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2016Why I hate all articles about design patterns (smashcompany.com)
92 points | 6 years ago with 108 comments
2016New Algorithm Solves Cake-Cutting Problem (quantamagazine.org)
92 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
2016Tallow in plastics – why? (impact-solutions.co.uk)
92 points | 2 years ago with 86 comments
2016Worms or bust: The story of Britain’s most tenacious indie games company (arstechnica.com)
92 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
2016Adding Up the Cost of Tax Breaks for Big Tech’s Data Centers (nextcity.org)
91 points | 6 years ago with 67 comments
2016Fuller House: Exposing high-end poker cheating devices (elie.net)
91 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2016Designing a Userspace Disk I/O Scheduler for Modern Datastores (scylladb.com)
91 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2016A 1000-processor chip powered by an AA battery (ucdavis.edu)
91 points | 3 years ago with 119 comments
2016MDMA as a Probe and Treatment for Social Behaviors (cell.com)
91 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments
2016Pen plotters: not just output devices (scruss.com)
91 points | 3 years ago with 58 comments
2016A man who saved a generation of premature babies (bbc.co.uk)
91 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2016How much does it cost to build a home in Silicon Valley? (themiyoung.com)
90 points | 7 years ago with 70 comments
2016Prime After Prime (bit-player.org)
90 points | 4 years ago with 13 comments
2016Fordlandia – the failure of Henry Ford's utopian city in the Amazon (theguardian.com)
90 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments
2016Borg, Omega, Kubernetes: Lessons learned over a decade (queue.acm.org)
90 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments
2016The First Credit Card Ever (saturdayeveningpost.com)
90 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments
2016Police in the US shoot dogs so often, an expert calls it an “epidemic” (qz.com)
90 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments
2016There is no good reason to buy an inkjet printer (jasonlefkowitz.net)
90 points | 5 years ago with 108 comments
2016Time to move to C11 atomics? (lwn.net)
90 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2016Too good to be true: when overwhelming evidence fails to convince (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
89 points | 2 years ago with 73 comments
2016Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (jonlennartaasenden.wordpress.com)
89 points | 4 years ago with 157 comments
2016Charlatans sell bogus treatment exposing blood to UV light (forbes.com)
89 points | 4 years ago with 6 comments
2016Antikernel: A Decentralized Secure Operating System Architecture (eprint.iacr.org)
88 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2016Anthropic Capitalism and the New Gimmick Economy (edge.org)
88 points | 5 years ago with 66 comments
2016Police Can Use a Legal Gray Area to Rob Anyone of Their Belongings (theatlantic.com)
88 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2016In 2009, Two Nuclear Submarines Collided Under the Sea (nationalinterest.org)
88 points | 3 years ago with 104 comments
2016East Asian character emojis ㊗ 🈶 🈯 🈳 (chenhuijing.com)
88 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 8 comments
2016A Friendly Introduction to Cross-Entropy Loss (rdipietro.github.io)
88 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments
2016Humans display a few consistent behavioral phenotypes in two player games (advances.sciencemag.org)
88 points | 3 years ago with 22 comments
2016Dog insurer: 'jumping, running, slipping, tripping, playing' not covered (cbc.ca)
88 points | 5 years ago with 106 comments
2016Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC (bbc.com)
87 points | 3 years ago with 100 comments
2016On Reading Issues of Wired from 1993 to 1995 (newyorker.com)
87 points | 5 years ago with 32 comments
2016The future of microwave cooking is solid-state (electronicsweekly.com)
87 points | 4 years ago with 93 comments
2016North Korea's Loch Ness Monster (earthnutshell.com)
87 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments
2016The Neural Network Zoo (asimovinstitute.org)
87 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2016Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors (bloomberg.com)
87 points | 4 years ago with 68 comments
2016The Case Against More Ethanol (e360.yale.edu)
87 points | 4 years ago with 151 comments
2016The Bitter Truth About Olives (nationalgeographic.com)
86 points | 5 years ago with 85 comments
2016Thoughts on the Witness (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
86 points | 2 years ago with 74 comments
2016Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cats (journals.plos.org)
86 points | 3 years ago with 156 comments
2016It pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered (bbc.com)
86 points | 4 years ago with 109 comments
2016Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera (antipope.org)
86 points | 3 years ago with 79 comments
2016Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power? (lowtechmagazine.com)
86 points | 3 years ago with 230 comments
2016Egyptian Gods – The Complete List (worldhistory.org)
86 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments
2016Understanding Latency Hiding on GPUs (www2.eecs.berkeley.edu)
86 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments
2016How many lines of code is Candy Japan? (candyjapan.com)
85 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments
2016A Go compiler, written in Rust (github.com)
85 points | 1 year ago with 19 comments
2016Heartbeats and heart attacks (tabletopwhale.com)
85 points | 2 years ago with 16 comments
2016Linux bcc/BPF tcplife: TCP Lifespans (brendangregg.com)
84 points | 2 years ago with 7 comments
2016Ubiq: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Log Processing Infrastructure (ai.google)
84 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
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