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2013Why can't computers boot instantly? (superuser.com)
146 points | 5 years ago with 161 comments
2013Kokuhaku: Japan’s Love Confessing Culture (tofugu.com)
146 points | 1 year ago with 124 comments
2013Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions (theatlantic.com)
146 points | 8 years ago with 117 comments
2013How to write a 48-hour game in just 2 years (fistfulofsquid.com)
146 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2013Epistemic Learned Helplessness (slatestarcodex.com)
146 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2013You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (qntm.org)
145 points | 4 years ago with 152 comments
2013Baby’s First Garbage Collector (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
145 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
2013Functional programming in C (lucabolognese.wordpress.com)
144 points | 8 years ago with 59 comments
2013The Feynman Lectures on Physics (feynmanlectures.caltech.edu)
143 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2013The short history of the “about:” URL (montulli.org)
143 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2013Ultraslow radio for decentralized global digital communication (mail-archive.com)
143 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 12 comments
2013Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition (theatlantic.com)
142 points | 9 years ago with 81 comments
2013Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs (rafalcieslak.wordpress.com)
142 points | 6 years ago with 86 comments
2013What No One Told You About Z-Index (philipwalton.com)
141 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
2013Modes, Medians and Means: A Unifying Perspective (johnmyleswhite.com)
141 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2013Plugging a 1986 Mac Plus into the Modern Web (keacher.com)
141 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments
2013Story of the Roku Player (fastcompany.com)
141 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 58 comments
2013LispOS: Specification of a Lisp operating system (metamodular.com)
140 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments
2013The AI Unemployment Anti-FAQ (lesswrong.com)
140 points | 7 years ago with 139 comments
2013Apple’s $13k operating system (cnet.com)
140 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments
2013A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack (blog.moertel.com)
140 points | 2 years ago with 22 comments
2013Inertial Locking Box (tessmyers.com)
139 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments
2013Downsampling Time Series for Visual Representation [pdf] (skemman.is)
139 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2013OAuth1, OAuth2, OAuth..? (homakov.blogspot.com)
139 points | 9 years ago with 45 comments
2013Evidence that parasite prevalence predicts authoritarianism (journals.plos.org)
139 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments
2013Amputated fingertips sometimes grow back (npr.org)
138 points | 2 years ago with 67 comments
2013The Future of Standard ML (cs.cmu.edu)
138 points | 8 years ago with 79 comments
2013Greens: why we eat the leaves that we do (botanistinthekitchen.blog)
138 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments
2013Glymphatic system clears toxins in the brain during sleep (urmc.rochester.edu)
138 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2013Useful Old Technologies: ASN.1 (thanassis.space)
137 points | 2 years ago with 92 comments
2013Things Developers Should Know About SQL Server (brentozar.com)
136 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2013Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (paulsellers.com)
136 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments
2013Aztec Political Thought (abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com)
136 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments
2013Links are not buttons (karlgroves.com)
136 points | 3 years ago with 123 comments
2013Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 Minutes (emacs-doctor.com)
135 points | 9 years ago with 14 comments
2013Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. So the DEA Put Him in Prison (wired.com)
135 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments
2013Teach, Don’t Tell (stevelosh.com)
135 points | 9 years ago with 18 comments
2013Why I Majored in Philosophy Despite Everyone Telling Me Not To (mic.com)
135 points | 8 years ago with 204 comments
2013The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
135 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 7 comments
2013Windows 95 tips, tricks, and tweaks (windows95tips.com)
135 points | 1 year ago with 24 comments
2013My Microsoft Experience (blog.ellenchisa.com)
134 points | 9 years ago with 112 comments
2013One Tiny German Town, Seven Big Michelin Stars (nytimes.com)
133 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments
2013If only Borland had stuck with Turbo Modula-2 for CP/M (techtinkering.com)
133 points | 2 years ago with 88 comments
2013Computer Simulations Suggest War Drove the Rise of Civilisations (ua-magazine.com)
133 points | 8 years ago with 100 comments
2013Hard disk hacking (spritesmods.com)
132 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 4 comments
2013The Birth of Standard Error (www2.dmst.aueb.gr)
132 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments
2013Beyond Bézier Curves (bosker.wordpress.com)
132 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments
2013How to Think Real Good (meaningness.com)
131 points | 4 years ago with 6 comments
2013GitHub for Lawyers (jduclos.com)
131 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2013Teenagers who read news online may be a criminals, according to the DoJ (eff.org)
130 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments
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