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| 2017 | | Almost every speed limit is too low (qz.com) |
| 135 points | 6 years ago with 204 comments |
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| 2017 | | Is the world's best butter worth 50 dollars a pound? (saveur.com) |
| 135 points | 5 years ago with 171 comments |
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| 2017 | | Emacs' Org-Mode and Syncthing = Perfect (hiepph.github.io) |
| 135 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2017 | | A better way to display museum hours (jamesrobertwatson.com) |
| 134 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Relationship Between Profanity and Honesty (gsb.stanford.edu) |
| 134 points | 6 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2017 | | Reverse engineering the 76477 “Space Invaders” sound chip from die photos (righto.com) |
| 134 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2017 | | How do palm trees survive hurricanes? (indefenseofplants.com) |
| 134 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2017 | | Riding transit takes almost twice as long as driving (governing.com) |
| 134 points | 3 years ago with 280 comments |
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| 2017 | | Against Willpower (nautil.us) |
| 132 points | 6 years ago with 67 comments |
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| 2017 | | One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meetings waste time (smashcompany.com) |
| 132 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2017 | | Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years with Nearly Nothing Going Wrong (theatlantic.com) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 89 comments |
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| 2017 | | A plan to rescue the Web from the Internet (staltz.com) |
| 131 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2017 | | Undocumented 8086 Opcodes part 1 (os2museum.com) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2017 | | Zebras hate you for no reason: Why Amdahl's law is misleading (EmbeddedRelated.com) |
| 131 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2017 | | Reasonable Effectiveness of the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm (jeremykun.com) |
| 130 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2017 | | A million people live in underground nuclear bunkers in Beijing (nationalgeographic.com) |
| 130 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2017 | | API versioning has no “right way” (apisyouwonthate.com) |
| 130 points | 4 years ago with 56 comments |
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| 2017 | | A crash course in just-in-time compilers (hacks.mozilla.org) |
| 129 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2017 | | Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (medium.com) |
| 129 points | 4 years ago with 158 comments |
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| 2017 | | Best Buy’s Secrets for Thriving in the Amazon Age (nytimes.com) |
| 129 points | 6 years ago with 135 comments |
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| 2017 | | Soviet Officer Stanislav Petrov, 'The Man Who Saved the World' (npr.org) |
| 128 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2017 | | How did anyone do math in Roman numerals? (washingtoncitypaper.com) |
| 128 points | 5 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2017 | | NP-hard does not mean hard (jeremykun.com) |
| 128 points | 2 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2017 | | Photographer Jacob Riis showed “How the Other Half Lives” in 1890s NYC (mymodernmet.com) |
| 127 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2017 | | A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles (nullprogram.com) |
| 127 points | 3 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why Isn’t Telegram End-to-End Encrypted by Default (telegra.ph) |
| 127 points | 4 years ago with 145 comments |
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| 2017 | | Mathematics for Computer Science (opendatastructures.org) |
| 127 points | 6 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2017 | | Topology-disturbing objects: a new class of 3D optical illusion (tandfonline.com) |
| 127 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2017 | | Sorting 2 Tons of Lego (jacquesmattheij.com) |
| 127 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2017 | | CLIs are reified UIs (expressionsofchange.org) |
| 127 points | 5 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2017 | | Texas Instruments’ Biggest Blunder: The TMS9900 Microprocessor (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 127 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2017 | | 6.851: Advanced Data Structures (courses.csail.mit.edu) |
| 127 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2017 | | In NY major crime complaints fell when cops stopped ‘proactive policing’ (latimes.com) |
| 127 points | 5 years ago with 118 comments |
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| 2017 | | JPEG: Image Compression Algorithm (pi.math.cornell.edu) |
| 126 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments |
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| 2017 | | A neural algorithm for similarity search (science.sciencemag.org) |
| 125 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2017 | | Finally Understanding PNG (compress-or-die.com) |
| 125 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2017 | | Chase had ads on 400K sites then on just 5K and got the same results (nytimes.com) |
| 125 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2017 | | Adventure Games and Eigenvalues (evanmiller.org) |
| 125 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Perils and Pleasures of Bartending in Antarctica (atlasobscura.com) |
| 124 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2017 | | Chromium: Secretly stores referer and url for downloaded files (bugs.debian.org) |
| 124 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2017 | | Decentralized trust graph for online value exchange without a blockchain (web.archive.org) |
| 123 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2017 | | Glass viscosity calculations debunk the myth of flow in medieval windows (ceramics.org) |
| 123 points | 4 years ago with 160 comments |
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| 2017 | | High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language (devblogs.nvidia.com) |
| 122 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2017 | | Final Fantasy 7: An oral history (polygon.com) |
| 122 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Myers diff algorithm that is used in Git (blog.jcoglan.com) |
| 122 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2017 | | How does human echolocation work? (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 122 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2017 | | Pirates of the Caribbean (Metric Edition) (nist.gov) |
| 121 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments |
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| 2017 | | How the C64 Keyboard Works (c64os.com) |
| 121 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2017 | | Dev vs. Ops (bassi.io) |
| 121 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 2017 | | Invisible Bunnies That Power World of Warcraft (kotaku.com) |
| 121 points | 1 year ago with 100 comments |
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