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2015We’re Not Ready for the Next Epidemic (gatesnotes.com)
99 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments
2015On Go, Portability, and System Interfaces (garrett.damore.org)
99 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments
2015Reversing ocean acidification with aggressive CO2 removal will take 700+ years (ibtimes.co.uk)
99 points | 3 years ago with 93 comments
2015Mathematics and Magic: The de Bruijn Card Trick (golem.ph.utexas.edu)
99 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2015Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution (meaningness.com)
99 points | 6 years ago with 42 comments
2015No, It’s Not Actually a Murder of Crows – Okay, technically it is (audubon.org)
98 points | 4 years ago with 154 comments
2015Relational lattices: From databases to universal algebra (dcs.bbk.ac.uk)
98 points | 8 years ago with 3 comments
2015Tech tips for people who are going to die someday (medium.com)
98 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2015The Complexity of a WW II P-47 Thunderbolt’s Powerplant (lynceans.org)
98 points | 4 years ago with 71 comments
2015The Programming Talent Myth (lwn.net)
98 points | 7 years ago with 145 comments
2015I am the fold (iamthefold.com)
98 points | 1 year ago with 43 comments
2015Optimizing Hash-Array Mapped Tries for Fast Immutable JVM Collections (michael.steindorfer.name)
98 points | 7 years ago with 25 comments
2015Bass: The physical sensation of sound (audioholics.com)
97 points | 2 years ago with 61 comments
2015What Libraries Can Still Do (nybooks.com)
97 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2015Inside the Secretive World of Tax-Avoidance Experts (theatlantic.com)
97 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 69 comments
2015Tabs and Makefile (beebo.org)
97 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments
2015Don't call me a '5:01er' (czep.net)
97 points | 8 years ago with 67 comments
2015Defending human civilization from supervolcanic eruptions (scienceandtechnology.jpl.nasa.gov)
97 points | 3 years ago with 88 comments
2015WLW: America's 500,000 watt radio station (neh.gov)
96 points | 5 years ago with 78 comments
2015Group brainstorming is a waste of time (hbr.org)
96 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments
2015The strangest time zones in the world (qz.com)
96 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments
2015How to receive a million packets per second (blog.cloudflare.com)
96 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
2015Lost at sea: a man who vanished for 14 months (theguardian.com)
95 points | 7 years ago with 31 comments
2015Thank you for calling tech support, now please die (arstechnica.com)
95 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2015Omega-3: Intervention for childhood behavioral problems? (sciencedaily.com)
95 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2015American using Britain’s NHS (businessinsider.in)
95 points | 7 years ago with 111 comments
2015Sending Cat Pictures Over The Phone (github.com)
95 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
2015Algorithmic Approaches to Playing Minesweeper (dash.harvard.edu)
95 points | 7 years ago with 32 comments
2015How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? (npr.org)
95 points | 4 years ago with 150 comments
2015Wander (1974) – a lost mainframe game is found (ahopeful.wordpress.com)
95 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2015Unit Economics (blog.samaltman.com)
95 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments
2015US military and intelligence computer networks (electrospaces.net)
95 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments
2015The High Cost of Not Doing Experiments (behavioralscientist.org)
94 points | 7 years ago with 31 comments
2015The Persian Desert (riowang.blogspot.com)
94 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2015Was object-oriented programming a failure? (quora.com)
94 points | 8 years ago with 119 comments
2015National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 preference for women on STEM tenure track (pnas.org)
94 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments
2015Is your programming language unreasonable? (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
94 points | 4 years ago with 130 comments
2015Pushing the Limits of Linux Kernel Networking (rhelblog.redhat.com)
94 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2015Understanding Parser Combinators (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
93 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2015An integer formula for Fibonacci numbers (blog.paulhankin.net)
93 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
2015Radioactive Hulk of Carrier USS Independence Found Off San Francisco (telstarlogistics.typepad.com)
93 points | 6 years ago with 97 comments
2015The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous (theatlantic.com)
93 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments
2015What did Jesus really look like? (bbc.com)
93 points | 6 years ago with 219 comments
2015The Psychology of Human Misjudgment (hb.org)
92 points | 8 years ago with 2 comments
2015The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source (blog.fogus.me)
92 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
2015Man wins French Scrabble championship without speaking a word of French (cbc.ca)
92 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments
2015Tips for Application Performance (nginx.com)
92 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2015Why Some Doctors Hesitate to Screen Smokers for Lung Cancer (npr.org)
91 points | 6 years ago with 90 comments
2015Maxwell's fluid model of magnetism (arxiv.org)
91 points | 6 years ago with 27 comments
2015The Two Types of Knowledge: The Max Planck/Chauffeur Test (farnamstreetblog.com)
91 points | 8 years ago with 33 comments
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