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2014Challenging Clojure in Common Lisp (chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com)
124 points | 7 years ago with 75 comments
2014How People Used to Download Games from the Radio (kotaku.co.uk)
124 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2014Programming Sucks (stilldrinking.org)
124 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 29 comments
2014Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine (lispm.de)
123 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 57 comments
2014Impending kOS (archive.vector.org.uk)
123 points | 5 years ago with 84 comments
2014A Random Walk Through Ada (cowlark.com)
123 points | 8 years ago with 88 comments
2014Why there is no Facebook killer: the death of the P2P dream (disconnectionist.com)
123 points | 8 years ago with 136 comments
2014Why Asians wear surgical masks in public (qz.com)
122 points | 5 years ago with 102 comments
2014Building Win16 GUI Applications in C (transmissionzero.co.uk)
122 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments
2014Bernstein v. the U.S. Department of State (britannica.com)
121 points | 2 years ago with 50 comments
2014How do you compute the midpoint of an interval? (hal.archives-ouvertes.fr)
121 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2014One Week of Bugs (danluu.com)
121 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 15 comments
2014Scottish Nitroglycerin and One Legged Stools (lateralscience.blogspot.com)
121 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2014China Doesn't Understand the Concept of American Chinese Food (munchies.vice.com)
121 points | 7 years ago with 153 comments
2014Mitre Systems Engineering Guide (mitre.org)
121 points | 5 years ago with 32 comments
2014Workplaces need more walls, not fewer (washingtonpost.com)
120 points | 7 years ago with 116 comments
2014Experiments reveal faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track (pnas.org)
120 points | 6 years ago with 107 comments
2014My Friend, Stalin’s Daughter (newyorker.com)
120 points | 1 year ago with 55 comments
2014The Pitchforks Are Coming for Us Plutocrats (politico.com)
120 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 4 comments
2014Worst practices are viral for the wrong reasons (haskellforall.com)
120 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments
2014Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for (youtube.com)
120 points | 3 years ago with 96 comments
2014Why Do We Have Blood Types? (mosaicscience.com)
120 points | 7 years ago with 36 comments
2014Emacs Bytecode Internals (nullprogram.com)
120 points | 7 years ago with 25 comments
2014How libraries decide which books to keep (medium.com)
119 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 23 comments
2014How To Use 23andMe Irresponsibly (slatestarcodex.com)
119 points | 7 years ago with 40 comments
2014Halo was written with a Lisp dialect called blamscript (opencarnage.net)
119 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments
2014Estimate the size of your English vocabulary (vocabulary.ugent.be)
119 points | 5 years ago with 108 comments
2014Implementing and Understanding Type Classes (okmij.org)
118 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2014How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company (priceonomics.com)
118 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2014Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers. Make Macros Instead (jlongster.com)
118 points | 6 years ago with 145 comments
2014A bit of XENIX history (seefigure1.com)
118 points | 3 years ago with 104 comments
2014Can NAT traversal be Tor's killer feature? (gist.github.com)
117 points | 8 years ago with 22 comments
2014The Frozen Banana Republic (modernfarmer.com)
117 points | 7 years ago with 59 comments
2014Numbers 0 to 11111 in terms of Increasing and Decreasing Orders of 1 to 9 (arxiv.org)
116 points | 7 years ago with 56 comments
2014Probably Approximately Correct – A Formal Theory of Learning (jeremykun.com)
116 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments
2014How to Be an Expert in a Changing World (paulgraham.com)
116 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2014What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (brainpickings.org)
116 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments
2014The 1993 Murder She Wrote VR episode (wired.com)
115 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments
2014The GömböC: An object that shouldn't exist (plus.maths.org)
115 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments
2014GitLab Flow (about.gitlab.com)
115 points | 8 years ago with 22 comments
2014A Codebase Is an Organism (meltingasphalt.com)
115 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments
2014World Capitals Voronoi (jasondavies.com)
114 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 44 comments
2014How Crowdsourcing Turned on Me (nautil.us)
114 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 29 comments
2014Rosetta Stone for Unix (bhami.com)
114 points | 7 years ago with 25 comments
2014Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest (phys.org)
114 points | 6 years ago with 33 comments
2014The dolphin who loved me: the Nasa-funded project that went wrong (theguardian.com)
114 points | 6 years ago with 57 comments
2014Being a cop showed me just how racist and violent the police are (washingtonpost.com)
114 points | 8 years ago with 61 comments
2014Board Members (blog.samaltman.com)
114 points | 1 year ago with 26 comments
2014Checked exceptions: Java’s biggest mistake (literatejava.com)
114 points | 4 years ago with 317 comments
2014Open Letter to a Car-Addicted City (planetizen.com)
113 points | 7 years ago with 140 comments
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