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2015The Art of PNG Glitch (ucnv.github.io)
267 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2015Girls perform better academically in almost all countries (economist.com)
267 points | 3 years ago with 559 comments
2015The Hindu Temple as a Model of Fractal Cosmology (dataisnature.com)
266 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments
2015We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up (filfre.net)
265 points | 4 years ago with 235 comments
2015Jessica Livingston (paulgraham.com)
265 points | 10 months ago with 179 comments
2015Every Weekend Should Be a 3-Day Weekend (thecut.com)
264 points | 5 years ago with 172 comments
2015Personal Reason for Hating Facebook (righteousruminations.blogspot.com)
263 points | 6 years ago with 103 comments
2015Motors for Makers: A Guide to Steppers, Servos, and Other Electrical Machines (motorsformakers.com)
262 points | 1 year ago with 99 comments
2015Railway-Oriented Programming (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
260 points | 5 years ago with 160 comments
2015The time it takes to change the time (blog.poormansmath.net)
259 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2015What happens behind the scenes when we type www.google.com in a browser? (github.com)
259 points | 4 years ago with 76 comments
2015I wrote a self-hosting C compiler in 40 days (sigbus.info)
259 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2015Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (theatlantic.com)
259 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 63 comments
2015Trident whistleblower: nuclear 'disaster waiting to happen' (wikileaks.org)
256 points | 7 years ago with 96 comments
2015Index 1.6B Keys with Automata and Rust (blog.burntsushi.net)
256 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2015Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (jonathas.com)
256 points | 6 years ago with 281 comments
2015Can People Choose to Change Their Personality Traits? (internal.psychology.illinois.edu)
256 points | 6 years ago with 115 comments
2015The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman (priceonomics.com)
255 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 303 comments
2015Rust Koans (users.rust-lang.org)
255 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments
2015FBI testimony on hair analysis contained errors in 90% of cases (fbi.gov)
253 points | 1 year ago with 73 comments
2015Main is usually a function. So then when is it not? (jroweboy.github.io)
253 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 47 comments
2015Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’ (seveninchesofyourtime.com)
252 points | 1 year ago with 207 comments
2015Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies (bbc.com)
252 points | 5 years ago with 66 comments
2015Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' forums (issendai.com)
251 points | 2 years ago with 201 comments
2015I opened a link some random person sent me and I got raided (blog.haschek.at)
251 points | 4 years ago with 170 comments
2015Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x (nginx.com)
249 points | 6 years ago with 56 comments
2015Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (redbook.io)
247 points | 6 years ago with 42 comments
2015Computer science as a lost art (rubyhacker.com)
247 points | 5 years ago with 141 comments
2015Clojure for the Brave and True (braveclojure.com)
244 points | 7 years ago with 99 comments
2015Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (vox.com)
244 points | 5 years ago with 293 comments
2015Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (deepmind.com)
243 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2015A South Vietnamese Air Force Officer and a Crazy Carrier Landing (tacairnet.com)
241 points | 5 years ago with 67 comments
2015Disaster planning for regular folks (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
240 points | 2 years ago with 134 comments
2015How Bad Are Things? (slatestarcodex.com)
239 points | 4 years ago with 136 comments
2015Löb and möb: strange loops in Haskell (github.com)
238 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 55 comments
2015A philosophical difference between Haskell and Lisp (chrisdone.com)
238 points | 3 years ago with 181 comments
2015What color is your function? (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
238 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 57 comments
2015I fooled millions into thinking chocolate helps weight loss (gizmodo.com)
238 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 165 comments
2015Google helps Scientology billionaire Bob Duggan hide a dark family secret (tonyortega.org)
235 points | 2 years ago with 40 comments
2015Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (washingtonpost.com)
235 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments
2015A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python (iamtrask.github.io)
234 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2015Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development (web.archive.org)
232 points | 4 years ago with 151 comments
2015Exposing Digital Photography (digitalphotography.exposed)
232 points | 7 years ago with 40 comments
2015Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (wired.com)
232 points | 1 year ago with 252 comments
2015How hackers abused satellites to stay under the radar (arstechnica.com)
232 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2015Robert Langlands, who linked number theory, analysis, and geometry (projects.thestar.com)
231 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
2015Heat people, not spaces (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
231 points | 2 years ago with 317 comments
2015Steps Towards Happiness (hintjens.com)
230 points | 2 years ago with 165 comments
2015FBI would rather prosecutors drop cases than disclose stingray details (arstechnica.com)
230 points | 5 years ago with 53 comments
2015Why Telegram is insecure (medium.com)
230 points | 5 years ago with 246 comments
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