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2013What Happened with Lego (realityprose.com)
97 points | 9 years ago with 76 comments
2013Where did all the HTTP referrers go? (smerity.com)
97 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments
2013Non-Green Plants (plantsandprejudice.wordpress.com)
97 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2013CPU of the Day: IBM Micro/370 – True Mainframe on a chip (cpushack.com)
96 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments
2013Recursion to Iteration, Part 4: The Trampoline (blog.moertel.com)
96 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2013What I Didn't Say (paulgraham.com)
96 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments
2013Toyota Unintended Acceleration and the Big Bowl of “Spaghetti” Code (safetyresearch.net)
96 points | 9 years ago with 106 comments
2013Compiling Dynamic Languages (www2.imm.dtu.dk)
95 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2013Modern Life Is Rubbish: Tao Lin’s Taipei (themillions.com)
95 points | 1 year ago with 45 comments
2013Practical Examples in Data Oriented Design (gamedevs.org)
95 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2013Knight vs. Snail (blogs.bl.uk)
95 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 9 comments
2013It’s Always Sunny in Reykjavik or How I NSA-Proofed My Email (27months.com)
95 points | 8 years ago with 51 comments
2013NSA Backdoors and Bitcoin (chrispacia.wordpress.com)
95 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments
2013A psychiatrist who didn’t believe in mental illness (aeon.co)
95 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments
2013Amazon and the “profitless business model” fallacy (eugenewei.com)
95 points | 2 years ago with 105 comments
2013Insect Has Gears in Its Legs (nationalgeographic.com)
95 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments
2013A Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath (smithsonianmag.com)
94 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments
2013Let's Make a Voxel Engine (sites.google.com)
94 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments
2013Enumerating Trees (cs.virginia.edu)
94 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2013Exiting the Vampire Castle (opendemocracy.net)
94 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2013An open letter from bunnie, author of Hacking the Xbox (nostarch.com)
94 points | 9 years ago with 14 comments
2013Tic Tac Toe: Understanding The Minimax Algorithm (neverstopbuilding.com)
94 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments
2013Dave’s Short Course on Complex Numbers (www2.clarku.edu)
94 points | 3 years ago with 11 comments
2013Using Computer Modern on the web (checkmyworking.com)
94 points | 3 years ago with 97 comments
2013Do not donate to me (blog.futtta.be)
93 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2013Tango: Distributed Data Structures Over a Shared Log (microsoft.com)
93 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments
2013Making a pencil from scratch (gse-compliance.blogspot.com)
93 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments
2013Why Hypergraphs? (blog.opencog.org)
93 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2013How to design perfect software products (hintjens.com)
93 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2013Breeding the Nutrition Out of Our Food (nytimes.com)
93 points | 9 years ago with 53 comments
2013Technical debt and tacking into the wind (flak.tedunangst.com)
93 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2013Turn Vim into Excel: Tips for Editing Tabular Data (alangrow.com)
92 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments
2013Probabilistic Scraping of Plain Text Tables (edinburghhacklab.com)
92 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2013Lightning aircraft crash at Hatfield (fearoflanding.com)
92 points | 7 years ago with 5 comments
2013Loss of Locational Privacy While Traveling in Your Automobile (defcon.org)
92 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2013Unsolicited advice on CS independent work (cs.princeton.edu)
91 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2013The Yuri Gadyukin Wikipedia Hoax (kernelmag.dailydot.com)
91 points | 9 years ago with 33 comments
2013Comparing Arrays of Structures and Structures of Arrays (software.intel.com)
91 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
2013Useful Self-Improvement Interventions (lincolnquirk.com)
91 points | 2 years ago with 37 comments
2013Ancient astronaut theorists faked a Hindu nuclear explosion (jasoncolavito.com)
90 points | 1 year ago with 25 comments
2013Introduction to Data Compression (cs.cmu.edu)
90 points | 4 years ago with 1 comments
2013Advanced Go Concurrency Patterns (talks.golang.org)
90 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments
2013How the cover art of Defender of the Crown (1986) was made (spelpappan.se)
90 points | 1 year ago with 25 comments
2013Efficiency is fundamentally at odds with elegance (yosefk.com)
90 points | 5 years ago with 43 comments
2013Closos: Specification of a Lisp operating system (metamodular.com)
90 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments
2013Our Favorite Narrative Cliche: A World Filled with Idiots (davidbrin.com)
90 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments
2013The Pinball Wizard (filfre.net)
89 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments
2013How to Read and Organize Online Articles (Without Driving Yourself Crazy) (gregoryciotti.com)
89 points | 1 year ago with 51 comments
2013Effect of Acute Exercise on Prostate Cancer Cell Growth (journals.plos.org)
89 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments
2013Giant Concrete Arrows That Point Your Way Across America (cntraveler.com)
89 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments
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