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2018Artificial Intelligence: The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (medium.com)
622 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 89 comments
2016The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (medium.com)
411 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments
2016The greatest sales deck I've ever seen (medium.com)
395 points | 6 years ago with 163 comments
2013Don’t go to art school (medium.com)
346 points | 8 years ago with 198 comments
2018Plane accidentally flew around the world (medium.com)
343 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 69 comments
2014A Plane That Accidentally Circumnavigated the World (medium.com)
325 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2015Don't Outsource Your Thinking (medium.com)
321 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2016Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful (medium.com)
315 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments
2013Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (medium.com)
305 points | 9 years ago with 335 comments
2019To reinvent the processor (medium.com)
297 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments
2015Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (medium.com)
274 points | 4 years ago with 174 comments
2018What I learned in two years of moving government forms online (medium.com)
262 points | 3 years ago with 133 comments
2016In MySQL, don’t use “utf8”, use “utf8mb4” (medium.com)
244 points | 6 years ago with 160 comments
2016Fuck You Startup World (medium.com)
240 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 57 comments
2018The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (medium.com)
238 points | 4 years ago with 212 comments
1979Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (medium.com)
237 points | 8 years ago with 122 comments
2015Why Telegram is insecure (medium.com)
230 points | 5 years ago with 246 comments
2017How to Do Nothing (medium.com)
215 points | 5 years ago with 49 comments
2016Meaningful exits for founders (medium.com)
200 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 86 comments
2016Bob Dylan lays down what killed rock n roll (medium.com)
199 points | 3 years ago with 229 comments
2014How I Lost My $50k Twitter Username (medium.com)
198 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments
2017Claude Shannon’s “Creative Thinking” Speech (medium.com)
188 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2018Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database (medium.com)
187 points | 3 years ago with 77 comments
2017Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting (medium.com)
187 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments
2014Everything is broken (medium.com)
185 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2015Turning the iPhone 6S into a digital scale (medium.com)
184 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2014The Mesmerizing Architecture of Mosques (medium.com)
175 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments
2019The Decision Book: Fifty models for strategic thinking (medium.com)
162 points | 1 year ago with 26 comments
2014X to Close – The origins of the use of [x] in UI design. (medium.com)
159 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 82 comments
201710,000 Hours with Claude Shannon (medium.com)
157 points | 3 years ago with 82 comments
2014Why ContentEditable Is Terrible, Or: How the Medium Editor Works (medium.com)
155 points | 8 years ago with 76 comments
2018The BEAM needs an APL-y language (medium.com)
154 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2019Bringing Palm OS devices back online – A journey into vintage computing (medium.com)
151 points | 2 years ago with 86 comments
2017How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (medium.com)
148 points | 4 years ago with 134 comments
2014The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (medium.com)
147 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments
2018A 189 Year Old Limitation on Inductor Size Has Been Broken (medium.com)
145 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments
2015Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (medium.com)
143 points | 7 years ago with 113 comments
2015The Founding of Google Maps (medium.com)
142 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments
2017What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it debuted in 1995 (medium.com)
140 points | 4 years ago with 235 comments
2014Prices and wages in Medieval England (medium.com)
136 points | 2 years ago with 119 comments
2018A Guide To Hacker News For People Who Aren’t Men (medium.com)
131 points | 4 years ago with 161 comments
2018The curious history of NovaMin toothpaste (medium.com)
129 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2017Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (medium.com)
129 points | 3 years ago with 158 comments
2016How to get started with DJing (medium.com)
129 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2016Excessive Consumption Limits Creativity (medium.com)
128 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments
2019Inefficient Efficiency (medium.com)
127 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments
2014Playing with My Son (medium.com)
126 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2014How libraries decide which books to keep (medium.com)
119 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 23 comments
1984A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge (medium.com)
119 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments
2016The Riemann Hypothesis, explained (medium.com)
119 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
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