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2016Prolog Web Applications (metalevel.at)
104 points | 4 years ago with 18 comments
2016Lessons from 20 years of hype cycles (linkedin.com)
104 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2016Lab mice have a chill, and that may be messing up study results (statnews.com)
104 points | 4 years ago with 66 comments
2016Don Libes' Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool (blog.robertelder.org)
104 points | 5 years ago with 32 comments
2016W. E. B. Du Bois's Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life (hyperallergic.com)
103 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2016Formal Verification Creates Hacker-Proof Code (quantamagazine.org)
102 points | 4 years ago with 109 comments
2016Meals based on vegetable protein sources (beans and peas) are more satiating (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
102 points | 4 years ago with 94 comments
2016The hidden cost of QUIC and TOU (snellman.net)
102 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2016Starting an ISP is hard, don’t do it (slashgeek.net)
102 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments
2016Dirty lenses (kurtmunger.com)
101 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2016Feynman on Fermat's Last Theorem (lbatalha.com)
101 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments
2016Master Foo and the Recruiter (catb.org)
101 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2016Advice for Overcoming Writer’s Block (vulture.com)
101 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
2016John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwellian Nightmare (youtube.com)
101 points | 4 years ago with 96 comments
2016Why I'm using Fossil SCM instead of other source control systems (andreiclinciu.net)
100 points | 2 years ago with 126 comments
2016The Cyberpunk Sensibility (ribbonfarm.com)
99 points | 6 years ago with 81 comments
2016The Beauty of Bresenham's Algorithm (members.chello.at)
98 points | 3 years ago with 17 comments
2016Trying to Convince People to Change (camilletalk.com)
98 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
2016Avoidance of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
98 points | 2 years ago with 68 comments
2016On Having No Head: Cognition Throughout Biological Systems (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
98 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2016Momofuku Ando invented instant ramen (vox.com)
98 points | 1 year ago with 85 comments
2016Why can't software engineers work from home most of the time? (workplace.stackexchange.com)
98 points | 3 years ago with 93 comments
2016Europe fell in love with long pepper before black pepper (atlasobscura.com)
97 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2016Questions that changed my life (tim.blog)
97 points | 4 years ago with 29 comments
2016The Millennium Falcon (kitbashed.com)
97 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2016I Wanted to Type a Number (filamentgroup.com)
97 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments
2016Human spatial memory is made up of numerous individual maps (maxplanck.nautil.us)
97 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments
2016The Deadlock Empire – Slay Dragons, Master Concurrency (deadlockempire.github.io)
97 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments
2016A visual chronicle of Tokyo’s disappearing jazz bars (thevinylfactory.com)
97 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments
2016What it means to “disagree and commit” and how I do it (amazonianblog.com)
97 points | 6 years ago with 45 comments
2016Date Masamune: the samurai who inspired Darth Vader (nipponrama.com)
96 points | 2 years ago with 23 comments
2016Pressure and vacuum marination does not work (genuineideas.com)
96 points | 1 year ago with 63 comments
2016Mary Somerville, the woman for whom the word “scientist” was coined (brainpickings.org)
95 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2016Google’s close relationship with Obama White House (theintercept.com)
95 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments
2016Compile Time C++ Snake Game (github.com)
94 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2016Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle (sciencemag.org)
94 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2016Long Names Are Long (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
94 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
2016Ted's Notes on Pawpaws (toyrus.ngrok.io)
94 points | 1 year ago with 57 comments
2016Living Without Atomic Clocks (cockroachlabs.com)
94 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments
2016Is Dev Compensation Bimodal? (danluu.com)
94 points | 3 years ago with 141 comments
2016A woman who is allergic to water (bbc.com)
94 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2016Friedrich Hayek’s recollection of his cousin Ludwig Wittgenstein (notesonliberty.com)
94 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2016Arrival's Designers Crafted a Mesmerizing Alien Alphabet (wired.com)
93 points | 1 year ago with 30 comments
2016Peruvian puquios were a “hydraulic system constructed to retrieve water” (bbc.com)
93 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2016How people learn to become resilient (newyorker.com)
93 points | 3 years ago with 79 comments
2016The Mastermind (longform.org)
93 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2016Design of a Modern Cache (highscalability.com)
92 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2016Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (lzip.nongnu.org)
92 points | 5 years ago with 58 comments
2016Data Mining Reveals Factors That Lead People To Make Blunders in Chess (technologyreview.com)
92 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
2016In two moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol redefined the future (wired.com)
92 points | 1 year ago with 82 comments
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