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2002Linus Torvalds on Garbage Collection (gcc.gnu.org)
279 points | 14 years ago with 204 comments
2013Unicode in five minutes (richardjharris.github.io)
279 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
2018Moving Away from UUIDs (neilmadden.blog)
278 points | 2 years ago with 229 comments
1943Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun (orwell.ru)
278 points | 7 years ago with 263 comments
2017How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic (brandur.org)
278 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2019Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished (bbc.com)
278 points | 4 years ago with 191 comments
2011Deep C and C++ (slideshare.net)
278 points | 12 years ago with 237 comments
2017The Tech of Pixar: Piper (fxguide.com)
278 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments
2015An Amazon programmer’s perspective (pastebin.com)
278 points | 5 years ago with 268 comments
2016MIT OCW: Statistics for Applications (ocw.mit.edu)
278 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments
2014A whale who tried to mimic human speech (smithsonianmag.com)
278 points | 4 years ago with 133 comments
2019Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model (erikbern.com)
277 points | 4 years ago with 131 comments
2018A Short Guide to Minimal Web Development (meiert.com)
277 points | 5 years ago with 83 comments
2013Monte Carlo theory, methods and examples (statweb.stanford.edu)
277 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2018Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (economist.com)
277 points | 5 years ago with 434 comments
2007Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (gnu.org)
277 points | 6 years ago with 399 comments
2014Masters of Love: Lasting relationships come down to kindness, generosity (theatlantic.com)
276 points | 7 years ago with 111 comments
2009Nobody wants to read your shit (stevenpressfield.com)
276 points | 6 years ago with 84 comments
2016Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (monterail.com)
276 points | 4 years ago with 155 comments
2010Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers (prog21.dadgum.com)
276 points | 2 years ago with 84 comments
2013Handbook of Graph Drawing and Visualization (cs.brown.edu)
276 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments
2008How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (tom.preston-werner.com)
276 points | 12 years ago with 89 comments
2014How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One (jichu4n.com)
276 points | 4 years ago with 244 comments
2018DeepCreamPy- Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks (github.com)
275 points | 3 years ago with 130 comments
2010Everything you need to know about cryptography in 1 hour (daemonology.net)
275 points | 11 years ago with 97 comments
1996Lessons I wish I had been taught (alumni.media.mit.edu)
275 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments
2014Simple Exercises To Help Undo the Damage of Sitting (artofmanliness.com)
275 points | 8 years ago with 95 comments
1977The CIA and the Media (carlbernstein.com)
274 points | 3 years ago with 152 comments
2014The dangers of streaming across versions of glibc: A cautionary tale (postgresql.org)
274 points | 6 years ago with 80 comments
2013Poverty reduces brainpower needed for navigating other areas of life (princeton.edu)
274 points | 7 years ago with 166 comments
2013Nobody Knows What They're Doing (prospect.org)
274 points | 8 years ago with 129 comments
2015I Was Wrong About Speed Reading (scotthyoung.com)
274 points | 5 years ago with 165 comments
2016Go best practices, six years in (peter.bourgon.org)
274 points | 7 years ago with 63 comments
2014The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity (ocw.mit.edu)
274 points | 9 years ago with 23 comments
2010Facebook's Zuckerberg Says the Age of Privacy Is Over (archive.nytimes.com)
274 points | 7 years ago with 96 comments
2015Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (medium.com)
274 points | 5 years ago with 174 comments
2010Tabnabbing: A New Type of Phishing Attack (azarask.in)
273 points | 11 years ago with 95 comments
2019The new dot com bubble is online advertising (thecorrespondent.com)
273 points | 4 years ago with 167 comments
2016When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (thestar.com)
273 points | 5 years ago with 112 comments
2016How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (archive.cancerworld.net)
272 points | 4 years ago with 291 comments
2008I fell in love with an assassin (independent.co.uk)
272 points | 8 years ago with 76 comments
2014If Andromeda Were Brighter, This is What You’d See (waitbutwhy.com)
272 points | 5 years ago with 72 comments
2015Problems with RESTful APIs (mmikowski.github.io)
272 points | 8 years ago with 215 comments
2016Knowledge Extraction from Unstructured Texts (blog.heuritech.com)
272 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2017Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
271 points | 4 years ago with 243 comments
2009Aaron Swartz's Thoughts on djb (aaronsw.com)
271 points | 10 years ago with 137 comments
2015Solving Minesweeper and making it better (magnushoff.com)
271 points | 7 years ago with 73 comments
2015Elite for Emacs (salkosuo.net)
271 points | 2 years ago with 44 comments
2013Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (slate.com)
271 points | 4 years ago with 134 comments
2006Number systems of the world, sorted by complexity of counting (sf.airnet.ne.jp)
271 points | 7 years ago with 114 comments
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