bad idea for high-concurrency servers (people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
187 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 45 comments
2019A Crashed Israeli Lunar Lander Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon (wired.com)
187 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 62 comments
2007A look back: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds (wincent.com)
187 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 98 comments
2012If correlation doesn’t imply causality, then what does? (michaelnielsen.org)
187 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 1 comments
2016The World’s Most Efficient Languages (theatlantic.com)
186 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 15 comments
2009How Command Line Parameters Are Parsed (daviddeley.com)
186 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2019Time protection: the missing OS abstraction (blog.acolyer.org)
186 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 4 comments
2005The Origin of CAR and CDR in Lisp (iwriteiam.nl)
186 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 95 comments
2011How many Commodore 64 computers were sold? (pagetable.com)
185 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 62 comments
1999Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher (ils.unc.edu)
185 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2019History of Lisp Parentheses (github.com)
185 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 72 comments
2014I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop what you are doing (reddit.com)
185 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 18 comments
2019The Whole Code Catalog (futureofcoding.org)
185 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 5 comments
2019The Next Hot Job: Pretending to Be a Robot (wsj.com)
184 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2015Turning the iPhone 6S into a digital scale (medium.com)
184 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2013The Eternal Mainframe (winestockwebdesign.com)
183 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 52 comments
2014What every programmer should know about solid-state drives (codecapsule.com)
182 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 109 comments
2016I do not use a debugger (lemire.me)
182 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 65 comments
2005NP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality (arxiv.org)
182 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 33 comments
2014How Your Brain Decides Without You (nautil.us)
182 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 14 comments
1987Neural Network on a Commodore 64 (fourmilab.ch)
182 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2010The Aphex Face (bastwood.com)
180 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2008Towards Moore's Law Software (moserware.com)
180 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments
2016Hiring and the Market for Lemons (danluu.com)
180 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 49 comments
2010What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (talyarkoni.org)
180 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 68 comments
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