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2011Stippling and Blue Noise (joesfer.com)
51 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2011Monads without pretension (rcrowley.org)
51 points | 10 years ago with 57 comments
2011When did we start signing our names to authenticate documents? (slate.com)
50 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2011Research on astronomical detail in the Odyssey dates its dramatic climax (independent.co.uk)
50 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2011Is Lisp still useful in today's world? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
50 points | 12 years ago with 59 comments
2011Identifying satellite interference due to GSM rebroadcast (data.satirg.org)
50 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments
2011How to fit an elephant (johndcook.com)
50 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2011Parsing Excel XLSX Using Tcl Parser Tools (wiki.tcl-lang.org)
50 points | 4 years ago with 3 comments
2011A Graph Processing System (infolab.stanford.edu)
50 points | 11 years ago with 18 comments
2011Pixar History Revisited: A Corrective (alvyray.com)
50 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2011Systems Analysis and Programming: Thoughts from the Attic (norvig.com)
50 points | 7 years ago with 8 comments
2011The Nature of Proof (loopspace.mathforge.org)
49 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments
2011Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better (gwern.net)
49 points | 4 years ago with 89 comments
2011Saving books by keeping them expensive (themillions.com)
49 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments
2011Logical Symbols (philosophypages.com)
49 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2011Most plastic products release estrogenic chemicals (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
49 points | 2 years ago with 22 comments
2011Myths of Human Genetics (udel.edu)
49 points | 4 years ago with 9 comments
2011Cray-1 Digital Archeology (chrisfenton.com)
49 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments
2011RA-10: a new Argentinian multipurpose research nuclear reactor (www-pub.iaea.org)
49 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
2011On eval in dynamic languages generally and in Racket specifically (blog.racket-lang.org)
48 points | 11 years ago with 18 comments
2011TagTime: Stochastic Time Tracking for Space Cadets (messymatters.com)
48 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2011Solving Tetris in C (qntm.org)
48 points | 3 years ago with 6 comments
2011Systemd for Developers I (0pointer.net)
48 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments
2011Valentine's Day began as a Bronze Age rite celebrating wolves (resobscura.blogspot.com)
48 points | 10 years ago with 0 comments
2011The Robustness Principle Reconsidered (queue.acm.org)
48 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments
2011Buddhist monk vs. hackerspace (boingboing.net)
48 points | 8 years ago with 48 comments
2011White Gloves or Not White Gloves (blogs.bl.uk)
48 points | 7 years ago with 1 comments
2011On not hiring (gabrielweinberg.com)
48 points | 11 years ago with 15 comments
2011Lucene's FuzzyQuery is 100 times faster in 4.0 (blog.mikemccandless.com)
48 points | 11 years ago with 6 comments
2011Software estimation considered harmful? (gigamonkeys.wordpress.com)
48 points | 11 years ago with 55 comments
2011How to create an unfair coin and prove it with math (izbicki.me)
48 points | 4 years ago with 10 comments
2011When the DC-8 Went Supersonic (airspacemag.com)
48 points | 7 years ago with 29 comments
2011Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking (nber.org)
48 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2011Decision Fatigue (nytimes.com)
47 points | 9 years ago with 4 comments
2011Inside the Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma (wired.com)
47 points | 11 years ago with 21 comments
2011RSpec Is for the Literate (avdi.codes)
47 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments
2011A better user interface for math (wabisabistartup.com)
47 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments
2011The First Law of Complexodynamics (scottaaronson.com)
47 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments
2011Bugs and Battleships (blog.ezyang.com)
46 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 0 comments
2011Analysis of casino shelf shuffling machines (arxiv.org)
46 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments
2011Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border – for Travelers with Digital Devices (eff.org)
46 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2011How to Be Good: The Philosopher Derek Parfit (newyorker.com)
46 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2011An Open Letter to the Erlang Beginner (ferd.ca)
46 points | 11 years ago with 20 comments
2011The Western Canon by Harold Bloom (sonic.net)
45 points | 5 years ago with 59 comments
2011Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the Wizard of Schenectady (smithsonianmag.com)
45 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2011A comparison of text-based browsers (kmandla.wordpress.com)
45 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2011Why it pays to be a jerk (canadianbusiness.com)
45 points | 11 years ago with 44 comments
2011EarthBound's Copy Protection (media.earthboundcentral.com)
45 points | 9 years ago with 14 comments
2011Due Diligence survival guide (jacquesmattheij.com)
45 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments
2011College has been oversold (marginalrevolution.com)
45 points | 9 years ago with 60 comments
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