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2014While open source is free as in beer, it’s also free as in baby (danielcompton.net)
84 points | 8 years ago with 50 comments
2014Fidonet Rules (wiki.c2.com)
84 points | 1 year ago with 45 comments
2014My Name is Brian and I Build Supercomputers in My Spare Time (parallella.org)
84 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2014How Gmail Happened (time.com)
84 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2014How Stoical Was Seneca? (nybooks.com)
84 points | 9 years ago with 22 comments
2014Cache coherency primer (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
83 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments
2014In 1914, a 200ft wave at Trinidad, California (briantissot.com)
83 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments
2014Thinkpad 701 overclocking and AMD-X5 133 MHz mod (blog.noq2.net)
83 points | 9 years ago with 23 comments
2014C Object Oriented Programming (nullprogram.com)
83 points | 1 year ago with 58 comments
2014To Wash It All Away (scholar.harvard.edu)
82 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2014We Fix: A DIY Manifesto (popularmechanics.com)
82 points | 4 years ago with 32 comments
2014The Productivity of Working Hours (ftp.iza.org)
82 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments
2014Building Sourcegraph - A large-scale code search engine in Go (text.sourcegraph.com)
82 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments
2014I stopped cosmonauts from carrying guns (spectrum.ieee.org)
82 points | 2 years ago with 115 comments
2014Engineering Security (cs.auckland.ac.nz)
82 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2014TruffleC: A C implementation on top of JVM (dl.acm.org)
82 points | 2 years ago with 87 comments
2014Learning a Manifold of Fonts (vecg.cs.ucl.ac.uk)
82 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments
2014D-Day Psyop (psywarrior.com)
82 points | 2 years ago with 12 comments
2014A Look Back at Why Blockbuster Really Failed and Why It Didn't Have To (forbes.com)
81 points | 6 years ago with 103 comments
2014How and Why We Designed Lucida (bigelowandholmes.typepad.com)
81 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2014How a Lawsuit Over Hot Coffee Helped Erode the 7th Amendment (priceonomics.com)
81 points | 8 years ago with 67 comments
2014Rich Command Shells (waywardmonkeys.org)
81 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2014Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks (youtube.com)
81 points | 4 years ago with 108 comments
2014In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (raft.github.io)
81 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2014Must-See Tech Talks for Every Programmer (ybrikman.com)
80 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2014Myths about /dev/urandom (2uo.de)
80 points | 6 years ago with 68 comments
2014Undefined behavior can result in time travel (devblogs.microsoft.com)
80 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2014How much is time wrong around the world? (blog.poormansmath.net)
80 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2014The Categories Were Made for Man, Not Man for the Categories (slatestarcodex.com)
80 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments
2014The Original Sin of Software Metrics (infoq.com)
80 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2014Does wearing glasses weaken your eyesight? (bbc.com)
80 points | 7 years ago with 56 comments
2014Getting Started with the GA144 and ArrayForth (bitlog.it)
80 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments
2014Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, Citizens (scholar.princeton.edu)
79 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 1 comments
2014John Yudkin: the man who tried to warn us about sugar in 1972 (telegraph.co.uk)
79 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 6 comments
2014Radio Tecnico: How the Zetas Cartel Took over Mexico with Walkie-Talkies (popsci.com)
79 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments
2014My startup failed, and this is what it feels like (medium.com)
79 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments
2014Web Scraping with Beautiful Soup (web.stanford.edu)
78 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments
2014How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey (chomsky.info)
78 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments
2014Medicine’s Uncomfortable Relationship with Math (archinte.jamanetwork.com)
78 points | 9 years ago with 43 comments
2014Dual Numbers and Automatic Differentiation (blog.demofox.org)
78 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments
2014Fox Two: The Story of the Aim-9 Sidewinder (donhollway.com)
78 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments
2014The stock market speaks: How Dr. Alchian learned to build the bomb (sciencedirect.com)
78 points | 3 years ago with 25 comments
2014Meta-meta-programming: Generating C++ templates with Racket Macros (matt.might.net)
78 points | 9 years ago with 10 comments
2014Your Response to Mistakes Defines You (fs.blog)
78 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments
2014Reading Hard-to-Read Gravestones (organizeyourfamilyhistory.com)
78 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2014A visual history of the future (assets.publishing.service.gov.uk)
78 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2014Common counterfeit foods and how to identify them (bonappetit.com)
77 points | 3 years ago with 95 comments
2014The Origins of the Linguistic Conception of Programming (pure.uva.nl)
77 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2014Britain Is Poorer Than Any US State (forbes.com)
77 points | 6 years ago with 100 comments
2014Toxoplasmosis – A Global Threat (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
77 points | 3 years ago with 54 comments
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