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1863Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (scientificamerican.com)
401 points | 5 years ago with 232 comments
2016JSON as configuration files: please don’t (arp242.net)
401 points | 6 years ago with 426 comments
2016GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (about.gitlab.com)
401 points | 7 years ago with 99 comments
2014Stanford Unsupervised Deep Learning Tutorial (deeplearning.stanford.edu)
401 points | 8 years ago with 50 comments
2015Extracting the private key from a TREZOR with an oscilloscope (jochen-hoenicke.de)
399 points | 7 years ago with 85 comments
1986People Simply Empty Out (lettersofnote.com)
399 points | 6 years ago with 226 comments
2017Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH (github.com)
399 points | 6 years ago with 79 comments
1991What would you like to see most in minix? (groups.google.com)
398 points | 12 years ago with 186 comments
1880Golden Rules for Making Money (fourmilab.ch)
398 points | 9 years ago with 180 comments
2019NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks (bellard.org)
397 points | 4 years ago with 160 comments
2016Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform (fs.blog)
397 points | 6 years ago with 139 comments
1996“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (twitter.com)
396 points | 3 years ago with 403 comments
2016The greatest sales deck I've ever seen (medium.com)
395 points | 6 years ago with 163 comments
2010Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (twitter.com)
395 points | 4 years ago with 255 comments
2017As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support (plumshell.com)
395 points | 4 years ago with 177 comments
1996John Carmack on QuakeWorld latency and business model (raw.githubusercontent.com)
395 points | 6 years ago with 162 comments
2014John Carmack on Inlined Code (number-none.com)
395 points | 9 years ago with 199 comments
2014The Hair Dryer Incident (quotulatiousness.ca)
394 points | 4 years ago with 263 comments
2011Introduction to Algotrading (isomorphisms.sdf.org)
393 points | 6 years ago with 130 comments
2017Why I hate the weekends (cdahmedeh.net)
393 points | 6 years ago with 340 comments
2008Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (joelonsoftware.com)
393 points | 9 years ago with 227 comments
2010Steve Jobs emails himself (twitter.com)
392 points | 3 years ago with 243 comments
2006Why sqlite3 temp files were renamed 'etilqs_*' (github.com)
392 points | 2 years ago with 138 comments
2019Lets Get Arrested (github.com)
392 points | 3 years ago with 129 comments
1933The Triumph of Stupidity (russell-j.com)
392 points | 9 years ago with 269 comments
2019Gmail is opening and caching URLs within emails without user intervention (support.google.com)
390 points | 4 years ago with 267 comments
2015Useless Use of "dd" (vidarholen.net)
390 points | 3 years ago with 252 comments
1998Back Orifice (web.archive.org)
389 points | 4 years ago with 221 comments
2019Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites (webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu)
389 points | 4 years ago with 118 comments
2017How to run your own mail server (c0ffee.net)
389 points | 5 years ago with 262 comments
2010The greatest bug I never fixed (blog.makandra.com)
389 points | 11 years ago with 61 comments
2008Introduction to Differential Equations (tutorial.math.lamar.edu)
388 points | 7 years ago with 88 comments
2009“Facebook turned me down” (twitter.com)
388 points | 11 years ago with 191 comments
2014Linear Book Scanner – Open-source automatic book scanner (linearbookscanner.org)
388 points | 2 years ago with 83 comments
2006“Illegal” Lego Builds (bramlambrecht.com)
387 points | 6 years ago with 59 comments
1944Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (svn.cacert.org)
387 points | 3 years ago with 208 comments
2012Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
386 points | 7 years ago with 151 comments
2013NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show (washingtonpost.com)
386 points | 9 years ago with 172 comments
2014Why my book can be downloaded for free (blog.plover.com)
386 points | 5 years ago with 134 comments
2010Blackbird SR-71 Flight Manual (sr-71.org)
385 points | 6 years ago with 149 comments
2012Vim Anti-Patterns (sanctum.geek.nz)
385 points | 6 years ago with 238 comments
2013Man makes money from cold calls with his own higher-rate phone number (bbc.com)
384 points | 6 years ago with 133 comments
2019Text editing hates you too (lord.io)
384 points | 4 years ago with 182 comments
1981How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (straightdope.com)
384 points | 5 years ago with 390 comments
1935War Is a Racket (archive.org)
383 points | 2 years ago with 534 comments
2018Data-Oriented Design (dataorienteddesign.com)
383 points | 2 years ago with 132 comments
2019Why mmap is faster than system calls (sasha-f.medium.com)
382 points | 4 years ago with 203 comments
1971Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (rollingstone.com)
382 points | 5 years ago with 111 comments
2014Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success (nature.com)
382 points | 3 years ago with 348 comments
2017The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal (vice.com)
381 points | 6 years ago with 183 comments
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