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2016I Don't Like Smartphones (devever.net)
71 points | 5 years ago with 98 comments
2016Heinlein and Clarke discuss the Moon landings as they happen (arstechnica.com)
71 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments
2016It’s easy to become obese in America. These 7 charts explain why. (vox.com)
70 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2016An Overview of Micron’s Automata Processor (cs.virginia.edu)
70 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2016Uncanny Valley (nplusonemag.com)
70 points | 7 years ago with 28 comments
2016A Badass Way to Connect Programs Together (joearms.github.io)
70 points | 2 years ago with 22 comments
2016Next time you share a spomenik photo, think about what it means (calvertjournal.com)
70 points | 3 years ago with 25 comments
2016Two types of command-line interfaces (ballingt.com)
69 points | 4 years ago with 3 comments
2016David Bowie‘s collection of Memphis-Milano furniture (collectorsweekly.com)
69 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2016How I Recovered Millions of Transactions Using Tcl (activestate.com)
69 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2016Compressed Sensing in Python (pyrunner.com)
69 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments
2016VCR Virus Fake VHS Copy-Protection Warning Label (whyimnotanartist.net)
69 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments
2016Hannibal’s route across the Alps (theguardian.com)
69 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments
201662 People own the same as half the world, reveals Oxfam Davos report (oxfam.org)
69 points | 2 years ago with 71 comments
2016Deconcentration of Attention: Addressing the Complexity of Software (deconcentration-of-attention.com)
69 points | 3 years ago with 10 comments
2016Why Not Rewrite It in Rust? (transitiontech.ca)
69 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments
2016A Quick Tour of the HP-9000 712/100 NeXTSTEP Workstation (bytecellar.com)
69 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments
2016The economics of the Birkin bag (economist.com)
69 points | 1 year ago with 66 comments
2016Woven image from 1839 was an important step in the history of computing (historyofinformation.com)
69 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2016The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (spectrum.ieee.org)
68 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments
2016Algorithmic Complexity of Left-Pad (accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com)
68 points | 3 years ago with 25 comments
2016Economic Inequality (paulgraham.com)
68 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 108 comments
2016A new way of playing Japanese and English games side-by-side (legendsoflocalization.com)
68 points | 4 years ago with 14 comments
2016How Iceweasel Was Born (pcworld.com)
68 points | 1 year ago with 25 comments
2016Neo-Geo Assembly Programming for the Absolute Beginner (ajworld.net)
68 points | 3 years ago with 10 comments
2016Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (github.com)
67 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments
2016Notes on Concurrency Bugs (danluu.com)
67 points | 2 years ago with 25 comments
2016The Trouble with Mindfulness Apps (mindful.org)
67 points | 7 years ago with 58 comments
2016What is Symplectic Geometry? (ams.org)
67 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
2016Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate’s Opinion (queue.acm.org)
67 points | 7 years ago with 7 comments
2016Don't Use VPN Services (gist.github.com)
66 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2016ValueObject (martinfowler.com)
66 points | 2 years ago with 68 comments
2016The HP Way: Dave Packard on How to Operate a Company (fs.blog)
66 points | 3 years ago with 27 comments
2016WSL File System Support (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
66 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2016The Stack Fallacy (techcrunch.com)
66 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments
2016Intro to The 8-Point Grid System (builttoadapt.io)
66 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments
2016How Did Consciousness Evolve? (theatlantic.com)
66 points | 4 years ago with 70 comments
2016Worst practices should be hard (haskellforall.com)
66 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2016Was Paul Feyerabend Really Science's "Worst Enemy"? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
65 points | 5 years ago with 81 comments
2016The Amiga Story: Conceived at Atari, Born at Commodore (lowendmac.com)
65 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2016SSE code 6 times slower without VZEROUPPER on Skylake (stackoverflow.com)
65 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments
2016A Z-Machine in OCaml (ericlippert.com)
64 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments
2016Use of geometrical methods in Babylonian mathematical astronomy (science.org)
64 points | 2 years ago with 44 comments
2016A dynamic tutorial about a compiler in one JavaScript file (github.com)
64 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments
2016Fuzzy logic rice cookers (fivethirtyeight.com)
64 points | 4 years ago with 81 comments
2016The best teacher I never had (gatesnotes.com)
64 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2016Court confirms that IP addresses are personal data only in some cases (whitecase.com)
64 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2016Building a Simple Spectroscope (scitoys.com)
64 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2016Climatic and environmental aspects of Mongol withdrawal from Hungary (sciencealert.com)
64 points | 2 years ago with 88 comments
2016Inside Clojure's Collection Model (insideclojure.org)
64 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
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