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2012A Software Architect's View of the Design of Double Entry Accounting (ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com)
79 points | 10 years ago with 25 comments
2012Facebook tracking users with background sound (web.archive.org)
79 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2012Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum (pastebin.com)
78 points | 9 years ago with 46 comments
2012Disks lie. And the controllers that run them are partners in crime (dl.acm.org)
78 points | 1 year ago with 64 comments
2012Fern leaves and cauliflower curds are not fractals (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
78 points | 1 year ago with 63 comments
2012Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Goes Online (npr.org)
78 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments
2012The Opposite of a Bloom Filter (somethingsimilar.com)
78 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments
2012Ada 2012: A New Language for Safe and Secure Software (cotsjournalonline.com)
77 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments
2012Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation (arxiv.org)
77 points | 8 years ago with 174 comments
2012The Structure of a Programming Language Revolution (dreamsongs.com)
77 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments
2012Dear Mark Zuckerberg (daltoncaldwell.com)
77 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2012Building Better Bananas (gatesnotes.com)
76 points | 10 years ago with 60 comments
2012Swarms of soldier crabs can implement logical gates (arxiv.org)
76 points | 3 years ago with 102 comments
2012Decades after a Cold War experiment, a scientist lives with secrets (newyorker.com)
76 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments
2012An argument against call/cc (okmij.org)
76 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments
2012Distinguishing Bolts from Screws (cbp.gov)
76 points | 8 years ago with 65 comments
2012Keep the Internet free and open (blog.google)
75 points | 2 years ago with 47 comments
2012Why do Nigerian scammers say they are from Nigeria? (microsoft.com)
75 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2012Life as Thermodynamic Evidence of Algorithmic Structure in Nature (mdpi.com)
75 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2012Game Timers: Issues and Solutions (fabiensanglard.net)
75 points | 3 years ago with 55 comments
2012How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking (wired.com)
75 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments
2012In which I answer all of the questions (sarajchipps.com)
74 points | 10 years ago with 59 comments
2012Introduction to the 'Why use F#' series (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
74 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2012QArt Codes (research.swtch.com)
74 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 1 comments
2012What Is Not in Plan Nine (wiki.c2.com)
73 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments
2012Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modelling and Speech Recognition [pdf] (research.microsoft.com)
73 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments
2012Military's 15-year quest for perfect radio is a blueprint for failing big (arstechnica.com)
73 points | 9 years ago with 62 comments
2012Python is not context free (trevorjim.com)
73 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2012Bring back the 40-hour work week (salon.com)
73 points | 5 years ago with 66 comments
2012The Viking Invasion of Leicestershire (thiswasleicestershire.co.uk)
73 points | 3 years ago with 102 comments
2012Matlab’s internal memory representation (undocumentedmatlab.com)
72 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2012Binary Lambda Calculus (ioccc.org)
72 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments
2012Binary Search Is a Pathological Case for Caches (pvk.ca)
72 points | 10 years ago with 10 comments
2012You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company (web.archive.org)
72 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments
2012A Peek Inside the Erlang Compiler (prog21.dadgum.com)
72 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments
2012Whatever happened to the Hurd? (gadgetdaily.xyz)
72 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments
2012Harvard stores 700 terabytes of data into a single gram of DNA (extremetech.com)
72 points | 9 years ago with 73 comments
2012D3 and Leaflet maps (bost.ocks.org)
72 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments
2012The Hobbit House (beingsomewhere.net)
72 points | 10 years ago with 28 comments
2012How RCA Lost the LCD (spectrum.ieee.org)
71 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments
2012The Ternary Manifesto (homepage.divms.uiowa.edu)
71 points | 3 years ago with 27 comments
2012How Common Is Your Birthday? (thedailyviz.com)
71 points | 7 years ago with 42 comments
2012Hacker News personal ranking app (github.com)
71 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments
2012Honu: Syntactic Extension for Algebraic Notation (cs.utah.edu)
71 points | 4 years ago with 61 comments
2012Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (ianvisits.co.uk)
71 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments
2012Inside the Linker (opensource.apple.com)
71 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2012Incremental Regular Expressions (jkff.info)
71 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
20122012 Is Bullshit; 2020 Is When We'll Be in Trouble (vice.com)
71 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments
2012How Browsers Work (taligarsiel.com)
71 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2012Optimizing Paxos with batching and pipelining (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
71 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments
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