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2016Stopping the RSI pain that almost destroyed my programming career (codewithoutrules.com)
251 points | 7 years ago with 225 comments
2000Courtney Love does the math (salon.com)
251 points | 14 years ago with 66 comments
2015I opened a link some random person sent me and I got raided (blog.haschek.at)
251 points | 5 years ago with 170 comments
2016Should you be scared of Unix signals? (jvns.ca)
251 points | 2 years ago with 145 comments
1979BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (ia902603.us.archive.org)
250 points | 8 years ago with 151 comments
1978Microsoft BASIC for 6502 – Original Source Code (pagetable.com)
250 points | 10 years ago with 70 comments
2014Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (j2kun.svbtle.com)
250 points | 9 years ago with 145 comments
2010Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (highscalability.com)
250 points | 6 years ago with 119 comments
2017Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems (ncase.me)
250 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
2014Tetrachromats: people who see colors invisible to most of us (bbc.com)
249 points | 5 years ago with 221 comments
1996Why Three Prongs? (amasci.com)
249 points | 6 years ago with 232 comments
1996Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (math.tamu.edu)
249 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments
2013An Engineer’s Guide to Stock Options (blog.alexmaccaw.com)
249 points | 4 years ago with 99 comments
2018Repeat yourself, do more than one thing, and rewrite everything (programmingisterrible.com)
249 points | 2 years ago with 114 comments
2001Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
249 points | 8 years ago with 57 comments
2014Study finds walking improves creativity (news.stanford.edu)
249 points | 4 years ago with 72 comments
1993The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (shitpost.plover.com)
249 points | 7 years ago with 66 comments
2017How to answer questions in a helpful way (jvns.ca)
249 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments
2015Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x (nginx.com)
249 points | 8 years ago with 56 comments
2008Project from Hell (projectfailures.wordpress.com)
249 points | 7 years ago with 148 comments
2013Not-so-secret atomic tests: Why the photographic film industry knew (imaging-resource.com)
249 points | 9 years ago with 77 comments
2013Duck Duck Go: Illusion of Privacy (etherrag.blogspot.com)
248 points | 8 years ago with 123 comments
2004ZFS 128 bit storage: Are you high? (blogs.oracle.com)
248 points | 7 years ago with 144 comments
1986For every 1% increase in the number of lawyers, economic growth falls 3% (sciencedirect.com)
248 points | 5 years ago with 89 comments
1991Linus Torvalds announces Linux (web.archive.org)
248 points | 7 years ago with 140 comments
2012Mathematics I Use (pub.gajendra.net)
248 points | 7 years ago with 42 comments
1986The Hacker's Manifesto (usc.edu)
248 points | 9 years ago with 146 comments
2011Crockford on JSON license (gist.github.com)
248 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments
2018Google can use Bluetooth to track phones even with Bluetooth turned off (qz.com)
247 points | 5 years ago with 122 comments
2015Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (redbook.io)
247 points | 8 years ago with 42 comments
2012How MIT Students Won $8M in the Massachusetts Lottery (newsfeed.time.com)
247 points | 10 years ago with 204 comments
2018Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (educationpost.org)
247 points | 5 years ago with 342 comments
2015Computer science as a lost art (rubyhacker.com)
247 points | 7 years ago with 141 comments
2012Fatigue Is a Brain-Derived Emotion that Regulates to Ensure Protection (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
247 points | 9 years ago with 98 comments
2019Beam VM Wisdoms (beam-wisdoms.clau.se)
247 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2016So you want to be a compiler wizard (belkadan.com)
247 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments
2011Yahoo Logo ASCII Animation in 462 bytes of C (a1k0n.net)
247 points | 10 years ago with 41 comments
2012Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (theguardian.com)
247 points | 9 years ago with 209 comments
1985The Orange Juice Test (intercom.com)
246 points | 7 years ago with 173 comments
2004“We Are Morons” – A quick look at the Win2k source (atdt.freeshell.org)
246 points | 7 years ago with 96 comments
1985East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures (twitter.com)
246 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments
20171.5-Inch Hand-Carved Agate from 1500 B.C. Shows Sub-Millimeter Details (news.artnet.com)
246 points | 3 years ago with 130 comments
1994A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (user.eng.umd.edu)
246 points | 5 years ago with 276 comments
2009Dice-O-Matic hopper and elevator (gamesbyemail.com)
246 points | 8 years ago with 55 comments
2017The Soviet web: the tale of how the USSR almost invented the internet (calvertjournal.com)
246 points | 5 years ago with 181 comments
2017What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (spreadprivacy.com)
246 points | 5 years ago with 222 comments
1996Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (people.math.osu.edu)
246 points | 9 years ago with 64 comments
2009Can I Talk to that William Fellow? He was so Helpful (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
246 points | 8 years ago with 126 comments
2014The Curse of Smart People (apenwarr.ca)
246 points | 8 years ago with 153 comments
2008What's the difference between the com and exe extensions? (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
246 points | 8 years ago with 89 comments
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