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2014Turbinia – An Uninvited Guest (drewgrant.info)
113 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2014Performance/Avoid SQLite in Your Next Firefox Feature (wiki.mozilla.org)
113 points | 4 years ago with 58 comments
2014The Feynman Lectures on Physics Now Completely Online (openculture.com)
113 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments
2014Does being bored make us more creative? (fermatslibrary.com)
113 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2014Ponzi Schemes Using Virtual Currencies (sec.gov)
112 points | 7 years ago with 57 comments
2014HFT in My Backyard (sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com)
112 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments
2014Developers don't build cheaper housing because we make it illegal (letsgola.wordpress.com)
112 points | 9 years ago with 129 comments
2014Why Great Entrepreneurs Are Older Than You Think (forbes.com)
112 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments
2014Knuth on Dijkstra (gigamonkeys.com)
111 points | 3 years ago with 88 comments
2014Twenty Questions for Donald Knuth (informit.com)
111 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments
2014Using foot pedals for modifier keys in Linux (techtrickery.com)
111 points | 3 years ago with 78 comments
2014An iOS App in Assembly (github.com)
111 points | 7 years ago with 31 comments
2014Peer pressure’s effects are perhaps more powerful than we thought (washingtonpost.com)
110 points | 8 years ago with 84 comments
2014Almost-Billionaires (lackingambition.com)
110 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments
2014A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite (magazine.atavist.com)
110 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 13 comments
2014Meditations on Moloch (web.archive.org)
110 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments
2014Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft (theverge.com)
110 points | 8 years ago with 45 comments
2014This Thing for Which We Have No Name (edge.org)
110 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
2014Candy Wrappers Are Listening (spectrum.ieee.org)
109 points | 7 years ago with 42 comments
2014The Piranha of Portugal: the Greatest Counterfeiter of All Time (globalfinancialdata.com)
109 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
2014Liquid fun (google.github.io)
109 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2014Costs of Sprawl: The Speed Burden (originalgreen.org)
109 points | 8 years ago with 160 comments
2014The Voyage of the Kon-Tiki Misled the World About Navigating the Pacific (smithsonianmag.com)
109 points | 6 years ago with 75 comments
2014Sam Fussell: An interview with the author of Muscle (drmichaeljoyner.com)
109 points | 4 years ago with 8 comments
2014Ways to Lie with Charts (nautil.us)
109 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments
2014The Powerful Emotional Pull of Old Video Games (nautil.us)
109 points | 9 years ago with 80 comments
2014Why has progress stalled? (aeon.co)
109 points | 5 years ago with 137 comments
2014Mistakes You Should Never Make (sethbannon.com)
108 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments
2014When Carl Sagan sued Apple twice (engadget.com)
108 points | 2 years ago with 66 comments
2014The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Plutocrats (politico.com)
108 points | 4 years ago with 109 comments
2014Tuple Space (wiki.c2.com)
108 points | 1 year ago with 53 comments
2014To make programming easier, first be conscious of what makes it hard (lighttable.com)
107 points | 3 years ago with 82 comments
2014Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest (www3.imperial.ac.uk)
107 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments
2014The Upspin manifesto: On the ownership and sharing of data (commandcenter.blogspot.com)
107 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2014Snibgo's ImageMagick Pages (im.snibgo.com)
106 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments
2014Teensy 3.1 bare metal: Writing a USB driver (kevincuzner.com)
106 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2014What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers? (blog.janestreet.com)
106 points | 1 year ago with 120 comments
2014How Facebook’s Naive Optimism Built a Toolbox for Totalitarianism (exponents.co)
106 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
2014Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film (extension765.com)
104 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments
2014Difference Between Fault Tolerance, High Availability, Disaster Recovery (pbenson.net)
104 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2014Surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored (righto.com)
104 points | 3 years ago with 70 comments
2014Academic urban legends (journals.sagepub.com)
104 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments
2014Apple's Great GPL Purge (meta.ath0.com)
104 points | 8 years ago with 120 comments
2014100 Years Ago, a Telephone Tower in Stockholm Connected 5000 Phone Lines (twistedsifter.com)
104 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2014The Myth of RAM (ilikebigbits.com)
104 points | 1 year ago with 70 comments
2014Don’t support laws you are not willing to kill to enforce (washingtonpost.com)
104 points | 8 years ago with 140 comments
2014A Gene That Makes You Need Less Sleep? (newyorker.com)
104 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments
2014The limits of information (plus.maths.org)
103 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2014Pathfinding Demystified (gabrielgambetta.com)
103 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2014The D-Day rehearsal that cost 800 lives (bbc.com)
103 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments
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