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2015A 1950s proposal to nuke Alaska (atlasobscura.com)
139 points | 4 years ago with 144 comments
2015Babies On Display: When a Hospital Couldn't Save Them, a Sideshow Did (npr.org)
139 points | 7 years ago with 45 comments
2015Your live coding demo is boring me (inconshreveable.com)
138 points | 6 years ago with 88 comments
2015The high-frequency trading arms race: frequent batch auctions (academic.oup.com)
138 points | 3 years ago with 87 comments
2015State considered harmful: A proposal for a stateless laptop (blog.invisiblethings.org)
138 points | 6 years ago with 65 comments
2015The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (atlasobscura.com)
138 points | 3 years ago with 111 comments
2015Bubble talk (blog.samaltman.com)
138 points | 5 years ago with 78 comments
2015The life-changing love of Paul Dirac (theconversation.com)
137 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments
2015PANDAS revives the debate about the immune system and mental illness (nautil.us)
137 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
2015Vim Cheat Sheet (vimsheet.com)
137 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments
2015Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks (theatlantic.com)
136 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments
2015The Missing 11th of the Month (drhagen.com)
136 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2015How was the size of Earth first measured? (stardate.org)
136 points | 1 year ago with 111 comments
2015The Alternate Universe of Soviet Arcade Games (atlasobscura.com)
136 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments
2015On the Beauty of Python's ExitStack (rath.org)
135 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2015Unit testing a TCP stack (snellman.net)
135 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments
2015Impulsive Rich Kid, Impulsive Poor Kid (priceonomics.com)
135 points | 7 years ago with 64 comments
2015Half of us have quit our job because of a bad boss (fortune.com)
135 points | 5 years ago with 75 comments
2015How the World's Most Difficult Bouldering Problems Get Made (outsideonline.com)
135 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments
2015A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (nautil.us)
135 points | 4 years ago with 66 comments
2015A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing (arxiv.org)
134 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments
2015Learning Python for Social Scientists (nealcaren.github.io)
134 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2015Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD? (unix.stackexchange.com)
134 points | 4 years ago with 154 comments
2015Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate (web.archive.org)
134 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments
2015Clojure Newbie Guide (clojurenewbieguide.com)
134 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments
2015The Coverage of Theranos Is Utter Bullshit (thehustle.co)
133 points | 3 years ago with 92 comments
2015Relax for the Same Result (sivers.org)
132 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments
2015Maslow's Pyramid of Code Review (dein.fr)
132 points | 4 years ago with 82 comments
2015Why Frames Tilt Forward (chcollins.com)
131 points | 1 year ago with 47 comments
2015Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile (theguardian.com)
131 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments
2015I created a $350M software company knowing nothing about software (techcrunch.com)
131 points | 3 years ago with 63 comments
2015The Most Misread Poem in America (theparisreview.org)
131 points | 6 years ago with 67 comments
2015Norway convinced Japan to love salmon sushi (npr.org)
130 points | 2 years ago with 110 comments
2015The Repeated Deaths of OOP (loup-vaillant.fr)
130 points | 3 years ago with 212 comments
2015A Renaissance painting reveals how breeding changed watermelons (vox.com)
130 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments
2015Learn the workings of Git, not just the commands (developer.ibm.com)
130 points | 3 years ago with 94 comments
2015Lenovo crams unremovable crapware into laptops by hiding it in the BIOS (theregister.co.uk)
130 points | 5 years ago with 85 comments
2015How programs get run: ELF binaries (lwn.net)
129 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2015What ever happened to webrings? (hover.blog)
129 points | 2 years ago with 111 comments
2015The man who tried to redeem the world with logic (nautil.us)
129 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments
2015Let’s Build a Web Server, Part 1 (ruslanspivak.com)
128 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2015Dead millionaire convinced dozens of women to have as many babies as possible (fivethirtyeight.com)
128 points | 4 years ago with 114 comments
2015A step by step backpropagation example (mattmazur.com)
128 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2015The Origin of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures Album Cover Art (kottke.org)
128 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
2015The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson (arxiv.org)
128 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2015Becoming a Lawyer Without Going to Law School (priceonomics.com)
128 points | 7 years ago with 92 comments
2015Smart kids should skip high school (sonyaellenmann.com)
128 points | 3 years ago with 186 comments
2015The First Computers in East Africa and what became of them (owaahh.com)
128 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2015The strange case of ICMP Type 69 on Linux (blog.benjojo.co.uk)
127 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2015What can a technologist do about climate change? (worrydream.com)
127 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 56 comments
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