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2009Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop (nytimes.com)
61 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2009How the Hough Transform Was Invented (iro.umontreal.ca)
61 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2009Cache Organization in Intel CPUs (duartes.org)
60 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2009The Rise and Fall of the Dreamcast (gamasutra.com)
60 points | 10 years ago with 26 comments
2009The Economics of Pinball (cheaptalk.org)
60 points | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2009All Programming Is Web Programming (blog.codinghorror.com)
60 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments
2009A Physical Description of Flight, Revisited (allstar.fiu.edu)
60 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2009Bernie Madoff’s unwitting accomplice: The AS/400 (web.archive.org)
60 points | 2 years ago with 49 comments
2009The HP Garage (hpmuseum.org)
60 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
200990 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine (edition.cnn.com)
60 points | 8 years ago with 38 comments
2009Starquakes: maybe we can be a little frightened (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
60 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments
2009A Proposal for a High Resolution Display (bernd-paysan.de)
60 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments
2009Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (slate.com)
59 points | 9 years ago with 53 comments
2009Time and Frequency (prc68.com)
59 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2009What is the case against F#? (stackoverflow.com)
59 points | 3 years ago with 105 comments
2009Goals Gone Wild: Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting (hbs.edu)
58 points | 10 years ago with 24 comments
2009Cryptographic Right Answers (daemonology.net)
58 points | 10 years ago with 40 comments
2009Meditation Driven Development (ckwop.me.uk)
58 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments
2009DNA blunder creates phantom serial killer (independent.co.uk)
58 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2009BASIC as a Haskell DSL (augustss.blogspot.com)
58 points | 10 years ago with 12 comments
2009Functional Programming Doesn't Work (prog21.dadgum.com)
58 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 1 comments
2009The Trouble with the Segway (paulgraham.com)
57 points | 2 years ago with 127 comments
2009Why IRC over SSL is pointless (quakenet.org)
57 points | 8 years ago with 70 comments
2009Intro to Rod Logic (halfbakedmaker.org)
57 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
2009Erik Naggum, RIP (open.salon.com)
57 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments
2009E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress (nytimes.com)
57 points | 11 years ago with 10 comments
2009A New Photo of Tank Man in Tiananmen Square (lens.blogs.nytimes.com)
57 points | 5 years ago with 3 comments
2009Topology Explains Why Automobile Sunshades Fold Oddly (arxiv.org)
57 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
2009Plot: A Programming Language for Old Timers (users.rcn.com)
57 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
2009The Ancient World's Longest Underground Aqueduct (spiegel.de)
57 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2009Boring thieves had tunnel visions (articles.latimes.com)
57 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
2009What computer science can teach economics (news.mit.edu)
57 points | 8 years ago with 22 comments
2009Why Church chose lambda (wisdomandwonder.com)
56 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments
2009Why Minds Are Not Like Computers (thenewatlantis.com)
56 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 45 comments
2009Thoughts on “E-Readers” (news.ycombinator.com)
56 points | 3 years ago with 56 comments
2009Intel memory ordering, fence instructions, and atomic operations (peeterjoot.wordpress.com)
56 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 0 comments
2009“Cookies are small text files” – what? (shallowsky.com)
55 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments
2009Dynamically Typed Languages (tratt.net)
55 points | 10 years ago with 56 comments
2009Amazon vanishes 1984 from Kindles (theregister.com)
55 points | 3 years ago with 27 comments
2009Pascal's Mugging (nickbostrom.com)
55 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments
2009How I found glaring errors in Einstein's calculations (cognitionandculture.net)
55 points | 9 years ago with 94 comments
2009Soy's Negative Effects (menshealth.com)
54 points | 10 years ago with 46 comments
2009What lies beneath the surface of New York Harbor? (nymag.com)
54 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments
2009Typeclassopedia (wiki.haskell.org)
54 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 9 comments
2009Nietzsche – The Dionysian Impulse (harpers.org)
54 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2009The Believer (gq.com)
54 points | 11 years ago with 18 comments
2009What Is Gradual Typing? (wphomes.soic.indiana.edu)
54 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments
2009Interview with an Adware Author (philosecurity.org)
54 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments
2009Push-pull Functional Reactive Programming (conal.net)
54 points | 10 years ago with 1 comments
2009Why Apple Will Never Make Printers Again (macworld.com)
54 points | 10 years ago with 34 comments
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