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2008Speedcabling (schkolne.com)
72 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments
2008Father's Day (davidgodman.org)
72 points | 3 years ago with 11 comments
2008Database IDs Have No Place in URIs (johntopley.com)
71 points | 5 years ago with 167 comments
2008Set Operations in the Unix Shell (catonmat.net)
71 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments
2008Singing: The key to a long life (npr.org)
71 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments
2008Notes on the M4 Macro Language (mbreen.com)
71 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2008Luck in Wesnoth: Rationale (wesnoth.org)
71 points | 6 years ago with 33 comments
2008Autism and Asperger's Syndrome: The ‘Little Professors’ (h2g2.com)
70 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2008There is no better battery (manifestdensity.net)
70 points | 12 years ago with 94 comments
2008Eye Strain from LED Backlighting in MacBook Pro (discussions.apple.com)
69 points | 7 years ago with 90 comments
2008Effectual Reasoning: What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial? (effectuation.org)
69 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
2008The Google technology stack (michaelnielsen.org)
68 points | 11 years ago with 14 comments
2008Things Caches Do (tomayko.com)
67 points | 11 years ago with 5 comments
2008The Truth About Tonkin (usni.org)
67 points | 5 years ago with 80 comments
2008Perl and Undecidability (jeffreykegler.com)
67 points | 7 years ago with 117 comments
2008Generating Complex Procedural Terrains Using the GPU (http.developer.nvidia.com)
67 points | 11 years ago with 15 comments
2008Why monads have not taken the Common Lisp world by storm (marijnhaverbeke.nl)
67 points | 11 years ago with 48 comments
2008Apple’s Employee No. 0 (electronicsweekly.com)
67 points | 1 year ago with 98 comments
2008The Wang 2200 (wang2200.org)
66 points | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2008PipesFS: Fast Linux I/O in the Unix Tradition (research.vu.nl)
65 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2008IN/MSX: Running 4 Copies of an Operating System at Once (jeff-barr.com)
65 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments
2008Implementing SIP Telephony in Python (39peers.net)
64 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2008Ksplice: Automatic Rebootless Kernel Updates (ksplice.com)
64 points | 10 years ago with 32 comments
2008In the Basement of the Ivory Tower (theatlantic.com)
64 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments
2008The Reality of Depending on True Fans (kk.org)
63 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2008From Shader Code to a Teraflop: How Shader Cores Work (s08.idav.ucdavis.edu)
63 points | 7 years ago with 1 comments
2008Pepsi Design Strategy (people.mozilla.org)
63 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments
2008On the Epidemiology of Influenza (virologyj.biomedcentral.com)
63 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2008Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain (rifters.com)
62 points | 8 years ago with 25 comments
2008Metacompilers Part 1 (bayfronttechnologies.com)
62 points | 10 years ago with 6 comments
2008Facetmobile FMX-4 Research Airplane (wainfan.com)
62 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments
2008Roll your own toy Unix clone OS (jamesmolloy.co.uk)
62 points | 9 years ago with 4 comments
2008High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace (archive.wired.com)
62 points | 10 years ago with 15 comments
2008The evolution of the On/Off power switch symbol (designblog.nzeldes.com)
61 points | 1 year ago with 62 comments
2008Observations on Wikipedia Behavior (en.wikipedia.org)
61 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments
2008'Plain old untrendy troubles and emotions' (theguardian.com)
61 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 31 comments
2008The Myth of Multitasking (faculty.winthrop.edu)
61 points | 11 years ago with 15 comments
2008What is an 83(b) election? (startupcompanylawyer.com)
60 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments
2008Developing Erlang at Yahoo (cufp.galois.com)
60 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments
2008Why does organic milk last so much longer than regular milk? (scientificamerican.com)
60 points | 4 years ago with 88 comments
2008What is a y-combinator? (stackoverflow.com)
60 points | 11 years ago with 20 comments
2008Why writing software is not like engineering (cs.usfca.edu)
59 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments
2008Conceptual knowledge increases infants' memory capacity (pnas.org)
59 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments
2008The Google Chrome Comic (scottmccloud.com)
59 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
2008Lessons from the Debian/OpenSSL Fiasco (research.swtch.com)
59 points | 1 year ago with 25 comments
2008Color blind gamer (blahg.res0l.net)
59 points | 10 years ago with 25 comments
2008Gods in Color: Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity (archive.archaeology.org)
58 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments
2008Efficient Parallel Scan Algorithms for GPUs (research.nvidia.com)
58 points | 8 years ago with 2 comments
2008Microsoft beware: Stephen Elop is a flight risk (siliconbeat.com)
58 points | 13 years ago with 12 comments
2008The GRUB MBR (thestarman.pcministry.com)
58 points | 1 year ago with 17 comments
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