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2013Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry (prog21.dadgum.com)
165 points | 5 years ago with 53 comments
2013A tiny language called Z (chrisdone.com)
165 points | 5 years ago with 47 comments
2013The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone (osnews.com)
165 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2013Whom the gods would destroy, they first give real-time analytics (mcfunley.com)
165 points | 1 year ago with 64 comments
2013Python Patterns (taoofmac.com)
165 points | 8 years ago with 45 comments
2013Don't Fly During Ramadan (varnull.adityamukerjee.net)
165 points | 7 years ago with 108 comments
2013Lecture Notes on Randomized Linear Algebra (arxiv.org)
163 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2013There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written (smithsonianmag.com)
163 points | 6 years ago with 99 comments
2013The tomato was feared in Europe for more than 200 years (smithsonianmag.com)
162 points | 3 years ago with 182 comments
2013DNS: Basic Concepts (petekeen.net)
162 points | 8 years ago with 62 comments
2013The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (mentalfloss.com)
161 points | 4 years ago with 65 comments
2013Long-Term Coffee Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (circ.ahajournals.org)
161 points | 7 years ago with 131 comments
2013Safari is released to the world (donmelton.com)
160 points | 1 year ago with 68 comments
2013Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct (meltingasphalt.com)
158 points | 5 years ago with 138 comments
2013Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization (blog.rjmetrics.com)
157 points | 6 years ago with 48 comments
2013The Logic of Stupid Poor People (tressiemc.com)
157 points | 9 years ago with 118 comments
2013English, Swedish, German and Finnish Decline “Dog” (linustechtips.com)
156 points | 5 years ago with 102 comments
2013The Descent to C (chiark.greenend.org.uk)
156 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments
2013Lead: America's Real Criminal Element (motherjones.com)
155 points | 6 years ago with 141 comments
2013RegEx Crossword (jimbly.github.io)
155 points | 1 year ago with 29 comments
2013LL and LR Parsing Demystified (blog.reverberate.org)
155 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments
2013Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (neocomputer.org)
154 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 11 comments
2013Manifesto for minimalist software engineers (minifesto.org)
154 points | 2 years ago with 84 comments
2013The Shareholder Value Myth (europeanfinancialreview.com)
154 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 58 comments
2013Goals vs. Systems (blog.dilbert.com)
154 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2013Making WebGL Dance: How, Where, and What to Draw (acko.net)
153 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2013Yanis Varoufakis: How I became an erratic Marxist (theguardian.com)
153 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 136 comments
2013IR is better than assembly (idea.popcount.org)
153 points | 7 years ago with 58 comments
2013The Spy Novelist Who Knows Too Much (nytimes.com)
152 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 30 comments
2013The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an industry (arstechnica.com)
152 points | 6 years ago with 74 comments
2013Toyotas Unintended Acceleration and the Big Bowl of “Spaghetti” Code (safetyresearch.net)
152 points | 9 years ago with 145 comments
2013Closure, from why the lucky stiff (github.com)
152 points | 1 year ago with 138 comments
2013The Matasano Crypto Challenges (blog.pinboard.in)
151 points | 7 years ago with 29 comments
2013WWII Propaganda Popularized Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (smithsonianmag.com)
151 points | 7 years ago with 43 comments
2013Willpower and cognitive processing draw from the same pool of resources (seriouspony.com)
151 points | 8 years ago with 49 comments
2013Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (web.archive.org)
150 points | 3 years ago with 138 comments
2013Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice for Programming Under CP/M (techtinkering.com)
150 points | 3 years ago with 115 comments
2013The enigmatic Portuguese R (hackingportuguese.com)
150 points | 2 years ago with 169 comments
2013Justice Clarence Thomas uncovered a seven-year-old bug in my program (franklinchen.com)
150 points | 2 years ago with 147 comments
2013In 1991, Congress authorized $650M to make driverless cars a reality (smithsonianmag.com)
150 points | 5 years ago with 71 comments
2013Our Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control (popularmechanics.com)
149 points | 4 years ago with 104 comments
2013This Page Is Anonymous (voidnull.sdf.org)
149 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
2013Cookieless cookies (lucb1e.com)
149 points | 5 years ago with 62 comments
2013Things I Won’t Work With: Dimethylcadmium (blogs.sciencemag.org)
149 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2013The controller pattern is awful, and other OO heresy (eev.ee)
148 points | 1 year ago with 188 comments
2013Things I Hate About PostgreSQL (kupershmidt.org)
148 points | 8 years ago with 114 comments
2013High Performance Browser Networking (hpbn.co)
148 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments
2013There's Just No Getting Around It: You're Building a Distributed System (queue.acm.org)
147 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments
2013When FP? And When OOP? (raganwald.com)
147 points | 5 years ago with 151 comments
2013Why is Tcl syntax so weird (wiki.tcl-lang.org)
147 points | 3 years ago with 100 comments
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