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2019The Forgotten Operating System That Keeps the NYC Subway System Alive (vice.com)
169 points | 3 years ago with 120 comments
1999Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp (dept-info.labri.fr)
169 points | 2 years ago with 72 comments
2015Touched (mihai.sucan.ro)
169 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2016Blocking web fonts for speed and privacy (collinmbarrett.com)
169 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments
2007Introduction to Hacking PostgreSQL (neilconway.org)
169 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
1980America's Cult of Ignorance (aphelis.net)
169 points | 8 years ago with 113 comments
2004Stolen from Apple (folklore.org)
168 points | 2 years ago with 44 comments
2014History of lossless data compression algorithms (ethw.org)
168 points | 3 years ago with 46 comments
2017The Crash of United Flight 232 (popularmechanics.com)
168 points | 6 years ago with 72 comments
2011Simple Made Easy (infoq.com)
168 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments
2012The significance of plot without conflict (stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com)
168 points | 8 years ago with 94 comments
2013Getting too little sleep can have serious health consequences (theatlantic.com)
168 points | 10 years ago with 69 comments
2017A minimum complete tutorial of Linux ext4 file system (metebalci.com)
168 points | 1 year ago with 29 comments
2013The operating system: should there be one? (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
168 points | 4 years ago with 199 comments
2018Writing: Good career move, terrible career (byrnehobart.medium.com)
168 points | 2 years ago with 107 comments
2018Columbo: an origin story (columbophile.com)
168 points | 4 years ago with 93 comments
2016Graph Convolutional Networks (tkipf.github.io)
168 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2014Larry Page's Comeback (businessinsider.com)
168 points | 4 years ago with 93 comments
2012Are U.S companies legally obligated to maximize profits for shareholders? (skeptics.stackexchange.com)
168 points | 2 years ago with 193 comments
2013How to Raise Money (paulgraham.com)
168 points | 7 years ago with 61 comments
2011Fast and easy Levenshtein distance using a trie (stevehanov.ca)
168 points | 11 years ago with 38 comments
2009Typing the Letters A-E-S Into Your Code (chargen.matasano.com)
168 points | 10 years ago with 63 comments
2009Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (raphkoster.com)
168 points | 5 years ago with 172 comments
2018The Awk state machine parser pattern (two-wrongs.com)
168 points | 3 years ago with 27 comments
1990Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] (youtube.com)
168 points | 2 years ago with 112 comments
2012Prescription drugs and grapefruit a 'deadly mix' (nhs.uk)
168 points | 6 years ago with 82 comments
2016Is it Pokemon or Big Data? (pixelastic.github.io)
168 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2012How I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (behind-the-enemy-lines.com)
168 points | 10 years ago with 30 comments
2019How to weaponize the Yubikey (blackhillsinfosec.com)
168 points | 2 years ago with 20 comments
2017Digging into the odd history of Blade Runner’s title (vulture.com)
168 points | 2 years ago with 45 comments
2012Hacker’s Delight (books.google.com)
168 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2008How Computers Boot Up (manybutfinite.com)
168 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
1993Almost perfect: the rise and fall of WordPerfect Corporation (wordplace.com)
168 points | 11 years ago with 87 comments
2014Most People With Addiction Grow Out of It (psmag.com)
168 points | 6 years ago with 125 comments
2008Sand won’t save you this time (science.org)
168 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
2018The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (arxiv.org)
168 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments
2017The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture (web.archive.org)
168 points | 2 years ago with 84 comments
2018Embedded Rules of Thumb (embeddedartistry.com)
168 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2018Mental Model Fallacy (commoncog.com)
168 points | 5 years ago with 80 comments
2018NixOS and the Art of OS Configuration (rousette.org.uk)
168 points | 4 years ago with 121 comments
1955Can we survive technology? (drive.google.com)
168 points | 4 years ago with 91 comments
2000What You'll Need to Know in 2020 That You Don't Know Now (discovermagazine.com)
168 points | 5 years ago with 147 comments
2019Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery (twitter.com)
168 points | 4 years ago with 70 comments
1861Is democracy a failure? (nytimes.com)
167 points | 9 years ago with 266 comments
2014Total Recall: LeBron's mighty mind (espn.com)
167 points | 7 years ago with 95 comments
2018Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (dafoster.net)
167 points | 5 years ago with 197 comments
1981A Review of Modern Sail Theory (ljjensen.net)
167 points | 8 years ago with 54 comments
2010Python's Innards: Introduction (tech.blog.aknin.name)
167 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
1859On Liberty (socialsciences.mcmaster.ca)
167 points | 5 years ago with 103 comments
2012A mathematical formalization of dimensional analysis (terrytao.wordpress.com)
167 points | 2 years ago with 54 comments
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