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2017The Chemistry of ‘Yes Minister’ (sphericalbullshit.wordpress.com)
161 points | 2 years ago with 79 comments
2015How to Center in CSS (howtocenterincss.com)
161 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments
2018Better Geometry Through Graph Theory (ideolalia.com)
161 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2015Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (answers.microsoft.com)
161 points | 6 years ago with 200 comments
2014Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn't (npr.org)
161 points | 6 years ago with 214 comments
2013The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (mentalfloss.com)
161 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments
1986He Understood Not Only What We Did but What We Were Supposed to Do (articles.latimes.com)
161 points | 10 years ago with 10 comments
2017Security.txt (securitytxt.org)
161 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
2007The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (marktarver.com)
161 points | 2 years ago with 130 comments
2015Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems (plato.stanford.edu)
161 points | 8 years ago with 77 comments
2012How doctors choose to die (theguardian.com)
161 points | 10 years ago with 81 comments
1932In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (libcom.org)
161 points | 10 years ago with 50 comments
2012Do we need copyright? (lemire.me)
161 points | 2 years ago with 164 comments
2012Interleaving and varying your study location are good learning strategies (wired.com)
161 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
2012Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be the final straw (theguardian.com)
161 points | 4 years ago with 146 comments
2018Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of income (zillow.com)
161 points | 3 years ago with 232 comments
2008Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer network (web.mit.edu)
161 points | 8 years ago with 154 comments
2013Long-Term Coffee Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (circ.ahajournals.org)
161 points | 8 years ago with 131 comments
2017The sorry state of OpenSSL usability (jameshfisher.com)
161 points | 6 years ago with 79 comments
2017A Lisp interpreter written in Lisp (lvguowei.me)
160 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments
2004Soviet Moon Images (mentallandscape.com)
160 points | 4 years ago with 37 comments
2012Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (scientificamerican.com)
160 points | 9 years ago with 155 comments
2014The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (theatlantic.com)
160 points | 8 years ago with 169 comments
2017The Whitworth Three Plates Method (ericweinhoffer.com)
160 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments
2011The Coming War on General Computation (github.com)
160 points | 12 years ago with 59 comments
2006Bloomberg Runs on 25M lines of Fortran (etrading.wordpress.com)
160 points | 10 years ago with 149 comments
2014The largest living thing on Earth is a fungus (bbc.com)
160 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments
2017A bad grade that changed the U.S. constitution (npr.org)
160 points | 4 years ago with 190 comments
2014I was forced to shut down Lavabit (theguardian.com)
160 points | 8 years ago with 47 comments
2008Unix Toolbox (cb.vu)
160 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments
2005The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe (historytoday.com)
160 points | 9 years ago with 159 comments
2015Linux's GPLv2 licence is routinely violated (devever.net)
160 points | 3 years ago with 199 comments
1998The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (archive.org)
160 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments
2017How Claude Shannon Re-Invented Information (nautil.us)
160 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
1999Yahoo buys GeoCities (money.cnn.com)
160 points | 12 years ago with 116 comments
2012Storing Drinking-Water in Copper Pots Kills Contaminating Bacteria (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
160 points | 8 years ago with 136 comments
2004Writing your own search engine is hard (queue.acm.org)
160 points | 3 years ago with 79 comments
2015‘Outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem (quantamagazine.org)
160 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments
2013Safari is released to the world (donmelton.com)
160 points | 2 years ago with 68 comments
2016Half of all adults in the world have less than $2,300 in wealth (qz.com)
160 points | 7 years ago with 211 comments
2007We built a secret apartment in the mall (trummerkind.com)
159 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2014Writing Is Thinking (alistapart.com)
159 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2004Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (web.archive.org)
159 points | 3 years ago with 182 comments
2015The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (medium.engineering)
159 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
2015Brooklyn Bar Menu Generator (brooklynbarmenus.com)
159 points | 2 years ago with 76 comments
2018Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (science.org)
159 points | 2 years ago with 113 comments
2017Deep packet inspection is dead, and here's why (security.ias.edu)
159 points | 6 years ago with 121 comments
2014Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (blog.pivotal.io)
159 points | 8 years ago with 109 comments
2015Bayesian ranking of items with up and downvotes or 5 star ratings (julesjacobs.github.io)
159 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2009Qian Xuesen dies at 98; Co-Founder of JPL and China's space program (latimes.com)
159 points | 11 years ago with 84 comments
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