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2016How to disagree with someone more powerful than you (hbr.org)
205 points | 2 years ago with 153 comments
2016A man repopulated a rare butterfly species in his backyard (vox.com)
205 points | 5 years ago with 59 comments
2016Confessions of an Ex-Prosecutor (reason.com)
204 points | 6 years ago with 220 comments
2016Cincinnati is home to the largest unused subway system in the world (atlasobscura.com)
203 points | 4 years ago with 223 comments
2016How many decimals of pi do we need? (jpl.nasa.gov)
203 points | 2 years ago with 168 comments
2016How does Sonic and Knuckles' “Lock-On Technology” work? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
203 points | 1 year ago with 46 comments
2016Statistics for Engineers: Applying statistical techniques to operations (queue.acm.org)
201 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments
2016Practical Color Theory for People Who Code (tallys.github.io)
200 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments
2016Meaningful exits for founders (medium.com)
200 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 86 comments
2016Bob Dylan lays down what killed rock n roll (medium.com)
199 points | 3 years ago with 229 comments
2016Brick Block (oskarstalberg.com)
198 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2016Control Mario Kart 64 with your car over CAN bus (github.com)
197 points | 1 year ago with 67 comments
2016Modern China Is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre (lithub.com)
196 points | 6 years ago with 126 comments
2016Why is a Rust executable large? (lifthrasiir.github.io)
195 points | 5 years ago with 128 comments
2016Giving up on Julia (zverovich.net)
192 points | 5 years ago with 167 comments
2016Swarm of bees follow car for over 24 hours (telegraph.co.uk)
191 points | 5 years ago with 53 comments
2016The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (scottaaronson.com)
190 points | 6 years ago with 110 comments
2016The Lost Key of QWERTY (widespacer.blogspot.com)
190 points | 5 years ago with 84 comments
2016Timestamps and Time Zones in PostgreSQL (phili.pe)
189 points | 5 years ago with 86 comments
2016A newly discovered body part changes our understanding of the brain (sitn.hms.harvard.edu)
188 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments
2016See Python, See Python Go, Go Python Go (blog.heroku.com)
188 points | 5 years ago with 59 comments
2016Jpeg2png: Silky smooth JPEG decoding – no more artifacts (github.com)
187 points | 4 years ago with 109 comments
2016A neurologist who hacked his brain and almost lost his mind (wired.com)
186 points | 2 years ago with 115 comments
2016Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow (joelgrus.com)
186 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
2016The Khmer Rouge: Genocide in the Name of Utopia (openendedsocialstudies.org)
186 points | 4 years ago with 217 comments
2016The World’s Most Efficient Languages (theatlantic.com)
186 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 15 comments
2016First TV Image of Mars: Interplanetary color by numbers (directedplay.com)
186 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments
2016São Paulo’s Outdoor Advertising Ban (99percentinvisible.org)
185 points | 5 years ago with 94 comments
2016The night an audience member filled in for Keith Moon (loudersound.com)
185 points | 1 year ago with 42 comments
2016A coworker stole my spicy food, got sick, and is blaming me (askamanager.org)
185 points | 6 years ago with 206 comments
2016What SQL Analysts Need to Know About Python (segment.com)
184 points | 5 years ago with 113 comments
2016Parsing JSON Is a Minefield (seriot.ch)
184 points | 3 years ago with 173 comments
2016The little black book of scams (accc.gov.au)
182 points | 6 years ago with 62 comments
2016I do not use a debugger (lemire.me)
182 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 65 comments
2016Satoshi leaked his Los Angeles IP address (whoissatoshi.wordpress.com)
182 points | 3 years ago with 162 comments
2016A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight (arxiv.org)
182 points | 3 years ago with 155 comments
2016The Most-Used Mathematical Algorithm Idea in History (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
181 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments
20164x4 ASCII Font (simplifier.neocities.org)
181 points | 2 years ago with 95 comments
2016A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)
181 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments
2016Systems Thinking in Practice (ryanfrantz.com)
180 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments
2016Hiring and the Market for Lemons (danluu.com)
180 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 49 comments
2016Qantas ferried an engine on the wing of a 747 (flightradar24.com)
180 points | 2 years ago with 97 comments
2016When splines were physical objects (core77.com)
180 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments
2016Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (kakoune.org)
179 points | 1 year ago with 89 comments
2016Solving Sudoku with Prolog (metalevel.at)
179 points | 5 years ago with 73 comments
2016Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previously thought (spacetelescope.org)
178 points | 7 years ago with 153 comments
2016Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (spectrum.ieee.org)
178 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2016A fast alternative to the modulo reduction (lemire.me)
177 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2016The Untold History of Arduino (arduinohistory.github.io)
177 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2016Borges 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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