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2014Arrow's Theorem (plato.stanford.edu)
94 points | 7 years ago with 69 comments
2014Chicken Scheme internals: the garbage collector (more-magic.net)
94 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2014How I Judge the Quality of Documentation in 30 Seconds (ericholscher.com)
93 points | 6 years ago with 59 comments
2014Neurological evidence for chaos in the nervous system (nautil.us)
93 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 13 comments
2014“Person of Interest”: The TV Show That Predicted Edward Snowden (newyorker.com)
93 points | 9 years ago with 35 comments
2014Who Smeared Richard Feynman? (blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
93 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments
2014The boring front-end developer (adamsilver.io)
93 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments
2014DNA→RNA: What Do Students Think the Arrow Means? (europepmc.org)
93 points | 3 years ago with 71 comments
2014Samizdat – Platform for self-hosted, P2P, encrypted communication (samizdat.childrenofmay.org)
93 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
2014The Anti-Hero of CSS Layout – “display:table” (colintoh.com)
93 points | 8 years ago with 57 comments
2014Reader Macros in Common Lisp (lisper.in)
93 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments
2014Why I Like Java (blog.plover.com)
93 points | 3 years ago with 143 comments
2014Software Checklist (solipsys.co.uk)
92 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
2014Tips to Unlock the Potential of Microsoft OneNote (onthehub.com)
92 points | 9 years ago with 88 comments
2014Bitcoin Mining is NP-hard (freedom-to-tinker.com)
92 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
2014A Spoon That Shakes to Counteract Hand Tremors (npr.org)
92 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2014Agony of an African Programmer (iafrikan.com)
92 points | 5 years ago with 83 comments
2014Line Breaking (xxyxyz.org)
91 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2014PDP-11/Hack (madrona.ca)
91 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments
2014Stanislaw Lem’s Futurism (nautil.us)
91 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2014Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense (nautil.us)
91 points | 7 years ago with 61 comments
2014Don't Settle for Eventual Consistency (queue.acm.org)
91 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
2014The World's Largest Submarine: The Soviet Union's Pr. 941 Typhoon SSBN (imgur.com)
91 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2014Massive ‘ocean’ discovered towards Earth’s core (newscientist.com)
90 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2014Maintainable JavaScript (alexkras.com)
90 points | 8 years ago with 29 comments
2014When mechanical analog computers ruled the waves (arstechnica.com)
90 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2014Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing (blogs.wsj.com)
90 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments
2014Recognizing Speech from Smartphone Gyroscopes (crypto.stanford.edu)
90 points | 9 years ago with 13 comments
2014NORAD's Santa Tracker Began with a Typo and a Good Sport (npr.org)
89 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments
2014The Last Survivors of Meridian 59 (newyorker.com)
89 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments
2014Money Creation in the Modern Economy (bankofengland.co.uk)
89 points | 9 years ago with 97 comments
2014Concrete AI tasks for forecasting (aiimpacts.org)
88 points | 8 years ago with 43 comments
2014Storing state in Erlang with processes (dantswain.herokuapp.com)
88 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2014How many melodies are there? (plus.maths.org)
88 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments
2014Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored (righto.com)
88 points | 7 years ago with 33 comments
2014Sweden Has a Sub So Deadly the US Navy Hired It to Play Bad Guy (foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com)
88 points | 7 years ago with 98 comments
2014The Math Behind the Rolling Shutter Phenomenon (petapixel.com)
87 points | 4 years ago with 21 comments
2014PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server from the point of view of a data analyst (pg-versus-ms.com)
87 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments
2014Reinventing the Git Interface (tonsky.me)
86 points | 8 years ago with 78 comments
2014Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms (spin.atomicobject.com)
86 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2014How Surround Sound for Headphones Works (hajo.me)
86 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments
2014A brief history of Elasticsearch (jaxenter.com)
86 points | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2014Perfectly Ordinary Stones, Carried for 1,300 Years (ishimochi.com)
85 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2014The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy (cis.upenn.edu)
85 points | 7 years ago with 13 comments
2014The Anatomy of a Z80 Gate (devic.us)
85 points | 8 years ago with 15 comments
2014South Korea rules pre-installed phone bloatware must be deletable (zdnet.com)
85 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2014How do unschoolers turn out? (kqed.org)
85 points | 4 years ago with 120 comments
2014To Predict Turbulence, Count the Puffs (nautil.us)
85 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2014The history of “How to Lie with Smoking Statistics” (refsmmat.com)
85 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments
2014After Your First Big Startup Success, What’s Next? (feld.com)
84 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments
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