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1985The result would be a catastrophe (lettersofnote.com)
381 points | 9 years ago with 187 comments
2011Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress (news.harvard.edu)
381 points | 10 years ago with 173 comments
1985The Parable of the Two Programmers (csd.uwo.ca)
381 points | 10 years ago with 160 comments
2000The curse of the gifted programmer (lwn.net)
381 points | 9 years ago with 166 comments
2016I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know (tech.davis-hansson.com)
380 points | 2 years ago with 159 comments
2016We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars (devonzuegel.com)
380 points | 7 years ago with 335 comments
2000Paul Graham on SICP (amazon.com)
380 points | 7 years ago with 133 comments
2017The Man Who Invented Information Theory (bostonreview.net)
380 points | 6 years ago with 100 comments
2001David Horne's 1K Chess on the ZX81 (thad.frogley.info)
380 points | 10 years ago with 147 comments
2014What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (wozniak.ca)
379 points | 9 years ago with 295 comments
1997The Right to Read (gnu.org)
379 points | 5 years ago with 100 comments
2018How to build a low-tech website? (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
379 points | 4 years ago with 216 comments
1993Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (wiki.debian.org)
378 points | 2 years ago with 131 comments
2016So you think you know C? (wordsandbuttons.online)
378 points | 6 years ago with 322 comments
2011A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (theatlantic.com)
378 points | 5 years ago with 414 comments
2010In 2004, Zuckerberg Broke Into a Facebook User's Private Email Account (businessinsider.com)
377 points | 7 years ago with 110 comments
2018Meow Hash (mollyrocket.com)
377 points | 4 years ago with 108 comments
2018iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (neosmart.net)
376 points | 5 years ago with 468 comments
2010I assume I’m below average (sive.rs)
376 points | 4 years ago with 224 comments
2019Privacy vs. “I have nothing to hide” (kevquirk.com)
376 points | 3 years ago with 456 comments
20161min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness as much as 3x aerobics (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
375 points | 2 years ago with 490 comments
2008Books Programmers Don't Really Read (billthelizard.com)
375 points | 9 years ago with 159 comments
2015German traffic light stays red for 28 years (thelocal.de)
374 points | 8 years ago with 295 comments
2015Why physicists still use Fortran (moreisdifferent.com)
373 points | 8 years ago with 293 comments
2015How to undo almost anything with Git (github.blog)
372 points | 5 years ago with 79 comments
2015In Japan, small children take the subway and run errands alone (citylab.com)
372 points | 7 years ago with 240 comments
2011Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (km-515.livejournal.com)
371 points | 3 years ago with 335 comments
2015Six works of Computer Science-Fiction (blog.fogus.me)
371 points | 5 years ago with 93 comments
2016Simpson’s Paradox (forrestthewoods.com)
370 points | 6 years ago with 82 comments
2015The Art of Electronics (artofelectronics.net)
370 points | 1 year ago with 97 comments
2019Bluetooth stack modifications to improve audio quality on headphones without AA (habr.com)
370 points | 1 year ago with 107 comments
1988The Awk Programming Language (ia802309.us.archive.org)
370 points | 7 years ago with 207 comments
2017The Web Began Dying in 2014 (staltz.com)
370 points | 5 years ago with 263 comments
1999Windows Refund Day (marc.merlins.org)
370 points | 4 years ago with 136 comments
1983New UNIX implementation (groups.google.com)
370 points | 12 years ago with 159 comments
2015Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues (setosa.io)
369 points | 7 years ago with 86 comments
2011I hate stacked area charts (leancrew.com)
369 points | 11 years ago with 64 comments
1998A 1970s Teenager's Bedroom (rocketroberts.com)
369 points | 7 years ago with 135 comments
2012Resolutions for programmers (matt.might.net)
369 points | 9 years ago with 221 comments
2011The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (golem.ph.utexas.edu)
368 points | 4 years ago with 164 comments
2019Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (3blue1brown.com)
368 points | 2 years ago with 99 comments
2017Ad blocking is under attack (adguard.com)
367 points | 3 years ago with 393 comments
1996Will Wright on designing user interfaces to simulation games (donhopkins.medium.com)
367 points | 2 years ago with 74 comments
1998How Complex Systems Fail (how.complexsystems.fail)
366 points | 4 years ago with 83 comments
2019Interactive Linear Algebra (textbooks.math.gatech.edu)
365 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments
2017The painfully shy developer's guide to networking for a better job (samjulien.com)
365 points | 3 years ago with 95 comments
2016Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (programmingisterrible.com)
365 points | 5 years ago with 109 comments
2012JSFuck (jsfuck.com)
365 points | 4 years ago with 156 comments
2012USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (intel.com)
364 points | 4 years ago with 226 comments
2014How ACH works: A developer perspective (engineering.gusto.com)
364 points | 8 years ago with 219 comments
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