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2016Solzhenitsyn’s Rosary (nevalalee.wordpress.com)
64 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments
2016Climatic and environmental aspects of Mongol withdrawal from Hungary (businessinsider.com)
64 points | 2 years ago with 92 comments
2016In Praise of Maintenance (freakonomics.com)
64 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2016An almost-GHz active differential oscilloscope probe (blog.weinigel.se)
64 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2016Windows keeps automatically adding EN-US keyboard layout (answers.microsoft.com)
64 points | 5 years ago with 69 comments
2016Libdill: Structured Concurrency for C (libdill.org)
64 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2016Using gmail with mutt (smalldata.tech)
63 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2016South Pole Medevac (southpolestation.com)
63 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments
2016What caused the Black Death and could it strike again? (aeon.co)
63 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2016Hype on Hacker News and Silicon Valley (blog.codesolvent.com)
63 points | 1 year ago with 55 comments
2016Fire Apparatus – United States vs. Europe (fireapparatusmagazine.com)
63 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments
2016Beautiful folds in Haskell (github.com)
63 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2016Slack client for Commodore 64 (1amstudios.com)
63 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2016Learning from Turing’s silver hoard (reuters.com)
63 points | 4 years ago with 46 comments
2016Low-income housing has no impact on nearby home values (trulia.com)
63 points | 4 years ago with 98 comments
2016The perils of federated protocols (lwn.net)
62 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2016Spanish schedules are downright weird (english.elpais.com)
62 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2016Federal Agencies Need to Address Aging Legacy Systems (gao.gov)
62 points | 4 years ago with 18 comments
2016Simulating gunfire in naval wargames (wargamingmiscellany.blogspot.com)
62 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
2016The inconvenient truth about love and divorce (ideas.ted.com)
62 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments
2016Sixteen APL Amuse-Bouches (vector.org.uk)
62 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
2016ZFS: The other new Apple file system that almost was–until it wasn’t (arstechnica.com)
62 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 1 comments
2016Build your own Command Line with ANSI escape codes (lihaoyi.com)
62 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments
2016My Band Has 1M Spotify Streams. Want to See Our Royalties? (digitalmusicnews.com)
62 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments
2016A Child’s Guide to Spinors (weylmann.com)
62 points | 4 years ago with 10 comments
2016How a Single Mechanical Failure Sparked 625 MTA Delays (nymag.com)
62 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2016Gems from the man page trenches (saminiir.com)
61 points | 2 years ago with 25 comments
2016Christmas Is Bird-Counting Season (fivethirtyeight.com)
61 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments
2016The Water Computer (inquisition.ca)
61 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2016Camels in early medieval western Europe (caitlingreen.org)
61 points | 6 years ago with 27 comments
2016Book Review: Unlearn Your Pain (slatestarcodex.com)
61 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2016Russian hackers tracked Ukrainian artillery units using Android implant (reuters.com)
61 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2016Logical Clocks Are Easy (queue.acm.org)
61 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2016Programming by Poking: Why MIT Stopped Teaching SICP (web.archive.org)
61 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments
2016When does white space matter in HTML? (medium.com)
61 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2016The Meaning of Null in Databases and Programming Languages (arxiv.org)
61 points | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2016Why Apple doesn’t care about professional Mac users anymore (jasonlefkowitz.net)
61 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 46 comments
2016History Is Written by the Losers (scholars-stage.blogspot.com)
61 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments
2016Italian Pronunciation: A Primer for Singers (web.stanford.edu)
61 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2016Regular meditation more beneficial than vacation (health.harvard.edu)
61 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments
2016Sharing the Load: Amish Healthcare Financing (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
60 points | 1 year ago with 48 comments
2016Ipv6excuses.com (ipv6excuses.com)
60 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments
2016Uvm: a BSD virtual memory system (blog.pr4tt.com)
60 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments
2016Chestnut Tools Universal Sharpener – Popular Woodworking Magazine (web.archive.org)
60 points | 2 years ago with 23 comments
2016Filial Piety in Chinese Culture (china-journal.org)
60 points | 1 year ago with 45 comments
2016A Look at Early Japanese Typewriters (filthyplaten.com)
60 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2016Automatic Ripping Machine (b3n.org)
60 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments
2016Online Tracking: A 1M-site Measurement and Analysis (randomwalker.info)
60 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2016Scaling NSQ to 750B Messages (segment.com)
60 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2016USAF’s Missing Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (thedrive.com)
60 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
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