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2009How to Write Your Own Compiler (staff.polito.it)
246 points | 8 years ago with 42 comments
2018The mystery of why one ant species goes after larger foes (nationalgeographic.com)
246 points | 5 years ago with 123 comments
2018Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated (blog.farhan.codes)
245 points | 5 years ago with 133 comments
2019Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code (arstechnica.com)
245 points | 4 years ago with 225 comments
2014Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (robert.ocallahan.org)
245 points | 8 years ago with 254 comments
2017An Intro to Compilers (nicoleorchard.com)
245 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments
2019A Senior Engineer's Check-List (littleblah.com)
245 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments
1987The Tao of Programming (textfiles.com)
245 points | 6 years ago with 57 comments
2016You Are Not ‘Behind’ (zackkanter.com)
245 points | 4 years ago with 205 comments
2012A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads (slobc.org)
244 points | 9 years ago with 73 comments
2013A collection of things that are Turing-complete by accident (beza1e1.tuxen.de)
244 points | 7 years ago with 63 comments
2015Clojure for the Brave and True (braveclojure.com)
244 points | 8 years ago with 99 comments
2015Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (vox.com)
244 points | 6 years ago with 293 comments
2017110M year-old nodosaur is the best-preserved fossil of its kind (nationalgeographic.com)
244 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments
2019Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (news.medill.northwestern.edu)
244 points | 3 years ago with 176 comments
2016In MySQL, don’t use “utf8”, use “utf8mb4” (medium.com)
244 points | 7 years ago with 160 comments
2003The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (doc.cat-v.org)
244 points | 4 years ago with 116 comments
2007Risk Everything (web.archive.org)
244 points | 3 years ago with 134 comments
2018Google AMP Can Go To Hell (polemicdigital.com)
244 points | 5 years ago with 91 comments
2017Economists Are Obsessed with Job Creation – How About Less Work? (evonomics.com)
244 points | 6 years ago with 174 comments
2013The Night Watch (scholar.harvard.edu)
244 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments
2017Geometry, Algebra, and Intuition (shapeoperator.com)
244 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2015Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (deepmind.com)
243 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2017Money as a System of Control (thedistillery.pub)
243 points | 6 years ago with 205 comments
2019Self studying the MIT applied math curriculum (smallstepcap.com)
243 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2008Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (reuters.com)
243 points | 4 years ago with 219 comments
2010An employee whose job was to be sacked (henrytapper.com)
243 points | 7 years ago with 161 comments
2013The Screwed-O-Meter (rachelbythebay.com)
243 points | 2 years ago with 124 comments
2007Goto (beej.us)
243 points | 4 years ago with 201 comments
2017Dude, You Broke the Future (antipope.org)
243 points | 5 years ago with 142 comments
2019Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (smithsonianmag.com)
243 points | 4 years ago with 229 comments
1998Amazon’s distributed computing manifesto (allthingsdistributed.com)
242 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments
2018Peter Norvig's Economic Simulation (github.com)
242 points | 5 years ago with 112 comments
2019How to Be Successful (blog.samaltman.com)
242 points | 3 years ago with 179 comments
2016Physically Based Rendering: From theory to implementation (pbr-book.org)
242 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments
2005Sleeve cap ease is bogus (fashion-incubator.com)
242 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2016Furiosa's Cat Feeder (blondihacks.com)
242 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments
2008Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund (old.ycombinator.com)
242 points | 7 years ago with 176 comments
2001The world's most toxic value system (uwgb.edu)
242 points | 7 years ago with 193 comments
2019A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (blog.chriszacharias.com)
241 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments
2012Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (toothycat.net)
241 points | 7 years ago with 115 comments
2017Amazon memo: Here’s why we should acquire Ring (twitter.com)
241 points | 3 years ago with 87 comments
1992WordPerfect for UNIX (lock.cmpxchg8b.com)
241 points | 3 years ago with 124 comments
2017Designing better data tables (uxdesign.cc)
241 points | 6 years ago with 93 comments
1987The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (lysator.liu.se)
241 points | 5 years ago with 128 comments
2010More Dirty Coding Tricks from Game Developers (gamasutra.com)
241 points | 10 years ago with 134 comments
2014Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science (cacm.acm.org)
241 points | 4 years ago with 167 comments
2017Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working (theguardian.com)
241 points | 6 years ago with 239 comments
201616 bytes of Python that compile to 32 terabytes of bytecode (codegolf.stackexchange.com)
241 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2007The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen (pbs.org)
241 points | 11 years ago with 237 comments
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