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2011Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (npr.org)
229 points | 7 years ago with 56 comments
2011Aaron Swartz v. United States (blogs.law.harvard.edu)
228 points | 11 years ago with 17 comments
2011Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (richardspens.com)
227 points | 6 years ago with 227 comments
2011Why isn’t the fundamental theorem of arithmetic obvious? (gowers.wordpress.com)
225 points | 7 years ago with 197 comments
2011What happens after Yahoo acquires you (37signals.com)
225 points | 10 years ago with 112 comments
2011A JVM Does That? (azulsystems.com)
224 points | 7 years ago with 165 comments
2011Why Russians Are Not Smiling (blog.properrussian.com)
223 points | 10 years ago with 221 comments
2011Rats free each other from cages (nature.com)
222 points | 7 years ago with 169 comments
2011The rape of men: a dark secret of war (theguardian.com)
215 points | 4 years ago with 98 comments
2011What is the origin of “daemon” with regards to computing? (english.stackexchange.com)
214 points | 2 years ago with 124 comments
2011X Minus One: 1950s Science Fiction Radio Programs Available to Listen (archive.org)
213 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments
2011Pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev” (webmasters.googleblog.com)
212 points | 8 years ago with 90 comments
2011Why 'Passive Income' Is A Dangerous Fantasy (forbes.com)
211 points | 10 years ago with 164 comments
2011Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer (w3.org)
210 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 91 comments
2011Subtractive synths explained (residentadvisor.net)
209 points | 5 years ago with 76 comments
2011How to beat the CAP theorem (nathanmarz.com)
208 points across 2 posts | 7 months ago with 19 comments
2011Hard work vs. Long work (seths.blog)
208 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments
2011Bret Victor Redesigns Classic Strogatz Paper (worrydream.com)
206 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2011Amazon’s $23M book about flies (michaeleisen.org)
205 points | 1 year ago with 51 comments
2011Don't Be a Free User (blog.pinboard.in)
202 points | 7 years ago with 99 comments
2011City of London: Tax haven in the heart of Britain (newstatesman.com)
201 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 68 comments
2011Rel="logo" (relogo.org)
201 points | 11 years ago with 40 comments
2011Stevey's Google Platforms Rant (plus.google.com)
200 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2011Things you should do now (secure.phabricator.com)
199 points | 3 years ago with 110 comments
2011Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? (cafbit.com)
198 points | 6 years ago with 108 comments
2011The Beauty of LaTeX (nitens.org)
197 points | 9 years ago with 128 comments
2011Before Netscape: Web browsers of the early 1990s (arstechnica.com)
196 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments
2011The Focus to Say No (fs.blog)
196 points | 3 years ago with 70 comments
2011Erlang and First-Person Shooters (erlang-factory.com)
195 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments
2011Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (scientificamerican.com)
195 points | 3 years ago with 230 comments
2011My Doctor's Office Asked me to Lie (stallman.org)
194 points | 10 years ago with 124 comments
2011Vim Creep (rudism.com)
194 points | 3 years ago with 167 comments
2011A self-killing web site requested by a customer (rachelbythebay.com)
194 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments
2011All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed (theatlantic.com)
193 points | 5 years ago with 179 comments
2011“Unexplainable” core dump (stackoverflow.com)
193 points | 1 year ago with 64 comments
2011ØMQ – The Guide (zguide.zeromq.org)
193 points | 3 years ago with 112 comments
2011How to explain to a layperson why a developer should not be interrupted? (softwareengineering.stackexchange.com)
193 points | 7 years ago with 98 comments
2011Magnesium and the Brain (psychologytoday.com)
192 points | 6 years ago with 100 comments
2011How And Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (engineering.mixpanel.com)
192 points | 5 years ago with 141 comments
2011Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (corte.si)
190 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 15 comments
2011Illegally climbing the Golden Gate bridge at dawn (nopromiseofsafety.com)
188 points | 10 years ago with 119 comments
2011Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? (stackoverflow.com)
188 points | 10 years ago with 43 comments
2011Real pixel coding (iquilezles.org)
188 points | 11 years ago with 79 comments
2011You've heard of “yes men”. Now learn about “no men” (rachelbythebay.com)
188 points | 4 years ago with 144 comments
2011The boy who stole Half-Life 2 (eurogamer.net)
187 points | 7 months ago with 94 comments
2011Papers from the Lost Culture of Array Languages (prog21.dadgum.com)
187 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments
2011Linux x86 program start up – How the heck do we get to main()? (dbp-consulting.com)
187 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2011Explain mathematically a video from a space station (mathoverflow.net)
186 points | 7 years ago with 32 comments
2011How many Commodore 64 computers were sold? (pagetable.com)
185 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 62 comments
2011Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (damninteresting.com)
185 points | 3 years ago with 110 comments
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