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2009Rules of Spycraft (oss.net)
180 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 62 comments
2002The Etherkiller and Friends (fiftythree.org)
180 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 26 comments
2019Theory to systems: A grounded approach to programming language education (arxiv.org)
180 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments
2006Ssss: Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme (point-at-infinity.org)
179 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 41 comments
1986The History of FoxPro: Interview with Wayne Ratliff (foxprohistory.org)
179 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 47 comments
2014x86 is Turing-complete with no registers (mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.com)
179 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 48 comments
2012Car alarms and smoke alarms: tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity (blog.danslimmon.com)
179 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 78 comments
2010History of Emacs and vi Keys (xahlee.info)
178 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 85 comments
2019The Road to OCIv2 Images: What's Wrong with Tar? (cyphar.com)
178 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 15 comments
2018Advanced techniques to implement fast hash tables (attractivechaos.wordpress.com)
178 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments
2016A fast alternative to the modulo reduction (lemire.me)
177 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 33 comments
2014Wirecutter CEO Sells Top Reviews for Kickbacks (xdesk.com)
177 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2003Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker (twitter.com)
177 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 64 comments
2016Borges and $: The Parable of the Literary Master and the Coin (longreads.com)
177 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2018I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant (thewalrus.ca)
177 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments
2018Tetris Randomizers (simon.lc)
177 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 16 comments
1977Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (thocp.net)
177 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 32 comments
1987Nuclear War Survival Skills (oism.org)
176 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 205 comments
1997Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible? (math.ucr.edu)
176 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 84 comments
2014Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services (research.microsoft.com)
175 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 5 comments
2016Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (jackschaedler.github.io)
175 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2015The Computational Theory of Mind (plato.stanford.edu)
175 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 90 comments
2016A bug story: data alignment on x86 (pzemtsov.github.io)
174 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2011If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (anildash.com)
174 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 47 comments
2009Bryan Cantrill interviews Arthur Whitney (queue.acm.org)
174 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2010Learning Vim incrementally (yehudakatz.com)
174 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 86 comments
2011Bored People Quit (randsinrepose.com)
173 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 1 comments
1995Modern art was CIA 'weapon' (independent.co.uk)
173 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 83 comments
2014How 'DevOps' Is Killing the Developer (jeffknupp.com)
173 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 140 comments
2016The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (qualiacomputing.com)
172 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 78 comments
2011All late projects are the same (systemsguild.com)
172 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 58 comments
2019How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely? (bbc.com)
172 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 64 comments
2015Scandalous weird old things about the C preprocessor (blog.robertelder.org)
172 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 32 comments
2016Dr. Seuss’ satirical lesson on nuclear armament and the absurdity of war (dailyfig.com)
172 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2015Clojure is a product design tool (precursorapp.com)
172 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 68 comments
2017The Rise and Rise of JSON (twobithistory.org)
172 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 167 comments
2009colorForth (colorforth.github.io)
171 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 54 comments
1995A plea for lean software (cr.yp.to)
171 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 100 comments
2011Subject: Airbnb (paulgraham.com)
171 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 162 comments
2015Workarounds to Computer Access in Healthcare: Password or a Dead Patient? (cs.dartmouth.edu)
171 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 58 comments
2007The Dark Side of C++ (fefe.de)
171 points across 2 posts | 12 years ago with 52 comments
2019Efficient IO in Linux with io_uring [pdf] (kernel.dk)
171 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2015How Not to Measure Latency (highscalability.com)
171 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 29 comments
2011Virtual Particles: What are they? (profmattstrassler.com)
171 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 32 comments
2009Teaching Concurrency (research.microsoft.com)
171 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 44 comments
2012Common Lisp: The Untold Story (nhplace.com)
170 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 30 comments
2017What Next? (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
170 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments
2017The mystery of the lost Roman herb (bbc.com)
169 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 26 comments
2009The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? (econ.ucsb.edu)
169 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 108 comments
2015We need less powerful languages (lukeplant.me.uk)
169 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 94 comments
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