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2012The Lucas-Penrose Argument about Gödel's Theorem (iep.utm.edu)
64 points | 7 years ago with 137 comments
2012Monkey research suggests a biological explanation for toy preferences (livescience.com)
64 points | 10 years ago with 76 comments
2012Some thoughts on JSON vs. S-expressions (eli.thegreenplace.net)
64 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2012How to Keep Your Best Programmers (daedtech.com)
64 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2012Fast integer overflow detection (kqueue.org)
64 points | 9 years ago with 45 comments
2012Managing Technical Debt (queue.acm.org)
64 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments
2012A Stall-Free Real-Time Garbage Collector for Reconfigurable Hardware (researcher.watson.ibm.com)
63 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2012The Truth About Terahertz (spectrum.ieee.org)
63 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2012Prove the badness of coworkers at your own risk (rachelbythebay.com)
63 points | 6 years ago with 69 comments
2012Viewing Cute Images Narrows Attentional Focus (journals.plos.org)
63 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
2012Usenet, what have you become? (90percentofeverything.com)
63 points | 9 years ago with 57 comments
2012The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (gatesnotes.com)
62 points | 9 years ago with 47 comments
2012Sex Comes to the Micros (filfre.net)
62 points | 8 years ago with 20 comments
2012The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs (andrewchen.com)
62 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments
2012Falsehoods programmers believe about geography (wiesmann.codiferes.net)
62 points | 7 years ago with 57 comments
2012The Hair of Physicists (blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
62 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2012OrmHate (martinfowler.com)
62 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments
2012The infernal semicolon (brendaneich.com)
62 points | 9 years ago with 72 comments
2012Metaprogramming custom control structures in C (chiark.greenend.org.uk)
62 points | 3 years ago with 42 comments
2012Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (varnish-cache.org)
62 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments
2012What does randomness look like? (wired.com)
62 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments
2012Illustrated Self-Guided Course on How to Use the Slide Rule (sliderulemuseum.com)
62 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments
2012The information capacity of a single photon (arxiv.org)
62 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2012From Idea to App Store: My Adventure in App Development (yeahus.net)
62 points | 10 years ago with 25 comments
2012Validating SSL Certificates in Non-Browser Software (cs.utexas.edu)
62 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2012How to Avoid Work: A 1949 Guide to Doing What You Love (brainpickings.org)
62 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments
2012Betrayed by a bitfield (lwn.net)
62 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
2012Turning 8-Bit Sprites into Printable 3D Models (0fps.net)
62 points | 9 years ago with 4 comments
2012Undue Certainty: Where Howard Zinn's a People's History Falls Short (aft.org)
62 points | 9 years ago with 18 comments
2012Crew: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries (tsl.texas.gov)
61 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 29 comments
2012Report of an NSA Employee about a Backdoor in the OpenSSH Daemon (spiegel.de)
61 points | 9 years ago with 20 comments
2012A lesson in shortcuts (plus.google.com)
61 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments
2012Why I Went From Python To Go (and not Node.js) (jordanorelli.com)
61 points | 10 years ago with 71 comments
2012Tracking down the roots of “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” (visualthesaurus.com)
61 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2012It’s not the job that sucks, it’s the people (meetingboy.com)
61 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments
2012Damped Springs (ryanjuckett.com)
60 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments
2012Understanding Intel's Ivy Bridge Random Number Generator (electronicdesign.com)
60 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2012Self-locking gears prevent backdriving (gearsolutions.com)
60 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2012A movie changed one man's vision (bbc.com)
60 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2012To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data (theatlantic.com)
60 points | 4 years ago with 18 comments
2012US 50 states redrawn as equal population (fakeisthenewreal.org)
60 points | 4 years ago with 116 comments
2012C Pointers Explained, Really (karwin.blogspot.com)
60 points | 10 years ago with 45 comments
2012Torchships – Atomic Rockets (projectrho.com)
60 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2012Human intelligence is overrated (togelius.blogspot.com)
59 points | 8 years ago with 91 comments
2012Voice Pitch Predicts Labor Market Success Among Male CEOs (scprod2-lb.mccombs.utexas.edu)
59 points | 5 years ago with 74 comments
2012How I Store My 1's and 0′s (mocko.org.uk)
59 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2012How to split a string into an array in Bash? (stackoverflow.com)
59 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments
2012Amaya: W3C's Web Editor (w3.org)
59 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments
2012ARX, Arthur and RISC OS (rougol.jellybaby.net)
58 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
2012Gwern’s Review of “The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T” (goodreads.com)
58 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
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