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2016Great AA Alkaline Battery Test (goughlui.com)
262 points | 3 years ago with 194 comments
2017Greg (blog.samaltman.com)
262 points | 1 year ago with 121 comments
2013135M messages a second between processes in Java (psy-lob-saw.blogspot.com)
262 points | 9 years ago with 157 comments
2010'All I wanted to do is build a house' (beta.theglobeandmail.com)
262 points | 8 years ago with 244 comments
2016Boris Yeltsin's visit to a suburban Houston supermarket in 1989 (beelineblogger.blogspot.com)
261 points | 2 years ago with 355 comments
2018Rethinking GPS: Engineering next-gen location at Uber (uber.com)
261 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments
2013GameBoy CPU Manual (realboyemulator.files.wordpress.com)
261 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments
2011The boy who stole Half Life 2 source code (eurogamer.net)
261 points | 11 years ago with 153 comments
2013Commit often, perfect later, publish once: Git best practices (sethrobertson.github.io)
261 points | 4 years ago with 111 comments
2008Extruding Ice from Steel Fences and Pipes with Diurnal Freeze/Thaw (my.ilstu.edu)
261 points | 4 years ago with 21 comments
2017What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex (etherrotmutex.blogspot.com)
261 points | 3 years ago with 162 comments
2016We won the battle for Linux, but we're losing the battle for freedom (linuxjournal.com)
261 points | 3 years ago with 254 comments
1983The Theory of Relational Databases (web.cecs.pdx.edu)
261 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2012Whats thw crazyest thing ur goats have eaten? (thegoatspot.net)
260 points | 6 years ago with 67 comments
2015Railway-Oriented Programming (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
260 points | 7 years ago with 160 comments
2010Street-Fighting Math: Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving (mitpress.mit.edu)
260 points | 8 years ago with 30 comments
2019San Jose Fire had an impossibly complex incident scene (facebook.com)
260 points | 4 years ago with 164 comments
2016Tokyo's audiophile venues (residentadvisor.net)
260 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments
2004If Carpenters Were Hired Like Programmers (jasonbock.net)
260 points | 8 years ago with 118 comments
2019The worst thing about Jenkins is that it works (twitchard.github.io)
260 points | 1 year ago with 262 comments
2008L-theanine, a constituent in tea, and its effect on mental state (apjcn.nhri.org.tw)
260 points | 7 years ago with 158 comments
2019The appeal of using plain HTML pages (utcc.utoronto.ca)
260 points | 3 years ago with 207 comments
2007Resistor Noise Can Be Deafening, and Hard to Reduce (analog.com)
260 points | 4 years ago with 106 comments
2006Why sqlite3 temp files were renamed 'etilqs_*' (github.com)
260 points | 2 years ago with 104 comments
2009Conflating pointers with arrays: C's biggest mistake? (digitalmars.com)
260 points | 7 years ago with 254 comments
2010Git for Computer Scientists (eagain.net)
259 points | 4 years ago with 101 comments
2017You are not Google (blog.bradfieldcs.com)
259 points | 3 years ago with 170 comments
2017The Dutch East India Co was richer than Apple, Google, Facebook combined (dutchreview.com)
259 points | 6 years ago with 154 comments
2018Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human immune system (journals.plos.org)
259 points | 4 years ago with 229 comments
2013Adult immune systems ‘remember’ germs to which they’ve never been exposed (med.stanford.edu)
259 points | 5 years ago with 99 comments
2016The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work (journals.plos.org)
259 points | 5 years ago with 183 comments
2017Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (theguardian.com)
259 points | 4 years ago with 178 comments
2017How the self-esteem craze took over America (thecut.com)
259 points | 4 years ago with 229 comments
2015What happens behind the scenes when we type www.google.com in a browser? (github.com)
259 points | 6 years ago with 76 comments
2013A little-known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations (hamberg.no)
259 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2015I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (sigbus.info)
259 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2010If money doesn't make you happy, you probably aren't spending it right (wjh.harvard.edu)
258 points | 11 years ago with 143 comments
2010Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (science.org)
258 points | 3 years ago with 75 comments
2012Network programming with Go (jannewmarch.gitbooks.io)
258 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments
2017Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (ehneilsen.net)
258 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments
2013Writing a full-text search engine using Bloom filters (stavros.io)
258 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2001Introduction to TCP and Sockets (scottklement.com)
258 points | 3 years ago with 27 comments
2018A secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT (cake.co)
257 points | 5 years ago with 86 comments
2019DownThemAll (addons.mozilla.org)
257 points | 4 years ago with 131 comments
2018The rise of universities’ diversity bureaucrats (economist.com)
257 points | 2 years ago with 338 comments
1897The most important scientific problems have yet to be solved (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
257 points | 5 years ago with 148 comments
2004How Intelligent Are Cats? (messybeast.com)
257 points | 3 years ago with 281 comments
2017The Fugate family of Kentucky has had blue skin for centuries (allthatsinteresting.com)
257 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments
2016Why “children,” not “childs”? (grammarphobia.com)
257 points | 7 years ago with 240 comments
2017EU Buried $400k Study Showing Piracy Have Almost No Effect on Sales (techdirt.com)
257 points | 3 years ago with 121 comments
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