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2014Syntax Design (cs.lmu.edu)
216 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments
2019Local-First Software:You Own Your Data, in Spite of the Cloud (martin.kleppmann.com)
216 points | 4 years ago with 90 comments
2005The Mathematics Autodidact’s Aid (ams.org)
216 points | 8 years ago with 47 comments
2017More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass (journals.plos.org)
216 points | 2 years ago with 121 comments
2013There Are Three Programming Paradigms (wiki.c2.com)
216 points | 8 years ago with 111 comments
1970The Tyranny of Structurelessness (bopsecrets.org)
216 points | 11 years ago with 120 comments
2014Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (themarginalian.org)
216 points | 2 years ago with 285 comments
2017How to Build an Exchange (janestreet.com)
216 points | 2 years ago with 119 comments
2016Entropy explained, with sheep (aatishb.com)
216 points | 5 years ago with 97 comments
1856First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming (publicdomainreview.org)
216 points | 6 years ago with 107 comments
2014GitHub Renamed Me (russbishop.net)
215 points | 1 year ago with 73 comments
2017How to Do Nothing (medium.com)
215 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments
2015How 4000 Physicists Gave a Vegas Casino Its Worst Week (physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com)
215 points | 7 years ago with 98 comments
2013Prevented mortality from historical and projected nuclear power (pubs.giss.nasa.gov)
215 points | 6 years ago with 90 comments
2013I had an autoimmune disease, then the disease had me (newyorker.com)
215 points | 8 years ago with 138 comments
2003Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor (theregister.co.uk)
215 points | 5 years ago with 180 comments
2011The rape of men: a dark secret of war (theguardian.com)
215 points | 5 years ago with 98 comments
1998Memorandum on Microsoft’s strategy against Linux and Open Source software (catb.org)
215 points | 7 years ago with 52 comments
1997The computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (catonmat.net)
215 points | 4 years ago with 179 comments
2006LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (archive.wired.com)
215 points | 10 years ago with 215 comments
2014Things I Won’t Work With: Peroxide Peroxides (blogs.sciencemag.org)
215 points | 9 years ago with 102 comments
2012Restoration of defocused and blurred images (yuzhikov.com)
215 points | 10 years ago with 46 comments
2014Elementary Applied Topology (math.upenn.edu)
215 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2017We Become What We Behold (ncase.itch.io)
215 points | 3 years ago with 78 comments
2017Is Matter Conscious? (nautil.us)
215 points | 6 years ago with 266 comments
2018Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (skeeve.com)
215 points | 5 years ago with 80 comments
2018Dynamic Programming vs. Divide-and-Conquer (trekhleb.dev)
214 points | 4 years ago with 115 comments
2019Is it my fault if you can't handle the truth? (agileotter.blogspot.com)
214 points | 2 years ago with 261 comments
2015I Do Not Know C: Short quiz on undefined behavior (kukuruku.co)
214 points | 8 years ago with 178 comments
2001Too Much Calculus – Gilbert Strang (www-math.mit.edu)
214 points | 10 years ago with 134 comments
2003An Introduction to Probabilistic Graphical Models (people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
214 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments
2018How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (yuzeh.com)
214 points | 5 years ago with 175 comments
2011What is the origin of “daemon” with regards to computing? (english.stackexchange.com)
214 points | 3 years ago with 124 comments
2002Secret Service Interrogation of Wozniak (archive.woz.org)
214 points | 10 years ago with 101 comments
1998Does Gravity Travel at the Speed of Light? (math.ucr.edu)
214 points | 12 years ago with 132 comments
2010Getting Stuff Done by Not Being Mean to Yourself (openheartproject.com)
214 points | 2 years ago with 69 comments
2019Why is learning functional programming so damned hard? (cscalfani.medium.com)
214 points | 4 years ago with 383 comments
2007What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (akkadia.org)
214 points | 6 years ago with 97 comments
2003How do food manufacturers calculate the calorie count of packaged foods? (scientificamerican.com)
214 points | 9 years ago with 150 comments
2013Logs, Tails, Long Tails (moultano.wordpress.com)
214 points | 5 years ago with 59 comments
2007Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. (michaelpollan.com)
214 points | 8 years ago with 179 comments
2019“It works on my machine” turns to “it works in my container” (dwdraju.medium.com)
214 points | 2 years ago with 237 comments
2013Ancient Roman Valves (valvemagazine.com)
214 points | 5 years ago with 107 comments
2017Apple’s $9 engineering marvel no one wants (misfra.me)
214 points | 6 years ago with 253 comments
2018How to take back control of /etc/resolv.conf on Linux (ctrl.blog)
214 points | 5 years ago with 124 comments
2014A first-person engine in 265 lines (playfuljs.com)
213 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
2019Why isn't Titan classed? (web.archive.org)
213 points | 2 years ago with 283 comments
2015Learning how to think (fs.blog)
213 points | 4 years ago with 46 comments
2002If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (sellsbrothers.com)
213 points | 4 years ago with 199 comments
2019A general overview of what happens before main() (embeddedartistry.com)
213 points | 3 years ago with 42 comments
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