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2009Exhuming the Glacier Girl (damninteresting.com)
54 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2009I Am a Spammer. AMA (old.reddit.com)
53 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
2009C++ Frequently Questioned Answers (yosefk.com)
53 points | 2 years ago with 110 comments
2009Java's Original Sin (gbracha.blogspot.com)
53 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments
2009Steganography: An Art of Hiding Data (arxiv.org)
53 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2009My Kung Fu Is the Best (web.archive.org)
53 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments
2009Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming (research.scee.net)
53 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments
2009Go Data Structures: Interfaces (research.swtch.com)
53 points | 11 years ago with 3 comments
2009Writing Scientific Documents Using LaTeX (mirror.unicorncloud.org)
53 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2009Does Military Sonar Kill Marine Wildlife? (scientificamerican.com)
53 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments
2009ST-09-0002 NSA/CSS OIG Draft about Stellar Wind (s3.documentcloud.org)
53 points | 11 years ago with 16 comments
2009The First VC Meeting (bothsidesofthetable.com)
53 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
2009Balancing Multiplayer Competitive Games (static1.squarespace.com)
52 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments
2009Six Signs of Scientism (uta.edu)
52 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2009Profile of Lars Bak (ft.com)
52 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2009Approximating a solution that doesn't exist (johndcook.com)
52 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2009Double Saw Bye (sdmrra.org)
50 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
2009Building Memory-Efficient Java Applications (cs.virginia.edu)
50 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
2009Page Cache, the Affair Between Memory and Files (manybutfinite.com)
49 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2009RethinkDB Founder Looking for Technical Cofounder (defmacro.org)
49 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments
2009Regular Expression Matching: The Virtual Machine Approach (swtch.com)
49 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2009The Pac-Man Dossier (pacman.holenet.info)
49 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments
2009Why Every Country Has a Different Plug (gizmodo.com)
48 points | 9 years ago with 57 comments
2009Racing the Beam (mitpress.mit.edu)
48 points | 10 years ago with 11 comments
2009Randall's Theory Increases Number of Dimensions in Physical Universe (thecrimson.com)
48 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments
2009How To Travel the World Without Jet Lag (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
48 points | 10 years ago with 16 comments
2009What went wrong: SCTP (blog.ipspace.net)
48 points | 9 years ago with 44 comments
2009Defensive tool use in a coconut-carrying octopus (sciencedirect.com)
48 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments
2009Safely using destructors in Python (eli.thegreenplace.net)
47 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments
2009SOA and the Tar Pit of Irrelevancy (nealford.com)
47 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments
2009Fravia's web-searching lore (search.lores.eu)
47 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2009Freeman Dyson – Birds and Frogs (fermatslibrary.com)
47 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2009Berners-Lee 'Sorry' for Slashes (news.bbc.co.uk)
47 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments
2009A disk scheduling algorithm based on ant colony optimization (sajjadium.github.io)
47 points | 4 years ago with 8 comments
2009The Unfinished: David Foster Wallace’s Struggle to Surpass Infinite Jest (newyorker.com)
47 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2009The HP-01 (bytecollector.com)
47 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
2009Categories for the Practicing Physicist (cs.ox.ac.uk)
47 points | 10 years ago with 1 comments
2009Introduction to Ada and SPARK (cse.msu.edu)
47 points | 9 years ago with 37 comments
2009Awk vs. Perl (aplawrence.com)
46 points | 7 years ago with 71 comments
2009Redundancy of x86 Machine Code (strchr.com)
46 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2009A Student’s Guide to the Digital World (ocw.mit.edu)
46 points | 5 years ago with 2 comments
2009Selective Unit Testing – Costs and Benefits (blog.stevensanderson.com)
46 points | 3 years ago with 10 comments
2009Writing unit tests is reinventing functional programming (noss.github.io)
46 points | 11 years ago with 19 comments
2009The Lost History of Helmand (bbc.co.uk)
46 points | 10 years ago with 6 comments
2009The Human Brain in Numbers: A Linearly Scaled-Up Primate Brain (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
46 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments
2009Maps Hidden in Monopoly Helped World War II POWs Escape (abcnews.go.com)
45 points | 11 years ago with 4 comments
2009The mystery of the blend file format (github.com)
45 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2009What Makes Us Happy? (theatlantic.com)
45 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments
2009The brain is a closet (usablelearning.com)
45 points | 1 year ago with 11 comments
2009Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct (motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com)
45 points | 5 years ago with 84 comments
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