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2012Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (hanselman.com)
126 points | 5 years ago with 90 comments
2012Malloc Never Fails (scvalex.net)
125 points | 5 years ago with 156 comments
2012Symptoms of Groupthink (courses.washington.edu)
125 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments
2012Linux on an 8-bit micro (dmitry.gr)
125 points | 9 years ago with 44 comments
2012A review of Dominion, 4000 plays later (dominionstrategy.com)
125 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments
2012Old Techies Never Die; They Just Can’t Get Hired as an Industry Moves On (nytimes.com)
124 points | 9 years ago with 132 comments
2012Good Sleep, Good Learning (super-memory.com)
124 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments
2012Brainfuck beware: JavaScript is after you (patriciopalladino.com)
123 points | 10 years ago with 37 comments
2012The fine art of Italian hand gestures: A vintage visual dictionary (themarginalian.org)
123 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments
2012Growing One's Consulting Business (training.kalzumeus.com)
123 points | 9 years ago with 35 comments
2012Anthrax Guitarist Turned Master Watchmaker (hodinkee.com)
123 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments
2012Mice fed a time-restricted, high-fat diet show reduced metabolic disease (sciencedirect.com)
123 points | 7 years ago with 85 comments
2012Build a simple 2D physics engine for JavaScript games (developer.ibm.com)
122 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments
2012How to Build a Windmill (jacquesmattheij.com)
122 points | 11 months ago with 20 comments
2012UTF-8 Everywhere (utf8everywhere.org)
122 points | 8 years ago with 153 comments
2012The Email Zuckerberg Sent to Cut His Cofounder Out of Facebook (businessinsider.com)
122 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2012Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease and You Can’t (wbur.org)
122 points | 9 years ago with 75 comments
2012How Corruption Is Strangling U.S. Innovation (blogs.hbr.org)
122 points | 10 years ago with 97 comments
2012Extroverts destroy the world (nypost.com)
121 points | 2 years ago with 78 comments
2012The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (russolsen.com)
121 points | 10 years ago with 50 comments
2012NSA's Warrantless Wiretaps (nerdylorrin.net)
121 points | 2 years ago with 108 comments
2012Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (kuomarc.wordpress.com)
121 points | 6 years ago with 165 comments
2012San Francisco’s Secret DC Grid (spectrum.ieee.org)
120 points | 3 years ago with 103 comments
2012Musicians wage war against evil robots (smithsonianmag.com)
120 points | 1 year ago with 167 comments
2012Developer depression: Isolation is the biggest problem (thenextweb.com)
120 points | 10 years ago with 52 comments
2012The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx (aosabook.org)
119 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments
2012Refusing to apologize can have psychological benefits (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
119 points | 2 years ago with 120 comments
2012Intuition in Mathematics (as.miami.edu)
119 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2012Sculpting text with regex, grep, sed, awk, emacs and vim (matt.might.net)
119 points | 10 years ago with 32 comments
2012Teller Reveals His Secrets (smithsonianmag.com)
117 points | 2 years ago with 68 comments
2012Thelonious Monk Creates a List of Tips for Playing a Gig (openculture.com)
117 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2012Faster Spelling Correction algorithm (blog.faroo.com)
117 points | 10 years ago with 20 comments
2012Bret Victor: Learnable Programming (worrydream.com)
117 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2012Soyuz Users Manual (arianespace.com)
117 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments
2012Kids Who Get Driven Everywhere Don't Know Where They're Going (citylab.com)
116 points | 5 years ago with 73 comments
2012The IBM PC, Part 1 (filfre.net)
116 points | 7 years ago with 43 comments
2012Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (arxiv.org)
115 points | 9 years ago with 59 comments
201230-plus years of HyperCard, the missing link to the Web (arstechnica.com)
115 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2012Actually using ed (sanctum.geek.nz)
114 points | 7 years ago with 88 comments
2012Why don't we define “imaginary” numbers for every “impossibility”? (math.stackexchange.com)
114 points | 1 year ago with 93 comments
2012Cognitive sophistication does not attenuate the bias blind spot (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
114 points | 1 year ago with 153 comments
2012Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language (wilfred.me.uk)
114 points | 10 years ago with 97 comments
2012RouterOS – Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (wiki.mikrotik.com)
113 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments
2012Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man) (johnnycashhasbeeneverywhere.com)
112 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments
2012A Spaniard in Samarkand, 1404 (resobscura.blogspot.com)
112 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments
2012Introduction to the Autotools (dwheeler.com)
112 points | 8 years ago with 55 comments
2012PIN number analysis (datagenetics.com)
112 points | 6 years ago with 72 comments
2012Building a 10BASE5 “Thick Ethernet” Network (tech.mattmillman.com)
112 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2012Sol – a sunny little virtual machine (rsms.me)
111 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 10 comments
2012Static analysis of an unknown compression format (blog.lse.epita.fr)
111 points | 5 years ago with 1 comments
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