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2014Haskell’s State monad is not a monad (cse.chalmers.se)
103 points | 6 years ago with 69 comments
2014Go Is a Shop-built Jig (robnapier.net)
103 points | 6 years ago with 76 comments
2014FPGA-based hardware acceleration for a key-value store database (dspace.mit.edu)
103 points | 9 years ago with 45 comments
2014Differences between San Francisco and London (pulkitagrawal.tumblr.com)
103 points | 8 years ago with 89 comments
2014The Apple goto fail vulnerability: lessons learned (dwheeler.com)
102 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2014The Eccentric Lives of Steinhaus, Banach and Ulam (culture.pl)
102 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2014What I would do if I ran Tarsnap (kalzumeus.com)
101 points | 1 year ago with 84 comments
2014Cycling: Why Tunnels are Better than Bridges (notechmagazine.com)
101 points | 2 years ago with 72 comments
2014GEMM: From Pure C to SSE Optimized Micro Kernels (apfel.mathematik.uni-ulm.de)
101 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
2014A Tiny Austrian Town Has the Coolest Bus Shelters (citylab.com)
101 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2014Architect Has Painstakingly Standardized the World's Subway Maps (citylab.com)
101 points | 5 years ago with 67 comments
2014A Python internals adventure (flowerhack.dreamwidth.org)
101 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments
2014An interactive explanation of quadtrees (jimkang.com)
101 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments
2014The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary (bbc.com)
100 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments
2014The vanished grandeur of accounting (bostonglobe.com)
100 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
2014Teacher spends two days as a student (washingtonpost.com)
100 points | 7 years ago with 103 comments
2014Hints for Writing Unix Tools (monkey.org)
100 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2014Are you breathing? Do you have email apnea? (lindastone.net)
100 points | 1 year ago with 33 comments
2014LEDs Are Set to Revolutionize Greenhouse Farming (technologyreview.com)
99 points | 8 years ago with 58 comments
2014I'm just trying to change this lightbulb (mikesteder.com)
99 points | 2 years ago with 37 comments
2014Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years (theguardian.com)
99 points | 7 years ago with 52 comments
2014Parable of the Polygons (ncase.me)
99 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2014Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (bbc.com)
99 points | 8 years ago with 250 comments
2014Guy Fawkes night’s oddest traditions are due to a 1606 law (theconversation.com)
98 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments
2014Seven deadly sins of talking about “types” (cl.cam.ac.uk)
98 points | 5 years ago with 86 comments
2014A Theory of Jerks (aeon.co)
98 points | 7 years ago with 63 comments
2014Surreal numbers (ianopolous.peergos.me)
98 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments
2014Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (arxiv.org)
98 points | 7 years ago with 61 comments
2014The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits (grantland.com)
98 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments
2014REST and long-running jobs (farazdagi.com)
98 points | 6 years ago with 59 comments
2014The Curse of the Excluded Middle (queue.acm.org)
98 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 33 comments
2014A Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia (theatlantic.com)
98 points | 1 year ago with 78 comments
2014Exact mapping between Variational Renormalization Group and Deep Learning (arxiv.org)
97 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments
2014The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop (pudding.cool)
97 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments
2014ARM immediate value encoding (alisdair.mcdiarmid.org)
97 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments
2014A lesson in the lost technology of shorthand (theatlantic.com)
96 points | 8 years ago with 63 comments
2014A brief history of one line fixes (flak.tedunangst.com)
96 points | 2 years ago with 16 comments
2014SEL4: Mathematically Verified Software Kernels (sel4.systems)
96 points | 8 years ago with 34 comments
2014A History of Tug-Of-War Fatalities (priceonomics.com)
96 points | 8 years ago with 20 comments
2014Locks, Mutexes, and Semaphores: Types of Synchronization Objects (justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk)
96 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments
2014Eigenmorality (scottaaronson.com)
96 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
2014On the rheology of cats (drgoulu.com)
95 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2014Data Analysis and Visualization Using R (varianceexplained.org)
95 points | 8 years ago with 24 comments
2014Fungi Saved the World (feedthedatamonster.com)
95 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments
2014A Nazi Interrogator Who Revealed the Value of Kindness (psmag.com)
95 points | 6 years ago with 69 comments
2014The Sounds of Dialup Modems and Related Equipment (goughlui.com)
95 points | 9 years ago with 18 comments
2014Article 1 section 2 paragraph 3 of the US Constitution (fcsuper.blogspot.com)
94 points | 8 years ago with 67 comments
2014The Burning of Library.nu (knowledgeutopia.wordpress.com)
94 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2014The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (peertube2.cpy.re)
94 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2014Understanding Perlin Noise (flafla2.github.io)
94 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
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