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2013The Indie Web movement (wired.com)
81 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2013How the Bitcoin protocol actually works (michaelnielsen.org)
81 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments
2013Easily add a NSA backdoor to your Rails app (github.com)
81 points | 9 years ago with 14 comments
2013India's Nuclear Scientists Keep Dying Mysteriously (vice.com)
81 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments
2013Understanding Simpson’s Paradox (ftp.cs.ucla.edu)
81 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2013The Birth of Standard Error (spinellis.gr)
81 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments
2013Floating-Point Determinism (randomascii.wordpress.com)
81 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 15 comments
2013Low-Level Thinking in High-Level Shading Languages (humus.name)
81 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2013Oldest recovered TV images (tvdawn.com)
80 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2013The coupon code is a slap in the face (justinjackson.ca)
80 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments
2013GCC and Make: Compiling, Linking and Building C/C++ Applications (www3.ntu.edu.sg)
80 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2013HLearn: A Machine Learning Library for Haskell (izbicki.me)
80 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments
2013How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals? (propublica.org)
80 points | 8 years ago with 38 comments
2013To Kill a Centrifuge (langner.com)
80 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2013Photos of a KH-12 Kennan Keyhole Secret Military Spy Satellite (spacesafetymagazine.com)
80 points | 2 years ago with 41 comments
2013The Sounds of New York City, Circa 1920 (npr.org)
80 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments
201375 Years Ago, 'War of the Worlds' Started a Panic. Or Did It? (slate.com)
80 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments
2013How NASA brought the F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life (arstechnica.com)
80 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments
2013Open Source Apps (stratechery.com)
79 points | 6 years ago with 27 comments
2013Snow – Whitespace Steganography (darkside.com.au)
79 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2013More on Postgres Performance (craigkerstiens.com)
79 points | 5 years ago with 2 comments
2013A Pickpocket's Tale (newyorker.com)
79 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2013Applied Cryptography Engineering (sockpuppet.org)
79 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2013How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one (embeddedrelated.com)
79 points | 8 years ago with 32 comments
2013All you need is call/cc (pvk.ca)
78 points | 3 years ago with 54 comments
2013The Dark Silicon Problem and What It Means for CPU Designers (informit.com)
78 points | 6 years ago with 68 comments
2013Is JPEG 2000 a preservation risk? (blogs.loc.gov)
78 points | 2 years ago with 83 comments
2013Making Audio Plugins (martin-finke.de)
78 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments
2013Raymarching Distance Fields (9bitscience.blogspot.com)
78 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2013Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors (hypirion.com)
78 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2013Functional Programming in C++ (web.archive.org)
78 points | 9 years ago with 61 comments
2013The Human Body in Space: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction (sitn.hms.harvard.edu)
78 points | 3 years ago with 47 comments
2013When Power Goes to Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart (npr.org)
78 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments
2013How Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan Created 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (nofilmschool.com)
78 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments
2013A Crypto Challenge for the Telegram Developers (moxie.org)
77 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
2013Compilers in OpenBSD (marc.info)
77 points | 9 years ago with 34 comments
2013What did Mary know? A thought experiment about consciousness (philosophynow.org)
77 points | 2 years ago with 166 comments
2013The Science of Addictive Junk Food (nytimes.com)
77 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2013There Was a Time before Mathematica (blog.stephenwolfram.com)
77 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 56 comments
2013Who was Aleph Null? (bit-player.org)
77 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2013How Doom got ported to NeXTSTEP (blog.wilshipley.com)
77 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments
2013Google's Chief Internet Evangelist: 'privacy may be an anomaly' (theverge.com)
77 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments
2013Today's Inventors Need to Read More Science Fiction (theatlantic.com)
77 points | 8 years ago with 20 comments
2013Tiny mites spark big battle over imports of French cheese (npr.org)
76 points | 4 years ago with 73 comments
2013JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Pointer (rfc-editor.org)
76 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments
2013An introduction to deep code-walking macros with Clojure (blog.fogus.me)
76 points | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2013How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the Answer (theatlantic.com)
76 points | 7 years ago with 59 comments
2013What I’ve learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear (spectrum.ieee.org)
76 points | 1 year ago with 63 comments
2013The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan Stalin Did (foreignpolicy.com)
76 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2013The $8M Replacement for a $20 Dollar Fan (workforcesolutions.stlcc.edu)
75 points | 7 years ago with 60 comments
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