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2014All of Richard Feynman’s physics lectures are now available free online (sciencealert.com)
271 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2014Rooms and mazes: A procedural dungeon generator (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
270 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 30 comments
2014Learn difficult concepts with the ADEPT method (betterexplained.com)
270 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments
2014How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself (themarginalian.org)
270 points | 2 years ago with 102 comments
2014Localizing “Papers, Please” (dukope.tumblr.com)
269 points | 7 years ago with 143 comments
2014Unix system programming in OCaml (ocaml.github.io)
269 points | 6 years ago with 48 comments
2014Myths about /dev/urandom (2uo.de)
268 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 35 comments
2014Category Theory for Programmers (bartoszmilewski.com)
267 points | 7 years ago with 63 comments
2014Doing something is better than doing nothing for most people: study (news.virginia.edu)
267 points | 3 years ago with 194 comments
2014How to write a Git commit message (cbea.ms)
267 points | 2 years ago with 172 comments
2014Black Triangles (rampantgames.com)
266 points | 10 months ago with 65 comments
2014The Technology (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
266 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 1 comments
2014Game Programming Patterns: Event Queue (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
264 points | 4 years ago with 123 comments
2014Weak Men Are Superweapons (slatestarcodexabridged.com)
263 points | 3 years ago with 168 comments
2014Vector Animations with Python (zulko.github.io)
263 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 15 comments
2014I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (nautil.us)
262 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments
2014Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
262 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments
2014Java for Everything (teamten.com)
261 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 246 comments
2014Diplomacy: The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (grantland.com)
257 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 87 comments
2014The Lava Layer Anti-Pattern (mikehadlow.blogspot.com)
257 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 61 comments
2014Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun (realclearscience.com)
256 points | 5 years ago with 200 comments
2014SBCL: Assembly code breadboard (pvk.ca)
256 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 4 comments
2014Why squared error? (benkuhn.net)
256 points | 7 years ago with 99 comments
2014Applying to PhD Programs in Computer Science (cs.cmu.edu)
256 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 101 comments
2014JMAP: A better way to email (blog.fastmail.com)
253 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments
2014Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you’ve never heard of (righto.com)
251 points | 4 years ago with 46 comments
2014Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (j2kun.svbtle.com)
250 points | 8 years ago with 145 comments
2014Tetrachromats: people who see colors invisible to most of us (bbc.com)
249 points | 5 years ago with 221 comments
2014Study finds walking improves creativity (news.stanford.edu)
249 points | 3 years ago with 72 comments
2014Clifford Algebra: A visual introduction (slehar.wordpress.com)
247 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 24 comments
2014The Curse of Smart People (apenwarr.ca)
246 points | 7 years ago with 153 comments
2014Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (robert.ocallahan.org)
245 points | 7 years ago with 254 comments
2014Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science (cacm.acm.org)
241 points | 3 years ago with 167 comments
2014Google's CardDAV server isn't standards compliant (evertpot.com)
240 points | 6 years ago with 62 comments
2014Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (smithsonianmag.com)
239 points | 1 year ago with 158 comments
2014`three = 1` in the Linux sourcecode (github.com)
239 points | 3 years ago with 101 comments
2014Researchers use light to coax stem cells to repair teeth (seas.harvard.edu)
239 points | 8 years ago with 83 comments
2014Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics of Open Source (techcrunch.com)
238 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 9 comments
2014Reviving Smalltalk-78 (freudenbergs.de)
236 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2014Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (software.intel.com)
235 points | 6 years ago with 291 comments
2014UX Myths (uxmyths.com)
235 points | 8 years ago with 76 comments
2014Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time (theguardian.com)
234 points | 5 years ago with 109 comments
2014Literate programming: Knuth is doing it wrong (akkartik.name)
234 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 168 comments
2014Stories of Steve Jobs in Safari Design Reviews (donmelton.com)
233 points | 5 years ago with 103 comments
2014Packing a backpack (info.deuter.com)
232 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments
2014Lego has changed since we were kids (todaysparent.com)
231 points | 2 years ago with 287 comments
2014Learn C and build your own Lisp (buildyourownlisp.com)
231 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments
2014The slow death of purposeless walking (bbc.co.uk)
229 points | 8 years ago with 162 comments
2014Fork() can fail: this is important (rachelbythebay.com)
229 points | 4 years ago with 117 comments
2014Adam Smith and Inequality (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
228 points | 3 years ago with 270 comments
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