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2017Success stories are propaganda (martinweigel.org)
204 points | 3 years ago with 159 comments
2012Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (research.microsoft.com)
204 points | 9 years ago with 140 comments
2013The Shape of Rome (exurbe.com)
204 points | 4 years ago with 41 comments
2014The Programmers' Stone (datapacrat.com)
203 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2010Demoralize Your Teams Quickly and Efficiently with Micromanagement (stellman-greene.com)
203 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments
2010The Top Idea in Your Mind (paulgraham.com)
203 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments
2018When Bitcoin miners take over a town (politico.eu)
203 points | 4 years ago with 475 comments
2007Write a rapid prototype first (terrytao.wordpress.com)
203 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
2018Theseus DHT Protocol (wootfish.github.io)
203 points | 2 years ago with 38 comments
1945How to Solve It (math.utah.edu)
203 points | 2 years ago with 101 comments
2016Cincinnati is home to the largest unused subway system in the world (atlasobscura.com)
203 points | 4 years ago with 223 comments
1994Ursula Le Guin on Star Trek: TNG (gentlier.tumblr.com)
203 points | 3 years ago with 152 comments
2010AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server (aolserver.github.io)
203 points | 2 years ago with 100 comments
2007CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (yarchive.net)
203 points | 11 years ago with 95 comments
2016How many decimals of pi do we need? (jpl.nasa.gov)
203 points | 3 years ago with 168 comments
2013A few words on Doug Engelbart (worrydream.com)
203 points | 7 years ago with 80 comments
2013The Saddest Moment (usenix.org)
203 points | 6 years ago with 47 comments
2015How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia (ibm.com)
203 points | 8 years ago with 120 comments
2014Wim Hof breathing technique can modulate immune response to pathogens (pnas.org)
203 points | 5 years ago with 95 comments
1995Bookbinding: A Tutorial (homepage.divms.uiowa.edu)
203 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments
2016How does Sonic and Knuckles' “Lock-On Technology” work? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
203 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments
2012Reddit’s database has two tables (kevin.burke.dev)
203 points | 3 years ago with 245 comments
2017The Wave that changed the world (paloaltoonline.com)
203 points | 6 years ago with 65 comments
2015Sans Bullshit Sans: leveraging the synergy of ligatures (pixelambacht.nl)
203 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
1991Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved (erowid.org)
202 points | 3 years ago with 162 comments
1999A Computer Scientist’s View of Life, the Universe, and Everything (arxiv.org)
202 points | 8 years ago with 73 comments
2015How Elephants Avoid Cancer (nature.com)
202 points | 8 years ago with 50 comments
2011Don't Be a Free User (blog.pinboard.in)
202 points | 8 years ago with 99 comments
1977Can Programming Be Liberated From The Von Neumann Style? (worrydream.com)
202 points | 9 years ago with 175 comments
2015How did Stripe come up with its name? (quora.com)
202 points | 2 years ago with 136 comments
2019USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (pcgamer.com)
202 points | 2 years ago with 412 comments
2018What Is Applied Category Theory? (arxiv.org)
202 points | 4 years ago with 68 comments
2009All or something (37signals.com)
202 points | 13 years ago with 64 comments
2013So you still don't understand Hindley-Milner? (akgupta.ca)
202 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
1987Letter from the Carnation Company (pleacher.com)
202 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments
2017Oldest Viable Laptop (geoff.greer.fm)
202 points | 6 years ago with 287 comments
2016Statistics for Engineers: Applying statistical techniques to operations (queue.acm.org)
201 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2015Why F# evangelism isn't working (ericsink.com)
201 points | 2 years ago with 320 comments
2013My open-source, do-it-yourself cellphone (blog.arduino.cc)
201 points | 9 years ago with 67 comments
2003First atomic clock wristwatch (leapsecond.com)
201 points | 4 years ago with 91 comments
2001Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened (web.mit.edu)
201 points | 10 years ago with 50 comments
2018Massacring C Pointers (wozniak.ca)
201 points | 5 years ago with 149 comments
2014Introduction to A* (redblobgames.com)
201 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments
2000The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (web.archive.org)
201 points | 4 years ago with 98 comments
2017As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do (economist.com)
201 points | 6 years ago with 336 comments
2014What am I running inside my bash? (thanassis.space)
201 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments
2011Rel="logo" (relogo.org)
201 points | 12 years ago with 40 comments
2012Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset (troyhunt.com)
201 points | 6 years ago with 108 comments
1970Deschooling Society (davidtinapple.com)
201 points | 5 years ago with 195 comments
2017My Python testing style guide (blog.thea.codes)
201 points | 4 years ago with 84 comments
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