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1997Why is c the symbol for the speed of light? (math.ucr.edu)
157 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 45 comments
2002Internet Explorer is EVIL! (toastytech.com)
157 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 66 comments
2019Flash Boys 2: Frontrunning, transaction reordering, consensus instability (arxiv.org)
156 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 48 comments
2018Super Wood (scientificamerican.com)
156 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 46 comments
2010Who does that server really serve? (gnu.org)
156 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 18 comments
2010So You Wanna Be a Chef (ruhlman.com)
156 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 72 comments
2017Artificial glacier growing in the desert (cnn.com)
156 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 39 comments
2005Practical Common Lisp (gigamonkeys.com)
156 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 43 comments
1977Kurt Vonnegut, The Art of Fiction No. 64 (theparisreview.org)
156 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 15 comments
2015An earthquake could destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest (newyorker.com)
156 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 89 comments
2016UnicodeMath – A Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics (unicode.org)
156 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 56 comments
2015Drawing Lines is Hard (mattdesl.svbtle.com)
155 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 10 comments
2019Hacking Google ReCAPTCHA v3 Using Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org)
155 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2002How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (samizdat.mines.edu)
155 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 6 comments
2008The Yamaha NS10 Story (soundonsound.com)
154 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 57 comments
2013Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (neocomputer.org)
154 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2018How to Read an RFC (ietf.org)
154 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments
2003Ashby's book "Introduction to Cybernetics" (pespmc1.vub.ac.be)
154 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2011I bought 259684 BTC for under $3000 (bitcointalk.org)
154 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments
2018What does code readability mean? (typicalprogrammer.com)
154 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 68 comments
2013The Shareholder Value Myth (europeanfinancialreview.com)
154 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 58 comments
2013Making WebGL Dance: How, Where, and What to Draw (acko.net)
153 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2013Yanis Varoufakis: How I became an erratic Marxist (theguardian.com)
153 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 136 comments
2000The Great Tree-List Recursion Problem (cslibrary.stanford.edu)
153 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2014Clojure Compilation (blog.ndk.io)
153 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 0 comments
2015How to read mathematics (people.vcu.edu)
153 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 31 comments
2013The Spy Novelist Who Knows Too Much (nytimes.com)
152 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 30 comments
2015Running Lisp in Production (grammarly.com)
152 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 96 comments
2017Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark (nautil.us)
152 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 8 comments
1997The Sad Saga of Silicon Graphics (businessweek.com)
151 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 99 comments
2011A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (blog.tanyakhovanova.com)
151 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 94 comments
2018Desmos uses Pratt Parsers (engineering.desmos.com)
150 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2012New Garbage Collector (wiki.luajit.org)
150 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments
2010Confirming the exact location of the invention of the web (davidgalbraith.org)
150 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2009Origins of Python's “Functional” Features (python-history.blogspot.com)
150 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 34 comments
2019With Category Theory, Mathematics Escapes from Equality (quantamagazine.org)
150 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 93 comments
2019The Weight I Carry (theatlantic.com)
150 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 37 comments
1998The Great Filter – Are We Almost Past It? (mason.gmu.edu)
150 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 174 comments
2007The Checklist (newyorker.com)
149 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 6 comments
2014BLAKE2: “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” Than MD5 (leastauthority.com)
149 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2008What happens when you add a new teller? (johndcook.com)
148 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 29 comments
2007Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (viemu.com)
148 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 123 comments
2006HashLife: An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time (drdobbs.com)
148 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2019Why Architecture Oriented Programming Matters (blog.metaobject.com)
148 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 38 comments
2013High Performance Browser Networking (hpbn.co)
148 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 3 comments
2009C’s Biggest Mistake (digitalmars.com)
148 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 96 comments
2014How Water Heaters Have Evolved into Grid-Scale Energy-Storage Devices (esource.com)
147 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 144 comments
1983Ironies of Automation (ise.ncsu.edu)
147 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments
1979Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation (multicians.org)
147 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2016NES Emulator in Common Lisp (github.com)
147 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 33 comments
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