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2015Phenylephrine Is No More Effective Than Placebo for Nasal Congestion (jwatch.org)
91 points | 6 years ago with 100 comments
2015Dining like Darwin: When scientists swallow their subjects (npr.org)
91 points | 1 year ago with 83 comments
2015Recursion, Tail Calls and Trampolines in JavaScript (datchley.name)
90 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2015The Untold Story of Silk Road (wired.com)
90 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2015Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens (journals.plos.org)
90 points | 3 years ago with 81 comments
2015How to drive in India (theforeignchallenge.com)
90 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments
2015Implementing VisiCalc (rmf.vc)
90 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2015Fear and Loathing in APL (theburningmonk.com)
90 points | 7 years ago with 25 comments
2015Reverse Engineering Wipeout (phoboslab.org)
90 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2015Mast Brothers: $10 a bar for crappy hipster chocolate (qz.com)
90 points | 5 years ago with 66 comments
2015The web is not poor man’s native (cwilso.com)
89 points | 2 years ago with 117 comments
2015A New Aristocracy: Yale Law School Commencement Address (law.yale.edu)
89 points | 5 years ago with 80 comments
2015What MongoDB got right (blog.nelhage.com)
89 points | 7 years ago with 93 comments
2015Passionate kissing is not a human universal (hraf.yale.edu)
89 points | 5 years ago with 68 comments
2015Handling 1M Requests per Minute with Go (marcio.io)
88 points | 7 years ago with 36 comments
2015Rust for Clojurists (gist.github.com)
88 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2015Designing a Programming Language (ducklang.org)
88 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments
2015Catching integer overflows with template metaprogramming (capnproto.org)
88 points | 8 years ago with 32 comments
2015The Physical Sacrifice of Thinking (journals.sagepub.com)
88 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2015Can Esperanto Make a Comeback? (npr.org)
88 points | 4 years ago with 222 comments
2015Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s (lowtechmagazine.com)
88 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2015Children Beating Up Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver System (spectrum.ieee.org)
88 points | 6 years ago with 61 comments
2015The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra: A Visual Approach (link.springer.com)
88 points | 8 years ago with 2 comments
2015What every compiler writer should know about programmers (complang.tuwien.ac.at)
88 points | 6 years ago with 62 comments
2015A constructive look at the Atari 2600 BASIC cartridge (boston.conman.org)
88 points | 7 years ago with 36 comments
2015Galileo was right, but so were his critics (strangenotions.com)
87 points | 5 years ago with 74 comments
2015Machine intelligence (blog.samaltman.com)
87 points | 1 year ago with 192 comments
2015We may not be running out of helium after all (newatlas.com)
87 points | 5 years ago with 78 comments
2015My First LLVM Compiler (wilfred.me.uk)
87 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments
2015The Jonathan Computer (storiesofapple.net)
86 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2015A survey of attacks against Intel x86 over last 10 years (blog.invisiblethings.org)
86 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2015Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the almost first, forgotten microprocessor (righto.com)
86 points | 2 years ago with 41 comments
2015The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work (web.cs.ucdavis.edu)
86 points | 3 years ago with 15 comments
2015How Birds Evolved From Dinosaurs (quantamagazine.org)
86 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments
2015The Strange Persistence of First Languages (nautil.us)
86 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 5 comments
2015The moral character of cryptographic work (web.cs.ucdavis.edu)
86 points | 1 year ago with 54 comments
2015Why did old phone numbers start with letters? (mentalfloss.com)
85 points | 1 year ago with 141 comments
2015This Industry is Fucked (blog.jessfraz.com)
85 points | 8 years ago with 101 comments
2015No Brainer (rifters.com)
85 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments
2015Architecting Containers: Understanding User Space vs. Kernel Space (redhat.com)
85 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments
2015Study finds, surprisingly, that women are favored for jobs in STEM (washingtonpost.com)
85 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2015The brain as a universal learning machine (lesswrong.com)
85 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments
2015Lexical Distance Among Languages of Europe (alternativetransport.wordpress.com)
84 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2015Bunnyhopping from the Programmer's Perspective (adrianb.io)
84 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments
2015Packard Merlin: How Detroit Mass-Produced Britain’s Hand-Built Powerhouse (tested.com)
84 points | 6 years ago with 75 comments
2015Why do we still permit tobacco use? (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
84 points | 3 years ago with 221 comments
2015Google is 2B lines of code and it's all in one place (wired.com)
84 points | 3 years ago with 95 comments
2015When free software isn't practically superior (gnu.org)
83 points | 4 years ago with 107 comments
2015Ancient Computers (ethw.org)
83 points | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2015Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe root causes of war (theecologist.org)
83 points | 1 year ago with 62 comments
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