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