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2013Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (twitter.com)
284 points | 1 year ago with 423 comments
2013Hard Disk Hacking (spritesmods.com)
283 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 18 comments
2013Spain builds submarine 70 tons too heavy due to wrong decimal (o.canada.com)
281 points | 4 years ago with 216 comments
2013A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (smithsonianmag.com)
279 points | 7 years ago with 83 comments
2013Chewing Food More Thoroughly Results in Reduced Insulin Output (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
279 points | 3 years ago with 124 comments
2013Unicode in five minutes (richardjharris.github.io)
279 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2013Monte Carlo theory, methods and examples (statweb.stanford.edu)
277 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2013Handbook of Graph Drawing and Visualization (cs.brown.edu)
276 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
2013Poverty reduces brainpower needed for navigating other areas of life (princeton.edu)
274 points | 5 years ago with 166 comments
2013Nobody Knows What They're Doing (prospect.org)
274 points | 7 years ago with 129 comments
2013Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (slate.com)
271 points | 2 years ago with 134 comments
2013How to Get Good at Chess, Fast (gautamnarula.com)
270 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 1 comments
2013Plane Lands/Takes Off in Only 20 Feet (kottke.org)
269 points | 1 year ago with 116 comments
2013Medieval peasants got more vacation time than modern workers (blogs.reuters.com)
269 points | 6 years ago with 219 comments
2013Why does `True == False is False` evaluate to False in Python? (stackoverflow.com)
268 points | 4 years ago with 217 comments
2013DARPA Awards Moderna a Grant for Up to $25M to Develop mRNA Therapeutics (investors.modernatx.com)
268 points | 2 years ago with 66 comments
2013Always Multiply Your Estimates by π (web.archive.org)
268 points | 2 years ago with 119 comments
2013Turbo Pascal Compiler (teamten.com)
267 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 93 comments
2013Safe VSP – 30 year old Commodore 64 bug demystified (linusakesson.net)
265 points | 7 years ago with 22 comments
2013I am an object of internet ridicule, ask me anything (theawl.com)
265 points | 2 years ago with 100 comments
2013The Strange Disappearance of Cooperation in America (peterturchin.com)
264 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 105 comments
2013Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (hbr.org)
264 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 155 comments
2013135M messages a second between processes in Java (psy-lob-saw.blogspot.com)
262 points | 7 years ago with 157 comments
2013GameBoy CPU Manual (realboyemulator.files.wordpress.com)
261 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
2013Commit often, perfect later, publish once: Git best practices (sethrobertson.github.io)
261 points | 2 years ago with 111 comments
20133D Lightning (calculatedimages.blogspot.com)
260 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2013Adult immune systems ‘remember’ germs to which they’ve never been exposed (med.stanford.edu)
259 points | 4 years ago with 99 comments
2013A little-known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations (hamberg.no)
259 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2013Writing a full-text search engine using Bloom filters (stavros.io)
258 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2013How I Used Eve Online to Predict the Great Recession (gamasutra.com)
256 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 105 comments
2013The Shape of Rome (exurbe.com)
255 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 14 comments
2013How can you be fooled by the U+202E trick? (galogetlatorre.blogspot.com)
254 points | 2 years ago with 140 comments
2013Learning how to write a 3D engine from scratch in C#, TypeScript or JavaScript (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
251 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments
2013Man who created own credit card sues bank for not sticking to terms (telegraph.co.uk)
250 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments
2013An Engineer’s Guide to Stock Options (blog.alexmaccaw.com)
249 points | 3 years ago with 99 comments
2013Not-so-secret atomic tests: Why the photographic film industry knew (imaging-resource.com)
249 points | 8 years ago with 77 comments
2013Duck Duck Go: Illusion of Privacy (etherrag.blogspot.com)
248 points | 6 years ago with 123 comments
2013My Hardest Bug Ever (gamasutra.com)
247 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2013A collection of things that are Turing-complete by accident (beza1e1.tuxen.de)
244 points | 6 years ago with 63 comments
2013My favorite Erlang Program (joearms.github.io)
244 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2013The Night Watch (scholar.harvard.edu)
244 points | 7 years ago with 33 comments
2013The Screwed-O-Meter (rachelbythebay.com)
243 points | 9 months ago with 124 comments
2013The Future of Programming (worrydream.com)
242 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 66 comments
2013FAQs: Why we don’t have them (gds.blog.gov.uk)
240 points | 2 years ago with 190 comments
2013Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (nytimes.com)
240 points | 7 years ago with 174 comments
2013Public Must Fight against Prism and Tempora Surveillance (spiegel.de)
240 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2013We Should All Have Something to Hide (thoughtcrime.org)
239 points | 8 years ago with 38 comments
2013Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (yosefk.com)
238 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 74 comments
2013The Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement (smithsonianmag.com)
234 points | 4 years ago with 252 comments
2013The 10x developer is not a myth (ybrikman.com)
229 points | 7 years ago with 235 comments
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