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2011Socrates Was Against Writing (apt46.net)
110 points | 5 years ago with 94 comments
2011Introduction to x64 Assembly (cs.nyu.edu)
110 points | 8 years ago with 30 comments
2011Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum (scrum.org)
109 points | 6 years ago with 91 comments
2011Don’t use 7-segment displays (harold.thimbleby.net)
109 points | 3 years ago with 78 comments
2011Nuts and Bolts of Multithreaded Programming (software.intel.com)
109 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2011Why is subtracting these two times in 1927 giving a strange result? (stackoverflow.com)
108 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments
2011The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix (spectrum.ieee.org)
108 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments
2011How To Get Your First 1,000 Users (viniciusvacanti.com)
106 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments
2011In Defense of Inclusionism (gwern.net)
106 points | 9 years ago with 59 comments
2011A Template for Understanding How the Economic Machine Works (media.economist.com)
106 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2011An abandoned lifeboat at world’s end (mikedashhistory.com)
105 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments
2011Ken and Roberta (filfre.net)
105 points | 6 years ago with 48 comments
2011How Bad Luck and Bad Networking Cost Douglas Prasher a Nobel Prize (discovermagazine.com)
105 points | 10 years ago with 35 comments
2011Physical Intuition, Not Mathematics (realphysics.blogspot.com)
105 points | 9 years ago with 65 comments
2011The OpenSSD Project (openssd-project.org)
105 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments
2011Magnetic core memory reborn (corememoryshield.com)
104 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2011A History of the Erlang VM (erlang-factory.com)
104 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2011Where the top of the stack is on x86 (eli.thegreenplace.net)
104 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments
2011Spotting Field Sabotage in Meetings (whatsthepont.com)
104 points | 6 years ago with 36 comments
2011Typography in 8 bits: System fonts (damieng.com)
104 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments
2011Egoless Programming (wiki.c2.com)
103 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments
2011The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (news.stanford.edu)
103 points | 6 years ago with 112 comments
2011The trees that miss the mammoths (af-legacy-prd.americanforests.org)
103 points | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2011The loneliest plant in the world (npr.org)
102 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments
2011The Great Shift in Japanese Pop Culture (neojaponisme.com)
102 points | 11 years ago with 33 comments
2011Boolean parameters to API functions considered harmful (jlebar.com)
102 points | 9 years ago with 82 comments
2011Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (kalzumeus.com)
102 points | 10 years ago with 44 comments
2011A Crash Course in the Neuroscience of Human Motivation (lesswrong.com)
102 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2011Ebtrees: Elastic Binary Trees (wtarreau.blogspot.com)
102 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2011Mr. Rodgers's Neighborhood (nilerodgers.com)
102 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments
2011Introduction to Algorithms (youtube.com)
102 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2011Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman (bafta.org)
101 points | 11 months ago with 28 comments
2011Another World source code review (fabiensanglard.net)
100 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 0 comments
2011Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup (forbes.com)
100 points | 4 years ago with 148 comments
2011Make a document look like it was written by a Cthulhu-worshipping madman? (tex.stackexchange.com)
100 points | 3 years ago with 4 comments
2011Logic is Metaphysics (philpapers.org)
100 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2011Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes (cleveralgorithms.com)
99 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2011Disruptor: High performance alternative to bounded queues (lmax-exchange.github.io)
99 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments
2011Asynchronous I/O in Windows for Unix Programmers (tinyclouds.org)
99 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 15 comments
2011Parsing: The Solved Problem That Isn't (tratt.net)
97 points | 10 years ago with 70 comments
2011Smoothsort Demystified (keithschwarz.com)
97 points | 5 years ago with 3 comments
2011Bug Prediction at Google (google-engtools.blogspot.com)
97 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 6 comments
2011My Parents Were Home-Schooling Anarchists (nytimes.com)
96 points | 9 years ago with 87 comments
2011Regarding your stupid complaint (lettersofnote.com)
96 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2011The man who won the right to discuss his National Security Letter (onthemedia.org)
96 points | 11 years ago with 14 comments
2011What a good commit message looks like (github.com)
96 points | 7 years ago with 95 comments
2011Empirical Study of the Anatomy of Modern SAT Solvers (cs.toronto.edu)
95 points | 7 years ago with 2 comments
2011Teaching Mathematics – Graph Theory (jeremykun.com)
95 points | 8 years ago with 3 comments
2011The Art of Fooling the Eye (resobscura.blogspot.com)
94 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 4 comments
2011Scheme vs. Python (cs.berkeley.edu)
94 points | 9 years ago with 118 comments
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