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2011Bobby Fischer: from prodigy to pariah (theguardian.com)
72 points | 8 years ago with 28 comments
2011The Economics of Garbage Collection (eprints.gla.ac.uk)
72 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments
2011The Food Lab: The Science of No-Knead Dough (seriouseats.com)
71 points | 7 years ago with 40 comments
2011Rejection Therapy (lincolnquirk.com)
71 points | 2 years ago with 87 comments
2011Dictionary of dead language complete after 90 years (bbc.com)
71 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
2011Mac finder uses 1,000,000 bytes instead of 1,048,576 bytes for file sizes (discussions.apple.com)
71 points | 3 years ago with 133 comments
2011Algorithms for Planar Graphs and Beyond (courses.csail.mit.edu)
71 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2011Dizzying but invisible depth (plus.google.com)
71 points | 10 years ago with 11 comments
2011Single Writer Principle (mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com)
70 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments
2011Stop Socializing the Downside and Privatizing the Upside (rooseveltinstitute.org)
70 points | 4 years ago with 8 comments
2011How to make sure your talk doesn't suck (damtp.cam.ac.uk)
70 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments
2011NASA Technical Standard: Crimping, Cables, Harnesses, and Wiring (hq.nasa.gov)
70 points | 9 years ago with 18 comments
2011The Four Dog Defense (acronymrequired.com)
69 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2011Eierlegende Wollmilchsau (germanyinusa.com)
69 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments
2011How do I find Waldo with Mathematica? (stackoverflow.com)
69 points | 9 years ago with 0 comments
2011The Last Page of the Web (users.csc.calpoly.edu)
69 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments
2011Harman How to Listen (harmanhowtolisten.blogspot.com)
69 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 16 comments
2011How to take advantage of Redis just adding it to your stack (oldblog.antirez.com)
69 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments
2011Goodbye academia, I get a life (blog.devicerandom.org)
69 points | 11 years ago with 25 comments
2011Is the Solar System Stable? (ias.edu)
68 points | 10 years ago with 27 comments
2011The Carrying-Cost of Code: Taking Lean Seriously (michaelfeathers.typepad.com)
68 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2011First, Let’s Fire All the Managers (hbr.org)
68 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 2 comments
2011Blackbeard's Ship Confirmed Off North Carolina (news.nationalgeographic.com)
68 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2011Why didn't Denmark sell Greenland? (gwern.net)
68 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
2011A Busy 1979 (filfre.net)
68 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments
2011The Mathematics of Tetris (math.stackexchange.com)
68 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments
2011Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (insidehighered.com)
67 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments
2011Adventures in Electronic Music (charlespetzold.com)
67 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2011TermKit: A Rich Graphical Terminal (acko.net)
67 points | 2 years ago with 37 comments
2011Under the Hood of .NET Memory Management (download.red-gate.com)
67 points | 8 years ago with 5 comments
2011The Libertarian Futurism of Peter Thiel (newyorker.com)
67 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 66 comments
2011William Gibson, the Art of Fiction No. 211 (theparisreview.org)
67 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments
2011Evolution of shells in Linux (ibm.com)
67 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments
2011How the Internet Changes Our Thoughts and Behaviors for the Worse (theemotionmachine.com)
67 points | 8 years ago with 45 comments
2011Tsunami Warnings, Written in Stone (nytimes.com)
66 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
2011Motorola releases fingerprint sensor-embedded Android phone (secureidnews.com)
66 points | 11 years ago with 38 comments
2011How to Write Shared Libraries (akkadia.org)
66 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 1 comments
2011What’s up with the mysterious inc bp in prologues of 16-bit code? (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
66 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2011Programming in Standard ML (cs.cmu.edu)
66 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments
2011How to Do What You Want: Akrasia and Self-Binding (blog.beeminder.com)
65 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2011Z80, the 8-bit Number Cruncher (andreadrian.de)
65 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2011Faster Unsigned Division by Constants (ridiculousfish.com)
65 points | 10 years ago with 26 comments
2011Translating math into code with examples in Java, Racket, Haskell, Python (matt.might.net)
65 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments
2011The abolition of mandatory retirement, and how it changed America (slate.com)
65 points | 4 years ago with 70 comments
2011History of Unix Manpages (manpages.bsd.lv)
65 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2011Aspiring to a Higher Plane: “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions” (publicdomainreview.org)
65 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments
2011How to Beat High Airfares (nytimes.com)
65 points | 10 years ago with 69 comments
2011About those vector icons (pushing-pixels.org)
64 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments
2011Wolfenstein 1-D (wonder-tonic.com)
64 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments
2011Creation Myth – Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation (newyorker.com)
64 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments
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