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2014How I Write SQL, Part 1: Naming Conventions (launchbylunch.com)
164 points | 7 years ago with 78 comments
2011Free Software Is More Reliable (gnu.org)
164 points | 5 years ago with 117 comments
2016Marbles (erasmatazz.com)
164 points | 4 years ago with 90 comments
2014Dropped (grantland.com)
163 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments
2018How the lemon was invented (trueorbetter.com)
163 points | 2 years ago with 152 comments
2015Working for a Dating Website (caseysoftware.com)
163 points | 2 years ago with 196 comments
1995A Plea for Lean Software (people.inf.ethz.ch)
163 points | 5 years ago with 137 comments
2014How Optimizely Almost Got Me Fired (blog.sumall.com)
163 points | 9 years ago with 78 comments
2006Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (ai.googleblog.com)
163 points | 3 years ago with 193 comments
2018Volkswagen detects when tests run in a CI server, and makes them pass (github.com)
163 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments
2017It’s not the chemicals that cause addiction (dancesafe.org)
163 points | 2 years ago with 146 comments
2017A speaker placement tip that speaker manuals get wrong (sonicscoop.com)
163 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments
2019How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (figma.com)
163 points | 4 years ago with 129 comments
1908Hand Scraping a Truly Flat Plane (galleyrack.com)
163 points | 5 years ago with 95 comments
2016A Universal Law of Procrastination (physicstoday.scitation.org)
163 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2010Self-forgiveness for procrastinating can reduce future procrastination (law.utexas.edu)
163 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2013Lecture Notes on Randomized Linear Algebra (arxiv.org)
163 points | 8 years ago with 18 comments
2002Levels of code in Forth programming (ultratechnology.com)
163 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments
1994Python 1.0.0 is out (groups.google.com)
163 points | 7 years ago with 145 comments
1981Rob Pike: An important message from Dennis Ritchie (plus.google.com)
163 points | 14 years ago with 3 comments
2007'Snowdrift' game tops 'Prisoner's Dilemma' in explaining cooperation (phys.org)
163 points | 8 years ago with 115 comments
2017Fancy Believing in the Goblin King (lifeonmagrs.blogspot.com)
163 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2013There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written (smithsonianmag.com)
163 points | 7 years ago with 99 comments
2005This Is Water (fs.blog)
163 points | 4 years ago with 75 comments
2006So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (varnish-cache.org)
163 points | 4 years ago with 102 comments
2016Clive OS: Go applications that can run without an operating system (lsub.org)
162 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments
2014Nobody lives here: Nearly 5M Census Blocks with zero population (tumblr.mapsbynik.com)
162 points | 4 years ago with 103 comments
2014Rob Pike on good commit messages (groups.google.com)
162 points | 5 years ago with 94 comments
2015Complex game worlds, simple text interfaces (egamebook.com)
162 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments
2007The “bicameral mind” 30 years on (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
162 points | 3 years ago with 101 comments
2013The tomato was feared in Europe for more than 200 years (smithsonianmag.com)
162 points | 4 years ago with 182 comments
2019The Decision Book: Fifty models for strategic thinking (medium.com)
162 points | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2018Introverts can make great leaders (thehustle.co)
162 points | 4 years ago with 114 comments
2004Switcher (folklore.org)
162 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2012Using Unix as an IDE (sanctum.geek.nz)
162 points | 7 years ago with 54 comments
2019Why are websites requesting access to motion sensors on my desktop? (grantwinney.com)
162 points | 2 years ago with 173 comments
2013DNS: Basic Concepts (petekeen.net)
162 points | 9 years ago with 62 comments
2018The Prosperous Software Consultant (dabit3.medium.com)
162 points | 4 years ago with 79 comments
2010Binary Decision Diagrams (crypto.stanford.edu)
162 points | 4 years ago with 89 comments
2018For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends (history.com)
162 points | 5 years ago with 174 comments
2011Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (web.archive.org)
162 points | 6 years ago with 101 comments
2005AMD Killed the Itanium (utcc.utoronto.ca)
162 points | 2 years ago with 236 comments
2014Enslaved and then marooned on Tromelin Island for fifteen years (archaeology.org)
162 points | 7 years ago with 29 comments
2014Oppenheimer and the Gita (blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
162 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments
2016Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and gangsters (bbc.com)
162 points | 5 years ago with 80 comments
2008Why Apple Chose Clang (opensource.apple.com)
162 points | 4 years ago with 122 comments
2010How to Detect a Toxic Customer (softwarebyrob.com)
162 points | 13 years ago with 64 comments
2004Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead of dynamic ones? (9p.io)
162 points | 6 years ago with 219 comments
2019Freedom to Roam in Scotland (apidura.com)
161 points | 2 years ago with 130 comments
2015Math-as-Code (github.com)
161 points | 5 years ago with 128 comments
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