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2014Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services (research.microsoft.com)
175 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 5 comments
2014Why Does Windows Think My Keyboard Is a Toaster? (superuser.com)
175 points | 8 years ago with 28 comments
2014The apt command: Combining apt-get and apt-cache and adds a progress bar (mvogt.wordpress.com)
175 points | 8 years ago with 74 comments
2014Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion (randomascii.wordpress.com)
175 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2014Why Programming is Difficult (joearms.github.io)
175 points | 8 years ago with 111 comments
2014The Mesmerizing Architecture of Mosques (medium.com)
175 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments
2014The power of keeping a coding journal (thomasburette.com)
175 points | 1 year ago with 67 comments
201412-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Bad for Safety and Should Be Replaced (citylab.com)
174 points | 8 years ago with 143 comments
2014How 'DevOps' Is Killing the Developer (jeffknupp.com)
173 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 140 comments
2014Why Your Best Thinking Is in the Shower (openculture.com)
173 points | 7 years ago with 66 comments
2014Japan Shows the Way to Affordable Megacities (nextcity.org)
172 points | 7 years ago with 211 comments
2014Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (tldp.org)
172 points | 2 years ago with 78 comments
2014Divorce rate cut in half for couples who discussed relationship movies (rochester.edu)
172 points | 3 years ago with 83 comments
2014Iron Nitride Permanent Magnets – An Alternative to Rare Earth Magnets (license.umn.edu)
171 points | 7 years ago with 124 comments
2014For Online Courses, Questions Over How Success is Measured (texastribune.org)
171 points | 5 years ago with 78 comments
2014Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath (theatlantic.com)
171 points | 6 years ago with 122 comments
2014Apple (Pro) Mouse (minimallyminimal.com)
171 points | 4 years ago with 222 comments
2014The Founder’s Guide To Selling Your Company (justinkan.com)
170 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments
2014HDMI Light V2: Open-Hardware FPGA-Based Clone of Philips Ambilight (hacks.esar.org.uk)
170 points | 6 years ago with 33 comments
2014History of lossless data compression algorithms (ethw.org)
168 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments
2014Larry Page's Comeback (businessinsider.com)
168 points | 3 years ago with 93 comments
2014Most People With Addiction Grow Out of It (psmag.com)
168 points | 5 years ago with 125 comments
2014Total Recall: LeBron's mighty mind (espn.com)
167 points | 6 years ago with 95 comments
2014How to be an open source gardener (words.steveklabnik.com)
167 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2014You have a set amount of “weirdness points” – spend them wisely (lesswrong.com)
167 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 86 comments
2014There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (priceonomics.com)
166 points | 8 years ago with 184 comments
2014You might not need jQuery (youmightnotneedjquery.com)
166 points | 3 years ago with 226 comments
2014Why I can’t have conversations using Twitter (antirez.com)
166 points | 7 years ago with 74 comments
2014Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion thru social networks (pnas.org)
166 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments
2014Dostoyevsky's “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” (brainpickings.org)
165 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2014What is the purpose of check-in before flying? (travel.stackexchange.com)
164 points | 2 years ago with 76 comments
2014An OSI layer model for the 21st century (davidad.github.io)
164 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2014Automated snare drum made to the order of Aphex Twin (logosfoundation.org)
164 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2014UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then? (happyassassin.net)
164 points | 8 years ago with 51 comments
2014Learn to write a simple OS kernel with keyboard/screen support (github.com)
164 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2014The Nokia N9 Alarm Clock (nition.momentstudio.co.nz)
164 points | 5 years ago with 97 comments
2014How I Write SQL, Part 1: Naming Conventions (launchbylunch.com)
164 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments
2014Dropped (grantland.com)
163 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments
2014How Optimizely Almost Got Me Fired (blog.sumall.com)
163 points | 8 years ago with 78 comments
2014Nobody lives here: Nearly 5M Census Blocks with zero population (tumblr.mapsbynik.com)
162 points | 3 years ago with 103 comments
2014Rob Pike on good commit messages (groups.google.com)
162 points | 4 years ago with 94 comments
2014Enslaved and then marooned on Tromelin Island for fifteen years (archaeology.org)
162 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
2014Oppenheimer and the Gita (blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
162 points | 5 years ago with 70 comments
2014Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn't (npr.org)
161 points | 5 years ago with 214 comments
2014The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (theatlantic.com)
160 points | 7 years ago with 169 comments
2014The largest living thing on Earth is a fungus (bbc.com)
160 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments
2014I was forced to shut down Lavabit (theguardian.com)
160 points | 7 years ago with 47 comments
2014Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
160 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 1 comments
2014Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic for programming (glench.com)
160 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 50 comments
2014Writing Is Thinking (alistapart.com)
159 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
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