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2016London’s Crossrail Is a $21B Test of Virtual Modeling (spectrum.ieee.org)
78 points | 3 years ago with 56 comments
2016There's never been an easier time to write your own language (joshsharp.com.au)
77 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments
2016Remembering Intel’s Andrew Grove, who sounded alarm against offshoring (americanmanufacturing.org)
77 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
2016Psychological effects of coding style (devever.net)
77 points | 4 years ago with 71 comments
2016ZFS copies=n is not a substitute for device redundancy (jrs-s.net)
77 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2016Google Search URL Request Parameters (stenevang.wordpress.com)
77 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2016Bootcamps vs. College (triplebyte.com)
77 points | 5 years ago with 102 comments
2016Web fonts, boy, I don't know (meowni.ca)
76 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2016The coder's worst nightmare (quora.com)
76 points | 3 years ago with 46 comments
2016Voronoi Diagrams on the GPU (rykap.com)
76 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2016IMF staff made misjudgments in Greece, became cheerleaders for the euro (telegraph.co.uk)
76 points | 6 years ago with 85 comments
2016This is a Chord (tumblr.austinkleon.com)
76 points | 1 year ago with 73 comments
2016The sparrow with four sexes (nature.com)
76 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
2016Modernist Covers of 1930s Fortune Magazine (slate.com)
76 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2016D, L-lysine acetylsalicylate and glycine Impairs Coronavirus Replication (longdom.org)
76 points | 4 years ago with 53 comments
2016Data Is a Toxic Asset, So Why Not Throw It Out? (schneier.com)
76 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2016Google Sheets Query Function (benlcollins.com)
75 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2016Babylonian Multiplication in the shower (iquilezles.org)
75 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments
2016The modern web makes me want to throw up (josephg.com)
75 points | 4 years ago with 68 comments
2016LSTM Neural Network that tries to write piano melodies similar to Bach's (github.com)
75 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2016“A pattern language” explained (permaculture.co.uk)
75 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments
2016Functional approaches to dependency injection (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
75 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2016The Marriage Decision: Everything Forever or Nothing Ever Again (waitbutwhy.com)
74 points | 6 years ago with 103 comments
2016Nintendo GBA and DS ROM hacking guide (gbatemp.net)
74 points | 2 years ago with 12 comments
2016Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend (programmingisterrible.com)
74 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
2016The P-versus-NP Page (win.tue.nl)
74 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments
2016Faroe Islands fit cameras to sheep to create Google Street View (theguardian.com)
74 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2016Compared to paper towel, Dyson hand dryers blow 1300x as many viral germs (arstechnica.com)
74 points | 7 years ago with 57 comments
2016Why you shouldn't use Markdown for documentation (ericholscher.com)
74 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2016Top Replicated Findings from Behavioral Genetics (journals.sagepub.com)
73 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
2016Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System (spectrum.ieee.org)
73 points | 6 years ago with 57 comments
2016On academic writing: a personal note (sci-hub.do)
73 points | 3 years ago with 56 comments
2016Optimizations on Linear Search (queue.acm.org)
73 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2016DNS Zombies (blog.apnic.net)
73 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2016TCP Puzzlers (joyent.com)
72 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments
2016The Cost of Abstraction (250bpm.com)
72 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments
2016What a Year at a Mechanic Shop Taught Me About Process (spin.atomicobject.com)
72 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
2016Glibc malloc inefficiency (notes.secretsauce.net)
72 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2016Locking in WebKit (webkit.org)
72 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2016You Can't Always Hash Pointers in C (nullprogram.com)
72 points | 6 years ago with 61 comments
2016Why Cryonics Makes Sense (waitbutwhy.com)
72 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2016How much less efficient are north-facing solar modules? (solarpowerworldonline.com)
72 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments
2016A Decade of Lattice Cryptography (web.eecs.umich.edu)
72 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments
2016United Airlines’ so-called online security (techcrunch.com)
71 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2016Software crisis: the next generation (habitatchronicles.com)
71 points | 7 years ago with 63 comments
2016A man who gave himself away (mosaicscience.com)
71 points | 3 years ago with 6 comments
2016Effect of bean origin and temperature on grinding roasted coffee (nature.com)
71 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2016Exceptions should be Exceptional (mattwarren.org)
71 points | 4 years ago with 74 comments
2016An Economic Geography of the United States: From Commutes to Megaregions (atlasobscura.com)
71 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2016Switching from GMP to GCC's __int128 reduced run time by 95% (nu42.com)
71 points | 3 years ago with 9 comments
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