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2015Why Lisp? (blog.rongarret.info)
157 points | 4 years ago with 169 comments
2015Naming things (www2.stat.duke.edu)
157 points | 8 years ago with 57 comments
201710,000 Hours with Claude Shannon (medium.com)
157 points | 4 years ago with 82 comments
2005McCarthy's Ambiguous Operator (randomhacks.net)
157 points | 6 years ago with 42 comments
2010What happens when you eject at 780mph (f-15e.info)
157 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments
2019What is wrong with TOML? (hitchdev.com)
157 points | 2 years ago with 294 comments
2016Minimodem – General-purpose software audio FSK modem (whence.com)
157 points | 7 years ago with 62 comments
2006“The default name prefix is changed to be ‘sqlite’ spelled backwards” (github.com)
157 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2006An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (schemeworkshop.org)
157 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
2014The Man Who Made the UK Say “I’m Sorry for What We Did to Turing” (backchannel.com)
157 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2002The Abolition of Work (theanarchistlibrary.org)
157 points | 4 years ago with 221 comments
2012Yes I Still Want to Be Doing This at 56 (thecodist.com)
157 points | 8 years ago with 114 comments
2013Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization (blog.rjmetrics.com)
157 points | 7 years ago with 48 comments
2006Why Can't Database Tables Index Themselves? (blog.codinghorror.com)
157 points | 3 years ago with 119 comments
2013The Logic of Stupid Poor People (tressiemc.com)
157 points | 10 years ago with 118 comments
2019Anime Video Encoding Guide for X265 (HEVC) & AAC/Opus (kokomins.wordpress.com)
157 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2005Why most published research findings are false (journals.plos.org)
157 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments
2015The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate (journals.asm.org)
157 points | 4 years ago with 202 comments
2012Simple Pathtracing (iquilezles.org)
157 points | 2 years ago with 5 comments
2012Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (memex.craphound.com)
157 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments
2010Opensource your abandonware (pulkomandy.tk)
157 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments
2011What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (stackoverflow.com)
157 points | 12 years ago with 95 comments
2016How do we know when we’ve fallen in love? (qz.com)
157 points | 6 years ago with 102 comments
2017Mathematics for Computer Science (courses.csail.mit.edu)
156 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
2014Write your own Virtual CPU in C++ (megalomaniacbore.blogspot.com)
156 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
2007The home computer as a cultural object is physically vanishing (contemporary-home-computing.org)
156 points | 4 years ago with 187 comments
2008Fire the workaholics (37signals.com)
156 points | 14 years ago with 75 comments
2017Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (historic-uk.com)
156 points | 3 years ago with 175 comments
2018Always Be Journaling (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)
156 points | 5 years ago with 74 comments
2012Most lives are lived by default (raptitude.com)
156 points | 6 years ago with 61 comments
2015Microfinance Is Mostly a Scam (mathbabe.org)
156 points | 5 years ago with 107 comments
2012Ideas for Game Clones to Code (inventwithpython.com)
156 points | 9 years ago with 49 comments
2008Late Bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? (newyorker.com)
156 points | 11 years ago with 67 comments
2006Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (ronpatrickstuff.com)
156 points | 7 years ago with 60 comments
2018Decoded: GNU Coreutils (maizure.org)
156 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments
2017How We Built r/Place (redditinc.com)
156 points | 3 years ago with 98 comments
2016RFC 7858: DNS over TLS (tools.ietf.org)
156 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments
2015Don't publicly expose .git (en.internetwache.org)
156 points | 8 years ago with 86 comments
2005Maze Design (cgl.uwaterloo.ca)
156 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2017The Emacs Package Developer's Handbook (alphapapa.github.io)
156 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments
2015Debian developer revisits FreeBSD after 20 years (changelog.complete.org)
156 points | 7 years ago with 125 comments
1999Intel PIII: Is Big Brother Inside? (zdnet.com)
156 points | 4 years ago with 84 comments
2018The Structure of a Stand-Up Comedy (pudding.cool)
156 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
1983Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Design (archive.org)
156 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments
2018Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (immigration.gov.pn)
156 points | 4 years ago with 111 comments
2019Why it can ‘take a few days’ to be unsubscribed from an email list (twitter.com)
156 points | 4 years ago with 74 comments
2013English, Swedish, German and Finnish Decline “Dog” (linustechtips.com)
156 points | 6 years ago with 102 comments
1999African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes (web.stanford.edu)
156 points | 9 years ago with 249 comments
1990All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (nytimes.com)
156 points | 14 years ago with 80 comments
2014C++ the Good Parts (infoq.com)
156 points | 5 years ago with 246 comments
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