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2015Badly educated men have not adapted well to trade, technology or feminism (economist.com)
117 points | 7 years ago with 88 comments
2015Cybersecurity in 1989: Looking back at “The Cuckoo's Egg” (lawfareblog.com)
117 points | 2 years ago with 55 comments
2015Debugging Lisp (malisper.me)
117 points | 4 years ago with 32 comments
2015IT professionals should work in a mainframe environment at some point (planetmainframe.com)
117 points | 5 years ago with 115 comments
2015Programming R at native speed using Haskell (tweag.io)
116 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments
2015I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (sigbus.info)
116 points | 8 years ago with 24 comments
2015What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school? (bostonglobe.com)
116 points | 8 years ago with 98 comments
2015The Art of Plain Text (netmeister.org)
115 points | 3 years ago with 85 comments
2015African Vernacular Architecture Database (notechmagazine.com)
115 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments
2015The dawn of online piracy (newyorker.com)
115 points | 7 years ago with 49 comments
2015Coreutils Gotchas (pixelbeat.org)
114 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2015Reconsider (m.signalvnoise.com)
114 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments
2015Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
114 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2015“Eeny, meeny, miny, mo” and the ambiguous history of counting-out rhymes (theparisreview.org)
114 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 49 comments
2015Erlang Garbage Collection Details and Why It Matters (hamidreza-s.github.io)
114 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments
2015A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (nullprogram.com)
114 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2015The nihilist and optimist programmers (peter.bourgon.org)
114 points | 7 years ago with 36 comments
20152600 Accused of Using Unauthorized Ink Splotches (2600.com)
114 points | 7 years ago with 36 comments
2015The end of capitalism has begun (theguardian.com)
113 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2015Why I always hit the crosswalk button (klittlepage.com)
113 points | 1 year ago with 295 comments
2015Sum Types Are Coming (chadaustin.me)
113 points | 7 years ago with 113 comments
2015Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die (viva64.com)
112 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 61 comments
2015How to Write a Video Player in Less Than 1000 Lines (dranger.com)
112 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
2015Nominative determinism in hospital medicine (publishing.rcseng.ac.uk)
112 points | 3 years ago with 63 comments
2015Tar is an ill-specified format (invisible-island.net)
112 points | 4 years ago with 110 comments
2015Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza (confluent.io)
112 points | 8 years ago with 30 comments
2015Getting the Lorentz transformations without requiring an invariant speed (arxiv.org)
111 points | 1 year ago with 55 comments
2015How corporates co-opted mindfulness to make us bear the unbearable (theconversation.com)
111 points | 7 years ago with 54 comments
2015The 'Over-Parenting Crisis' in School and at Home (npr.org)
111 points | 6 years ago with 198 comments
2015AppleCrate II: A New Apple II-Based Parallel Computer (michaeljmahon.com)
111 points | 4 years ago with 34 comments
2015Monkey Patching in Go (bou.ke)
111 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 6 comments
2015Disproved Discoveries That Won Nobel Prizes (realclearscience.com)
111 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2015Spreadsheets are dreams (medium.com)
111 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2015The curious death of Oppenheimer’s mistress (blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
111 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2015Why Billionaires Don't Pay Property Taxes in New York (bloomberg.com)
110 points | 3 years ago with 103 comments
2015FatELF: Universal Binaries for Linux (icculus.org)
110 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments
2015Avoiding visible texture repetition (iquilezles.org)
110 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments
2015An Indian Ocean island with a community that has been there for 60K years (dailymail.co.uk)
109 points | 8 years ago with 101 comments
2015Explosive Laden Drone Found Near Nord Stream Pipeline (pipeline-journal.net)
109 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
2015How Julian Jaynes’ consciousness theory is faring in the neuroscience age (nautil.us)
109 points | 7 years ago with 90 comments
2015Fastest Way to Delete Large Folders in Windows (mattpilz.com)
109 points | 7 years ago with 107 comments
2015Constraint Solver (mattkeeter.com)
109 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments
2015A Pedometer in the Real World (aosabook.org)
109 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2015The Now Habit (2uo.de)
109 points | 6 years ago with 30 comments
2015Alexander Grothendieck, a genius of mathematics (al3x.svbtle.com)
108 points | 8 years ago with 18 comments
2015Writing a DSL in Lua (leafo.net)
108 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
2015Rich Formula: Quant Trading (forbes.com)
108 points | 7 years ago with 60 comments
201550 Years of Data Science (courses.csail.mit.edu)
108 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2015How we found the source of the mystery signals at Parkes Radio Telescope (theconversation.com)
108 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2015Creating the alien writing in Infinifactory (zachtronics.com)
108 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
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