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2016Armored Stealth Boat: How to Smuggle Luxury Cars (hisutton.com)
122 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments
2016Teens don't have a clue about IT? (blog.mysunland.org)
122 points | 5 years ago with 190 comments
2016Chip-8 in Common Lisp (stevelosh.com)
122 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2016Ocean's Oxygen Starts Running Low (scientificamerican.com)
122 points | 7 years ago with 93 comments
2016Buttery smooth Emacs (facebook.com)
122 points | 6 years ago with 75 comments
2016A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (blog.ycombinator.com)
121 points | 4 years ago with 66 comments
2016Way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository (atlassian.com)
121 points | 5 years ago with 58 comments
2016Universities Are Becoming Hedge Funds with Schools Attached (thenation.com)
121 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments
2016The young centre of the Earth (arxiv.org)
121 points | 5 years ago with 71 comments
2016The city of the future looks like a former military bunker in Taipei (blog.duncangeere.com)
120 points | 1 year ago with 50 comments
2016Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (esquire.com)
120 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments
2016Bullet Journaling (popsci.com)
120 points | 6 years ago with 71 comments
2016The Riemann Hypothesis, explained (medium.com)
119 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
2016A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning (meltingasphalt.com)
119 points | 1 year ago with 226 comments
2016The Origin of Banking (jonathanstray.com)
118 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments
2016Can you drill into a supervolcano to relieve pressure? (askageologist.blogspot.com)
118 points | 3 years ago with 121 comments
2016Learning Chess at 40 (nautil.us)
117 points | 2 years ago with 65 comments
2016The moving sofa problem (math.ucdavis.edu)
117 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 12 comments
2016From Java to Go, and Back Again (opencredo.com)
117 points | 6 years ago with 130 comments
2016Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy (quantamagazine.org)
117 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments
2016The terrorist inside my husband's brain (n.neurology.org)
116 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2016Verilog 6502 (aholme.co.uk)
116 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments
2016Umberto Eco on common features of fascism (openculture.com)
116 points | 2 years ago with 149 comments
2016Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor (righto.com)
116 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 0 comments
2016Apple's auto layout and visual format language for JavaScript (ijzerenhein.github.io)
115 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
2016One in five genetics papers contains Excel errors (sciencemag.org)
115 points | 6 years ago with 59 comments
2016How to Be Wrong (mathenchant.wordpress.com)
115 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2016Abolish the PhD (blog.devicerandom.org)
115 points | 2 years ago with 191 comments
2016Taking Over 20K DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import System (thehackerblog.com)
114 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2016Haskell's Missing Concurrency Basics (snoyman.com)
114 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2016Paul Klee's personal notebooks on his Bauhaus teachings (openculture.com)
114 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2016The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (atlasobscura.com)
114 points | 2 years ago with 153 comments
2016Non-Recursive Make Considered Harmful: Build Systems at Scale (ndmitchell.com)
113 points | 6 years ago with 76 comments
2016How to Live a Happy Life (ox.ac.uk)
113 points | 2 years ago with 74 comments
2016“Rule the Waves”: a game of naval strategy (jasonlefkowitz.net)
113 points | 5 years ago with 56 comments
2016Mortality patterns for patients hospitalized during cardiology meetings (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
113 points | 1 year ago with 65 comments
2016Atari Tempest: Time-Lapse Photography (arcadeblogger.com)
113 points | 1 year ago with 35 comments
2016Seagate Barracuda Ramp Weakness (dq-int.co.uk)
113 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments
2016The Definitive Guide on Win32 to NT Path Conversion (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
113 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2016A Message to Our Customers (apple.com)
113 points | 3 years ago with 55 comments
2016The Persian Art of Etiquette (bbc.com)
112 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments
2016On the Impending Crypto Monoculture (metzdowd.com)
112 points | 1 year ago with 71 comments
2016Docker in Production: A History of Failure (thehftguy.com)
112 points | 3 years ago with 99 comments
2016Path Tracing vs. Ray Tracing (dusterwald.com)
112 points | 6 years ago with 33 comments
2016Can the knees go over the toes? (squatuniversity.com)
112 points | 2 years ago with 68 comments
2016The engineer’s engineer: Dave Cutler (news.microsoft.com)
112 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments
2016Gus Grissom taught NASA a hard lesson: “You can hurt yourself in the ocean” (arstechnica.com)
111 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments
2016The Origin of Most Coal on Earth (nationalgeographic.com)
111 points | 5 years ago with 66 comments
2016Your Kickstarter idea on sale in China before you’ve finished funding it (qz.com)
111 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
2016Differential Privacy for Dummies (robertovitillo.com)
111 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
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