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2014Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology (colah.github.io)
227 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 25 comments
2014How I Start: Go (howistart.org)
226 points | 7 years ago with 121 comments
2014Everyone on Earth is your cousin (qz.com)
226 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 53 comments
2014Just because it's an Internet Draft doesn't mean anything at all (tools.ietf.org)
226 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2014What 2,000 Calories Looks Like (nytimes.com)
225 points | 8 years ago with 213 comments
2014Flipped Iceberg (alexcornell.com)
225 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2014PostgreSQL anti-patterns: read-modify-write cycles (blog.2ndquadrant.com)
224 points | 7 years ago with 76 comments
2014Linux Graphics Demystified (keyj.emphy.de)
224 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2014Standard deviation is ready for retirement: Nassim Taleb (edge.org)
223 points | 8 years ago with 120 comments
2014A Tiny, $25 Million Mistake (npr.org)
222 points | 6 years ago with 136 comments
2014CPython internals: Ten-hour codewalk through the interpreter source code (pgbovine.net)
221 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2014College Sex-Assault Trials Belong in Court, Not Campus (chronicle.com)
221 points | 8 years ago with 213 comments
2014Why Apple Will Switch to ARM-Based Macs (mattrichman.net)
219 points | 2 years ago with 209 comments
2014C.I.A. Lacing (fieggen.com)
218 points | 4 years ago with 89 comments
2014Oracle started as a CIA project (gizmodo.com)
218 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 90 comments
2014The Door Problem (lizengland.com)
217 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 11 comments
2014Code Is Not Literature (gigamonkeys.com)
217 points | 1 year ago with 136 comments
2014Putting $10M into uBeam illustrates what is wrong with tech investing (lookatmeimdanny.tumblr.com)
217 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 11 comments
2014Memory management in C programs (nethack4.org)
216 points | 8 years ago with 103 comments
2014White noise improves learning by modulating activity in midbrain regions (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
216 points | 2 years ago with 102 comments
2014Syntax Design (cs.lmu.edu)
216 points | 2 years ago with 69 comments
2014The XY Problem (xyproblem.info)
216 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 95 comments
2014Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (themarginalian.org)
216 points | 1 year ago with 285 comments
2014GitHub Renamed Me (russbishop.net)
215 points | 1 year ago with 73 comments
2014Things I Won’t Work With: Peroxide Peroxides (blogs.sciencemag.org)
215 points | 8 years ago with 102 comments
2014Elementary Applied Topology (math.upenn.edu)
215 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments
2014Modern Anti-Spam and E2E Crypto (moderncrypto.org)
214 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 45 comments
2014The Legendary Study That Embarrassed Wine Experts (realclearscience.com)
214 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 173 comments
2014A first-person engine in 265 lines (playfuljs.com)
213 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
2014Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL (storagemojo.com)
213 points | 7 years ago with 71 comments
2014H. G. Wells' 1934 interview with Stalin (newstatesman.com)
213 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 52 comments
2014Where have you gone, Peter Norton? (technologizer.com)
212 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 66 comments
2014Key differences between Python 2.7.x and Python 3.x (sebastianraschka.com)
212 points | 7 years ago with 168 comments
2014How much math you need for programming (lispmachine.wordpress.com)
212 points | 3 years ago with 178 comments
2014Freshmeat.net, 1997-2014 (jeffcovey.net)
211 points | 2 years ago with 146 comments
2014Simple Wi-Fi Yagi (ham-radio.com)
211 points | 7 years ago with 67 comments
2014Avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods (outofyourrut.com)
210 points | 3 years ago with 456 comments
2014Inside Erlang – Joe Armstrong tells his story (wcm.ericsson.net)
209 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2014The Invention of the AeroPress (priceonomics.com)
207 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 184 comments
2014Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (electronics.stackexchange.com)
207 points | 1 year ago with 743 comments
2014Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (theatlantic.com)
206 points | 7 years ago with 122 comments
2014Photos from Inside North Korea (earthnutshell.com)
205 points | 7 years ago with 57 comments
2014Random Ultima Online anecdote #2 – Horses inside players (raphkoster.com)
205 points | 2 years ago with 113 comments
2014How to Ask Questions the Smart Way (catb.org)
204 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments
2014The Programmers' Stone (datapacrat.com)
203 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments
2014Wim Hof breathing technique can modulate immune response to pathogens (pnas.org)
203 points | 4 years ago with 95 comments
2014Introduction to A* (redblobgames.com)
201 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2014What am I running inside my bash? (thanassis.space)
201 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments
2014An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions a Year (epi.org)
201 points | 3 years ago with 111 comments
2014WebGL Fluid Experiment (haxiomic.github.io)
200 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments
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