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2017Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (twitter.com)
1928 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 193 comments
2019“DigitalOcean Killed Our Company” (twitter.com)
1398 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2015You can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off (twitter.com)
1269 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 7 comments
2019My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (twitter.com)
1137 points | 3 years ago with 556 comments
2018You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (twitter.com)
1004 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 255 comments
2018JPEG of Shakespeare is also a zip file containing his complete works (twitter.com)
871 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2018Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (twitter.com)
685 points | 2 years ago with 719 comments
2018Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix (twitter.com)
602 points | 3 years ago with 274 comments
1968Pronunciations for hexadecimal numbers (twitter.com)
497 points | 5 years ago with 117 comments
2005Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (twitter.com)
405 points | 3 years ago with 248 comments
1996“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (twitter.com)
396 points | 2 years ago with 403 comments
2010Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (twitter.com)
395 points | 3 years ago with 255 comments
2010Steve Jobs emails himself (twitter.com)
392 points | 2 years ago with 243 comments
2009“Facebook turned me down” (twitter.com)
388 points | 10 years ago with 191 comments
2017A still of Kermit The Frog in Blade Runner 2049 (twitter.com)
381 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2007Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (twitter.com)
368 points across 3 posts | 10 months ago with 44 comments
2013Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (twitter.com)
299 points | 2 years ago with 237 comments
1995Terry Pratchett warns Bill Gates about fake news (twitter.com)
287 points | 5 years ago with 175 comments
2013Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (twitter.com)
284 points | 2 years ago with 423 comments
2003Bill Gates on Windows Usability (twitter.com)
266 points | 5 years ago with 225 comments
1985East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures (twitter.com)
246 points | 5 years ago with 78 comments
2017Amazon memo: Here’s why we should acquire Ring (twitter.com)
241 points | 2 years ago with 87 comments
2003Microsoft execs on Apple's music store (twitter.com)
226 points | 1 year ago with 170 comments
2007Sergey Brin: The Facebook phenomenon is a problem (twitter.com)
197 points | 2 years ago with 185 comments
2007Cocoa Touch apps (twitter.com)
179 points | 3 years ago with 71 comments
2003Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker (twitter.com)
177 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 64 comments
2019Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery (twitter.com)
168 points | 3 years ago with 70 comments
2019Why it can ‘take a few days’ to be unsubscribed from an email list (twitter.com)
156 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments
1982Photos from the Surface of Venus (twitter.com)
139 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments
2004“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (twitter.com)
127 points | 3 years ago with 219 comments
1974Ethernet will never work (twitter.com)
120 points | 4 years ago with 53 comments
2017Libc on macOS invokes Perl as a subprocess for string processing (twitter.com)
98 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments
2017Netflix: Love is sharing a password (twitter.com)
82 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments
2017Developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control (twitter.com)
79 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments
2018Elon Musk texts Larry Page about investing in Tesla (twitter.com)
77 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 69 comments
2014If Github ends up selling itself one day, Microsoft will be the buyer (twitter.com)
59 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
1985Templates of Doom – A spreadsheet text adventure game (twitter.com)
57 points | 1 year ago with 9 comments
2016Anthony Levandowski to Larry Page: Google's self-driving project is broken (twitter.com)
45 points | 3 years ago with 73 comments
1964Arthur C. Clarke about the future of AI (twitter.com)
26 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments
2005Mark Zuckerberg interviewed about “The Facebook” (twitter.com)
23 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2017CNN photoshopped a “Verified” tag next to my name (twitter.com)
21 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2019Mouse driver asking for firewall exemption to accept incoming connections (twitter.com)
20 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments
1926Woman jumps plane to plane to fix landing gear mid air (twitter.com)
14 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments
2015“Does anyone use LinkedList? I wrote it, and I never use it.” (twitter.com)
12 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments
1993Bill Gates on Microsoft's “hard-core detractors” (twitter.com)
10 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments
1993I'd like to propose a new, optional HTML tag (twitter.com)
10 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments

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