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2004How much oxygen for a person to survive in an air-tight enclosure? (members.shaw.ca)
87 points | 8 years ago with 62 comments
2005Why no Easter Eggs? (web.archive.org)
87 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments
2006Deepest hand dug well in the world (mybrightonandhove.org.uk)
87 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments
2007Linkers, part 1 (airs.com)
87 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 7 comments
2007A Prayer for Archimedes (sciencenews.org)
87 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments
2008A logarithmic image transformation (josleys.com)
87 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2008Late Bloomers: Why Do We Equate Genius with Precocity? (newyorker.com)
87 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments
2008Brian's Rules for Writing Cross Platform 'C' Code (ski-epic.com)
87 points | 10 years ago with 52 comments
2009Kind of Bloop (kindofbloop.com)
87 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments
2009Someone Stole My Startup Idea: They Raised Money with My Slides? (steveblank.com)
87 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2009The miracle of Smalltalk’s become: (gbracha.blogspot.com)
87 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
2009Microchips That Shook the World (spectrum.ieee.org)
87 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2000Statistical mechanics of money (arxiv.org)
86 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2000Nuclear Pulse Propulsion – Orion and Beyond (ntrs.nasa.gov)
86 points | 8 years ago with 99 comments
2001Recollections of Early Chip Development at Intel (lark.tu-sofia.bg)
86 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2001Re: What is acceptable for -ffast-math? (gcc.gnu.org)
86 points | 8 years ago with 37 comments
2003Twenty years of speedcubing (ws.binghamton.edu)
86 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
2003A letter to the Editorial Board, Journal of Algorithms (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
86 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments
2005Every character has a story: U+213a (rotated Q) (web.archive.org)
86 points | 4 years ago with 34 comments
2005Fictional peer reviews rejecting famous papers (th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de)
86 points | 12 years ago with 51 comments
2007The Theory of Concatenative Combinators (tunes.org)
86 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 3 comments
2007Quantum mechanics and Tomb Raider (terrytao.wordpress.com)
86 points | 2 years ago with 17 comments
2007One woman can’t have a baby in nine months (gigamonkeys.wordpress.com)
86 points | 10 years ago with 48 comments
2007Why Mathematics is Boring (math.ucr.edu)
86 points | 3 years ago with 124 comments
2008Two Dots Too Many (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
86 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments
2008Clojure Rationale (clojure.org)
86 points | 1 year ago with 51 comments
2008I can't believe I'm praising Tcl (yosefk.com)
86 points | 1 year ago with 52 comments
2008Examining the Legendary Hurd Kernel (informit.com)
86 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments
2009History of Tcl (web.stanford.edu)
86 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2009Hello Haskell, Goodbye Lisp (newartisans.com)
86 points across 2 posts | 10 years ago with 68 comments
2001Illegal Prime Number? (fatphil.org)
85 points | 7 years ago with 45 comments
2001The Area Under an ROC Curve (gim.unmc.edu)
85 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2002Google's Toughest Search Is for a Business Model (nytimes.com)
85 points | 9 years ago with 47 comments
2003.NET Garbage Collector Basics and Performance Hints (msdn.microsoft.com)
85 points | 8 years ago with 20 comments
2003The Allied “Passierschein” Safe Conduct Passes of WWII (psywarrior.com)
85 points | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2003OS Development Tutorials (osdever.net)
85 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
2003Thwarted Linux backdoor hints at smarter hacks (securityfocus.com)
85 points | 11 years ago with 52 comments
2004Dumpster Diving FAQ (ranprieur.com)
85 points | 1 year ago with 86 comments
2005tcpcp - passing TCP connections between hosts (tcpcp.sourceforge.net)
85 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2006Wi-Fi over Coaxial (wifiovercoax.mcleodnet.com)
85 points | 1 year ago with 44 comments
2006The Rise and Fall of CORBA (queue.acm.org)
85 points | 1 year ago with 150 comments
2006OCaml Resources (www2.lib.uchicago.edu)
85 points | 9 years ago with 72 comments
2007Thinking about Thinking (the-programmers-stone.com)
85 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments
2008How to Reverse-Engineer a Satellite TV Smart Card (wired.com)
85 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments
2008The Complete Guide to All the Taquerias of Redwood City, v2.0 (emeraldlake.com)
85 points | 1 year ago with 34 comments
2008Heroku founder Adam Wiggins: The Legacy of the Self-Made Man (adam.heroku.com)
85 points | 14 years ago with 37 comments
2008Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa (economist.com)
85 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments
2009On Being Jewish in State Prison (splcenter.org)
85 points | 7 years ago with 42 comments
2009Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarine (ru-submarine.livejournal.com)
85 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2009The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News (bitquabit.com)
85 points | 11 years ago with 25 comments
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