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2006The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (vqronline.org)
228 points | 2 years ago with 177 comments
1944Simple Sabotage Field Manual (gist.github.com)
228 points | 2 years ago with 129 comments
2016If I Sleep for an Hour, 30 People Will Die (nytimes.com)
227 points | 6 years ago with 124 comments
2015Earthsea – A Rival to Tolkien and George RR Martin (theguardian.com)
227 points | 7 years ago with 110 comments
2013Git is a purely functional data structure (blog.jayway.com)
227 points | 7 years ago with 97 comments
2016400-year-old Greenland shark ‘longest-living vertebrate’ (bbc.com)
227 points | 4 years ago with 107 comments
2017Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite (nickb.dev)
227 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments
2009I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement (nobelprize.org)
227 points | 8 years ago with 212 comments
2019The Dangers of Low Head Dams (practical.engineering)
227 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments
2011Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (richardspens.com)
227 points | 7 years ago with 227 comments
2017DIY Amps: A Roadmap for Beginners (audioprimate.blog)
227 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments
2013Learn Lua in 15 Minutes (tylerneylon.com)
226 points | 5 years ago with 101 comments
1999QNX DEMO disk (qnx.puslapiai.lt)
226 points | 3 years ago with 149 comments
1999Homo sapiens declared extinct (bruces.medium.com)
226 points | 2 years ago with 62 comments
2014How I Start: Go (howistart.org)
226 points | 8 years ago with 121 comments
2016How to read a mathematics textbook (drmaciver.com)
226 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments
2018Guide to Firefox Containers (thechiefmeat.com)
226 points | 4 years ago with 139 comments
2003Microsoft execs on Apple's music store (twitter.com)
226 points | 2 years ago with 170 comments
2015Fish is not operational on a VT220 terminal (github.com)
226 points | 4 years ago with 113 comments
2015John Conway: A Life in Games (quantamagazine.org)
226 points | 5 years ago with 1 comments
1997Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (ams.org)
226 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments
2007End Software Patents (endsoftpatents.org)
226 points | 6 years ago with 198 comments
2015Treasure trove of mechanical animations (kottke.org)
226 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments
2013Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry (nature.com)
226 points | 2 years ago with 216 comments
2014Just because it's an Internet Draft doesn't mean anything at all (tools.ietf.org)
226 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments
2018Reversing Lens-Induced Myopia (losetheglasses.org)
226 points | 3 years ago with 97 comments
2017AT&T’s Abandoned Microwave Tower Network (99percentinvisible.org)
225 points | 4 years ago with 114 comments
2011Why isn’t the fundamental theorem of arithmetic obvious? (gowers.wordpress.com)
225 points | 9 years ago with 197 comments
2000Amazon: Ponzi Scheme or Wal-Mart of the Web? (slate.com)
225 points | 14 years ago with 81 comments
2014What 2,000 Calories Looks Like (nytimes.com)
225 points | 9 years ago with 213 comments
2015Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (redbook.io)
225 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments
2004Do the simplest thing that can possibly work (twasink.net)
225 points | 2 years ago with 89 comments
2011What happens after Yahoo acquires you (37signals.com)
225 points | 12 years ago with 112 comments
1984Thinking Forth – A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems (1scyem2bunjw1ghzsf1cjwwn-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com)
225 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments
2012RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (github.com)
225 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments
2014Flipped Iceberg (alexcornell.com)
225 points | 8 years ago with 38 comments
2013Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (practicaltypography.com)
225 points | 5 years ago with 141 comments
2015What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (popularmechanics.com)
225 points | 7 years ago with 147 comments
2018Dutch town installs bat-friendly red LED street lights (electronics360.globalspec.com)
225 points | 2 years ago with 175 comments
2018Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”? (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
224 points | 5 years ago with 506 comments
2015Secure Secure Shell (stribika.github.io)
224 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2012Rides of Glory – Uber Blog (web.archive.org)
224 points | 10 years ago with 112 comments
2018Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (randomascii.wordpress.com)
224 points | 4 years ago with 32 comments
2017Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked (techcrunch.com)
224 points | 6 years ago with 389 comments
2018SMT Solving on an iPhone (cs.utexas.edu)
224 points | 5 years ago with 149 comments
2013The Toyota Production System (blog.toyota.co.uk)
224 points | 4 years ago with 114 comments
2015What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (wordsbyevanporter.com)
224 points | 5 years ago with 114 comments
2013Habits of Highly Overrated People (daedtech.com)
224 points | 2 years ago with 145 comments
2012The little book about OS development (littleosbook.github.io)
224 points | 10 years ago with 18 comments
2014PostgreSQL anti-patterns: read-modify-write cycles (blog.2ndquadrant.com)
224 points | 8 years ago with 76 comments
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