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2016Bill Gates – A villain who lived to see himself become a hero? (reddit.com)
43 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments
2016Learning by Association in Plants (nature.com)
43 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments
2016Playing games with an attacker (blog.0x3a.com)
43 points | 3 years ago with 2 comments
2016No Great Technological Stagnation (nintil.com)
43 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2016What is the best length for short stories? (thejohnfox.com)
43 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2016Parsing C Types in Tcl (wiki.tcl-lang.org)
43 points | 3 years ago with 0 comments
2016Scaling and Developer Productivity (blog.coinbase.com)
43 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2016New York state wants both renewables and nuclear energy (vox.com)
43 points | 5 years ago with 66 comments
2016New York’s Elevators Define the City (fivethirtyeight.com)
43 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
2016Understand and Eliminate JVM Warm-Up Overhead in Data-Parallel Systems (usenix.org)
42 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments
2016Y Combinator Podcast #4: Sam Altman Interviews Elon Musk (ycombinator.com)
42 points | 1 year ago with 51 comments
2016Session types in programming languages (simonjf.com)
42 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2016No Alcohol, No Coffee for 27 Months (vanschneider.com)
42 points | 5 years ago with 95 comments
2016MitM'ing my STB (xakcop.com)
42 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2016Tardigrade protein helps human DNA withstand radiation (nature.com)
42 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2016Mystery NetBurst (os2museum.com)
42 points | 3 years ago with 1 comments
2016Graal and Truffle (blog.plan99.net)
42 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments
2016Visualizing Hip-Hop Melodies (ethanhein.com)
42 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2016The Incredible Proof Machine (incredible.pm)
41 points | 2 years ago with 5 comments
2016P-hacked hypotheses are deceivingly robust (datacolada.org)
41 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2016A unikernel firewall for QubesOS (roscidus.com)
41 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
2016The Bateson Building (jsah.ucpress.edu)
41 points | 4 years ago with 3 comments
2016Attention and the Moral Life (thefrailestthing.com)
41 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2016New Discovery Around Juniper Backdoor Raises More Questions (wired.com)
41 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments
2016The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality (quantamagazine.org)
41 points | 7 years ago with 60 comments
2016The Jacquard Loom: A Driver of the Industrial Revolution (spectrum.ieee.org)
41 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments
2016Doas Mastery (flak.tedunangst.com)
41 points | 1 year ago with 12 comments
2016The dangers of non-empirical confirmation (arxiv.org)
41 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2016Deep-Fried Data (idlewords.com)
41 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments
2016aSMtris – Tetris in assembly language (sebastianmihai.com)
41 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2016Star Power: Carl Sagan’s 1970 Porsche 914 (barnfinds.com)
40 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
2016The Delicious Origins of the Domesticated Blueberry (daily.jstor.org)
40 points | 2 years ago with 22 comments
2016Earth’s continental plate movement can cause problems for GPS (news.nationalgeographic.com)
40 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2016PoisonTap (samy.pl)
40 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments
2016What is this thing, called swing? (thehomeofhappyfeet.com)
40 points | 6 years ago with 16 comments
2016Science in the age of selfies (pnas.org)
40 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2016The Great Garfield Car Window Toy Craze (mentalfloss.com)
40 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments
2016Key Insights from Analyzing 5k Cap Tables (capshare.com)
40 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments
2016Unearthing the City Grid That Would Have Been in Central Park (newyorker.com)
40 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2016What Is a Music Engraver? (flypaper.soundfly.com)
40 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2016The Secrets of the Wood Wide Web (newyorker.com)
40 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments
2016This Physics Pioneer Walked Away from It All (nautil.us)
40 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2016A new way to read and print double-sided paper (mathlesstraveled.com)
40 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2016The Meta-Circular Evaluator (rooijakkers.software)
40 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2016How the Starship Enterprise Almost Landed in Las Vegas (hollywoodreporter.com)
40 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2016When Did Sex Become Fun? (sapiens.org)
39 points | 3 years ago with 40 comments
2016Man hacked random-number generator to rig lotteries, investigators say (theguardian.com)
39 points | 3 years ago with 40 comments
2016The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps router from 2005 still makes millions for Linksys (arstechnica.com)
39 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments
2016A New Origin Story for Dogs (theatlantic.com)
39 points | 3 years ago with 9 comments
2016After weight-loss surgery, a year of joys and disappointments (nytimes.com)
38 points | 2 years ago with 81 comments
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