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2016Scientists lift the lid on reproducibility (nature.com)
59 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
2016Dude, is my code constant time? (reparaz.net)
59 points | 3 years ago with 20 comments
2016Make Sagelib a pip-installable Python source package, listed on PyPI (trac.sagemath.org)
59 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2016Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome (science.org)
59 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2016Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men (lancaster.ac.uk)
59 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments
2016Rousseau: Meditations of a Solitary Walker (theculturium.com)
59 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2016Why is the plural form of "house" not "hice"? (english.stackexchange.com)
59 points | 1 year ago with 67 comments
2016Write a System Call (brennan.io)
58 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments
2016Anatomy of the Presidential Motorcade (thedrive.com)
58 points | 3 years ago with 93 comments
2016The Trouble with Macroeconomics (paulromer.net)
58 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2016Some thoughts on asynchronous API design in a post-async/await world (vorpus.org)
58 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 18 comments
2016We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know (avidly.lareviewofbooks.org)
58 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments
2016Jon Skeet: The 'Chuck Norris' of Programming (bbc.com)
58 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2016Show HN: WikiBinge – discover how all things are vaguely connected (wikibinge.com)
58 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
2016Blind speakers gesture like their sighted counterparts: study (superlinguo.com)
58 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments
2016Production Ramp-Up of a Hardware Startup (dspace.mit.edu)
58 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments
2016Network topologies for large-scale compute centers: It's the diameter (htor.inf.ethz.ch)
58 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2016Datasaurus: Never trust summary statistics; visualize your data (thefunctionalart.com)
58 points | 4 years ago with 14 comments
2016Beyond Sexual Orientation (nautil.us)
57 points | 6 years ago with 46 comments
2016Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels (karpathy.github.io)
57 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments
2016Inventing the Beach: The unnatural history of a natural place (smithsonianmag.com)
57 points | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2016‘Minimal’ cell raises stakes in race to harness synthetic life (nature.com)
57 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2016Wireheading done right: stay positive without going insane (qualiacomputing.com)
57 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
2016An amateur cloud society that rattled the scientific community (nytimes.com)
57 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments
2016The Bugs in Our Mindware (nautil.us)
57 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
2016Octobass: The lowest string instrument (classicfm.com)
57 points | 2 years ago with 22 comments
2016How true is 'Speed Enforced by Aircraft' Sign? (kqed.org)
57 points | 2 years ago with 187 comments
2016Ghost Taxis of Japan (hyakumonogatari.com)
57 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2016Free, Open Spaces: Brian Eno’s Favourite Records (thequietus.com)
57 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments
2016The Brain Is Not a Computer (aeon.co)
57 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments
2016A Brief History of Children Sent Through the Mail (smithsonianmag.com)
56 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments
2016How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm (theatlantic.com)
56 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments
2016Full Metal Jacket: A visual dataflow language (fmjlang.co.uk)
56 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments
2016Falsehoods programmers believe about economics (exple.tive.org)
56 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments
2016How a Fine-Dining Empire Made the Southwest Palatable to Outsiders (collectorsweekly.com)
56 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2016The World According to Stanisław Lem (lareviewofbooks.org)
56 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2016Zen and the Art of Divebombing (friesian.com)
56 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2016The Error Model (joeduffyblog.com)
56 points | 4 years ago with 9 comments
2016A Review of Tiny Languages (sustburbia.blogspot.com)
56 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2016Simplicity (plato.stanford.edu)
56 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2016Writing with the Machine (robinsloan.com)
56 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments
2016Pubs replaced banks in Ireland in 1970 and the economy was fine (businessinsider.com)
55 points | 1 year ago with 67 comments
2016Decomplication: How to Find Simple Solutions to “Hard” Problems (nateliason.com)
55 points | 3 years ago with 22 comments
2016Relationship Between Practice and Performance in Sports: A Meta-Analysis (artscimedia.case.edu)
55 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2016A personal story of treating social anxiety with 5-MeO-DMT (psychedelictimes.com)
55 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments
2016Restoring the first recording of computer music (blogs.bl.uk)
55 points | 4 years ago with 7 comments
2016Shields Down (randsinrepose.com)
55 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments
2016How to arrange any number of stars on the U.S. flag (crwflags.com)
55 points | 2 years ago with 40 comments
2016How simulations work (anuncommonlab.com)
55 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2016Machine Learning meets ketosis: how to effectively lose weight (github.com)
54 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments
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