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2016ALTEXXANET - 90s Internet Experience (altexxanet.org)
84 points | 1 year ago with 36 comments
2016Efficient Integer Overflow Checking in LLVM (blog.regehr.org)
84 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments
2016Paternoster Lifts: Cyclic Chain Elevators with No Buttons, Doors or Stops (99percentinvisible.org)
84 points | 6 years ago with 112 comments
2016Building and Motivating Engineering Teams (elidedbranches.com)
84 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments
2016Tricks Make Virtual Reality Feel Real (nautil.us)
84 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2016The game industry of Iran (polygon.com)
84 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2016Apple works with China but not the FBI (latimes.com)
83 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments
2016Playing the piano taught me math (xiaoyunyang.medium.com)
83 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments
2016Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done” (hbr.org)
83 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2016Surveillance of reporter a 'serious attack on freedom of the press in Canada' (cbc.ca)
83 points | 1 year ago with 19 comments
2016The Buddhist history of moveable type before Gutenberg (tricycle.org)
83 points | 3 years ago with 42 comments
2016Designing Schemaless, Uber Engineering’s Scalable Datastore Using MySQL (eng.uber.com)
83 points | 7 years ago with 33 comments
2016Death of a startup founder (factordaily.com)
83 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2016Majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scientific ‘families’ (nature.com)
83 points | 2 years ago with 42 comments
2016XXL: A minimal vector programming language (github.com)
82 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2016Divisible by 7 (wiki.tcl-lang.org)
82 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2016The First Photo Ever Created by a Japanese Photographer (kanakukui.com)
82 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2016Paper Railroad Wheels? (cupery.net)
82 points | 3 years ago with 15 comments
2016The Sandia Cooler (ip.sandia.gov)
82 points | 3 years ago with 40 comments
2016XNU target config for Raspberry Pi 3 (opensource.apple.com)
82 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
2016Perchance to Scheme (hardmath123.github.io)
82 points | 6 years ago with 80 comments
2016Universal Install Script (xkcd.com)
82 points | 1 year ago with 36 comments
2016Pittsburgh Bus Bunching (bunching.github.io)
82 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2016Why is a second equal to the duration of 9,192,631,770 of radiations? (physics.stackexchange.com)
82 points | 1 year ago with 75 comments
2016A.I. will have implications for education, welfare and geopolitics (economist.com)
82 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2016The Walter White of Wichita (interactive.fusion.net)
81 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments
2016Actual Causality (cs.cornell.edu)
81 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2016Unix: Building a Development Environment from Scratch (minnie.tuhs.org)
81 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments
2016London’s Super-Recognizer Police Force (newyorker.com)
81 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2016Excerpt from Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez (wired.com)
81 points | 4 years ago with 50 comments
2016The Plan-9 Effect or why you should not fix it if it ain't broken (groups.di.unipi.it)
80 points | 2 years ago with 156 comments
2016Getting Pagination Wrong (blog.jooq.org)
80 points | 5 years ago with 70 comments
2016Toward Psychoinformatics: Computer Science Meets Psychology (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
80 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2016Web Audio API: Musically-aware scheduling and Dynamic looping (jakearchibald.com)
80 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments
2016German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, operator says (reuters.com)
80 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
2016The sad state of PDF-Accessibility of LaTex Documents (umij.wordpress.com)
79 points | 4 years ago with 74 comments
2016The Incredible Proof Machine (incredible.pm)
79 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2016Why Dopamine Makes People More Impulsive (knowingneurons.com)
79 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2016How to Provide Great Feedback When You're Not in Charge (fs.blog)
79 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments
2016Aleister Crowley and William Butler Yeats get into an occult battle (openculture.com)
79 points | 1 year ago with 114 comments
2016Early, state-sanctioned LSD experiments in Bulgaria (atlasobscura.com)
79 points | 3 years ago with 22 comments
2016Chrome: trick users into giving access to all files on local disk (bugs.chromium.org)
78 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2016New England's Largest Battery Is Hidden Inside a Mass. Mountain (wbur.org)
78 points | 2 years ago with 49 comments
2016The unexpected rule of adjectival ordering in English (qz.com)
78 points | 4 years ago with 101 comments
2016RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source (sagemath.blogspot.com)
78 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2016Minecraft is helping children with autism make new friends (newscientist.com)
78 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments
2016Shakuntala Devi – The Human Computer (petersmagnusson.org)
78 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments
2016Out of Memory Error – The RAM Shortage of 1988 (tedium.co)
78 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments
2016Arb: Efficient Arbitrary-Precision Midpoint-Radius Interval Arithmetic (arxiv.org)
78 points | 3 years ago with 42 comments
2016The four motivators (apenwarr.ca)
78 points | 7 years ago with 14 comments
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