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2015Ownership is Theft: Experiences Building an Embedded OS in Rust (sing.stanford.edu)
171 points | 8 years ago with 116 comments
2015Workarounds to Computer Access in Healthcare: Password or a Dead Patient? (cs.dartmouth.edu)
171 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 58 comments
2015Emacs is not just an editor (karl-voit.at)
171 points | 2 years ago with 95 comments
2015How Not to Measure Latency (highscalability.com)
171 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 29 comments
2015Design of GNU Parallel (gnu.org)
170 points | 2 years ago with 70 comments
2015Brain vs. Deep Learning (timdettmers.com)
170 points | 7 years ago with 47 comments
2015Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name (fastcompany.com)
170 points | 5 years ago with 119 comments
2015What happens when you load a URL? (danluu.com)
170 points | 4 years ago with 72 comments
2015Mathematicians are hoarding a type of Japanese chalk (gizmodo.com)
170 points | 5 years ago with 123 comments
2015From Vim to Emacs in fourteen days (blog.aaronbieber.com)
170 points | 4 years ago with 175 comments
2015We need less powerful languages (lukeplant.me.uk)
169 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 94 comments
2015Touched (mihai.sucan.ro)
169 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2015Ampersand (haggardhawksblog.blogspot.com)
167 points | 2 years ago with 91 comments
2015Extracting Structured Data from Recipes Using Conditional Random Fields (open.blogs.nytimes.com)
167 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
2015How to draw sub cutaways in MS Paint (hisutton.com)
166 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments
2015The next outbreak? We're not ready. Ted talk by Bill Gates (ted.com)
166 points | 5 years ago with 151 comments
2015My last name makes me invisible to Computers (wired.com)
166 points | 7 years ago with 135 comments
2015Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL (developer.olery.com)
166 points | 4 years ago with 171 comments
2015Metal Slug 2 – reducing the slowdown (blog.system11.org)
166 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments
2015Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem (newyorker.com)
165 points | 7 years ago with 80 comments
2015The curious tale of Bhutan's playable record postage stamps (thevinylfactory.com)
165 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments
2015What Satoshi Did Not Know (ifca.ai)
165 points | 4 years ago with 184 comments
2015I quit the tech industry (eev.ee)
164 points | 2 years ago with 253 comments
2015Army tested 'germ warfare' on NYC subway (businessinsider.com)
164 points | 1 year ago with 167 comments
2015Working for a Dating Website (caseysoftware.com)
163 points | 2 years ago with 196 comments
2015Why the Wingdings Font Exists (vox.com)
162 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 27 comments
2015Complex game worlds, simple text interfaces (egamebook.com)
162 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments
2015Math-as-Code (github.com)
161 points | 4 years ago with 128 comments
2015How to Center in CSS (howtocenterincss.com)
161 points | 4 years ago with 69 comments
2015Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (answers.microsoft.com)
161 points | 5 years ago with 200 comments
2015Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems (plato.stanford.edu)
161 points | 8 years ago with 77 comments
2015The Map Is Not the Territory (fs.blog)
160 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 35 comments
2015Linux's GPLv2 licence is routinely violated (devever.net)
160 points | 3 years ago with 199 comments
2015‘Outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem (quantamagazine.org)
160 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments
2015Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (npr.org)
159 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 136 comments
2015The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (medium.engineering)
159 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2015Brooklyn Bar Menu Generator (brooklynbarmenus.com)
159 points | 2 years ago with 76 comments
2015Bayesian ranking of items with up and downvotes or 5 star ratings (julesjacobs.github.io)
159 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2015The longer it has taken, the longer it will take (johndcook.com)
159 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments
2015Amiga runs Michigan schools' heating and air conditioning systems (woodtv.com)
159 points | 1 year ago with 88 comments
2015CivJS: A JavaScript 4X Game (github.com)
158 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2015What are the most common tinnitus frequencies? (audionotch.com)
158 points | 2 years ago with 156 comments
2015Can You Think Yourself into a Different Person? (mosaicscience.com)
158 points | 7 years ago with 113 comments
2015Sending and Receiving SMS on Linux (20papercups.net)
158 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2015Why Lisp? (blog.rongarret.info)
157 points | 3 years ago with 169 comments
2015Naming things (www2.stat.duke.edu)
157 points | 7 years ago with 57 comments
2015The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate (journals.asm.org)
157 points | 3 years ago with 202 comments
2015Microfinance Is Mostly a Scam (mathbabe.org)
156 points | 4 years ago with 107 comments
2015Don't publicly expose .git (en.internetwache.org)
156 points | 7 years ago with 86 comments
2015Debian developer revisits FreeBSD after 20 years (changelog.complete.org)
156 points | 7 years ago with 125 comments
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