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2013NSA-proof your e-mail in 2 hours (sealedabstract.com)
69 points | 8 years ago with 50 comments
2013Nikola Tesla’s Valvular Conduit (fluidpowerjournal.com)
69 points | 8 years ago with 5 comments
2013The Paradoxical Effects of Pursuing Positive Emotion (ocf.berkeley.edu)
69 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
2013Confused Xerox copiers rewrite scanned documents, expert finds (bbc.com)
69 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments
2013How True Are Your d20s? (1000d4.com)
68 points | 2 years ago with 43 comments
2013Logic programming is overrated, at least for logic puzzles (programming-puzzler.blogspot.com)
68 points | 1 year ago with 41 comments
2013Career Advice (thoughtcrime.org)
68 points | 8 years ago with 22 comments
2013What's the significance of 0.05 significance? (p-value.info)
68 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2013Asking for a date of birth (designnotes.blog.gov.uk)
67 points | 2 years ago with 93 comments
2013Guide to European Rail Maps and Atlasses (notechmagazine.com)
67 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2013Bitcoin Is Evil (krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
67 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments
2013The dwarves of Auschwitz (theguardian.com)
67 points | 9 years ago with 11 comments
2013New Dilemmas for the Prisoner (americanscientist.org)
67 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments
2013Higher Levels of CO2 May Diminish Decision Making Performance (eetd.lbl.gov)
67 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2013Wild Applause, Secretly Choreographed (nytimes.com)
67 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2013The Mechanical Transmission of Power (lowtechmagazine.com)
67 points | 4 years ago with 21 comments
2013Concrete Arrows and the U.S. Airmail Beacon System (sometimes-interesting.com)
67 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 12 comments
2013Datensparsamkeit (martinfowler.com)
67 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2013Why I Left the .NET Framework (blog.jonathanoliver.com)
67 points | 9 years ago with 108 comments
2013Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82 (nytimes.com)
67 points | 9 years ago with 18 comments
2013This Is Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer (heeris.id.au)
67 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2013Let's Make a Voxel Engine (sites.google.com)
67 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2013Mice can inherit learned sensitivity to a smell (sciencedaily.com)
67 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2013Where Do “Shenanigans” Come From? (english.stackexchange.com)
66 points | 1 year ago with 35 comments
2013Andrew Carnegie Turned His Fortune into a Library Legacy (npr.org)
66 points | 1 year ago with 31 comments
2013Chernobyl’s Hot Mess, “the Elephant’s Foot”, Is Still Lethal (nautil.us)
66 points | 7 years ago with 96 comments
2013Guide to Pinhole Photography (diyphotography.net)
66 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2013There's More to Life Than Being Happy (theatlantic.com)
66 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments
2013Of Algebirds, Monoids, Monads, and Other Bestiary for Large-Scale Data (michael-noll.com)
66 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments
2013MOV is Turing-complete (drwho.virtadpt.net)
66 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments
2013“A Toast to Your Health”: Getting Drunk in Colonial America (theappendix.net)
65 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 20 comments
2013Decoding radio-controlled bus stop displays (windytan.com)
65 points | 2 years ago with 12 comments
2013Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data (blog.alinelerner.com)
65 points | 9 years ago with 42 comments
2013Business Card Ray Tracer (fabiensanglard.net)
65 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments
2013Is everything we eat associated with cancer? A systematic cookbook review (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
65 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments
2013Spelunky Level Generator Lessons (tinysubversions.com)
65 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments
2013Security recommendations for any device that depends on random numbers (av8n.com)
64 points | 4 years ago with 10 comments
2013Into the Cave of Chile’s Witches (smithsonianmag.com)
64 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments
2013A Prion Love Story (newyorker.com)
64 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments
2013A parable about problem solving in software development (drmaciver.com)
64 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments
2013Two problems I had to solve in my Oxford interview (blog.jgc.org)
64 points | 9 years ago with 40 comments
2013React’s diff algorithm (calendar.perfplanet.com)
64 points | 9 years ago with 33 comments
2013How to Fuzz an ADT Implementation (blog.regehr.org)
64 points | 4 years ago with 6 comments
2013The Deep Insights of Alan Kay (mythz.servicestack.net)
64 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments
2013Secret Atari DRAM Resale Operation Revealed by FBI (atariarchives.org)
64 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments
2013The Two Cultures of Computing (pgbovine.net)
63 points | 8 years ago with 69 comments
2013Games with creative copy protection (gameological.com)
63 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
2013Mathematical Limits to Software Estimation (scribblethink.org)
63 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments
2013How Not to Be Alone (nytimes.com)
63 points | 5 years ago with 2 comments
2013The Chaos of the Dice: A backgammon hustler’s quest to gain an edge (newyorker.com)
63 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
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