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2012Nuclear scientists as assassination targets (journals.sagepub.com)
44 points | 3 years ago with 56 comments
2012The Harry Partch Instrumentarium (youtube.com)
44 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments
2012China Corporate Espionage Boom Knocks Wind Out of U.S. Companies (bloomberg.com)
43 points | 10 years ago with 17 comments
2012The United States of Comedy: 2035 (vanityfair.com)
43 points | 3 years ago with 20 comments
2012New England Almost Seceded over the War of 1812 (wbur.org)
43 points | 3 years ago with 81 comments
2012Are Sunk Costs Fallacies? (gwern.net)
43 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 8 comments
2012Multiple Linear Regression (mezeylab.cb.bscb.cornell.edu)
43 points | 6 years ago with 0 comments
2012Japan Is Obsessed with Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas (smithsonianmag.com)
43 points | 8 years ago with 47 comments
2012Parsing expressions by precedence climbing (eli.thegreenplace.net)
43 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2012Fork My Code, Please (skeeve.com)
43 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments
2012Do Orchestras Really Need Conductors? (npr.org)
43 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments
2012Worship of Tools and Weapons (rigvedaanalysis.wordpress.com)
43 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2012Building an air raid siren (woodgears.ca)
43 points | 8 years ago with 3 comments
2012U.S. Forces Failed to Conquer Canada 200 Years Ago (history.com)
43 points | 5 years ago with 62 comments
2012Reverse Engineering Firmware Primer (wiki.securityweekly.com)
43 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2012Python’s Meta-Object Protocol (laser.inf.ethz.ch)
43 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2012AVG says my programs are viruses (cplusplus.com)
43 points | 7 years ago with 32 comments
2012The five programming books that meant most to me (signalvnoise.com)
43 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 0 comments
2012Take Two Hours of Pine Forest and Call Me in the Morning (outsideonline.com)
43 points | 9 years ago with 4 comments
2012Linus and Pull Requests (github.com)
43 points | 3 years ago with 70 comments
2012How Amazon Followed Google Into the World of Secret Servers (wired.com)
42 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2012IO Monad Realized in 1965 (okmij.org)
42 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2012“What color is the Sun?” An example of science education pathology (clarifyscience.info)
42 points | 4 years ago with 73 comments
2012My Apple IIE: Nearly 30 Years Later (leucht.com)
42 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2012The big business of witch hunts (laphamsquarterly.org)
42 points | 8 years ago with 1 comments
2012The Path to Hacker School (unschooled.org)
42 points | 7 years ago with 1 comments
2012Data Structures Used in the OpenBSD Kernel (kindsoftware.com)
42 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments
2012A Scheme/Lisp based operating system for the Raspberry Pi (gitorious.org)
42 points | 10 years ago with 4 comments
2012Antonovs in America (smithsonianmag.com)
42 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
2012Hygiene hypothesis: difference in autoimmune diseases in Russia, Finland (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
42 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments
2012The problem of fake gold bars (blogs.reuters.com)
42 points | 9 years ago with 44 comments
2012An Open Letter to Wikipedia (newyorker.com)
41 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
2012C++11 Tuple Implementation Details (mitchnull.blogspot.com)
41 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2012A radical pessimist's guide to the next 10 years (theglobeandmail.com)
41 points | 9 years ago with 14 comments
2012The Dawn of Haiku OS (spectrum.ieee.org)
41 points | 3 years ago with 15 comments
2012Form Over Function: Teaching Beginners How to Construct Programs (deinprogramm.de)
41 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2012How Your Dust Collector Works (finewoodworking.com)
41 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2012R.L. Stine and Ghostwriters (kathryns-inbox.com)
41 points | 2 years ago with 78 comments
2012Hunting down my son's killer (matt.might.net)
40 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2012Quasimusic: music from quasiperiodic tilings (gregegan.net)
40 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2012Thoughts on Ada and Language Technology in Our Times (ada2012.org)
40 points | 9 years ago with 25 comments
2012Hacker News reacts to JSON5 (news.ycombinator.com)
40 points | 1 year ago with 29 comments
2012Winners and Losers of Globalization (theglobalist.com)
40 points | 8 years ago with 25 comments
2012T-Mobile to axe 1,900 jobs, close seven call centers (fiercewireless.com)
40 points | 1 year ago with 8 comments
2012Algorithms for Cartographic Visualization (win.tue.nl)
40 points | 3 years ago with 2 comments
2012The Case Against Patents (research.stlouisfed.org)
40 points | 10 years ago with 2 comments
2012Google deploying planes over cities for 3D maps (reuters.com)
39 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments
2012Analysis of whether unit testing obviates static type checking (evanfarrer.blogspot.com)
39 points | 1 year ago with 63 comments
2012Le Paper Globe (professeurjoachim.com)
38 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments
2012GlaxoSmithKline to pay 3B dollars for fraud (justice.gov)
37 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
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