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2016Epistemological Relativism (reading.ac.uk)
38 points | 1 year ago with 48 comments
2016My time with Rails is up (solnic.codes)
38 points | 1 year ago with 47 comments
2016What's lost when we photograph life instead of experiencing it? (theconversation.com)
37 points | 1 year ago with 69 comments
2016Fundamental Forth (forth.com)
37 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2016What entrepreneurs can learn from regular people (studio.ribbonfarm.com)
37 points | 2 years ago with 15 comments
2016Against Generality (novalis.org)
37 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2016DJ Turntables: Buying Guide by Vekked (djtechtools.com)
35 points | 2 years ago with 47 comments
2016Analogies for Git (novalis.org)
35 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2016The Wizard of Oz Approach (ycombinator.com)
34 points | 1 year ago with 9 comments
2016FC8 – Faster 68K Decompression (bigmessowires.com)
34 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2016THERE IS NO CLOUD: It’s just someone else’s computer (medium.com)
34 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2016How to read bug reports (massicotte.org)
33 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments
2016The Malham Dig (mudinmyhair.co.uk)
33 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2016The Mexican Air Force no longer has any fighter aircraft in its inventory (thedrive.com)
33 points | 1 year ago with 58 comments
2016“Let us Calculate”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination (publicdomainreview.org)
33 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2016Bill Gates memorized employees' license plates to track them (time.com)
32 points | 1 year ago with 23 comments
2016Debugging an empty spam email (blog.petersobot.com)
32 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2016Three decades of nanopore sequencing (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
32 points | 3 years ago with 4 comments
2016Equivalence of Unicode strings is strange (databasearchitects.blogspot.com)
32 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
2016Getting Started with Red (redprogramming.com)
31 points | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2016The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man (publicdomainreview.org)
31 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2016Colonels of Truth (damninteresting.com)
29 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2016Industrial History: Railroad Scale Test Cars (industrialscenery.blogspot.com)
29 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments
2016Synchronous Processors (yodaiken.com)
29 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments
2016Branding in the real world: acronym branding (brandingmag.com)
27 points | 1 year ago with 11 comments
2016Least Resistance: How Desire Paths Can Lead to Better Design (99percentinvisible.org)
27 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments
2016Human Thinking vs. Parser Thinking (dannysu.com)
27 points | 1 year ago with 7 comments
2016American children are drowning in self-esteem (economist.com)
27 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments
2016Unit of Value: A Framework for Scaling (news.greylock.com)
27 points | 2 years ago with 5 comments
2016Why does Super Mario Bros. have faster music on the real NES? (old.reddit.com)
26 points | 3 years ago with 2 comments
2016Palindromic Rolling Hash (aleclownes.com)
26 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2016paraSITE: the bandage over the nomadic wound (archinect.com)
25 points | 1 year ago with 12 comments
2016Information overload is part of Maslow's hierarchy of needs (qz.com)
24 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments
2016The curious history of the clothespeg (medium.economist.com)
24 points | 3 years ago with 1 comments
2016I’m Not Dead Yet (theparisreview.org)
24 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2016PowerShell is now open-source, and cross-platform (devblogs.microsoft.com)
23 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2016The History of Barbed Wire (thecorrespondent.com)
23 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2016Please use text/plain for email (drewdevault.com)
23 points | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2016The Tough Legacy of Ulrike Meinhof (medium.com)
22 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments
2016Look at Your Fish (thecresset.org)
22 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2016A Look at WhatsApp: Engineering for Success at Scale (developers.facebook.com)
22 points | 3 years ago with 1 comments
2016Preparing for Prison (prisonuk.blogspot.com)
22 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2016The path to path-traced movies (cs.dartmouth.edu)
22 points | 1 year ago with 0 comments
2016Why I've Quit Twitter (hintjens.com)
21 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 7 comments
2016It Wasn't for Me (austinkleon.com)
21 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments
2016A forgery earned Michelangelo his first Roman patron (artsy.net)
21 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2016NY Sales Tax Exemption for Computer Hardware Purchased for SW and Web Dev (wffacpa.com)
21 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2016Is Innovation in Human Nature? (antonhowes.com)
20 points | 3 years ago with 9 comments
2016Historians of science have too many big pictures, not too few (doublerfraction.blogspot.com)
20 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2016Conserving Dürer’s Triumphal Arch: coming apart at the seams (britishmuseum.org)
19 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments
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