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2014Is TDD Dead? (martinfowler.com)
445 points | 4 years ago with 476 comments
2014Torus-Earth (aleph.se)
441 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 33 comments
2014The Matasano crypto challenges (cryptopals.com)
440 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 54 comments
2014C4: C in Four Functions (github.com)
436 points | 4 years ago with 131 comments
2014Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (gkogan.co)
436 points | 4 years ago with 272 comments
2014“The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (git.kernel.org)
429 points | 5 years ago with 108 comments
2014Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU? (danluu.com)
427 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2014Literate DevOps (howardism.org)
427 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2014World Airports Voronoi (jasondavies.com)
424 points | 6 years ago with 107 comments
2014Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (github.com)
423 points | 3 years ago with 614 comments
2014Schools Should Exclusively Use Free Software (gnu.org)
418 points | 4 years ago with 286 comments
2014Raft Consensus Animated (thesecretlivesofdata.com)
411 points | 2 years ago with 67 comments
2014Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (pbs.org)
409 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 44 comments
2014Why Walking Helps Us Think (newyorker.com)
407 points | 7 years ago with 117 comments
2014How to Design Programs (htdp.org)
404 points | 3 years ago with 136 comments
2014Category Theory for Programmers (github.com)
403 points | 4 years ago with 129 comments
2014Stanford Unsupervised Deep Learning Tutorial (deeplearning.stanford.edu)
401 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2014John Carmack on Inlined Code (number-none.com)
395 points | 8 years ago with 199 comments
2014The Hair Dryer Incident (quotulatiousness.ca)
394 points | 3 years ago with 263 comments
2014Game Programming Patterns (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
393 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2014Linear Book Scanner – Open-source automatic book scanner (linearbookscanner.org)
388 points | 1 year ago with 83 comments
2014The retaliation: Pranking my roommate with targeted Facebook ads (ghostinfluence.com)
387 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 64 comments
2014Why my book can be downloaded for free (blog.plover.com)
386 points | 4 years ago with 134 comments
2014Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success (nature.com)
382 points | 2 years ago with 348 comments
2014What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (wozniak.ca)
379 points | 8 years ago with 295 comments
2014How ACH works: A developer perspective (engineering.gusto.com)
364 points | 7 years ago with 219 comments
2014Efficient dehumidifier makes air conditioning a breeze (pnnl.gov)
362 points | 2 years ago with 209 comments
2014How to Pick Your Life Partner (waitbutwhy.com)
362 points | 7 years ago with 209 comments
2014Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (aadrake.com)
362 points | 8 years ago with 171 comments
2014Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others (hndex.org)
360 points | 4 years ago with 391 comments
2014Fasting leads to stress resistance, self-renewal, and regeneration (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
359 points | 7 years ago with 233 comments
2014So You Want to Write Your Own Language (drdobbs.com)
356 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 143 comments
2014What's been wrought using the Piece Table? (web.archive.org)
354 points | 7 years ago with 83 comments
2014What Armenians should know about life in America (likewise.am)
353 points | 4 years ago with 347 comments
2014How to Write a Git Commit Message (chris.beams.io)
353 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 118 comments
2014Let’s write a simple Kernel (arjunsreedharan.org)
350 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2014What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL (wozniak.ca)
348 points | 4 years ago with 291 comments
2014Minimal Viable Programs (joearms.github.io)
348 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 1 comments
2014The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (washingtonpost.com)
348 points | 7 years ago with 226 comments
2014“Pigeon Neck” Illusion (michaelbach.de)
343 points | 1 year ago with 78 comments
2014Startups Can’t Manufacture Like Apple Does (blog.bolt.io)
341 points | 8 years ago with 81 comments
2014Teach Debugging (danluu.com)
340 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2014An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system (mbtaviz.github.io)
336 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments
2014What not to do when giving technical interviews (seldo.com)
334 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 174 comments
2014How to Start a Startup (startupclass.samaltman.com)
331 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 67 comments
2014Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (maplant.com)
330 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 32 comments
2014Much of the “science” used in design is bullshit (mjparnell.com)
330 points | 5 years ago with 137 comments
2014Algorithm recovers speech from a potato-chip bag filmed through glass (news.mit.edu)
327 points | 6 years ago with 109 comments
2014A Plane That Accidentally Circumnavigated the World (medium.com)
325 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2014When George Soros Broke the British Pound (priceonomics.com)
325 points | 4 years ago with 259 comments
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