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2015A Conversation: Yuval Noah Harari, Daniel Kahneman (edge.org)
74 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments
2015Manifesto on the Teaching of Mathematics (intellectualmathematics.com)
74 points | 2 years ago with 38 comments
2015How one ClojureScripter writes JavaScript (rigsomelight.com)
73 points | 7 years ago with 2 comments
2015Bone music: the Soviet bootleg records pressed on x-rays (theguardian.com)
73 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
2015The Exterior Algebra and Central Notions in Mathematics (ams.org)
73 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments
2015Fifty Years of Minimalism (moredarkthanshark.org)
72 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
2015Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings (journals.plos.org)
72 points | 5 years ago with 118 comments
2015TLB and Pagewalk Coherence in x86 Processors (blog.stuffedcow.net)
72 points | 4 years ago with 1 comments
2015Break a dozen secret keys, get a million more for free (ecrypt-eu.blogspot.com)
72 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2015Why Scaling Bitcoin with Sharding Is Very Hard (petertodd.org)
72 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2015How The Koenigsegg Regera Hits 248 MPH Without A Gearbox (jalopnik.com)
72 points | 6 years ago with 63 comments
2015Keep the nuclear launch codes in an innocent volunteer's chest-cavity (boingboing.net)
72 points | 4 years ago with 61 comments
2015How the H-1B Visa System Can Hurt American Workers (nytimes.com)
71 points | 6 years ago with 107 comments
2015Immutable Data (kevinmahoney.co.uk)
71 points | 1 year ago with 40 comments
2015A riddle wrapped in a curve (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
71 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 7 comments
2015PEP 505 – None-aware operators (peps.python.org)
71 points | 2 years ago with 58 comments
2015Law Enforcement’s “Warrior” Problem (harvardlawreview.org)
71 points | 5 years ago with 78 comments
2015'The Wake' Is an Unlikely Hit in an Imaginary Language (npr.org)
70 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
2015Countries with poor human rights records spend millions on public image (publicintegrity.org)
70 points | 7 years ago with 20 comments
2015Your Career in Computer Programming (thecomputerboys.com)
70 points | 4 years ago with 29 comments
2015Inside RadioShack's Slow-Motion Collapse (bloomberg.com)
70 points | 8 years ago with 57 comments
2015The “Eat What You Kill” execution strategy (webtide.com)
70 points | 4 years ago with 1 comments
2015How good are query optimizers, really? [pdf] (vldb.org)
70 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments
2015The dream journal of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who discovered neurons (nautil.us)
70 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2015Dogs that protect little penguins (bbc.com)
70 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2015Barbie Typewriter (cryptomuseum.com)
70 points | 2 years ago with 20 comments
2015Investigating the Milk, MIT's Historic Dairy Product (alum.mit.edu)
70 points | 4 years ago with 7 comments
2015Run Your Business Like a Drug Lord (business.com)
69 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments
2015Set up Sublime Text for lightweight all-in-one data science IDE (opiateforthemass.es)
69 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2015Words that seem related but aren't (theweek.com)
69 points | 3 years ago with 76 comments
2015Inspection Paradox (allendowney.blogspot.com)
69 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2015How to Be Someone People Love to Talk To (bakadesuyo.com)
69 points | 8 years ago with 34 comments
20151960s Mouse Utopias Led to Grim Predictions for Future of Humanity (smithsonianmag.com)
69 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2015A martian’s review of The Martian (ryanbanderson.com)
69 points | 4 years ago with 50 comments
2015How your life changes at different levels of wealth (reddit.com)
69 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2015Semaphores are surprisingly versatile (preshing.com)
69 points | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2015Why Data Breaches Don’t Hurt Stock Prices (hbr.org)
69 points | 2 years ago with 25 comments
2015Do rainbows have ultraviolet bands and infrared bands? (physics.stackexchange.com)
68 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments
2015Debugging Lisp Part 1: Recompilation (malisper.me)
68 points | 7 years ago with 5 comments
2015ES6 in Depth: Symbols (hacks.mozilla.org)
68 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2015Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ (motherboard.vice.com)
67 points | 8 years ago with 174 comments
2015All Your IOPS Are Belong to Us: Case Study in Performance Optimization (percona.com)
67 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments
2015So You Want to Abolish Time Zones (qntm.org)
67 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments
2015Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s (reactionwheel.net)
67 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
2015True Random Number Generator for a True Hacker (hackaday.com)
67 points | 6 years ago with 30 comments
2015HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it (dursi.ca)
67 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments
2015The contest between gravity and quantum physics takes a new turn (nautil.us)
67 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments
2015Logic Noise: Sweet, Sweet Oscillator Sounds (hackaday.com)
66 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2015Watch All the Apple TV Aerial Video Screensavers (benjaminmayo.co.uk)
66 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments
2015The spreading of misinformation online (pnas.org)
66 points | 8 years ago with 57 comments
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