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2008Selection bias and bombers (johndcook.com)
103 points | 10 years ago with 18 comments
2008The Art of Unix Programming (catb.org)
103 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments
2000John Carmack on shadow volumes (fabiensanglard.net)
102 points | 10 years ago with 40 comments
2000A Visual Approach to Calculus Problems (mamikon.com)
102 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2001A Child Thinking About Infinity (homepages.warwick.ac.uk)
102 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments
2001Why Plan 9? (marc.info)
102 points | 8 years ago with 53 comments
2001Why Unicode Won’t Work on the Internet (hastingsresearch.com)
102 points | 8 years ago with 110 comments
2001The Tyranny of Nicespeak (web.archive.org)
102 points | 2 years ago with 102 comments
2003The Raw Truth About Lox (forward.com)
102 points | 2 years ago with 61 comments
2005Elements of Dance Etiquette (utdallas.edu)
102 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 20 comments
2005History's Worst Software Bugs (archive.wired.com)
102 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments
2005Pissed off about functional programming (perlmonks.org)
102 points | 10 years ago with 61 comments
2007The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (shenlanguage.org)
102 points | 8 years ago with 57 comments
2007When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (craphound.com)
102 points | 10 years ago with 18 comments
2008Get specific (sivers.org)
102 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments
2008"Maxwell's equations of software" examined (righto.com)
102 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments
2009The lifestyle business bullshit (37signals.com)
102 points | 12 years ago with 35 comments
2009Toilet Paper History: How America Convinced the World to Wipe (mentalfloss.com)
102 points | 7 years ago with 100 comments
2009Dammit LinkedIn, I'm a college dropout (paulholmes.ca)
102 points | 7 years ago with 63 comments
2000An Introduction to Quantum Computation and Quantum Communication (herpolhode.com)
101 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments
2002Increased risk of traffic accidents in subjects with latent toxoplasmosis (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
101 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments
2004First, Do No Harm: A Hippocratic Oath for Software Developers (queue.acm.org)
101 points | 5 years ago with 70 comments
2004Freak waves spotted from space (news.bbc.co.uk)
101 points | 12 years ago with 18 comments
2005X86-64 machine level programming [pdf] (ecee.colorado.edu)
101 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
2007Bytecode interpreters for tiny computers (dercuano.github.io)
101 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2008Implementing strcmp, strlen, and strstr using SSE 4.2 instructions (strchr.com)
101 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments
2008Linear Circuit Design Handbook (analog.com)
101 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2008The Innumeracy of Intellectuals (scienceblogs.com)
101 points | 12 years ago with 98 comments
2009Physics, Topology, Logic, and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (arxiv.org)
101 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
2009Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” (byorgey.wordpress.com)
101 points | 3 years ago with 79 comments
2009Bicycle Built for 2,000 (bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com)
101 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2009Some clients use SRV lookups, a few (to their embarrassment) do not (jdebp.eu)
101 points | 6 years ago with 107 comments
2009The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (arxiv.org)
101 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2002The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution (msl1.mit.edu)
100 points | 7 years ago with 65 comments
2003Implementing VisiCalc (landley.net)
100 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments
2003Interview with Dennis Ritchie (anders.unix.se)
100 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2005How to Become an Independent Programmer in Just 1068 Days (gusmueller.com)
100 points | 15 years ago with 5 comments
2006My Most Important C++ Aha Moments (artima.com)
100 points | 8 years ago with 81 comments
2007Why the iPhone will fail (suckbusters2.blogspot.com)
100 points | 14 years ago with 87 comments
2008Assertions in Production Code? (drdobbs.com)
100 points | 6 years ago with 87 comments
2008Lua's Development Style (lua-users.org)
100 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments
2009Automated to Death (spectrum.ieee.org)
100 points | 8 years ago with 45 comments
2009Information, Physics and Computation (web.stanford.edu)
100 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments
2009Levels of programmers (codinghorror.com)
100 points | 12 years ago with 38 comments
2009How does our language shape the way we think? (edge.org)
100 points | 11 years ago with 62 comments
2000Reasoning, and What It Is To Be Rational (akat.com)
99 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments
2000A Repairman's View of Portable Minidisc Recorders (minidisc.org)
99 points | 1 year ago with 59 comments
2000Well vs. Equal Temperament (math.uwaterloo.ca)
99 points | 9 years ago with 62 comments
2002Will it rot my students' brains if they use Mathematica? (theodoregray.com)
99 points | 3 years ago with 163 comments
2002An Animal’s Place (michaelpollan.com)
99 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 67 comments
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