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2016Show HN: The operating system I built as my high school project (github.com)
220 points | 6 years ago with 75 comments
2013Robin Hood Hashing should be the default hash table implementation (sebastiansylvan.com)
220 points | 9 years ago with 53 comments
2012Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (livescience.com)
220 points | 4 years ago with 221 comments
1991IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (ibiblio.org)
220 points | 11 years ago with 105 comments
2016It's normal to play the same song over and over again (kqed.org)
220 points | 3 years ago with 186 comments
2015Sedmario: NES Super Mario Bros level 1 written in pure sed (github.com)
220 points | 2 years ago with 38 comments
2013A World Without Power (jacquesmattheij.com)
220 points | 6 years ago with 214 comments
2017Graphene-based sieve turns seawater into drinking water (bbc.com)
219 points | 6 years ago with 71 comments
2008What does "HREF" stand for? (tomayko.com)
219 points | 11 years ago with 49 comments
2017Building a private LoRa network (os.mbed.com)
219 points | 2 years ago with 72 comments
2014Why Apple Will Switch to ARM-Based Macs (mattrichman.net)
219 points | 3 years ago with 209 comments
1993A Timeline of CIA Atrocities (huppi.com)
219 points | 4 years ago with 258 comments
2015Beej's Guide to Unix IPC (beej.us)
219 points | 3 years ago with 53 comments
2006A bad citizen in Javaland (darrenhobbs.com)
219 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments
2017Flight Simulator 4 from 1989 running on three immersive monitors (tinmith.net)
219 points | 6 years ago with 68 comments
2017IBM and the Holocaust (blogs.oregonstate.edu)
219 points | 6 years ago with 120 comments
2013Tatsuo Horiuchi: The 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist (spoon-tamago.com)
219 points | 9 years ago with 46 comments
2014C.I.A. Lacing (fieggen.com)
218 points | 5 years ago with 89 comments
2007Top ten algorithms in data mining (some-docs.googlecode.com)
218 points | 12 years ago with 41 comments
2018Flatpak – A Security Nightmare (flatkill.org)
218 points | 5 years ago with 120 comments
2002Why Software Should Be Free (gnu.org)
218 points | 5 years ago with 143 comments
2018Robinhood Said to Get 40% Revenue from HFT Firms Like Citadel (equities.com)
218 points | 4 years ago with 69 comments
1999The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing (analog.com)
218 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments
2008Association between muscular strength and mortality in men (bmj.com)
218 points | 12 years ago with 199 comments
2019Heat your house with a mechanical windmill (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
218 points | 2 years ago with 130 comments
1978Connections by James Burke (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
218 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments
2017Tell Me More, Nginx (honeycomb.io)
218 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments
2016OpenBSD: Why and How (sivers.org)
218 points | 5 years ago with 114 comments
2012The Galaga no-fire-cheat mystery (jasoneckert.github.io)
218 points | 2 years ago with 95 comments
2015The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (jakubmarian.com)
218 points | 6 years ago with 102 comments
2013Prince Of Persia Code Review (fabiensanglard.net)
217 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments
2010Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (mariovittone.com)
217 points | 7 years ago with 91 comments
2016Typography is impossible (medium.engineering)
217 points | 3 years ago with 63 comments
2017How individual contributors get stuck (elidedbranches.com)
217 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments
2013Digital Needle: Ripping vinyl records with a scanner (cs.huji.ac.il)
217 points | 4 years ago with 104 comments
2014Code Is Not Literature (gigamonkeys.com)
217 points | 2 years ago with 136 comments
2018NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (leosstemhacks.wordpress.com)
217 points | 4 years ago with 182 comments
2013A Crash Course in X86 Assembly for Reverse Engineers (sensepost.com)
217 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments
2015Guerilla Gardening (guerrillagardening.org)
217 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments
2009ldd arbitrary code execution (catonmat.net)
217 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments
2006The DOOM 3 Network Architecture (fabiensanglard.net)
217 points | 9 years ago with 33 comments
2016The most important thing to understand about queues (blog.danslimmon.com)
217 points | 3 years ago with 114 comments
1983The man who mistook his wife for a hat (lrb.co.uk)
217 points | 10 years ago with 26 comments
1994How I Met My Wife (newyorker.com)
217 points | 4 years ago with 125 comments
2010Dumb and Gets Things Done (johndcook.com)
217 points | 2 years ago with 142 comments
2012Eller’s Algorithm (neocomputer.org)
217 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2017A Tarahumara woman won a Mexican ultramarathon in sandals (elpais.com)
216 points | 6 years ago with 139 comments
2014Memory management in C programs (nethack4.org)
216 points | 9 years ago with 103 comments
2018Fasting boosts stem cells’ regenerative capacity (news.mit.edu)
216 points | 3 years ago with 164 comments
2014White noise improves learning by modulating activity in midbrain regions (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
216 points | 3 years ago with 102 comments
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