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2012Where’s _why? (slate.com)
71 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 65 comments
2012It is time to unlink the “Backspace” – Browser Back shortcut (bugs.chromium.org)
71 points | 8 years ago with 181 comments
2012The Expendables: Life in the French Foreign Legion (vanityfair.com)
71 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2012Yosemite bolt replacement and Death Block removal (planetmountain.com)
70 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2012Very high current power supply (danyk.cz)
70 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments
2012If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today (pcworld.com)
70 points | 9 years ago with 46 comments
2012Walk Monster (caseymuratori.com)
70 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments
2012The Impoliteness of Overriding Methods (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
70 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments
2012Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems (pozorvlak.dreamwidth.org)
69 points | 4 years ago with 110 comments
2012MarkeyJester’s Motorola 68000 Beginner’s Tutorial (mrjester.hapisan.com)
69 points | 8 years ago with 29 comments
2012Is preventing browser fingerprinting a lost cause? (w3.org)
69 points | 8 years ago with 25 comments
2012Gut instincts: The secrets of your second brain (neurosciencestuff.tumblr.com)
69 points | 10 years ago with 3 comments
2012The Fear of Shipping (smileykeith.com)
69 points | 1 year ago with 42 comments
2012The Science of Mental Fitness (damninteresting.com)
69 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments
2012How Controllers Maximize SSD Life (thessdguy.com)
69 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments
2012On the Security of Password Manager Database Formats (cs.ox.ac.uk)
69 points | 9 years ago with 20 comments
2012A breakdown of a GIF decoder (commandlinefanatic.com)
69 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2012Rehabilitating the Arrogant Engineer (a16z.com)
68 points | 6 years ago with 80 comments
2012Where do disruptive ideas come from? (graphics.stanford.edu)
68 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2012The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server (satsignal.eu)
68 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2012Anatomy of a Drum Machine (mickeydelp.com)
68 points | 1 year ago with 17 comments
2012Why I got Fired from Facebook (a $100M dollar lesson) (okdork.com)
68 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments
2012Things I hate about Git (stevebennett.me)
68 points | 7 years ago with 76 comments
2012Apple’s Great GPL Purge (meta.ath0.com)
67 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments
2012A technical comparison of open source drone autopilots (online.qmags.com)
67 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2012Hall’s Law: The Nineteenth Century Prequel to Moore’s Law (ribbonfarm.com)
67 points | 5 years ago with 2 comments
2012Understanding Quaternions (3dgep.com)
67 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments
2012The danger of delegating education to journalists (radicalscholarship.com)
67 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments
2012Thomas Kuhn changed the way the world looked at science (theguardian.com)
67 points | 9 years ago with 83 comments
2012Shrinkflation: Costco Paper Towels, Now with 20 Fewer Sheets per Roll (forums.redflagdeals.com)
67 points | 3 years ago with 52 comments
2012Dotsies (dotsies.org)
67 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
2012Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (brandon.invergo.net)
67 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments
2012The split brain: A tale of two halves (nature.com)
66 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2012Shackleton's Medical Kit (granta.com)
66 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2012Can Simplicity Scale? (blog.regehr.org)
66 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments
2012LevelDB: SSTable and Log-Structured Storage (igvita.com)
66 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2012Research in Programming Languages (tagide.com)
66 points | 3 years ago with 40 comments
2012No Copyright for Pornography: A Response to File-Sharing Litigation (ipbrief.net)
66 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments
2012For a dentist, the narwhal’s smile is a mystery of evolution (insider.si.edu)
66 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2012The Secret Guild of Silicon Valley (medriscoll.com)
66 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments
2012Paradoxes of Software Architecture (informit.com)
65 points | 10 years ago with 25 comments
2012A Short Lesson in Perspective (lindsredding.com)
65 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2012The Design and Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels (lib.tkk.fi)
65 points across 3 posts | 9 years ago with 1 comments
2012Understanding Integer Overflow in C/C++ (cs.utah.edu)
65 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments
2012Early printed book contains rare evidence of medieval spectacles (sites.utexas.edu)
65 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2012Did Microsoft steal its fonts from the Turkish army? (rodrik.typepad.com)
65 points | 8 years ago with 18 comments
2012GCC x86 Performance Hints (software.intel.com)
65 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2012Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos (arxiv.org)
65 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2012Stanford – The Get Rich University (newyorker.com)
65 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments
2012Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking Than Modern Artists (journals.plos.org)
64 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
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