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2014We Don’t Sell Saddles Here (medium.com)
57 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 10 comments
2014How the Carolinas Fixed Their Blurred Lines (nytimes.com)
57 points | 8 years ago with 34 comments
2014A Whale's Guide to Crypto Trading (cryptofrenzy.files.wordpress.com)
57 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
2014Circles rolling on circles (plus.maths.org)
57 points | 2 years ago with 22 comments
2014How to name things: the hardest problem in programming (slideshare.net)
57 points | 7 years ago with 36 comments
2014A New Physics Theory of Life (quantamagazine.org)
57 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 31 comments
2014Colleges Want Students with Character, but Can’t Measure It (nautil.us)
56 points | 6 years ago with 67 comments
2014Vectorized Bloom Filters for Advanced SIMD Processors (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
56 points | 8 years ago with 3 comments
2014The Escape of Bernd Boettger (hisutton.com)
56 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments
2014Academics argue over how many people read and cite their papers (smithsonianmag.com)
56 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments
2014A New Physics Theory of Life (quantamagazine.org)
56 points | 1 year ago with 39 comments
2014Fast Finite State Machine for HTTP Parsing (natsys-lab.blogspot.com)
56 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments
2014Reverse Engineering “Star Wars: Yoda Stories” (zachtronics.com)
56 points | 7 years ago with 5 comments
2014Randomness: the Ghost in the Machine? (3quarksdaily.com)
56 points | 7 years ago with 32 comments
2014Thoughts on Presenting (thefractionatingcolumn.com)
55 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
2014Neural Turing Machines (arxiv.org)
55 points | 9 years ago with 27 comments
2014Akhenaten: mad, bad, or brilliant? (telegraph.co.uk)
55 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
2014The Fallacy of Chesterton’s Fence (abovethelaw.com)
55 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 26 comments
2014Project Cybersyn and the Origins of the Big Data Nation (newyorker.com)
55 points | 3 years ago with 39 comments
2014Countries build 9 mile wide tree wall across Africa to prevent Sahara advancing (alearned.com)
54 points | 4 years ago with 13 comments
2014Understanding Heidegger on technology (thenewatlantis.com)
54 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments
2014Functional Programming Isn't the Answer (degoes.net)
54 points | 8 years ago with 91 comments
2014Trying to make sense of Colombia’s “Strata” economic system (occasionalplanet.org)
54 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2014How to Define New Intrinsics in SBCL (pvk.ca)
54 points | 8 years ago with 0 comments
2014Barricelli showed that organisms evolved by symbiosis and cooperation (nautil.us)
54 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments
2014Apple Rhapsody revisited, to go (tenfourfox.blogspot.com)
53 points | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2014Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet (theatlantic.com)
53 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
2014Domain-Specific Languages and Code Synthesis Using Haskell (queue.acm.org)
53 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments
2014Fovea detector (shadertoy.com)
53 points | 8 years ago with 8 comments
2014RDF 1.1 Primer (w3.org)
53 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments
2014Deadbolt locks offer false sense of security (gaterslocksmith.com)
53 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments
2014In Search of Hess’ Triangle (chriswhong.com)
53 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2014Artist made only $2,700 in royalties from 43M plays on Pandora (businessinsider.com)
53 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2014Origins of Venmo (kortina.nyc)
52 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2014C++ Coding Guidelines (howardhinnant.github.io)
52 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments
2014The Rise and Fall of the Open Source Mobile (relay70.metatron.ai)
52 points | 8 years ago with 25 comments
2014Interpersonal Traits of Aspies Placed in Context (gist.github.com)
52 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2014Embedded Systems – Shape the World (users.ece.utexas.edu)
52 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments
2014The Swift Array Design (github.com)
51 points | 4 years ago with 14 comments
2014Refactoring Legacy Code (tiffnix.com)
51 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2014The FBI Says It Can't Find Hackers to Hire Because They All Smoke Pot (motherboard.vice.com)
51 points | 8 years ago with 70 comments
2014Claude: Common Lisp Library Audience Expansion Toolkit (nicklevine.org)
51 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
2014Paris 1778: A new force in nature (digitalstories.wellcomecollection.org)
51 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments
2014How Did Cool Become Such a Big Deal? (neh.gov)
51 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments
2014A Weapon for Readers (nybooks.com)
51 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
2014The Programmer's Price (newyorker.com)
50 points | 4 years ago with 71 comments
2014Startup Growth Calculator (growth.tlb.org)
50 points | 4 years ago with 8 comments
2014Optimizing the Nethack 4.3 Save System (nethack4.org)
50 points | 3 years ago with 6 comments
2014Insane ways Google has been invading our privacy – Salon.com (salon.com)
50 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2014The Titanic Compared With a Modern Cruiseship (waitbutwhy.com)
50 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments
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