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2012Why Bloom filters work the way they do (michaelnielsen.org)
99 points | 10 years ago with 6 comments
2012The sound of the dialup, pictured (windytan.com)
99 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments
2012The ‘-ize’ have it (metadyne.co.uk)
98 points | 4 years ago with 149 comments
2012Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (jeremykun.com)
98 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2012Logical difficulties in modern mathematics (njwildberger.com)
98 points | 5 years ago with 90 comments
2012Le Paper Globe – a DIY paper terrestrial globe (joachimesque.com)
97 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2012Deconcentration of Attention: Addressing the Complexity of Software (deconcentration-of-attention.com)
97 points | 9 years ago with 24 comments
2012I often have to cut into the brain (granta.com)
97 points | 2 years ago with 16 comments
2012Memory Access Patterns Are Important (mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com)
97 points | 8 years ago with 24 comments
2012The Configuration Complexity Clock (mikehadlow.blogspot.com)
97 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 15 comments
2012The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius (psychologytoday.com)
95 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2012Kolmogorov Complexity – A Primer (jeremykun.com)
95 points | 8 years ago with 20 comments
2012IgNobel Prize in Neuroscience: The dead salmon study (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
95 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2012The Enduring Legacy of Dennis Ritchie (cs.columbia.edu)
95 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2012I wrote a Forth implementation for x86 (davazp.net)
95 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments
2012Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative (revolt.axismaps.com)
94 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2012Work on Unimportant Problems (yosefk.com)
94 points | 4 years ago with 21 comments
2012Trade secrets of the oldest family firm in the US (bbc.com)
94 points | 9 years ago with 28 comments
2012Blameless post-mortems and a just culture (codeascraft.com)
94 points | 4 years ago with 89 comments
2012Extremist Programming (blog.ezyang.com)
93 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2012A Mouse is a Database (queue.acm.org)
93 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2012It's done in hardware so it's cheap (yosefk.com)
93 points | 2 years ago with 40 comments
2012Thinking Parallel, Part I: Collision Detection on the GPU (devblogs.nvidia.com)
93 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
2012We Don’t Do Legacy (mitadmissions.org)
93 points | 7 years ago with 78 comments
2012Seiko 7S26 for Novice Horologists (clockmaker.com.au)
92 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2012Prolog-Based Reasoning Layer for Counter-Strike Agents (ceur-ws.org)
91 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2012A Gentle Introduction to Algorithm Complexity Analysis (discrete.gr)
91 points | 9 years ago with 7 comments
2012Why psychology isn’t science (latimes.com)
91 points | 3 years ago with 120 comments
2012User's Kindle eBook collection revoked by Amazon (bekkelund.net)
91 points | 4 years ago with 65 comments
2012Single Tone Detection with the Goertzel Algorithm (embedded.com)
91 points | 4 years ago with 69 comments
2012How we built a Super Nintendo out of a wireless keyboard (blog.adafruit.com)
90 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2012Independently Poor: A Twist on FU Money. Or: "FU, Money" (micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com)
90 points | 10 years ago with 88 comments
2012Counting Billion Distinct Objects Using Only 1.5KB of Memory (highscalability.com)
90 points | 3 years ago with 11 comments
2012The little ssh that sometimes couldn't (mina.naguib.ca)
90 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2012Black mamba venom is 'better painkiller' than morphine (bbc.com)
90 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments
2012Cracking a 250-Year-Old Code to Reveal a Secret Society (wired.com)
90 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments
2012Design and Implementation of Modern Column-Oriented Databases (db.csail.mit.edu)
90 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments
2012EU court rules software transfer is a sale (bdkadvokati.com)
89 points | 3 years ago with 47 comments
2012Binary Search Eliminates Branch Mispredictions (pvk.ca)
89 points | 10 years ago with 18 comments
2012A Git Horror Story: Repository Integrity with Signed Commits (mikegerwitz.com)
89 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2012Most complex ASCII fluid – Honorable mention (ioccc.org)
89 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2012A Slower Speed of Light (gamelab.mit.edu)
89 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2012Is Pop Music Evolving, or Is It Just Getting Louder? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
89 points | 6 years ago with 109 comments
2012Optimizing Your Industry to the Point of Suicide (baekdal.com)
89 points | 10 years ago with 49 comments
2012How to Generate Millions of HTTP Requests (dak1n1.com)
88 points | 9 years ago with 25 comments
2012What makes Paris look like Paris? (cacm.acm.org)
88 points | 6 years ago with 84 comments
2012Random Write Considered Harmful in SSDs (usenix.org)
88 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
2012SHUT THE FUCK UP. WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE! (lkml.org)
88 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 9 comments
2012Mexican Cartels Enslave Engineers to Build Radio Network (wired.com)
88 points | 10 years ago with 66 comments
2012Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking (pearson.com)
88 points | 1 year ago with 9 comments
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