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2015An earthquake could destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest (newyorker.com)
156 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 89 comments
2015Where Planes Go to Die: A One Way Trip to the Mojave Boneyard (scoutingla.com)
155 points | 7 years ago with 67 comments
2015How Friendships Change Over Time (theatlantic.com)
155 points | 8 years ago with 55 comments
2015Outlook.com is silently discarding email messages (blog.paranoidpenguin.net)
155 points | 2 years ago with 67 comments
2015Big IPO, Tiny Payout for Many Startup Workers (bloomberg.com)
155 points | 8 years ago with 134 comments
2015France’s Zone Rouge – A Forbidden No Man’s Land Poisoned by War (messynessychic.com)
155 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
2015Drawing Lines is Hard (mattdesl.svbtle.com)
155 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2015How to Legally Own Another Person (fooledbyrandomness.com)
154 points | 7 years ago with 93 comments
2015Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (nature.com)
153 points | 6 years ago with 59 comments
2015Elephants Rarely Get Cancer, Now We Know Why (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
153 points | 5 years ago with 85 comments
2015How to read mathematics (people.vcu.edu)
153 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2015Machine Learning: Full-Text Search in JavaScript – Relevance Scoring (burakkanber.com)
153 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments
2015Umberto Eco's Anti-Library (brainpickings.org)
152 points | 8 years ago with 48 comments
2015Running Lisp in Production (grammarly.com)
152 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 96 comments
2015Write you a Haskell (dev.stephendiehl.com)
151 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments
2015Please stop calling databases CP or AP (martin.kleppmann.com)
151 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2015Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools (dymaxion.org)
151 points | 7 years ago with 68 comments
2015BeOS almost made Apple a different company (wired.com)
151 points | 7 years ago with 143 comments
2015Collision Detection (jeffreythompson.org)
150 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
2015A broken man's homemade, seaworthy ship rests in the Canadian prairie (atlasobscura.com)
150 points | 1 year ago with 60 comments
2015A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (telegraph.co.uk)
149 points | 7 years ago with 193 comments
2015How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language (theatlantic.com)
149 points | 7 years ago with 102 comments
2015My Heroku values (brandur.org)
149 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2015Choose Boring Technology (boringtechnology.club)
148 points | 2 years ago with 83 comments
2015How Some Consultants Fake an 80-Hour Workweek (nytimes.com)
147 points | 6 years ago with 99 comments
2015Pre-Modern Battlefields (scholars-stage.org)
146 points | 2 years ago with 107 comments
2015A Crash Course on ML Modules (jozefg.bitbucket.io)
146 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments
2015A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning, Part 4 (andreykurenkov.com)
145 points | 7 years ago with 7 comments
2015How to average floating point numbers (nu42.com)
145 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments
2015How to Write a Book in Emacs (masteringemacs.org)
145 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments
2015A man who posted himself to Australia (bbc.com)
145 points | 4 years ago with 69 comments
2015Dishwashing detergent hack: Two ingredients (whatlisacooks.com)
144 points | 4 years ago with 289 comments
2015Must be this tall to write multi-threaded code (bholley.net)
144 points | 2 years ago with 143 comments
2015What it’s like to spend four and a half years in solitary confinement (fusion.tv)
144 points | 5 years ago with 91 comments
2015A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (dlopuch.github.io)
144 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2015Edward Bernays and the birth of public relations (theconversation.com)
143 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments
2015Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (medium.com)
143 points | 7 years ago with 113 comments
2015Isochronic Map shows how long it took to travel the world in 1914 (telegraph.co.uk)
143 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments
2015Evaluation of CPU profiling tools: gperftools, Valgrind and gprof (gernotklingler.com)
143 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
2015The Founding of Google Maps (medium.com)
142 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments
2015How Europeans evolved white skin (sciencemag.org)
142 points | 7 years ago with 77 comments
2015Why Are There No Relational DBMSs? [pdf] (dcs.warwick.ac.uk)
142 points | 2 years ago with 110 comments
2015SQL in CockroachDB: Mapping Table Data to Key-Value Storage (cockroachlabs.com)
142 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2015Unsong, a fantasy novel where the universe is programmable with Hebrew (unsongbook.com)
142 points | 3 years ago with 58 comments
2015Understanding Convolution in Deep Learning (timdettmers.com)
142 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments
2015How to Become a Data Scientist – On Your Own (datasciencecentral.com)
141 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2015A Swiss Dress from the 16th Century (whiljascorner.wordpress.com)
141 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2015Harvard university debate team loses to New York prison inmates (telegraph.co.uk)
140 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2015The Mother of All ‘Abandoned’ Airports (abandonedberlin.com)
140 points | 3 years ago with 52 comments
2015Procedural content generation: creating a universe (blog.rabidgremlin.com)
140 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments
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