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2015GPG and me (moxie.org)
127 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 75 comments
2015How elephants avoid cancer (nature.com)
126 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments
2015GTA V – Graphics Study (adriancourreges.com)
126 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2015Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (play.elevatorsaga.com)
126 points | 1 year ago with 43 comments
2015Connections between Abstract Algebra and High School Algebra (blogs.ams.org)
126 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2015Designing Zachtronics' TIS-100 (gamasutra.com)
126 points | 7 years ago with 33 comments
2015Inventing a Language, from the Guy Who Made Dothraki (wired.com)
126 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments
2015Bitcoin Paper Wallets (jrruethe.github.io)
125 points | 7 years ago with 64 comments
2015A remote island's battle against seabird-killing ants (audubon.org)
125 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2015Consciousness as a State of Matter (arxiv.org)
125 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 73 comments
2015No sane compiler would optimize atomics (open-std.org)
125 points | 3 years ago with 250 comments
2015Defining the Undefinedness of C (fsl.cs.illinois.edu)
124 points | 7 years ago with 88 comments
2015Gambiarra: repair culture (efeefe-arquivo.github.io)
123 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments
2015Unix Is Not an Acceptable Unix (mkremins.github.io)
123 points | 8 years ago with 139 comments
2015Oberon System Implemented on a Low-Cost FPGA Board (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
123 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2015The Content Marketing Handbook (priceonomics.com)
123 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2015Python's Hidden Regular Expression Gems (lucumr.pocoo.org)
123 points | 7 years ago with 29 comments
2015The CIA helped sell a mapping startup to Google (pando.com)
123 points | 4 years ago with 13 comments
2015The World Bank’s Broken Promise to the Poor (icij.org)
122 points | 7 years ago with 80 comments
2015Topology Illustrated (calculus123.com)
122 points | 4 years ago with 21 comments
2015My township calls my lawn ‘a nuisance’ (washingtonpost.com)
122 points | 8 years ago with 112 comments
2015The rise and fall of Thinking Machines (inc.com)
122 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2015For $5k, Chevy Will Let You Assemble Your Corvette Z06’s Engine Yourself (caranddriver.com)
121 points | 7 years ago with 64 comments
2015Japan’s 72 Microseasons (nippon.com)
121 points | 1 year ago with 59 comments
2015Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice (paulgraham.com)
121 points | 7 years ago with 103 comments
2015Driving the “Worst Car Ever Built” (jalopnik.com)
121 points | 7 years ago with 65 comments
2015The Making of Lemmings (readonlymemory.vg)
121 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
2015A man who grows fields full of tables and chairs (bbc.com)
121 points | 4 years ago with 46 comments
2015Her Facebook life looked perfect. How social media masks mental illness (cbc.ca)
121 points | 6 years ago with 123 comments
2015CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers (accu.org)
120 points | 6 years ago with 36 comments
2015Revisiting 64-bit-ness in Visual Studio and elsewhere (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
120 points | 8 years ago with 151 comments
2015Handbook for Writers (saylordotorg.github.io)
120 points | 2 years ago with 17 comments
2015Signal’s Founder on GPG (moxie.org)
120 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2015Food Order Has Significant Impact on Glucose and Insulin Levels (news.weill.cornell.edu)
120 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
2015Why OpenCV uses BGR color space (learnopencv.com)
120 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments
2015Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems (papers.nips.cc)
119 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 5 comments
2015Assembly Language Programming: Still Relevant Today (wilsonminesco.com)
119 points | 5 years ago with 96 comments
2015Reading Is Forgetting (nybooks.com)
119 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2015Why we ground electrical systems (reddit.com)
119 points | 5 years ago with 117 comments
2015Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot (nautil.us)
119 points | 6 years ago with 69 comments
2015Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (joearms.github.io)
119 points | 5 years ago with 81 comments
2015Can I exec a new process without an executable file? (unix.stackexchange.com)
118 points | 2 years ago with 42 comments
2015Nothing Is Cheaper Than Proof of Work (truthcoin.info)
118 points | 7 years ago with 114 comments
2015Czech Passive Radar Detecting B-2 at 150 miles (defence-blog.com)
118 points | 5 years ago with 119 comments
2015What's worked in Computer Science (danluu.com)
118 points | 7 years ago with 62 comments
2015Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive? (nytimes.com)
118 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments
2015Urine, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes in Pools (smithsonianmag.com)
118 points | 6 years ago with 93 comments
2015Are you a “harbinger of failure”? (news.mit.edu)
118 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 34 comments
2015Built to Last – RSS, HTTP (blog.theoldreader.com)
118 points | 3 years ago with 103 comments
2015Why Virtual Classes Can Be Better Than Real Ones (nautil.us)
117 points | 8 years ago with 28 comments
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