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2011Paul Rand and Steve Jobs (printmag.com)
64 points | 10 years ago with 26 comments
2011Steve Wozniak spent night in jail for building a fake bomb in high school (businessinsider.com)
64 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
2011Investor to Airbnb CEO: you want liquidity, make it available to everyone (techcrunch.com)
63 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments
2011Some Performance Experiments for Simple Data Structures (lsub.org)
63 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments
2011The art of meticulous disassembly (mymodernmet.com)
63 points | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2011URLs in C (susam.in)
63 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2011Let Go (xkcd.com)
63 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 21 comments
2011Descendants of Newfoundland’s “extinct” Beothuk Live on in Iceland (blogs.canoe.com)
63 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments
2011Self-modifying code using GCC (nikmav.blogspot.com)
63 points | 1 year ago with 19 comments
2011Bobby Bonilla's 25-Year Contract with The New York Mets (businessinsider.com)
63 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments
2011Understanding Minecraft Performance (optifog.blogspot.com)
63 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2011Are You Sure You Want to Quit the World? (gq.com)
63 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
2011Mine in the Northwest Territories provided uranium to Manhattan Project (maisonneuve.org)
62 points | 1 year ago with 56 comments
2011Quantum magic: A skeptical perspective (arxiv.org)
62 points | 7 years ago with 29 comments
2011What I learned hanging out at the vascular surgery conference (petdance.wordpress.com)
62 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2011Revisiting Knuth and McIlroy's word count programs (franklinchen.com)
62 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2011Peter Saville and New Order’s Colour Code (wharferj.wordpress.com)
62 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments
2011Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives (lwn.net)
62 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2011EINTR and PC Loser-Ing: The “Worse Is Better” Case Study (blog.reverberate.org)
62 points | 5 years ago with 72 comments
2011Brooks, Friedman, and the banal authoritarianism of do-something punditry (reason.com)
62 points | 11 years ago with 4 comments
2011All Revenue Is Not Created Equal (abovethecrowd.com)
61 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2011Time-Lock Encryption (gwern.net)
61 points | 4 years ago with 14 comments
2011Don’t Add Features to Make Customers Happy (zurb.com)
61 points | 10 years ago with 22 comments
2011The Rise of “Logical Punctuation” (slate.com)
61 points | 8 years ago with 50 comments
2011Ray Ozzie on Lotus Notes and Slow Hunch Innovation (stevenberlinjohnson.com)
61 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments
2011Dinosaur Feathers Found in Amber Reinforce Evolution Theories (theatlantic.com)
60 points | 9 years ago with 34 comments
2011The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (queue.acm.org)
60 points | 10 years ago with 53 comments
2011An introduction to topos theory (fuw.edu.pl)
60 points | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2011Still All on One Server: Perforce at Scale (info.perforce.com)
60 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments
2011Generation X Is Sick of Your Bullshit (gizmodo.com)
60 points | 3 years ago with 96 comments
2011Nabokov Was Right About Butterflies (npr.org)
60 points | 4 years ago with 2 comments
2011How Hard Is It to Get a Cartoon into the New Yorker? (slate.com)
60 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2011A Short History of the BTree (perforce.com)
60 points | 8 years ago with 3 comments
2011The Passive in English (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
60 points | 1 year ago with 61 comments
2011How not to interview someone who already has a job (recruitingblogs.com)
60 points | 9 years ago with 69 comments
2011Can Internet security ever work? (cryptome.org)
59 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments
2011On fexprs and defmacro (brinckerhoff.org)
59 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments
2011SICP 2.6: Church Numerals (jlongster.com)
59 points | 10 years ago with 18 comments
2011The Shunting-Yard Algorithm (reedbeta.com)
59 points | 11 months ago with 21 comments
2011How to Make Anything Signify Anything (cabinetmagazine.org)
59 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2011Glass Doesn't Flow (cmog.org)
59 points | 10 years ago with 27 comments
2011Programming with Nothing (codon.com)
59 points | 10 years ago with 10 comments
2011A Guided Tour of Clojure Destructuring Bind in Emacs Lisp (github.com)
59 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2011Bank of America using intelligence firms to attack WikiLeaks (computerworld.com)
59 points | 3 years ago with 4 comments
2011Tail Recursion and Debugging (funcall.blogspot.com)
59 points | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2011How Email Can Change the Way Professors Teach (theatlantic.com)
58 points | 8 years ago with 18 comments
2011ORM is an anti-pattern (seldo.com)
58 points | 8 years ago with 47 comments
2011How one tiny hyphen destroyed our SEO efforts (blog.silktide.com)
58 points | 11 years ago with 32 comments
2011Oregon’s distinctive bridge style is Conde McCullough’s legacy (offbeatoregon.com)
58 points | 3 years ago with 10 comments
2011The PhD Factory (nature.com)
58 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments
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