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| 2011 | | Interpreting 9/11 commemorative Afghan carpets (rugsofwar.wordpress.com) |
| 182 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2011 | | In Investing, It’s When You Start and When You Finish (nytimes.com) |
| 181 points | 7 years ago with 149 comments |
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| 2011 | | Minimum Viable Personality (avc.com) |
| 181 points | 5 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2011 | | Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (jwz.org) |
| 180 points | 10 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2011 | | K Language (math.bas.bg) |
| 178 points | 4 years ago with 125 comments |
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| 2011 | | A Tmux Crash Course (robots.thoughtbot.com) |
| 177 points | 10 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2011 | | Alternative notation for exponents, logs and roots? (math.stackexchange.com) |
| 177 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2011 | | Microsoft admits Patriot Act can access EU-based cloud data (zdnet.com) |
| 177 points | 10 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2011 | | Norwegian butter crisis (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 176 points | 8 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why I do not want to work at Google (mail-archive.com) |
| 176 points | 9 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2011 | | Apple Execs on Facebook (techemails.com) |
| 175 points | 11 months ago with 136 comments |
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| 2011 | | If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (anildash.com) |
| 174 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Day our investors came to see the office (thedayseries.tumblr.com) |
| 174 points | 10 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2011 | | Neue Haas Grotesk (fontbureau.com) |
| 174 points | 3 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2011 | | Bored People Quit (randsinrepose.com) |
| 173 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2011 | | Intro to Cryptography [pdf] (cs.umd.edu) |
| 173 points | 10 months ago with 42 comments |
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| 2011 | | All late projects are the same (systemsguild.com) |
| 172 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2011 | | Goodnight Dune (goodnightdune.com) |
| 172 points | 2 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2011 | | Subject: Airbnb (paulgraham.com) |
| 171 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why philosophers should care about computational complexity (arxiv.org) |
| 171 points | 2 years ago with 143 comments |
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| 2011 | | Virtual Particles: What are they? (profmattstrassler.com) |
| 171 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2011 | | Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes” (longform.asmartbear.com) |
| 170 points | 7 months ago with 60 comments |
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| 2011 | | 75-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's internet (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 169 points | 4 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2011 | | Simple Made Easy (infoq.com) |
| 168 points | 7 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2011 | | Fast and easy Levenshtein distance using a trie (stevehanov.ca) |
| 168 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2011 | | Deep C (pvv.org) |
| 166 points | 6 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2011 | | North American versus European distribution systems (electrical-engineering-portal.com) |
| 166 points | 4 years ago with 236 comments |
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| 2011 | | If too many users are wrong, it's probably your fault (rachelbythebay.com) |
| 165 points | 8 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2011 | | Math behind rotation in MS Paint (math.stackexchange.com) |
| 165 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why 3D doesn't work and never will (rogerebert.com) |
| 165 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Dangerous Power of Crowds (newyorker.com) |
| 165 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2011 | | Why is finance so complex? (interfluidity.com) |
| 164 points | 8 years ago with 144 comments |
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| 2011 | | Free Software Is More Reliable (gnu.org) |
| 164 points | 3 years ago with 117 comments |
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| 2011 | | Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (web.archive.org) |
| 162 points | 4 years ago with 101 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Coming War on General Computation (github.com) |
| 160 points | 10 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2011 | | Dissecting the GZIP format (infinitepartitions.com) |
| 159 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2011 | | A trip through the Graphics Pipeline (fgiesen.wordpress.com) |
| 159 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2011 | | What would Feynman do? (blogs.msdn.com) |
| 159 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2011 | | Obscure Features of JPEG (hodapple.com) |
| 159 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2011 | | The joys of maintenance programming (typicalprogrammer.com) |
| 158 points | 7 months ago with 71 comments |
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| 2011 | | 0x7FDE623822FC16E6: A magic constant for double float reciprocal (pvk.ca) |
| 158 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2011 | | Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor (ursulakleguin.com) |
| 158 points | 2 years ago with 108 comments |
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| 2011 | | What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (stackoverflow.com) |
| 157 points | 10 years ago with 95 comments |
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| 2011 | | Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap (gingerybookstore.com) |
| 154 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2011 | | A quick start guide to Commodore 64 assembly programming on Windows (digitalerr0r.wordpress.com) |
| 154 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2011 | | I bought 259684 BTC for under $3000 (bitcointalk.org) |
| 154 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2011 | | How the Atari ST Almost Had Real Unix (dadhacker.com) |
| 153 points | 8 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2011 | | Casio F-91W: The strangely ubiquitous watch (bbc.com) |
| 153 points | 3 years ago with 220 comments |
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| 2011 | | Rhythm (taal) in Indian Classical Music (raag-hindustani.com) |
| 153 points | 1 year ago with 31 comments |
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| 2011 | | Homemade Memristor (sparkbangbuzz.com) |
| 152 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments |
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