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20132/3 of kids bike to school in Assen because it was designed that way (aviewfromthecyclepath.com)
213 points | 3 years ago with 246 comments
2015Computer game play reduces intrusive memories of experimental trauma (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
213 points | 4 years ago with 98 comments
2019Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers (bloombergquint.com)
213 points | 3 years ago with 123 comments
2019You don’t need all that complex/expensive/distracting infrastructure (blog.usejournal.com)
213 points | 4 years ago with 219 comments
2000Cargo Cult Software Engineering (stevemcconnell.com)
213 points | 4 years ago with 136 comments
2010Creating Shazam in Java (royvanrijn.com)
213 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments
2014Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL (storagemojo.com)
213 points | 8 years ago with 71 comments
2017How do managers get stuck? (elidedbranches.com)
213 points | 6 years ago with 63 comments
2018Linux Kernel Development and Writing a Simple Kernel Module (devarea.com)
213 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2011X Minus One: 1950s Science Fiction Radio Programs Available to Listen (archive.org)
213 points | 5 years ago with 62 comments
2017Who Did This? (etymonline.com)
213 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments
2018Electronics Explained: Fundamentals for engineers, technicians and makers (sciencedirect.com)
213 points | 3 years ago with 82 comments
2007MySpace, Skype announce partnership (msnbc.msn.com)
213 points | 14 years ago with 45 comments
2015The bizarre beasts living in Romania's poison cave (bbc.co.uk)
212 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments
2011Pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev” (webmasters.googleblog.com)
212 points | 9 years ago with 90 comments
1974Richard Feynman: Cargo Cult Science (neurotheory.columbia.edu)
212 points | 12 years ago with 62 comments
1998“The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (harpers.org)
212 points | 9 years ago with 150 comments
1969Apollo 11 implementation of Trigonometric functions (fermatslibrary.com)
212 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments
2010Interviews with programming language creators (math.bas.bg)
212 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2014Key differences between Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x (sebastianraschka.com)
212 points | 8 years ago with 168 comments
2014How much math you need for programming (lispmachine.wordpress.com)
212 points | 4 years ago with 178 comments
2010Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses? (stackoverflow.com)
212 points | 6 years ago with 52 comments
2018Find the Hard Work You're Willing to Do (cs.uni.edu)
212 points | 4 years ago with 76 comments
2013The Amazon Whisperer (fastcompany.com)
212 points | 9 years ago with 78 comments
1996Bill Gates: I'm literally losing sleep over Java (techemails.com)
212 points | 2 years ago with 229 comments
2009OpenSSL is written by monkeys (peereboom.us)
212 points | 11 years ago with 180 comments
2010Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless (newyorker.com)
212 points | 11 years ago with 171 comments
2015Algorithm Solves Graph Isomorphism in Record Time (quantamagazine.org)
212 points | 6 years ago with 72 comments
2010Your high IQ might kill your startup (jamiebegin.com)
212 points | 11 years ago with 128 comments
2009Robert Sapolsky on Depression (robertsapolskyrocks.com)
212 points | 4 years ago with 123 comments
2014Freshmeat.net, 1997-2014 (jeffcovey.net)
211 points | 3 years ago with 146 comments
2014Simple Wi-Fi Yagi (ham-radio.com)
211 points | 8 years ago with 67 comments
2009HN front page ranked using only votes from early users (news.ycombinator.com)
211 points | 4 years ago with 140 comments
2005Top colleges should select randomly from a pool of ‘good enough’ (chronicle.com)
211 points | 5 years ago with 297 comments
2016Sugar lobby paid scientists to blur sugar's role in heart disease (theguardian.com)
211 points | 7 years ago with 67 comments
2013C++ and the Culture of Complexity (blog.greaterthanzero.com)
211 points | 7 years ago with 279 comments
2018mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (nature.com)
211 points | 4 years ago with 212 comments
2012Tough times on the road to Starcraft (codeofhonor.com)
211 points | 3 years ago with 111 comments
2017Questions to ask at the end of a technical interview (smalldata.tech)
211 points | 5 years ago with 108 comments
1992On the typography of flight deck documentation – NASA (ntrs.nasa.gov)
211 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2017Surviving the desert by building a motorcycle from a broken car? (historygarage.com)
211 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments
2016Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (bradcypert.com)
211 points | 6 years ago with 194 comments
2011Why 'Passive Income' Is A Dangerous Fantasy (forbes.com)
211 points | 12 years ago with 164 comments
2012How to tell a raven from a crow (audubon.org)
210 points | 6 years ago with 100 comments
1999Parachuting for Charity: A 5-year audit (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
210 points | 5 years ago with 136 comments
2017Amount of work that once bought an hour of light now buys 51 years of it (washingtonpost.com)
210 points | 2 years ago with 328 comments
1995How Software Companies Die (gist.github.com)
210 points | 2 years ago with 49 comments
2007The secret Thinkpad powerbutton code to bring dead laptops back to life (masnick.com)
210 points | 4 years ago with 76 comments
2012How the government set up a fake bank to launder drug money (npr.org)
210 points | 4 years ago with 97 comments
2013If Susan Can Learn Physics, So Can You (fledglingphysicist.com)
210 points | 8 years ago with 107 comments
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