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2016The Cassowary: World’s most dangerous bird (smithsonianmag.com)
111 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments
2016Z80 CPU User Manual (zany80.github.io)
111 points | 4 years ago with 58 comments
2016Left brain hemisphere more awake the first night sleeping in a new place (npr.org)
111 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments
2016Income Inequality (ourworldindata.org)
111 points | 6 years ago with 166 comments
2016Unlocking my Lenovo laptop, part 1 (zmatt.net)
111 points | 2 years ago with 40 comments
2016A Perceptually Meaningful Audio Visualizer (delu.medium.com)
110 points | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2016I Used to Be a Human Being (nymag.com)
110 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2016Multilingual People Have Healthier, More Engaged Brains? (kqed.org)
110 points | 5 years ago with 103 comments
2016Just Say No to Paxos Overhead: Replacing Consensus with Network Ordering (usenix.org)
110 points | 3 years ago with 25 comments
2016Which type of exercise is best for the brain? (well.blogs.nytimes.com)
110 points | 3 years ago with 78 comments
2016Making the obvious code fast (jackmott.github.io)
109 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2016Practical advice for analysis of large, complex data sets (unofficialgoogledatascience.com)
109 points | 3 years ago with 22 comments
2016The anatomy of the Cayman Islands offshore financial center (tandfonline.com)
109 points | 1 year ago with 64 comments
2016Mushroom burial suit turns dead bodies into clean compost (grist.org)
109 points | 5 years ago with 83 comments
2016The Devil's Hair Dryer: Hell is other people, with leaf blowers (citylab.com)
109 points | 6 years ago with 138 comments
2016A History of APL in Fifty Functions (jsoftware.com)
109 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2016SQLite with a Fine-Toothed Comb (blog.regehr.org)
109 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments
2016About rel=noopener (mathiasbynens.github.io)
108 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments
2016Dating: A Research Journal, Part 1 (putanumonit.com)
108 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments
2016Eight Secret Societies (smithsonianmag.com)
108 points | 2 years ago with 109 comments
2016One of the earliest science fiction books was written by a 1660s duchess (atlasobscura.com)
108 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments
2016The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA symbol, /ɧ/ (possessivesuffix.tumblr.com)
108 points | 5 years ago with 150 comments
2016The “Majority Illusion” in Social Networks (journals.plos.org)
108 points | 4 years ago with 75 comments
2016What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? (mcmansionhell.com)
108 points | 6 years ago with 103 comments
2016555 timer teardown: inside the most popular IC (righto.com)
108 points | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2016Indigenous community built a DIY drone to fight off illegal loggers (qz.com)
108 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2016The Evolution of Web Design (fabianburghardt.de)
107 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2016Tax Consequences of John Oliver’s $15M Medical Debt Forgiveness (proskauertaxtalks.com)
107 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 4 comments
2016Leaving Spellcheck Enabled Is a Privacy Risk (github.com)
107 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2016Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon Valley (computerhistory.org)
107 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2016The way out of burnout (economist.com)
107 points | 1 year ago with 84 comments
2016The DIY scientist, the Olympian, and the mutated gene (propublica.org)
107 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2016Collection of V.90/V.92 modem sounds (goughlui.com)
107 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2016The Code It Yourself Manifesto (pestilenz.org)
106 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments
2016Tanaka Hisashige, builder of the Myriad Year Clock (watchesbysjx.com)
106 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments
2016What I Want from a Type System (gist.github.com)
106 points | 5 years ago with 103 comments
2016Ways to teach kids to code (medium.com)
106 points | 1 year ago with 48 comments
2016Towards an understanding of technical debt (kellanem.com)
106 points | 5 years ago with 49 comments
2016What is property-based testing? (hypothesis.works)
106 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments
2016Frankie Manning's dancing skills made him famous twice (vox.com)
105 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2016How Seattle blew its chance at a subway system (features.crosscut.com)
105 points | 6 years ago with 207 comments
2016Timo Noko – The Professional Hobo (timonoko.github.io)
105 points | 1 year ago with 59 comments
2016What's in a Parser Combinator? (remusao.github.io)
105 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments
2016Why Did ArchLinux Embrace Systemd? (reddit.com)
105 points | 5 years ago with 126 comments
2016The Constitutionality of Civil Forfeiture (yalelawjournal.org)
105 points | 2 years ago with 113 comments
2016Moving to Germany as an Australian (blog.alexanderdickson.com)
105 points | 5 years ago with 206 comments
2016An In-Depth Look at What/How/Why Books Sell (electricliterature.com)
105 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments
2016Ejection Decision (verticalmag.com)
104 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 14 comments
2016Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter (arxiv.org)
104 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2016How to Allocate Memory (geocar.sdf1.org)
104 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
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