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2013George W. Bush is smarter than you (keithhennessey.com)
109 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 99 comments
2013The Evolution of Hacker News (techcrunch.com)
109 points | 3 years ago with 70 comments
2013Ruins of forgotten empires: APL languages (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
109 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 8 comments
2013When would you choose Erlang? (blog.troutwine.us)
109 points | 9 years ago with 37 comments
2013Toward a Better Music Theory (ethanhein.com)
108 points | 2 years ago with 77 comments
2013Introduction to Clojure (creativeapplications.net)
108 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2013How we did it: SNL – “The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders” (alex-buono.com)
108 points | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2013Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia (pnas.org)
108 points | 2 years ago with 69 comments
2013UCLA floor tiles decoded, pay homage to first internet message (newsroom.ucla.edu)
107 points | 1 year ago with 24 comments
2013What Happened to Jai Alai? (sbnation.com)
107 points | 1 year ago with 138 comments
2013Fast Non-Standard Data Structures for Python (kmike.ru)
107 points | 9 years ago with 2 comments
2013Dirk's Lego Globe (mocpages.com)
107 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments
2013Emacs Lisp Readable Closures (nullprogram.com)
106 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments
2013Log driven programming (antirez.com)
106 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments
2013Programmer, interrupted (gamasutra.com)
106 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2013How Novell Netware lost the battle against Windows NT (theregister.com)
105 points | 1 year ago with 119 comments
2013Domain knowledge or a lack thereof (jacquesmattheij.com)
105 points | 1 year ago with 30 comments
2013Go and Rust – objects without class (lwn.net)
105 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments
2013The Apprentice Programmer (tobi.lutke.com)
105 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments
201360 FPS Retro Gaming on Mobile – Master System Emulator in JavaScript (gmarty.github.io)
105 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
2013Reverse engineering a Hit Clip (ch00ftech.com)
105 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments
2013Why Use Make (bost.ocks.org)
104 points | 1 year ago with 91 comments
2013The homogenization of scientific computing (talyarkoni.org)
103 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 14 comments
2013The price of the Manhattan Project (blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
103 points | 5 years ago with 67 comments
2013Stop using 'short' for line and allocation sizes (git.kernel.org)
102 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments
2013Eric Brewer on Why Banks Are BASE Not ACID – Availability Is Revenue (highscalability.com)
102 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments
2013Building a modern database using LLVM (llvm.org)
102 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2013Giving money directly to poor people (economist.com)
102 points | 6 years ago with 97 comments
2013Vim's speed is not really the point (wrongsideofmemphis.wordpress.com)
102 points | 9 years ago with 132 comments
2013Toyota's killer firmware: Bad design and its consequences (edn.com)
102 points | 9 years ago with 71 comments
201350 Bytes of Code That Took 4 GB to Compile (randomascii.wordpress.com)
102 points | 7 years ago with 33 comments
2013Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (journals.plos.org)
102 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments
2013A Haskell Compiler – Slides on GHC Implementation (scs.stanford.edu)
101 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2013What I Wish I Had Known Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs (linkedin.com)
101 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2013CamelCase vs. underscores revisited (whatheco.de)
100 points | 1 year ago with 257 comments
2013An insect that has the only mechanical gears ever found in nature (smithsonianmag.com)
100 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments
2013What polymorphism and garbage collection have in common (okmij.org)
100 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2013How to use Gmail more efficiently (klinger.io)
100 points | 5 years ago with 43 comments
2013United States vs. Dread Pirate Roberts (Silk Road) FBI Report (krebsonsecurity.com)
99 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments
2013The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction (engineering.linkedin.com)
99 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2013Stalin's Rope Roads (theatlantic.com)
99 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2013A Letter to a Young Programmer Considering a Startup (al3x.net)
99 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments
2013Bees Can Sense the Electric Fields of Flowers (nationalgeographic.com)
99 points | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2013OOP: History, and challenges for the next fifty years (sciencedirect.com)
98 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments
2013Yan tan tethera pethera pimp – an old system for counting sheep (stancarey.wordpress.com)
98 points | 1 year ago with 59 comments
2013Earthquakes make gold veins in an instant (nature.com)
98 points | 11 months ago with 29 comments
2013Layoffs Taboo, Japan Workers Are Sent to the Boredom Room (nytimes.com)
97 points | 7 years ago with 174 comments
2013Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit (spiegel.de)
97 points | 7 years ago with 8 comments
2013Screaming Fast Galois Field Arithmetic Using Intel SIMD Instructions (web.eecs.utk.edu)
97 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2013How the Z80’s 4-bit ALU works (righto.com)
97 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments
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