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2013Unix for Poets (web.stanford.edu)
63 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments
20138-bit number to binary string (gynvael.coldwind.pl)
63 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2013Ruby 2.0 Works Hard So You Can Be Lazy (patshaughnessy.net)
63 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2013ConvNetJS Deep Q Learning Demo (cs.stanford.edu)
63 points | 1 year ago with 26 comments
2013The Real Population Problem (physics.ucsd.edu)
62 points | 9 years ago with 100 comments
2013Why bother with old technology? (retrotechnology.com)
62 points | 3 years ago with 57 comments
2013Recursive (Re-Entrant) Locks (blog.stephencleary.com)
62 points | 1 year ago with 32 comments
2013The Cicada's Love Affair with Prime Numbers (newyorker.com)
62 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments
2013The future of software, the end of apps (pchiusano.blogspot.com)
62 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 8 comments
2013Why a Traffic Flow Suddenly Turns into a Traffic Jam (nautil.us)
62 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2013A Categorical Theory of Patches (arxiv.org)
62 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 17 comments
2013David Bowie’s Top 100 Books (openculture.com)
62 points | 8 years ago with 40 comments
2013Coinbase (usv.com)
62 points | 3 years ago with 22 comments
2013Put This In Your Pipe (julialang.org)
62 points | 3 years ago with 1 comments
2013What did Schrodinger's Cat experiment prove? (wtamu.edu)
61 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2013Free parking isn’t free: Parking mandates hurt America’s cities (slate.com)
61 points | 9 years ago with 51 comments
2013A general technique for automating NES games (cs.cmu.edu)
61 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2013Why Did why the lucky stiff Quit? (kevinw.github.io)
61 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2013Anti-Web-Design Manifesto (brandon.invergo.net)
61 points | 9 years ago with 83 comments
2013Why Japanese web design is so different (designmadeinjapan.com)
61 points | 1 year ago with 37 comments
2013Oliver Heaviside Wrote Maxwell’s Equations (theinstitute.ieee.org)
61 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments
2013Hacking Passion (kytrinyx.com)
60 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
2013The Free Coffee Test, or Lefkowitz’s Law of Corporate Financial Health (jasonlefkowitz.net)
60 points | 6 years ago with 68 comments
2013Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School (theatlantic.com)
60 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
2013Charles Moore: From Forth to Stack Processors and Beyond (cpushack.com)
60 points | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2013pHash – An open source perceptual hash library (phash.org)
60 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments
2013Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (mjt.me.uk)
60 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments
2013Bourbon and Branch Water (flemingsbond.com)
60 points | 1 year ago with 65 comments
2013Window Functions in SQL (blog.jooq.org)
59 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments
2013Ziggurats are temple platforms of ancient Mesopotamia (deseret.com)
59 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments
2013How Laissez-Faire Made Sweden Rich (libertarianism.org)
59 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2013Are coders worth it? (aeon.co)
59 points | 8 years ago with 45 comments
2013A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch (moxie.org)
59 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2013In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge (quantamagazine.org)
59 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments
2013How did medieval people dance? (medievalists.net)
59 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
2013Spreadsheet Programming with User Defined Types and Functions (homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk)
59 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments
2013A Study of Linux File System Evolution (usenix.org)
58 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2013Why is "pineapple" in English "ananas" in other languages? (english.stackexchange.com)
58 points | 1 year ago with 60 comments
2013Walkie Talkie architect 'didn't realise it was going to be so hot' (theguardian.com)
58 points | 1 year ago with 54 comments
2013Bill Gates questions worth of space exploration for improving humanity (businessinsider.com)
58 points | 7 years ago with 97 comments
2013The Mind of a Con Man (nytimes.com)
58 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments
2013Kilotons per kilogram (blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
58 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments
2013A maximally-dense encoding for n-choose-k (farside.org.uk)
58 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
2013How can you program if you're blind? (stackoverflow.com)
58 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
2013The Dawn of PC Multimedia: Laser Discs and CD-ROMs (filfre.net)
57 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
2013How to Start Your First Podcast (hanselman.com)
57 points | 9 years ago with 6 comments
2013Long Live WebGL (nullprogram.com)
57 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
2013A Review of Graeber's Essay on “Bullshit Jobs” (economist.com)
57 points | 9 years ago with 46 comments
2013The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community (ashedryden.com)
57 points | 9 years ago with 64 comments
2013The Heathkit Legacy (people.ohio.edu)
57 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments
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