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2013An FPGA-based In-line Accelerator for Memcached (hotchips.org)
89 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2013Cubr – A Rubik’s Cube Solver Written in Python and using Webcam Input (cbarker.net)
88 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2013Dolphins apparently getting 'high' with the help of toxic puffer fish (dailymail.co.uk)
88 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments
2013Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance (wired.com)
88 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2013Google Sold Its Engineers on Management (hbr.org)
88 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 7 comments
2013School of Haskell: Basics (schoolofhaskell.com)
88 points | 2 years ago with 25 comments
2013The Alzheimer Pandemic: Is Paracetamol to Blame? (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
88 points | 8 years ago with 70 comments
2013A history of the Amiga – The demo scene (arstechnica.com)
88 points | 9 years ago with 23 comments
2013Where Did the Fear of Poisoned Halloween Candy Come From? (smithsonianmag.com)
87 points | 7 years ago with 63 comments
2013Silicon Valley’s Ultimate Exit (genius.com)
87 points | 7 years ago with 47 comments
2013SimplyThick: A Tragedy No One Saw Coming (stlmag.com)
87 points | 5 years ago with 43 comments
2013Rewriting a large production system in Go (matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
87 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments
2013Ghost Army: The Inflatable Tanks That Fooled Hitler (theatlantic.com)
87 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments
2013Scientists have identified the potato pathogen that devastated Ireland (history.com)
87 points | 1 year ago with 99 comments
2013Napoleon’s Equine Strategy in 1813 (napoleon-series.org)
87 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2013Gödel Incompleteness for Startups (skibinsky.com)
86 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments
2013WTF Is T_paamayim_nekudotayim (phil.tech)
86 points | 1 year ago with 74 comments
2013The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: From Plausible to Proven (tofspot.blogspot.com)
86 points | 1 year ago with 55 comments
2013A house is a terrible investment (jlcollinsnh.com)
86 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 17 comments
2013Is huh a universal word? (huh.ideophone.org)
86 points | 5 years ago with 86 comments
2013Readable Lisp S-expressions Project (readable.sourceforge.io)
86 points | 5 years ago with 76 comments
2013Useful old technologies: ASN.1 (ttsiodras.github.io)
86 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments
2013Cryptography Discussion: Speculation on "BULLRUN" (mail-archive.com)
86 points | 7 years ago with 47 comments
2013Cubli – A cube that can jump up, balance, and walk across your desk (robohub.org)
86 points | 3 years ago with 10 comments
2013Programming an HP-15C (blog.plover.com)
86 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2013Sacred Retreats of California (nytimes.com)
86 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2013Emacs Users Are Like Terry Pratchett’s Igors (chrisdone.com)
86 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments
2013Strategic Consequences of Chinese Racism: Strategic Asymmetry for the USA (gwern.net)
85 points | 7 years ago with 71 comments
2013Roger Linn on Swing, Groove and the Magic of the MPC's Timing (attackmagazine.com)
85 points | 1 year ago with 36 comments
2013Bug-a-Salt (kk.org)
85 points | 4 years ago with 85 comments
2013Complexity of Python Operations (ics.uci.edu)
85 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments
2013Patent: Electronic flashcards (patents.google.com)
84 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2013Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field (frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com)
84 points | 1 year ago with 34 comments
2013Angry Programmers (selectedintelligence.com)
84 points | 7 years ago with 63 comments
2013English Letter Frequency Counts: Mayzner Revisited or ETAOIN SRHLDCU (norvig.com)
84 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 10 comments
2013JavaScript Isn't Scheme (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
84 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments
2013Writing a Self-Mutating x86_64 C Program (shanetully.com)
84 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments
2013Predicting Google Closures (gwern.net)
84 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2013Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions – outline (uky.edu)
83 points | 3 years ago with 18 comments
2013The Night Watch (research.microsoft.com)
83 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments
2013An expensive line of code: scaling Node.js on Heroku (micheljansen.org)
83 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments
2013The Real Cuban Missile Crisis (theatlantic.com)
83 points | 9 years ago with 49 comments
2013Intel i7 loop performance anomaly (eli.thegreenplace.net)
83 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2013Philosophical Landmines (lesswrong.com)
83 points | 3 years ago with 40 comments
2013The Substitutability of Physical and Social Warmth in Daily Life (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
82 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2013Ligeti Stratos – First Open Source Microlight Aircraft (ligeti-stratos.com)
82 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2013Layered Programming (akkartik.name)
82 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2013The great reversal in the demand for skill and cognitive tasks (econ.sites.olt.ubc.ca)
82 points | 9 years ago with 90 comments
2013The internet’s fifth man (economist.com)
82 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments
2013Concurrency Is Not Parallelism (blog.golang.org)
81 points | 9 years ago with 49 comments
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