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2017The Day I Found Out My Life Was Hanging by a Thread (wired.com)
73 points | 3 years ago with 73 comments
1993Sega’s Plans for World Domination (wired.com)
73 points | 7 years ago with 69 comments
2000Why the future doesn't need us (wired.com)
71 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 18 comments
2004Gopher: Underground Technology (wired.com)
71 points | 1 year ago with 8 comments
2014Mystery Science Theater 3000: Oral History (wired.com)
70 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
1994Meet The Extropians (wired.com)
67 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
2019Tim Wu Explains Why He Thinks Facebook Should Be Broken Up (wired.com)
66 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments
2017A Hotel Room Hacking Spree (wired.com)
64 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
1996Aum: The Cult at the End of the World (wired.com)
62 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2012What does randomness look like? (wired.com)
62 points | 9 years ago with 20 comments
2014Why it’s so hard to catch your own typos (wired.com)
61 points | 1 year ago with 42 comments
2014How the World's First Computer Was Rescued from the Scrap Heap (wired.com)
59 points | 3 years ago with 53 comments
1995Demo or Die (wired.com)
59 points | 3 years ago with 18 comments
1994Radio Microsoft (wired.com)
56 points | 7 months ago with 6 comments
2017Gene sequencer malware injection via encoded DNA (wired.com)
55 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments
2019A 'Null' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell (wired.com)
54 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments
2012Computer built using swarms of soldier crabs (wired.com)
49 points | 9 months ago with 12 comments
2012Remembering Jon Postel and the day he hijacked the internet (wired.com)
49 points | 4 months ago with 17 comments
2011Inside the Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma (wired.com)
47 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments
2012Van Jacobson Denies Averting Internet Meltdown in 1980s (wired.com)
47 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2010The last generation of typewriter repairmen (wired.com)
45 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2016The Average Webpage Is Now the Size of the Original Doom (wired.com)
45 points | 11 months ago with 5 comments
2006Jobs vs. Gates: Who's the Star? (wired.com)
43 points | 14 years ago with 17 comments
2012How Amazon Followed Google Into the World of Secret Servers (wired.com)
42 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2007Foul-Mouthed Blogger Ted Dziuba Tells Why Most Startups Fail (wired.com)
41 points | 13 years ago with 15 comments
1997DoubleClick Tries to Force Hand into Cookie Jar (wired.com)
41 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2011Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to Be a Religion (wired.com)
41 points | 8 years ago with 29 comments
2016New Discovery Around Juniper Backdoor Raises More Questions (wired.com)
41 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
2009Amber Ale: Brewing Beer from 45M-Year-Old Yeast (wired.com)
39 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments
20038-Bit Punk (wired.com)
35 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments
1997Apple to lay off a third of its workers (wired.com)
33 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments
1996Catching Kevin Mitnick (wired.com)
26 points | 9 months ago with 3 comments
2006Spam and Blogs = Trouble (wired.com)
24 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments
1997The Epic Saga of the Well (wired.com)
22 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2019An End to Pornography, Sophistry, and Panty Raids: on Epstein's Edge.org (wired.com)
19 points | 1 year ago with 29 comments
2009What's Inside WD-40? Superlube's Secret Sauce (wired.com)
18 points | 2 years ago with 7 comments
1966Before the Fire: Saturn-Apollo Applications (wired.com)
16 points | 11 months ago with 4 comments
2014Kevin Mitnick Is Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits (wired.com)
15 points | 9 months ago with 2 comments
1993Down with GUIs! (wired.com)
12 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments
2019Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online (wired.com)
10 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments

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