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2016Understanding the BeagleBone’s built in microcontrollers (righto.com)
154 points | 6 years ago with 57 comments
2016Are our brains Bayesian? (rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
154 points | 6 years ago with 66 comments
2016Patagonia's Philosopher King (newyorker.com)
154 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments
2016Guide to Linux System Calls (blog.packagecloud.io)
154 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
2016What every coder should know about gamma (blog.johnnovak.net)
154 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments
2016The Value of Grey Thinking (fs.blog)
153 points | 5 years ago with 89 comments
2016Biohazard: Iconic symbol designed to be “memorable but meaningless” (99percentinvisible.org)
153 points | 1 year ago with 61 comments
2016Paean to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (paeantosmac.wordpress.com)
152 points | 5 years ago with 71 comments
2016Erlang Scheduler Details (hamidreza-s.github.io)
151 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
2016Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Immediately Sick (modernfarmer.com)
151 points | 2 years ago with 243 comments
2016Immutability Changes Everything (queue.acm.org)
151 points | 3 years ago with 94 comments
2016What insects can tell us about the origins of consciousness (pnas.org)
150 points | 5 years ago with 107 comments
2016Richard Stallman and the History of Free Software and Open Source (cmpod.net)
149 points | 3 years ago with 98 comments
2016Understanding the state of Artificial Intelligence academic research (blog.ai-academy.com)
149 points | 7 years ago with 31 comments
2016Immutability is not enough (codewords.recurse.com)
148 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments
2016How You Wound Up Playing ‘The Oregon Trail’ in Computer Class (smithsonianmag.com)
147 points | 3 years ago with 97 comments
2016Bayesian Networks – An Introduction (bayesserver.com)
147 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2016The Myth of the Barter Economy (theatlantic.com)
147 points | 4 years ago with 172 comments
2016McDonald's holds communities together (theguardian.com)
147 points | 5 years ago with 144 comments
2016NES Emulator in Common Lisp (github.com)
147 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 33 comments
2016Nintendo GBA and DS ROM hacking guide (gbatemp.net)
146 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments
2016Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing (newscientist.com)
146 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 38 comments
2016Employee #1: Reddit (blog.ycombinator.com)
144 points | 3 years ago with 111 comments
2016Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker (frankchimero.com)
144 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
2016When people ate people, a strange disease emerged (npr.org)
144 points | 3 years ago with 95 comments
2016Let’s stop copying C (eev.ee)
143 points | 6 years ago with 100 comments
2016Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (eng.uber.com)
143 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 47 comments
2016Git as a NoSql Database (kenneth-truyers.net)
143 points | 3 years ago with 135 comments
2016Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
143 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments
2016Why houses in Bermuda have white stepped roofs (bbc.com)
143 points | 2 years ago with 22 comments
2016Statistically controlling for confounding constructs is hard (journals.plos.org)
143 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments
2016Error Handling in Go (innoq.com)
143 points | 5 years ago with 86 comments
2016The MIT License, Line by Line (writing.kemitchell.com)
143 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
2016Nicotine (gwern.net)
142 points | 1 year ago with 260 comments
2016What’s wrong with Git? A conceptual design analysis (blog.acolyer.org)
142 points | 3 years ago with 212 comments
2016How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (by.graffino.com)
142 points | 4 years ago with 124 comments
2016The Most Effective Weapon on the Modern Battlefield Is Concrete (mwi.usma.edu)
142 points | 6 years ago with 85 comments
2016Men Without Work (time.com)
141 points | 2 years ago with 446 comments
2016Notes from the Architect (varnish-cache.org)
141 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 51 comments
2016The Math Myth (econlib.org)
141 points | 2 years ago with 316 comments
2016A Hacker from South Africa Rescued the First NASA Computer in Space (atlasobscura.com)
140 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments
201628Gbps Microstrip with Pepper Jack Cheese as Substrate (linkedin.com)
140 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2016So I lost my OpenBSD FDE password (words.filippo.io)
140 points | 2 years ago with 74 comments
2016The writer who made me love comics taught me to hate them (polygon.com)
139 points | 3 years ago with 189 comments
2016Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw (open_nsfw.gitlab.io)
139 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2016Taking PHP Seriously (slack.engineering)
139 points | 4 years ago with 138 comments
2016Clojure – Fascinated, Disappointed, Astonished (lewandowski.io)
138 points | 5 years ago with 112 comments
2016The Interstellar Style of Sun Ra (pitchfork.com)
138 points | 1 year ago with 24 comments
2016Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person (nytimes.com)
137 points | 4 years ago with 202 comments
2016Why Understanding Space Is So Hard (nautil.us)
136 points | 7 years ago with 75 comments
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