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2018A Tech Pioneer’s Final, Unexpected Act (newyorker.com)
153 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 4 comments
2000Scooping the Loop Snooper (lel.ed.ac.uk)
133 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2001Rob Pike - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy [pdf] (herpolhode.com)
116 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 2 comments
1982Epigrams on Programming (pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de)
89 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 11 comments
2019Why Are American Homes So Big? (theatlantic.com)
83 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 9 comments
2010Facebook is not worth $33B (signalvnoise.com)
56 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2016Blocklist of all Facebook domains (github.com)
1898 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 23 comments
2019This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine (secretgeek.github.io)
1895 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 44 comments
2019Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (jarredsumner.com)
1840 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 269 comments
2006Diamonds Suck (diamondssuck.com)
1779 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 53 comments
2017Against an increasingly user-hostile web (neustadt.fr)
1769 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments
201650 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat (npr.org)
1606 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 83 comments
1922I Quit Being So Accommodating (mikecanex.wordpress.com)
1568 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 18 comments
1991They're Made Out of Meat (mit.edu)
1555 points across 3 posts | 5 months ago with 168 comments
2002Forgotten Employee (sites.google.com)
1490 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 124 comments
2018Japan's Hometown Tax (kalzumeus.com)
1447 points across 3 posts | 7 months ago with 357 comments
2018Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (reddit.com)
1395 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 81 comments
2016Programmer Moneyball (danluu.com)
1365 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 72 comments
2018Virtual DOM is pure overhead (svelte.dev)
1356 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 322 comments
2017Advanced Data Structures (courses.csail.mit.edu)
1314 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments
2014Don't End the Week with Nothing (training.kalzumeus.com)
1299 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments
2015Working quickly is more important than it seems (jsomers.net)
1297 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 180 comments
2014Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (adamdrake.com)
1259 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 162 comments
2018Pure Bash Bible (github.com)
1228 points across 3 posts | 9 months ago with 101 comments
2019Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model (erikbern.com)
1158 points across 3 posts | 10 months ago with 171 comments
2014There Are Only Four Billion Floats–So Test Them All (randomascii.wordpress.com)
1082 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 64 comments
1997Lessons I wish I had learned before teaching differential equations [pdf] (web.williams.edu)
1081 points across 3 posts | 6 months ago with 243 comments
2017Keyboard Latency (danluu.com)
1059 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 109 comments
2018Open source is not about you (gist.github.com)
1049 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 205 comments
2015Johnny Decimal: A System to Organize Projects (johnnydecimal.com)
1041 points across 3 posts | 8 months ago with 117 comments
2019Seriously, Stop Using RSA (blog.trailofbits.com)
1036 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 101 comments
2018You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (twitter.com)
1004 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 255 comments
2015The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (vitavonni.de)
1001 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2019Protocols, not platforms: A technological approach to free speech (knightcolumbia.org)
976 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 37 comments
2016Linux containers in 500 lines of code (blog.lizzie.io)
956 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 27 comments
2017From Nand to Tetris (nand2tetris.org)
953 points across 3 posts | 4 months ago with 173 comments
2014If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (joshworth.com)
945 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 107 comments
2018A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (dampfkraft.com)
944 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 177 comments
2017SeaGlass: City-Wide IMSI-Catcher Detection (seaglass.cs.washington.edu)
923 points across 3 posts | 8 months ago with 61 comments
2009Not Lisp again (funcall.blogspot.com)
915 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 124 comments
2009Programmers: Before you turn 40, get a plan B (improvingsoftware.com)
910 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 430 comments
2019My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s (gwern.net)
887 points across 3 posts | 4 months ago with 61 comments
2017The Line of Death (textslashplain.com)
868 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 41 comments
2009How not to sort by average rating (evanmiller.org)
858 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 82 comments
2018The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (designyoutrust.com)
839 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 98 comments
1964Feynman Lectures on Physics (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)
839 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 66 comments
2009There Is No Speed Limit (sivers.org)
837 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 2 comments
2019How to Get Rich (nav.al)
824 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 53 comments
2019Popcount CPU instruction (vaibhavsagar.com)
823 points across 3 posts | 9 months ago with 99 comments
2009The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection (moserware.com)
821 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 35 comments
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