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2015Handling five billion sessions a day in real time (blog.twitter.com)
43 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments
2015The ALU of the armv1 – the first ARM microprocessor (daveshacks.blogspot.com)
43 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2015Stuff the identity function does in Rust (bluss.github.io)
43 points | 2 years ago with 12 comments
2015The economics and politics of Thomas the Tank Engine (medium.com)
43 points | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2015The Antarctic Ozone Hole Will Recover (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov)
43 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2015Fortran H and PL.8: Papers about Great Optimizing Compilers [pdf] (clear.rice.edu)
43 points | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2015The Invention of Telecommuting (citylab.com)
43 points | 5 years ago with 1 comments
2015The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work (notes.ekzhang.com)
42 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2015The Craft of Experimental Physics (jameshedberg.com)
42 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments
2015Formalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics (plato.stanford.edu)
42 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments
2015“I’m a nuclear armageddon survivor: Ask me anything” (arstechnica.com)
42 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2015Bruce Shapiro’s Mesmerizing Kinetic Sand Drawing Machines (thisiscolossal.com)
42 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
2015Beautiful Disasters: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (mubi.com)
42 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments
2015Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception (economist.com)
42 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments
2015Sarcastic comments boost creativity, a study finds (scientificamerican.com)
42 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
2015Make it now: the rise of the present tense in fiction (theguardian.com)
41 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments
2015The more things change (bitquabit.com)
41 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments
2015Do We Need Specificity in CSS? (philipwalton.com)
41 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments
2015Environmental stress contributes to obesity and diabetes (nautil.us)
41 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2015The Use of Mercury by the First Emperor of China (chemistryworld.com)
41 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2015Linear-log bucketing: fast, versatile, simple (pvk.ca)
41 points | 2 years ago with 5 comments
2015Sweet-potato washing revisited: 50th anniversary of the Primates article (link.springer.com)
41 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments
2015Study: car evolution trends (teoalida.com)
41 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2015 Paper, the least terrible password management tool (csmonitor.com)
41 points | 6 years ago with 74 comments
2015PHP 7 – What changed internally? – Nikita Popov (youtube.com)
41 points | 8 years ago with 1 comments
2015Doubleclicking on the Web (ma.ttias.be)
41 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments
2015Another use for strace (isatty) (blog.plover.com)
40 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments
2015Using signed or unsigned int by default in C (blog.robertelder.org)
40 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments
2015Nuon, a gaming chip that nearly changed the world, but didn’t (arstechnica.com)
40 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments
2015The Alchemy of Madness: Understanding a Seventeenth-Century “Brain Scan” (resobscura.blogspot.com)
40 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments
2015Why are left-handers called “southpaws”? (history.com)
40 points | 8 years ago with 45 comments
2015Why is zero not falsy in Clojure? (stackoverflow.com)
40 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments
2015Fractals on an IBM 1401 mainframe (righto.com)
40 points | 1 year ago with 10 comments
2015Star Citizen (dereksmart.com)
40 points | 3 years ago with 56 comments
2015A Clear Case of Trading with the Enemy (greatwarproject.org)
40 points | 8 years ago with 11 comments
2015What unread books can teach us (theguardian.com)
40 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments
2015The man who invented relaxation (bbc.com)
39 points | 3 years ago with 4 comments
201589, 263, 201: A set of three encrypted notes from the nineteenth century (damninteresting.com)
39 points | 1 year ago with 10 comments
2015Mrs. Bundy (themorningnews.org)
39 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2015Wanna buy a radio station? (darrylparks.com)
39 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments
2015Bayesian Project Management (maxwideman.com)
39 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2015You Shouldn't Be Terrified of This Never-Ending Stew (foodandwine.com)
38 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2015Carbonating at Home (truetex.com)
38 points | 3 years ago with 18 comments
2015The Problem with Consensus (scienceunicorn.blogspot.com)
37 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2015Kind of a Big Deal – What it’s like to be a famous librarian (medium.com)
36 points | 3 years ago with 8 comments
2015Math Poetry (3blue1brown.com)
36 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2015There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random() (v8.dev)
35 points | 1 year ago with 49 comments
2015Fixing Computer Space (edfries.wordpress.com)
35 points | 3 years ago with 1 comments
2015Cities on the Bay: The Ancient Roman Predecessor of Naples (web.archive.org)
34 points | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2015Fixed Bits of Version 4 UUID (susam.net)
34 points | 1 year ago with 23 comments
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