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2012Scripting Nginx with Lua (londonlua.org)
88 points | 10 years ago with 22 comments
2012Macro Shots Taken Inside Instruments (fstoppers.com)
88 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments
2012A Personal Lisp Crisis (blog.jacius.info)
87 points | 8 years ago with 38 comments
2012Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Using Wage Earnings to Support a New Business (frbatlanta.org)
87 points | 10 years ago with 39 comments
2012Management Debt (a16z.com)
87 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments
2012Obfuscated Erlang (ferd.ca)
87 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2012Life after detonation (sciencemadness.org)
86 points | 1 year ago with 32 comments
2012Creating Languages in Racket (cacm.acm.org)
85 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2012What Data Compression Does to Music (soundonsound.com)
85 points | 5 years ago with 53 comments
2012FPGA Programming: Where to Begin? (741mhz.com)
85 points | 10 years ago with 25 comments
2012What is mathematical thinking? (devlinsangle.blogspot.com)
85 points | 2 years ago with 44 comments
2012Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Long Term Health Effects (k1project.columbia.edu)
85 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2012The Tyranny of the Clock – Ivan Sutherland (worrydream.com)
84 points | 8 years ago with 29 comments
2012How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma (blog.jgc.org)
84 points | 9 years ago with 88 comments
2012A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is good, but not quite the best (righto.com)
84 points | 1 year ago with 56 comments
2012Galois Field in Cryptography (sites.math.washington.edu)
84 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2012NIST Handbook of Engineering Statistics (itl.nist.gov)
84 points | 4 years ago with 7 comments
2012The Magic Ring Buffer (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
83 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
2012Prof. Robert Boice's Rules of the Road for Writers (home.uchicago.edu)
83 points | 1 year ago with 42 comments
2012Whiteboard exercises are a terrible way to investigate coding ability (exratione.com)
83 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments
2012Anatomy of an Attack: How I Hacked StackOverflow (blog.ircmaxell.com)
83 points | 9 years ago with 20 comments
2012Ian Stewart's top popular mathematics books (theguardian.com)
83 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2012Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (stackoverflow.com)
83 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2012Patoline: A modern digital typesetting system (patoline.org)
83 points | 7 years ago with 33 comments
2012Exploring Zork (filfre.net)
83 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments
2012The Fight (dcurt.is)
83 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments
2012The researcher programmer, a new species? (dirkgorissen.com)
82 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments
2012A Unix-style mail setup (dev.gentoo.org)
82 points | 10 years ago with 36 comments
2012Peter Thiel’s CS183: Class 13 Notes – You Are Not A Lottery Ticket (blakemasters.com)
82 points | 10 years ago with 15 comments
2012The Clean Architecture (8thlight.com)
82 points | 7 years ago with 80 comments
2012“The street finds its own uses for things” (citiesandcitizenship.blogspot.com)
82 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2012How to Clone Mineral Water (ediblegeography.com)
82 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2012A Raspberry Pi VAX Cluster (rs-online.com)
81 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments
2012Become a nurse or physicians assistant instead of a doctor (jakeseliger.com)
81 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 61 comments
2012An Analysis of Minecraft-like Engines (0fps.net)
81 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments
2012The Great EU Debt Write Off (econ.anthonyjevans.com)
81 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments
2012Do you want to be making this much money when you're 50? (yosefk.com)
81 points | 3 years ago with 98 comments
2012Extracting Audio from Pictures (mediapreservation.wordpress.com)
81 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2012The surprising and continuing influence of Swami Vivekananda (online.wsj.com)
81 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments
2012Why are glasses so expensive? (cbsnews.com)
81 points | 9 years ago with 113 comments
2012How Many Resources Shared on Social Media Have Been Lost? (arxiv.org)
80 points | 8 years ago with 48 comments
2012Semantic Linefeeds (rhodesmill.org)
80 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 24 comments
2012Who Killed Lard? (npr.org)
80 points | 10 years ago with 70 comments
2012Altered States: Self-Experiments in Chemistry (newyorker.com)
80 points | 7 years ago with 8 comments
2012The Making of Warcraft (codeofhonor.com)
80 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
2012SMT Solvers in Software Security (usenix.org)
80 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2012The Leaderless Organization (digitaltonto.com)
80 points | 4 years ago with 58 comments
2012How to Learn Emacs (david.rothlis.net)
80 points | 1 year ago with 46 comments
2012GlaxoSmithKline fined $3B after bribing doctors to increase drug sales (theguardian.com)
79 points | 9 years ago with 26 comments
2012A Response to Paul Graham's “How to Make Wealth” (czep.net)
79 points | 7 years ago with 75 comments
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