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2016 | | How to disagree with someone more powerful than you (hbr.org) |
| 205 points | 2 years ago with 153 comments |
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2016 | | A man repopulated a rare butterfly species in his backyard (vox.com) |
| 205 points | 5 years ago with 59 comments |
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2016 | | Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor (reason.com) |
| 204 points | 6 years ago with 220 comments |
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2016 | | Cincinnati is home to the largest unused subway system in the world (atlasobscura.com) |
| 203 points | 4 years ago with 223 comments |
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2016 | | How many decimals of pi do we need? (jpl.nasa.gov) |
| 203 points | 2 years ago with 168 comments |
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2016 | | How does Sonic and Knuckles' “Lock-On Technology” work? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 203 points | 1 year ago with 46 comments |
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2016 | | Statistics for Engineers: Applying statistical techniques to operations (queue.acm.org) |
| 201 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments |
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2016 | | Practical Color Theory for People Who Code (tallys.github.io) |
| 200 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments |
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2016 | | Meaningful exits for founders (medium.com) |
| 200 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 86 comments |
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2016 | | Bob Dylan lays down what killed rock n roll (medium.com) |
| 199 points | 3 years ago with 229 comments |
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2016 | | Brick Block (oskarstalberg.com) |
| 198 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments |
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2016 | | Control Mario Kart 64 with your car over CAN bus (github.com) |
| 197 points | 1 year ago with 67 comments |
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2016 | | Modern China Is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre (lithub.com) |
| 196 points | 6 years ago with 126 comments |
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2016 | | Why is a Rust executable large? (lifthrasiir.github.io) |
| 195 points | 5 years ago with 128 comments |
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2016 | | Giving up on Julia (zverovich.net) |
| 192 points | 5 years ago with 167 comments |
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2016 | | Swarm of bees follow car for over 24 hours (telegraph.co.uk) |
| 191 points | 5 years ago with 53 comments |
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2016 | | The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (scottaaronson.com) |
| 190 points | 6 years ago with 110 comments |
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2016 | | The Lost Key of QWERTY (widespacer.blogspot.com) |
| 190 points | 5 years ago with 84 comments |
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2016 | | Timestamps and Time Zones in PostgreSQL (phili.pe) |
| 189 points | 5 years ago with 86 comments |
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2016 | | A newly discovered body part changes our understanding of the brain (sitn.hms.harvard.edu) |
| 188 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments |
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2016 | | See Python, See Python Go, Go Python Go (blog.heroku.com) |
| 188 points | 5 years ago with 59 comments |
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2016 | | Jpeg2png: Silky smooth JPEG decoding – no more artifacts (github.com) |
| 187 points | 4 years ago with 109 comments |
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2016 | | A neurologist who hacked his brain and almost lost his mind (wired.com) |
| 186 points | 2 years ago with 115 comments |
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2016 | | Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow (joelgrus.com) |
| 186 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments |
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2016 | | The Khmer Rouge: Genocide in the Name of Utopia (openendedsocialstudies.org) |
| 186 points | 4 years ago with 217 comments |
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2016 | | The World’s Most Efficient Languages (theatlantic.com) |
| 186 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 15 comments |
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2016 | | First TV Image of Mars: Interplanetary color by numbers (directedplay.com) |
| 186 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments |
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2016 | | São Paulo’s Outdoor Advertising Ban (99percentinvisible.org) |
| 185 points | 5 years ago with 94 comments |
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2016 | | The night an audience member filled in for Keith Moon (loudersound.com) |
| 185 points | 1 year ago with 42 comments |
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2016 | | A coworker stole my spicy food, got sick, and is blaming me (askamanager.org) |
| 185 points | 6 years ago with 206 comments |
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2016 | | What SQL Analysts Need to Know About Python (segment.com) |
| 184 points | 5 years ago with 113 comments |
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2016 | | Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (seriot.ch) |
| 184 points | 3 years ago with 173 comments |
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2016 | | The little black book of scams (accc.gov.au) |
| 182 points | 6 years ago with 62 comments |
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2016 | | I do not use a debugger (lemire.me) |
| 182 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 65 comments |
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2016 | | Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (whoissatoshi.wordpress.com) |
| 182 points | 3 years ago with 162 comments |
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2016 | | A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight (arxiv.org) |
| 182 points | 3 years ago with 155 comments |
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2016 | | The Most-Used Mathematical Algorithm Idea in History (writings.stephenwolfram.com) |
| 181 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments |
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2016 | | 4x4 ASCII Font (simplifier.neocities.org) |
| 181 points | 2 years ago with 95 comments |
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2016 | | A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org) |
| 181 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments |
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2016 | | Systems Thinking in Practice (ryanfrantz.com) |
| 180 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments |
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2016 | | Hiring and the Market for Lemons (danluu.com) |
| 180 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 49 comments |
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2016 | | Qantas ferried an engine on the wing of a 747 (flightradar24.com) |
| 180 points | 2 years ago with 97 comments |
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2016 | | When splines were physical objects (core77.com) |
| 180 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments |
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2016 | | Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (kakoune.org) |
| 179 points | 1 year ago with 89 comments |
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2016 | | Solving Sudoku with Prolog (metalevel.at) |
| 179 points | 5 years ago with 73 comments |
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2016 | | Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previously thought (spacetelescope.org) |
| 178 points | 7 years ago with 153 comments |
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2016 | | Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 178 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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2016 | | A fast alternative to the modulo reduction (lemire.me) |
| 177 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 33 comments |
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2016 | | The Untold History of Arduino (arduinohistory.github.io) |
| 177 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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2016 | | Borges and $: The Parable of the Literary Master and the Coin (longreads.com) |
| 177 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments |
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