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2015In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (npr.org)
325 points | 6 years ago with 172 comments
2015In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (custodians.online)
322 points | 1 year ago with 70 comments
2015Don't Outsource Your Thinking (medium.com)
321 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 27 comments
2015People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened (psychologicalscience.org)
319 points | 10 months ago with 200 comments
2015Things I Learned from Chris Dixon about Startups (a16z.com)
319 points | 5 years ago with 49 comments
2015Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (mitpress.mit.edu)
318 points | 5 years ago with 87 comments
2015Wine bricks saved the U.S. wine industry during Prohibition (vinepair.com)
316 points | 2 years ago with 166 comments
2015How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry (fastcompany.com)
316 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 118 comments
2015Random – Probability, mathematical statistics, and stochastic processes (math.uah.edu)
315 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments
2015Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (chinafile.com)
312 points | 5 years ago with 243 comments
2015Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (nytimes.com)
312 points | 5 years ago with 424 comments
2015Surviving Burnout (lifeofaudrey.com)
308 points | 1 year ago with 161 comments
2015Lisp and Haskell (markkarpov.com)
307 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 166 comments
2015Running Lisp in Production (tech.grammarly.com)
305 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 60 comments
2015Do not let your CDN betray you: use subresource integrity (hacks.mozilla.org)
305 points | 7 years ago with 83 comments
2015Tasks, microtasks, queues and schedules (jakearchibald.com)
304 points across 3 posts | 10 months ago with 2 comments
2015What Is Code? (bloomberg.com)
303 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 41 comments
2015Zero rupee note (karthika2006.wordpress.com)
300 points | 2 years ago with 261 comments
2015Files Are Hard (danluu.com)
297 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 50 comments
2015Severely deficient autobiographical memory (SDAM) in healthy adults (sciencedirect.com)
296 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 57 comments
2015Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy (scribd.com)
290 points | 1 year ago with 436 comments
2015Understanding Glibc Malloc (sploitfun.wordpress.com)
289 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 16 comments
2015What's new in CPUs since the 80s? (danluu.com)
289 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 106 comments
2015Autocomplete as an Interface (benkuhn.net)
288 points | 4 years ago with 191 comments
2015Compensate for Rockchip calendar deviation on November 31st (git.kernel.org)
288 points | 2 years ago with 91 comments
2015JanOS: Turn your phone into an IoT board (janos.io)
287 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 30 comments
2015Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favorite Movies (openculture.com)
287 points | 3 years ago with 124 comments
2015Crafting Plausible Maps (m.mythcreants.com)
285 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments
20158088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators (trixter.oldskool.org)
283 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2015How Shazam Works (coding-geek.com)
283 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 6 comments
2015Things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition (telegraph.co.uk)
282 points | 5 years ago with 132 comments
2015The Website Obesity Crisis (idlewords.com)
282 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 43 comments
2015The map is not the territory (fs.blog)
282 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 51 comments
2015CGA in 1024 Colors – A New Mode: The Illustrated Guide (int10h.org)
281 points | 4 years ago with 69 comments
2015Programmers should not call themselves engineers (theatlantic.com)
281 points across 7 posts | 8 months ago with 67 comments
2015Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of American firearms (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
280 points | 1 year ago with 1644 comments
2015Do you know how much your computer can do in a second? (computers-are-fast.github.io)
280 points | 10 months ago with 142 comments
2015Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (lg.io)
279 points | 4 years ago with 194 comments
2015An Amazon programmer’s perspective (pastebin.com)
278 points | 3 years ago with 268 comments
2015K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system (cbc.ca)
274 points across 2 posts | 5 months ago with 38 comments
2015I Was Wrong About Speed Reading (scotthyoung.com)
274 points | 4 years ago with 165 comments
2015Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (medium.com)
274 points | 4 years ago with 174 comments
2015One Billion Dollars Short, Bill Ackman, and the Siege Of Herbalife (fortune.com)
273 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 136 comments
2015Problems with RESTful APIs (mmikowski.github.io)
272 points | 7 years ago with 215 comments
2015Solving Minesweeper and making it better (magnushoff.com)
271 points | 6 years ago with 73 comments
2015Elite for Emacs (salkosuo.net)
271 points | 1 year ago with 44 comments
2015Let's Write an LLVM Specializer for Python (dev.stephendiehl.com)
271 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2015Elevator.js (tholman.com)
271 points | 2 years ago with 82 comments
2015LLVM for Grad Students (cs.cornell.edu)
269 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2015Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry (johndcook.com)
268 points | 6 years ago with 98 comments
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