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| 2012 | | Elsevier – My part in its downfall (gowers.wordpress.com) |
| 111 points | 8 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark (mentalfloss.com) |
| 110 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2012 | | Bumblebees Sleeping in Flowers (beeisbeautiful.wordpress.com) |
| 110 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2012 | | Startups, this is how design works (startupsthisishowdesignworks.com) |
| 109 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 2012 | | Copying is not theft, but censorship is (techdirt.com) |
| 109 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2012 | | The culture where play is shameful (psychologytoday.com) |
| 109 points | 9 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2012 | | Crazy fast build times, or when 10 seconds starts to make you nervous (dan.bodar.com) |
| 108 points | 3 years ago with 137 comments |
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| 2012 | | Raise the Crime Rate (nplusonemag.com) |
| 108 points | 10 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2012 | | Homotopy Type Theory (hottheory.files.wordpress.com) |
| 108 points | 4 years ago with 87 comments |
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| 2012 | | Dynamic Programming in Python: Bayesian Blocks (jakevdp.github.io) |
| 108 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2012 | | How statically linked programs run on Linux (eli.thegreenplace.net) |
| 107 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2012 | | Android Full Disk Encryption Cold Boot Attack (www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de) |
| 107 points | 8 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2012 | | Haskell Is Exceptionally Unsafe (existentialtype.wordpress.com) |
| 107 points | 10 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2012 | | The greatest paper map of the United States, made by one guy in Oregon (slate.com) |
| 106 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2012 | | Clojure at a Bank – Moving from Java (pitheringabout.com) |
| 106 points | 9 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Man Who Almost Never Succeeded (lensrentals.com) |
| 106 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why Portland's Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed (citylab.com) |
| 106 points | 5 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2012 | | Unix as IDE (blog.sanctum.geek.nz) |
| 106 points | 11 months ago with 60 comments |
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| 2012 | | You Are Not Your Code (sstephenson.us) |
| 105 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 2012 | | What to Make of Finnegans Wake? (nybooks.com) |
| 105 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2012 | | A Gentle Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (theclevermachine.wordpress.com) |
| 105 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 2012 | | Kindle DX as E-Ink computer monitor (tinyapps.org) |
| 104 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2012 | | STON – Smalltalk Object Notation (github.com) |
| 104 points | 7 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 2012 | | Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (pnas.org) |
| 104 points | 4 years ago with 41 comments |
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| 2012 | | Have we forgotten to make heat traps? (esbe.eu) |
| 104 points | 5 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades (wired.com) |
| 104 points | 9 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2012 | | Do the math: too much calculus? (washingtonpost.com) |
| 104 points | 8 years ago with 212 comments |
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| 2012 | | Xmonad from Coq: Programming a Window Manager with a Proof Assistant (staff.science.uu.nl) |
| 104 points | 7 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Matrix Cookbook (www2.imm.dtu.dk) |
| 103 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2012 | | x86 API Hooking Demystified (jbremer.org) |
| 103 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2012 | | Ops School Curriculum (opsschool.org) |
| 103 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2012 | | Suffering Oriented Programming (nathanmarz.com) |
| 102 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 2012 | | Where Are the Customers' Yachts? Or a Good Hard Look at Wall Street (ifa.com) |
| 102 points | 7 years ago with 52 comments |
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| 2012 | | Making robust software: the “Mars Code” talk (verticalsysadmin.com) |
| 102 points | 8 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2012 | | Maze Generation in Thirteen Bytes (trixter.oldskool.org) |
| 102 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2012 | | Social Login Buttons Aren't Worth It (blog.mailchimp.com) |
| 102 points | 10 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2012 | | Your Body Wasn’t Built To Last: A Lesson From Human Mortality Rates (singularityhub.com) |
| 102 points | 9 years ago with 152 comments |
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| 2012 | | What “Worse is Better vs. The Right Thing” is really about (yosefk.com) |
| 102 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2012 | | How Eduardo Saverin sold Facebook ads in 2004 (digiday.com) |
| 102 points | 4 years ago with 24 comments |
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| 2012 | | EFI Sucks (plus.google.com) |
| 101 points | 6 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2012 | | Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it better? (npr.org) |
| 101 points | 3 years ago with 93 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why we don't sell ads (blog.whatsapp.com) |
| 101 points | 10 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2012 | | How Python 3 Should Have Worked (aaronsw.com) |
| 101 points | 10 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Personal Analytics of My Life (wired.com) |
| 100 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments |
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| 2012 | | Hardware Isn't Generally Copyrightable (web.archive.org) |
| 100 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2012 | | Happiness and the Art of Being (happinessofbeing.com) |
| 100 points | 2 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2012 | | It is time to stop teaching frequentism to non-statisticians (arxiv.org) |
| 100 points | 2 years ago with 74 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Making Of “Homer At The Bat,” The Episode That Conquered Prime Time (deadspin.com) |
| 100 points | 7 years ago with 27 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Digital Music Industry Is Inept (bennjordan.com) |
| 99 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2012 | | A few useful things to know about machine learning (cs.washington.edu) |
| 99 points | 10 years ago with 7 comments |
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