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2019“Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (neuroclastic.com)
335 points | 3 years ago with 387 comments
2009Divisibility by 7 is a Walk on a Graph (blog.tanyakhovanova.com)
335 points | 10 years ago with 71 comments
2013My favorite Erlang program (joearms.github.io)
335 points | 2 years ago with 117 comments
2011A brief rant on the future of interaction design (worrydream.com)
335 points | 6 years ago with 153 comments
2011The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress (nytimes.com)
334 points | 8 years ago with 226 comments
2017What's it like to be an Octopus? (lrb.co.uk)
334 points | 5 years ago with 163 comments
1987Nuclear War Survival Skills (oism.org)
334 points | 8 years ago with 213 comments
2012On being the maintainer and sole developer of SPITBOL (daveshields.me)
334 points | 10 years ago with 95 comments
2017Betting on things that never change (collabfund.com)
333 points | 2 years ago with 113 comments
2017Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (strongtowns.org)
333 points | 5 years ago with 471 comments
2018Jitsi Meet – Improving Scale and Media Quality with Cascading SFUs (webrtchacks.com)
333 points | 5 years ago with 116 comments
2011I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (dinakelberman.tumblr.com)
332 points | 10 years ago with 47 comments
2017Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration (blog.kentcdodds.com)
331 points | 6 years ago with 152 comments
1988The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (groups.csail.mit.edu)
330 points | 8 years ago with 134 comments
2009Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
330 points | 6 years ago with 293 comments
2019Give me back my monolith (craigkerstiens.com)
330 points | 3 years ago with 296 comments
2014Much of the “science” used in design is bullshit (mjparnell.com)
330 points | 6 years ago with 137 comments
2012Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (stackoverflow.com)
329 points | 8 years ago with 97 comments
2004In emergency cases a passenger was selected and thrown out of the plane (lwn.net)
329 points | 12 years ago with 115 comments
2017A Kid Spent 9 Years Building a Detailed Paper Model of a Boeing Jet (ge.com)
329 points | 6 years ago with 72 comments
2019Edible insects role in transmission of parasitic diseases to humans (journals.plos.org)
329 points | 3 years ago with 457 comments
2015Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially (newyorker.com)
329 points | 7 years ago with 245 comments
2015How to navigate directories faster with Bash (mhoffman.github.io)
329 points | 4 years ago with 172 comments
2017Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (tylertringas.com)
328 points | 5 years ago with 74 comments
2015The Next 50 Years of Databases (cs.cmu.edu)
327 points | 5 years ago with 139 comments
2014Algorithm recovers speech from a potato-chip bag filmed through glass (news.mit.edu)
327 points | 7 years ago with 109 comments
2013How to lose $172k per second for 45 minutes (sweetness.hmmz.org)
327 points | 6 years ago with 166 comments
2019How to write idempotent Bash scripts (arslan.io)
327 points | 3 years ago with 99 comments
1987Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (pessimistsarchive.substack.com)
327 points | 4 years ago with 381 comments
2018Breathing and Exercise: Strength Training for Your Diaphragm (pennmedicine.org)
327 points | 5 years ago with 119 comments
2011How to get gmail.com banned (mailinator.blogspot.com)
327 points | 10 years ago with 60 comments
2013Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC (docpop.org)
326 points | 2 years ago with 73 comments
2019Roguelike Tutorial in Rust (bfnightly.bracketproductions.com)
326 points | 3 years ago with 115 comments
2017Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (magcius.github.io)
326 points | 5 years ago with 89 comments
2011Sleep sort (dis.4chan.org)
326 points | 10 years ago with 68 comments
2015In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (npr.org)
325 points | 8 years ago with 172 comments
2009Fuck the Cloud (ascii.textfiles.com)
325 points | 9 years ago with 219 comments
2014A Plane That Accidentally Circumnavigated the World (medium.com)
325 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2014When George Soros Broke the British Pound (priceonomics.com)
325 points | 6 years ago with 259 comments
2012Xkcd-Style Plots in Matplotlib (jakevdp.github.io)
325 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments
2017A near-disaster at a nuclear weapons lab takes toll on America’s arsenal (science.org)
324 points | 3 years ago with 247 comments
2012Why I program in Erlang (evanmiller.org)
324 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments
2014What does an idle CPU do? (manybutfinite.com)
324 points | 3 years ago with 100 comments
2016The differences between tinkering and research (togelius.blogspot.com)
324 points | 7 years ago with 129 comments
2014Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (stackoverflow.com)
324 points | 9 years ago with 54 comments
2017Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Reference Counting (atp.fm)
324 points | 3 years ago with 249 comments
2013An F-117 pilot and the officer who shot him down meet, 15 years later (rd.com)
324 points | 4 years ago with 168 comments
2010Adults with ADHD show decreased function in brain dopamine reward pathway (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
324 points | 5 years ago with 330 comments
2016Don’t starve, Diablo – Parallax 7 (simonschreibt.de)
323 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments
2014Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (metalintheory.com)
323 points | 2 years ago with 246 comments
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