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2012The Rise and Fall of North Korea's Business Empire in Japan (theatlantic.com)
58 points | 7 years ago with 0 comments
2012Is Persona the Authentication System That We’ve All Been Waiting For? (xato.net)
58 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments
2012Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (arstechnica.com)
58 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments
20121955 Union Pacific EMD E9 – The Last of the Classic Diesel Streamliners (curbsideclassic.com)
58 points | 1 year ago with 70 comments
2012A Unix Quiz (commandcenter.blogspot.com)
58 points | 4 years ago with 13 comments
2012How to implement dependent type theory I (math.andrej.com)
57 points | 1 year ago with 7 comments
2012PDP-8 Small-C Compiler (so-much-stuff.com)
57 points | 2 years ago with 15 comments
2012Deleting Code (nedbatchelder.com)
57 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments
2012How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python 2nd Edition (openbookproject.net)
57 points | 10 years ago with 16 comments
2012How Enums Spread Disease – And How to Cure It (codecraft.co)
57 points | 9 years ago with 36 comments
2012Duct Size vs. Airflow (russellking.me)
57 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2012CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed (infoq.com)
57 points | 9 years ago with 4 comments
2012Systems Programming at Twitter (monkey.org)
57 points | 10 years ago with 28 comments
2012Hacking the iPod: How I Earned $65K in High School (gizmodo.com)
57 points | 8 years ago with 22 comments
2012Are we on information overload? (salon.com)
57 points | 1 year ago with 27 comments
2012Understanding gambling addiction (news.mit.edu)
57 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments
2012How Did Insect Metamorphosis Evolve? (scientificamerican.com)
56 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments
2012Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint (robertgaskins.com)
56 points | 7 years ago with 8 comments
2012Information Technology and Moral Values (plato.stanford.edu)
56 points | 7 years ago with 2 comments
2012An Artificially Created Universe: The Electronic Computer Project at IAS (ias.edu)
56 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2012Reminiscences of the VLSI Revolution (worrydream.com)
56 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2012Economists say that high gas prices triggered the housing crisis in 2007 (today.oregonstate.edu)
56 points | 2 years ago with 108 comments
2012Classic HN: “BitC isn't going to work in its current form” (news.ycombinator.com)
56 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2012New Floating Cycle Roundabout (bicycledutch.wordpress.com)
56 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments
2012How Google Builds Its Maps–and What It Means for the Future of Everything (theatlantic.com)
56 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments
2012Only as happy as the least happy child (academic.oup.com)
56 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
2012The Story of Microsleep (scalibq.wordpress.com)
55 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 12 comments
2012An efficient journal (blogs.harvard.edu)
55 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2012The Evolution of Character Codes 1874-1968 (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
55 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2012A Raspberry Pi VAX Cluster (rs-online.com)
55 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
2012Activities for Boring Meetings (wiki.c2.com)
55 points | 2 years ago with 17 comments
2012P99: Preprocessor Macros and Functions for C99 and C11 (p99.gforge.inria.fr)
55 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2012Easter Island statues may have 'walked' out of quarry (nature.com)
55 points | 6 years ago with 27 comments
2012Stop Using Constructors in JS (ericleads.com)
55 points | 10 years ago with 79 comments
2012The Singularity is not coming (sphere-engineering.com)
55 points | 10 years ago with 67 comments
2012I've been playing the same game of Civilization II for almost 10 years (old.reddit.com)
55 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2012Arbitrage and Equilibrium in the Team Fortress 2 Economy (blogs.valvesoftware.com)
55 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
2012Su Hui’s Star Gauge (poetrychina.net)
55 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments
2012Mesh Generation and Geometry Processing in Graphics, Engineering (people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
54 points | 1 year ago with 0 comments
2012Monogamy reduces major social problems of polygamist cultures (news.ubc.ca)
54 points | 9 years ago with 79 comments
2012Physics of the Piano (nanohub.org)
54 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
2012How Bochs Works Under the Hood (bochs.sourceforge.net)
54 points | 4 years ago with 13 comments
2012The Slackware Way (docs.slackware.com)
54 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments
2012The C juggernaut illustrated (utcc.utoronto.ca)
54 points | 1 year ago with 77 comments
2012Things XSLT can't do (dpawson.co.uk)
54 points | 7 years ago with 25 comments
2012Is Cheese Rational? (chethamslibrary.blogspot.com)
53 points | 8 years ago with 51 comments
2012What Privacy Is For (papers.ssrn.com)
53 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments
2012Schlep Blindness (paulgraham.com)
53 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2012Ithkuil – An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented (newyorker.com)
53 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2012An Ableton Live set is gzipped XML (crooked-hideout.blogspot.com)
52 points | 2 years ago with 16 comments
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