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| 2012 |  | Distribunomicon  (learnyousomeerlang.com) | 
 | 48 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Shrinking World of the Stamp Collector  (themidtowngazette.com) | 
 | 48 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The TX-2 Computer and Sketchpad  (ll.mit.edu) | 
 | 48 points | 7 years ago with 1 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Michigan's most dangerous book  (annarborchronicle.com) | 
 | 48 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | We Don’t Do Legacy  (mitadmissions.org) | 
 | 48 points | 2 years ago with 106 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Death March: The Long, Tortured Journey of Homefront  (polygon.com) | 
 | 48 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Bazaar-NG: Seven years of hacking on a distributed version control system  (stationary-traveller.eu) | 
 | 47 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | What to Do About Inequality  (bostonreview.net) | 
 | 47 points | 6 years ago with 127 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself  (arstechnica.com) | 
 | 47 points | 5 years ago with 78 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Bash Initialisation Files – which one will get executed?  (solipsys.co.uk) | 
 | 47 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Provably Fair Shuffling Through Cryptography  (techblog.bitzino.com) | 
 | 47 points across 2 posts | 11 years ago with 16 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | A man who shared his books and multiplied them  (blog.woodpie.com) | 
 | 47 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The one-sentence solution to almost all procrastination (no, really)  (web.archive.org) | 
 | 47 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Toward Domain-Specific Solvers for Distributed Consistency  (users.soe.ucsc.edu) | 
 | 47 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Computed goto for efficient dispatch tables  (eli.thegreenplace.net) | 
 | 47 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The trouble with Khan Academy  (chronicle.com) | 
 | 47 points | 11 years ago with 34 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Risk of Acute MI After the Death of a Significant Person in One's Life  (ahajournals.org) | 
 | 47 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Van Jacobson Denies Averting Internet Meltdown in 1980s  (wired.com) | 
 | 47 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Seven Deadly Sins of Cloud Computing Research  (usenix.org) | 
 | 47 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Y Not? – Adventures in Functional Programming  (infoq.com) | 
 | 47 points | 7 years ago with 1 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Linear Algebra Review and Reference  (cs229.stanford.edu) | 
 | 47 points | 10 years ago with 4 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Getting What You Measure  (queue.acm.org) | 
 | 46 points | 5 years ago with 3 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Bricking a Mars probe, before Curiosity  (gregsramblings.com) | 
 | 46 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | If Linus Torvalds got hit by a bus would Linux die  (serverwatch.com) | 
 | 46 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | I love you, dad  (notch.tumblr.com) | 
 | 46 points | 10 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Timing attacks and usernames  (brendanlong.com) | 
 | 46 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Twitter's graph  (dcurt.is) | 
 | 46 points | 10 years ago with 22 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Foolish and Backward Nation  (theatlantic.com) | 
 | 46 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Fast Exact Search in Hamming Space with Multi-Index Hashing  (cs.toronto.edu) | 
 | 46 points | 10 years ago with 6 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | How McDonald’s Succeeds in the Land of Michelin Stars  (knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu) | 
 | 46 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Strategies Dominate Any Evolutionary Opponent  (researchgate.net) | 
 | 46 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | A close look at the round-edged Wii U proprietary discs  (web.archive.org) | 
 | 46 points | 2 years ago with 25 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Do drivers who keep gaps in stop-and-go traffic worsen it?  (quora.com) | 
 | 45 points | 9 years ago with 50 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Trillion-Dollar Vision of Dee Hock, the Radical Who Organized Visa  (m.fastcompany.com) | 
 | 45 points | 10 years ago with 10 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Is There a Crystal Lattice Possessing Five-Fold Symmetry?  (ams.org) | 
 | 45 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | In Praise of Passivity  (studiahumana.com) | 
 | 45 points | 9 years ago with 26 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Mind your Manners – late Medieval and Tudor mealtimes and The Banquet  (livinghistorytoday.com) | 
 | 45 points | 7 years ago with 2 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Linux Graphics Stack  (blog.mecheye.net) | 
 | 45 points | 10 years ago with 2 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Go Away: Artist colonies are mysterious places  (themorningnews.org) | 
 | 45 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Concurrent Tries with Efficient Non-Blocking Snapshots  (lampwww.epfl.ch) | 
 | 45 points | 9 years ago with 4 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Why There Are No Skyscrapers in the Middle of Manhattan  (observer.com) | 
 | 45 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Golden Gate Bridge construction – and indignation  (sfgate.com) | 
 | 45 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Six years of Windows Presentation Foundation: What’s changed?  (paulstovell.com) | 
 | 45 points | 8 years ago with 50 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Fifty Years of Databases  (wp.sigmod.org) | 
 | 45 points | 11 years ago with 11 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | I Can’t Design in the Browser  (sazzy.co.uk) | 
 | 45 points | 10 years ago with 28 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Obama, Facebook and the power of friendship: the 2012 data election  (theguardian.com) | 
 | 45 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Self-Experimentation and Its Role in Medical Research  (pubmedcentralcanada.ca) | 
 | 44 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Chaining, or why you should stop returning void  (jamie-wong.com) | 
 | 44 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Build Systems  (pozorvlak.livejournal.com) | 
 | 44 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments | 
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| 2012 |  | The Intel SYSRET privilege escalation  (blog.xenproject.org) | 
 | 44 points | 10 years ago with 10 comments | 
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