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2014The must-have accessory for the 1980s: 2-inch screen in-dash TV (autoweek.com)
77 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments
2014Alexander Grothendieck: Memories of a Great Mathematician (albany.edu)
77 points | 4 years ago with 0 comments
2014Fast: A Transducer-Based Language for Tree Manipulation (pages.cs.wisc.edu)
76 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments
2014Almost everyone developing Tor was or is funded by the US government (yashalevine.com)
76 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments
2014Illegal toxic waste dumping in Italy (gizmodo.com)
76 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2014New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start (quantamagazine.org)
76 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
2014Modern Communication: Sockets (ocaml.github.io)
76 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments
2014AIs Have Mastered Chess. Will Go Be Next? (spectrum.ieee.org)
76 points | 9 years ago with 55 comments
2014Before Silicon Valley got nasty the Pirates of Analog Alley fought it out (arstechnica.com)
76 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2014How to Shuffle Songs? (engineering.atspotify.com)
76 points | 1 year ago with 64 comments
2014Asymmetric numeral systems (arxiv.org)
75 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 4 comments
2014A Z80 from the Ground Up (baltazarstudios.com)
75 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2014The Divorce Surge Is Over, but the Myth Lives On (nytimes.com)
75 points | 6 years ago with 169 comments
2014Monads, or Programmable Semicolons (zacharyvoase.com)
75 points | 5 years ago with 71 comments
2014How Disney built and programmed an animatronic president (arstechnica.com)
75 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2014How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet (theintercept.com)
75 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments
2014What Do Animals See in a Mirror? (nautil.us)
74 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments
2014In Cryptography, Advances In Program Obfuscation (quantamagazine.org)
74 points | 9 years ago with 29 comments
2014You See Sneakers, These Guys See Hundreds of Millions in Resale Profit (fivethirtyeight.com)
74 points | 7 years ago with 33 comments
2014Temperature Conversion: Mental Calculation (susam.in)
74 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments
2014Ultrasound Networking (anfractuosity.com)
73 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 6 comments
2014Kolmogorov Complexity (informationtheory.weebly.com)
73 points | 9 years ago with 21 comments
2014What I learned from competing against a ConvNet on ImageNet (karpathy.github.io)
73 points | 8 years ago with 5 comments
2014Vegetables get freakish in the land of the midnight sun (npr.org)
73 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
2014An Introduction to Recursion Schemes (blog.sumtypeofway.com)
73 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2014Artist creates nanosculptures smaller than a human hair (newatlas.com)
73 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments
2014What Emotion Goes Viral the Fastest? (smithsonianmag.com)
72 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
2014The World's Dumbest Idea: Maximizing Shareholder Value (gmo.com)
72 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments
2014A statistical analysis of the work of Bob Ross (fivethirtyeight.com)
72 points | 2 years ago with 22 comments
2014How Does Lazy Evaluation Work in Haskell? (apfelmus.nfshost.com)
72 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments
2014The glibc s390 ABI break (lwn.net)
72 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments
2014The Fifth Protocol (startupboy.com)
72 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
2014Haskell vs. Clojure (gist.github.com)
72 points | 8 years ago with 52 comments
2014The Fun Scale (rei.com)
71 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments
2014Hidden benefits of gossip, ostracism (news.stanford.edu)
71 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments
2014The bell has tolled for rand() (cpp.indi.frih.net)
71 points | 8 years ago with 48 comments
2014Why can't all cities have bike bridges like Copenhagen's Cycle Snake? (theguardian.com)
71 points | 6 years ago with 56 comments
2014Hacking the Hivemind: Predicting Comment Karma on Internet Forums (cs229.stanford.edu)
70 points | 8 years ago with 49 comments
2014UK 'a tax haven for multinationals' (bbc.com)
70 points | 9 years ago with 52 comments
2014Computational Thinking Benefits Society (socialissues.cs.toronto.edu)
70 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments
2014Mystery Science Theater 3000: Oral History (wired.com)
70 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments
2014Modeling Potential Income and Welfare – Benefits in Illinois (d2dv7hze646xr.cloudfront.net)
70 points | 6 years ago with 108 comments
2014Making AI Philosophical Again: On Philip E. Agre’s Legacy (continentcontinent.cc)
70 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2014The FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They All Smoke Pot (motherboard.vice.com)
70 points | 7 years ago with 42 comments
2014The long-term effects of ugly political discussions on Facebook (arstechnica.com)
70 points | 9 years ago with 76 comments
2014Why was SCTP selected for WebRTC’s data channel? (bloggeek.me)
70 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2014Transform any text into a patent application (lav.io)
69 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments
2014How to start with CP/M (retrotechnology.com)
69 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2014Medical research: If depression were cancer (nature.com)
69 points | 9 years ago with 25 comments
2014Reactive Programming and MVC (aaronstacy.com)
69 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
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