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2019Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no (practicaltypography.com)
528 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 191 comments
2016Why I Don't Like Golang (teamten.com)
527 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 215 comments
2012Guide to implementing 2D platformers (higherorderfun.com)
526 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 37 comments
2017The Evolution of Trust (ncase.me)
523 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2017MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua (moonscript.org)
519 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2017Encryption Lava Lamps (atlasobscura.com)
513 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 37 comments
2003“A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (people.csail.mit.edu)
507 points across 3 posts | 7 years ago with 227 comments
1944Simple Sabotage Field Manual (cia.gov)
502 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 89 comments
2005Rewriting Reddit (aaronsw.com)
499 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 26 comments
2016The Linux scheduler: A decade of wasted cores (blog.acolyer.org)
494 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2013Git Koans (stevelosh.com)
492 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 65 comments
2019The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence (numenta.com)
490 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 62 comments
1946Hiroshima (newyorker.com)
486 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 158 comments
2007Holding a Program in One's Head (paulgraham.com)
483 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 79 comments
2019How Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't (gankra.github.io)
478 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2018Parachute use to prevent death, major trauma when jumping from aircraft (bmj.com)
463 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2008"Secret" History of Silicon Valley (steveblank.com)
460 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 48 comments
1974Cargo cult science (calteches.library.caltech.edu)
455 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 156 comments
2014Visualizing Algorithms (bost.ocks.org)
453 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 27 comments
20081k True Fans (kk.org)
450 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 139 comments
2012Valve – Handbook for New Employees (valvesoftware.com)
449 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 197 comments
2019The great American eye-exam scam (theatlantic.com)
448 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 80 comments
2018Python Design Patterns (python-patterns.guide)
445 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 89 comments
2008Shouting in the Datacenter (youtube.com)
444 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 47 comments
2019Don't ask to ask, just ask (dontasktoask.com)
442 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 360 comments
2014Torus-Earth (aleph.se)
441 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 33 comments
2013Stop Reading News (fs.blog)
439 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 61 comments
2015Reasons Not to Use Google (stallman.org)
438 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 102 comments
2017Free coding exercises for budding gophers (gophercises.com)
435 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments
2017Tribes of Programming (josephg.com)
430 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2014Literate DevOps (howardism.org)
427 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments
1999In the Beginning was the Command Line (cristal.inria.fr)
426 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 64 comments
2019Modern C for C++ peeps (floooh.github.io)
423 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 248 comments
2019Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging (cell.com)
422 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 1 comments
2005The six dumbest ideas in computer security (ranum.com)
421 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 196 comments
2018The interesting ideas in Datasette (simonwillison.net)
420 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments
1924Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (en.wikisource.org)
419 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments
2019Why Books Donʼt Work (andymatuschak.org)
418 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2015The days are long but the decades are short (blog.samaltman.com)
411 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 83 comments
2016The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (medium.com)
411 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments
2019“Terrascope”: The possibility of using the Earth as an atmospheric lens (arxiv.org)
410 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 36 comments
2019Mathematicians discover the perfect way to multiply (quantamagazine.org)
410 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 33 comments
2018Spinning Up in Deep RL (spinningup.openai.com)
406 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 5 comments
1932In Praise of Idleness (zpub.com)
401 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments
2018The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone (theatlantic.com)
399 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 70 comments
2018In defense of swap: common misconceptions (chrisdown.name)
399 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 165 comments
2019Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours (alexdanco.com)
398 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2019Safe deposit boxes aren’t safe (nytimes.com)
395 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 147 comments
2011Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction (worrydream.com)
386 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 8 comments
2012Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts (notebook.kulchenko.com)
384 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 93 comments
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