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2013How Not to Die of Botulism (theatlantic.com)
195 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 98 comments
2013Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (waivek.github.io)
194 points | 1 year ago with 127 comments
2013X12: Requirements for a successor to the X11 protocol (x.org)
193 points | 1 year ago with 300 comments
2013Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding (nature.com)
192 points | 5 years ago with 94 comments
2013How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
192 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2013Do Elephants Have Souls? (thenewatlantis.com)
192 points | 5 years ago with 91 comments
2013The tragic rape of Charles Bukowski’s ghost by Black Sparrow Press (mjpbooks.com)
192 points | 2 years ago with 101 comments
2013Elixir Design Goals (elixir-lang.org)
191 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2013Nibbler 4 Bit CPU (bigmessowires.com)
191 points | 1 year ago with 33 comments
2013Polynesian people used a kind of binary number system 600 years ago (nature.com)
190 points | 7 years ago with 115 comments
2013Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (github.com)
189 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 40 comments
2013Cyberdecks (blog.rfox.eu)
188 points | 1 year ago with 104 comments
2013Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (github.com)
188 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments
2013Day of week of procedure and 30 day mortality for elective surgery (bmj.com)
188 points | 4 years ago with 83 comments
2013How the NSA obtains and uses airline reservations (papersplease.org)
187 points | 7 years ago with 80 comments
2013Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (plosone.org)
187 points | 9 years ago with 56 comments
2013Useful Perl one-liners (catonmat.net)
187 points | 7 years ago with 91 comments
2013CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran (foreignpolicy.com)
185 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments
2013Bean leaves don’t let the bedbugs bite by using tiny, impaling spikes (smithsonianmag.com)
184 points | 1 year ago with 202 comments
2013A Frameless Geodesic Dome (rigsomelight.com)
183 points | 7 years ago with 94 comments
2013The Eternal Mainframe (winestockwebdesign.com)
183 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 52 comments
2013SPAs are harder and always will be (wgross.net)
181 points | 6 years ago with 180 comments
2013Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown (onehundredpages.wordpress.com)
181 points | 1 year ago with 164 comments
2013I Wasn’t Prepared for Work (web.archive.org)
180 points | 5 years ago with 74 comments
2013Removing garbage collection from the Rust language (pcwalton.github.io)
179 points | 1 year ago with 202 comments
2013Google admits brainteasers were useless for hiring (qz.com)
179 points | 6 years ago with 151 comments
2013The Case Against Patents (pubs.aeaweb.org)
178 points | 6 years ago with 135 comments
2013Google and Paint.NET need to stop misleading users (jasonlefkowitz.net)
178 points | 7 years ago with 105 comments
2013The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life (smithsonianmag.com)
178 points | 8 years ago with 87 comments
2013A simple explanation of how money moves around the banking system (gendal.me)
177 points | 2 years ago with 62 comments
2013The Hallmarks of Aging (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
175 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments
2013“I survived the TCP transition” (blog.google)
175 points | 2 years ago with 130 comments
2013Stainless steel leaches nickel and chromium into foods during cooking (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
174 points | 2 years ago with 297 comments
2013Which Machines Do Computer Architects Admire? (people.cs.clemson.edu)
174 points | 4 years ago with 156 comments
2013I push, therefore I am: two days at Etsy (mhawthorne.net)
173 points | 4 years ago with 75 comments
2013Things that happen at a lock-picking convention (slate.com)
173 points | 7 years ago with 123 comments
2013High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets (qz.com)
173 points | 6 years ago with 146 comments
2013Don’t Fly During Ramadan (adityamukerjee.net)
173 points | 4 years ago with 101 comments
2013Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox (bhorowitz.com)
173 points | 9 years ago with 62 comments
2013All of Statistics, by Larry Wassserman (stat.cmu.edu)
171 points | 8 years ago with 52 comments
2013Low Level Programming of the Raspberry Pi in C (pieter-jan.com)
171 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2013How not to say the wrong thing (articles.latimes.com)
171 points | 6 years ago with 47 comments
2013The Unexotic Underclass (miter.mit.edu)
169 points | 8 years ago with 62 comments
2013The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (spectrum.ieee.org)
169 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 102 comments
2013Getting too little sleep can have serious health consequences (theatlantic.com)
168 points | 9 years ago with 69 comments
2013The operating system: should there be one? (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
168 points | 3 years ago with 199 comments
2013How to Raise Money (paulgraham.com)
168 points | 6 years ago with 61 comments
2013The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (joshldavis.com)
167 points | 5 years ago with 71 comments
2013An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia (crypto.junod.info)
166 points | 9 years ago with 98 comments
2013The STEM Crisis Is a Myth (spectrum.ieee.org)
166 points | 3 years ago with 259 comments
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