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2014An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions a Year (epi.org)
201 points | 4 years ago with 111 comments
2015Instagram's Million Dollar Bug (web.archive.org)
201 points | 4 years ago with 93 comments
2017Patents are out of control, and they’re hurting innovation (learnliberty.org)
201 points | 3 years ago with 87 comments
2014WebGL Fluid Experiment (haxiomic.github.io)
200 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments
2014The Internet I Knew (flowerhack.dreamwidth.org)
200 points | 7 years ago with 115 comments
1981Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 air-traffic controllers (history.com)
200 points | 4 years ago with 251 comments
1989Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (groups.google.com)
200 points | 2 years ago with 103 comments
2008Life and How to Survive It (mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com)
200 points | 15 years ago with 27 comments
2015Raw Linux Threads via System Calls (nullprogram.com)
200 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments
2018Tin whiskers: What happens when they spontaneously erupt? (microcontrollertips.com)
200 points | 3 years ago with 126 comments
2015Your cyberpunk games are dangerous (boingboing.net)
200 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments
2018Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (smithsonianmag.com)
200 points | 3 years ago with 174 comments
1996Retrospective review of Gödel, Escher, Bach (cs.nyu.edu)
200 points | 4 years ago with 150 comments
2016Practical Color Theory for People Who Code (tallys.github.io)
200 points | 4 years ago with 50 comments
2009Work less, get more done: Analytics for maximizing productivity (kalzumeus.com)
200 points | 2 years ago with 116 comments
2018Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (cjr.org)
200 points | 5 years ago with 182 comments
2014Ed is the standard text editor (wiki.c2.com)
200 points | 3 years ago with 119 comments
2012Timeline for Logic, λ-Calculus, and Programming Language Theory (fm.csl.sri.com)
200 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2019The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker (atlasobscura.com)
200 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments
2018Microsoft_craziness.h (gist.github.com)
200 points | 3 years ago with 118 comments
1979Photos at Microsoft Corp (sound-photo.com)
200 points | 10 years ago with 83 comments
2002Non-PhotoRealistic Quake (research.cs.wisc.edu)
199 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments
2014Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system (news.usc.edu)
199 points | 9 years ago with 171 comments
1984KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (youtube.com)
199 points | 3 years ago with 154 comments
2006Do What You Love and Starve? (martynemko.com)
199 points | 7 years ago with 98 comments
2015Gnu Privacy Guard relies on one underfunded person (propublica.org)
199 points | 8 years ago with 70 comments
2017A Norwegian town built a giant mirror to deflect the sun (bbc.com)
199 points | 6 years ago with 97 comments
2014Averages Can Be Misleading: Try a Percentile (elastic.co)
199 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments
2011Things you should do now (secure.phabricator.com)
199 points | 4 years ago with 110 comments
2019Illustrations of Japan’s “unseen” workforce of trains that work at night (spoon-tamago.com)
199 points | 2 years ago with 152 comments
2014Terry Gilliam on his techniques for Monty Python animations (openculture.com)
199 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2008Scanning books at 250 pages a minute (k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
199 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments
2013Essential security for Linux servers (sollove.com)
199 points | 3 years ago with 146 comments
2015How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methods (cslab.pepperdine.edu)
199 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
2004Nuclear power is the only green solution (jameslovelock.org)
199 points | 5 years ago with 372 comments
2014How Not to Learn Cryptography (esl.cs.brown.edu)
199 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
2015Don't Talk to Corp Dev (paulgraham.com)
199 points | 4 years ago with 122 comments
1970How to write Mathematics (math.utah.edu)
199 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments
2016Bob Dylan lays down what killed rock n roll (medium.com)
199 points | 4 years ago with 229 comments
1928On being the right size (marxists.org)
199 points | 12 years ago with 144 comments
2013The Declining Value of a CS Master's Degree (blog.regehr.org)
199 points | 7 years ago with 161 comments
2003The Art of Powerful Questions (umanitoba.ca)
199 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2014What cold showers and exercise have in common (gettingstronger.org)
198 points | 9 years ago with 135 comments
2011Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? (cafbit.com)
198 points | 8 years ago with 108 comments
2019Silicon Valley Runs on Saudi (vicki.substack.com)
198 points | 4 years ago with 153 comments
2007When That Guy Died on My Show (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
198 points | 7 years ago with 61 comments
1991Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages (bertrandmeyer.com)
198 points | 3 years ago with 53 comments
2008NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (ntrs.nasa.gov)
198 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments
2016Brick Block (oskarstalberg.com)
198 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments
2006Why the internet only just works (fermatslibrary.com)
198 points | 9 years ago with 84 comments
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