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2015The Fastest Blog in the World (jacquesmattheij.com)
229 points | 8 years ago with 124 comments
2015Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (cryptomuseum.com)
229 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2015How to get yourself to do things (raptitude.com)
229 points | 3 years ago with 79 comments
2015Behavioral Profiling: The password you can't change (paul.reviews)
229 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 10 comments
2015Earthsea – A Rival to Tolkien and George RR Martin (theguardian.com)
227 points | 7 years ago with 110 comments
2015The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks (karpathy.github.io)
226 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 51 comments
2015Fish is not operational on a VT220 terminal (github.com)
226 points | 4 years ago with 113 comments
2015John Conway: A Life in Games (quantamagazine.org)
226 points | 5 years ago with 1 comments
2015Treasure trove of mechanical animations (kottke.org)
226 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments
2015Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (redbook.io)
225 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
2015What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (popularmechanics.com)
225 points | 7 years ago with 147 comments
2015Secure Secure Shell (stribika.github.io)
224 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments
2015What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (wordsbyevanporter.com)
224 points | 4 years ago with 114 comments
2015The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets (theintercept.com)
223 points | 6 years ago with 110 comments
2015Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
223 points | 5 years ago with 58 comments
2015The Access Economy: Why the Normal Distribution Is Vanishing (alexdanco.com)
222 points | 5 years ago with 151 comments
2015Stop Checking Email So Often (nytimes.com)
222 points | 8 years ago with 169 comments
2015What is permaculture? (permaculturedesignmagazine.com)
221 points | 1 year ago with 229 comments
2015We still believe in private offices (stackoverflow.blog)
221 points | 3 years ago with 277 comments
2015Sedmario: NES Super Mario Bros level 1 written in pure sed (github.com)
220 points | 1 year ago with 38 comments
2015Beej's Guide to Unix IPC (beej.us)
219 points | 3 years ago with 53 comments
2015How to explain the KGB's success identifying CIA agents in the field (salon.com)
219 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 64 comments
2015Kudzu, the vine that never ate the south (smithsonianmag.com)
218 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments
2015The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (jakubmarian.com)
218 points | 6 years ago with 102 comments
2015Guerilla Gardening (guerrillagardening.org)
217 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments
2015How 4000 Physicists Gave a Vegas Casino Its Worst Week (physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com)
215 points | 7 years ago with 98 comments
2015I Do Not Know C: Short quiz on undefined behavior (kukuruku.co)
214 points | 8 years ago with 178 comments
2015Learning how to think (fs.blog)
213 points | 3 years ago with 46 comments
2015Computer game play reduces intrusive memories of experimental trauma (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
213 points | 3 years ago with 98 comments
2015The bizarre beasts living in Romania's poison cave (bbc.co.uk)
212 points | 4 years ago with 38 comments
2015Algorithm Solves Graph Isomorphism in Record Time (quantamagazine.org)
212 points | 5 years ago with 72 comments
2015If your cipher were secure, this image wouldn't have repeating patterns (mailarchive.ietf.org)
210 points | 5 years ago with 153 comments
2015NULL: The worst mistake of computer science? (lucidchart.com)
209 points | 6 years ago with 368 comments
2015A CEO's Guide to Emacs (fugue.co)
209 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 108 comments
2015Flat Design vs. Traditional Design: Comparative Experimental Study (researchgate.net)
207 points | 6 years ago with 137 comments
2015Alaska's one-house town, home to hundreds (cnn.com)
207 points | 3 years ago with 102 comments
2015Symbols Found in Ice Age Caves Across Europe (digventures.com)
205 points | 7 years ago with 145 comments
2015How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia (ibm.com)
203 points | 7 years ago with 120 comments
2015Sans Bullshit Sans: leveraging the synergy of ligatures (pixelambacht.nl)
203 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2015How Elephants Avoid Cancer (nature.com)
202 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2015How did Stripe come up with its name? (quora.com)
202 points | 1 year ago with 136 comments
2015Why F# evangelism isn't working (ericsink.com)
201 points | 1 year ago with 320 comments
2015A forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (caitlingreen.org)
201 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 22 comments
2015Instagram's Million Dollar Bug (web.archive.org)
201 points | 4 years ago with 93 comments
2015Raw Linux Threads via System Calls (nullprogram.com)
200 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2015Safe Native Code (joeduffyblog.com)
200 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 5 comments
2015Your cyberpunk games are dangerous (boingboing.net)
200 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments
2015Gnu Privacy Guard relies on one underfunded person (propublica.org)
199 points | 7 years ago with 70 comments
2015How Amazon Web Services Uses Formal Methods (cslab.pepperdine.edu)
199 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
2015Don't Talk to Corp Dev (paulgraham.com)
199 points | 3 years ago with 122 comments
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