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2015The Man Who Got No Whammies (priceonomics.com)
83 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments
2015The unreasonable effectiveness of character-level language models (colab.research.google.com)
83 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments
2015Teaching My Computer to Write Its Own Music (nautil.us)
83 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2015Russian researchers expose U.S. spying program (reuters.com)
83 points | 7 years ago with 90 comments
2015APL and J (crypto.stanford.edu)
83 points | 5 years ago with 38 comments
2015Monkeys' cosy alliance with wolves looks like domestication (newscientist.com)
82 points | 3 years ago with 20 comments
2015One man's immunity to ticks (caryinstitute.org)
81 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments
2015The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics (blog.jaibot.com)
81 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments
2015The Mobile-Home Trap (seattletimes.com)
81 points | 6 years ago with 66 comments
2015A circuit-like notation for lambda calculus (csvoss.github.io)
80 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments
2015Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC (lwn.net)
80 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments
2015When tipping was considered un-American (npr.org)
80 points | 4 years ago with 241 comments
2015Currying vs. Partial Application (datchley.name)
80 points | 7 years ago with 52 comments
2015A man who invented lithium-ion battery at 57 has an idea for a new one at 92 (qz.com)
80 points | 3 years ago with 55 comments
2015A portmanteau of every word in English (cs.cmu.edu)
80 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2015It’s Not Just the Drug War (jacobinmag.com)
79 points | 8 years ago with 57 comments
2015Borland C++ Builder (runtimeterror.com)
79 points | 2 years ago with 50 comments
2015World's richest 10% produce half of global carbon emissions (www-cdn.oxfam.org)
79 points | 6 years ago with 48 comments
2015Lucene: The Good Parts (blog.parse.ly)
79 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments
2015My First Life as a Nurse (avidly.lareviewofbooks.org)
79 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2015Complete Guide to Buying Lumber (artofmanliness.com)
79 points | 4 years ago with 67 comments
2015Lessons from the use of personal knowledge questions at Google (static.googleusercontent.com)
79 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2015C preprocessor tricks, tips, and idioms (github.com)
78 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
2015“Out of an abundance of caution” – An overused phrase (bifurcatedneedle.com)
78 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments
2015A Maze of Murderscapes: Metroid II (gamedeveloper.com)
78 points | 3 years ago with 40 comments
2015Contempt Culture (blog.aurynn.com)
78 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 51 comments
2015Compiler Errors for Humans (elm-lang.org)
78 points | 2 years ago with 56 comments
2015Can the Internet Be Archived? (newyorker.com)
78 points | 8 years ago with 65 comments
2015The Internet Is Run by an Unaccountable Private Company (theguardian.com)
78 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2015Scientists Who Found Gluten Sensitivity Evidence Failed to Confirm (sciencealert.com)
77 points | 8 years ago with 99 comments
2015McRevolt: The Frustrating Life of the McDonald's Franchisee (bloomberg.com)
77 points | 8 years ago with 81 comments
2015Why Sub-Prime Lenders Didn’t Cause the Housing Crash (knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)
77 points | 7 years ago with 113 comments
2015How Payments Providers Screw You (jackkinsella.ie)
77 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2015Are ants capable of self recognition? (journalofscience.net)
77 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments
2015Collision Detection, Part 1: Overview (0fps.net)
77 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2015Programmers should not call themselves engineers (theatlantic.com)
77 points | 8 years ago with 138 comments
2015Reverse engineering the ARM1, ancestor of the iPhone's processor (righto.com)
77 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2015Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson (raspberrypi.org)
76 points | 4 years ago with 3 comments
2015We Tried Slack and We Deeply Regretted It (medium.freecodecamp.com)
76 points | 8 years ago with 127 comments
2015The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate (mbio.asm.org)
76 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2015Commit messages are not titles (antirez.com)
76 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments
2015How an Episode of the Simpsons Is Made (theverge.com)
75 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments
2015Netflix introduces Lemur: x.509 certificate orchestration (medium.com)
75 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2015I am Steve Huffman, the new CEO of Reddit. AMA. (old.reddit.com)
75 points | 2 years ago with 77 comments
2015Universal Logic Gates (allaboutcircuits.com)
75 points | 6 years ago with 36 comments
2015Boring Languages Are Underrated (danluu.com)
75 points | 3 years ago with 96 comments
2015RAM is the new disk – and how to measure its performance (tanelpoder.com)
75 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments
2015Verifiable Data Structures (github.com)
75 points | 7 years ago with 2 comments
2015Grave of a man who never was (atlasobscura.com)
75 points | 1 year ago with 19 comments
2015How to build your own particle detector (symmetrymagazine.org)
74 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments
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