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2017Biomimicry: How Designers Are Learning from the Natural World (99percentinvisible.org)
120 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 9 comments
2017Std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++ (bitbashing.io)
120 points | 4 years ago with 232 comments
2017-Werror Is not your friend (embeddedartistry.com)
120 points | 1 year ago with 92 comments
2017FBI affidavit against Ryan S. Lin in cyberstalking case (justice.gov)
120 points | 6 years ago with 65 comments
2017We don't do that here (thagomizer.com)
120 points | 3 years ago with 182 comments
2017How to live without Google (spreadprivacy.com)
119 points | 6 years ago with 116 comments
2017Do not do in code what can be done in infrastructure (rogerjohansson.blog)
119 points | 4 years ago with 97 comments
2017What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer (nolanlawson.com)
119 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 5 comments
2017Why you should re-read Paradise Lost (bbc.com)
119 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments
2017Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (theatlantic.com)
119 points | 6 years ago with 156 comments
2017Software Rot (geoff.greer.fm)
119 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments
2017Switching from Common Lisp to Julia (tamaspapp.eu)
118 points | 6 years ago with 81 comments
2017If you want developers to adopt your software, make it less risky (reifyworks.com)
117 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments
2017Google Calendar Event Injection with MailSniper (blackhillsinfosec.com)
117 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments
2017Nüshu, a 19th-century Chinese script written only by women (atlasobscura.com)
117 points | 6 years ago with 36 comments
2017Why I’m making my family German (theguardian.com)
117 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 186 comments
2017Companies should probably pay $2k per person for open source (gratipay.news)
117 points | 3 years ago with 104 comments
2017What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (aeon.co)
116 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments
2017Some Were Meant for C (cs.kent.ac.uk)
116 points | 6 years ago with 176 comments
2017Impossible Mathematics of the Real World (nautil.us)
116 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2017The web is swallowing the desktop whole (char.gd)
115 points | 3 years ago with 251 comments
2017In glyphosate review, WHO agency edited out “non-carcinogenic” findings (reuters.com)
115 points | 5 years ago with 70 comments
2017The Decentralized Web Primer (dweb-primer.ipfs.io)
115 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2017Rust's type system is Turing-complete (sdleffler.github.io)
114 points | 4 years ago with 87 comments
2017Grim C++ Tales from the Crypt: The Visitor Pattern (cppcrypt.tumblr.com)
114 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2017A brief history of the UUID (segment.com)
113 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2017The FDA's Restrictive Regulation of Home-Testing Devices (scholarship.law.duke.edu)
113 points | 3 years ago with 122 comments
2017How to make $80k per month on the Apple App Store (blog.lockdownprivacy.com)
113 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2017Stealing sensitive browser data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API (blog.lukaszolejnik.com)
113 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
2017Study: Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide (noaa.gov)
112 points | 4 years ago with 137 comments
2017How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]? (lemire.me)
112 points | 2 years ago with 62 comments
2017Supporters of Mexico’s Soda Tax Targeted with NSO Exploit Links (citizenlab.ca)
112 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2017I built a wind map with WebGL (blog.mapbox.com)
112 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2017How Antitrust Enforcement Can Spur Innovation: Bell Labs and 1956 (economics.yale.edu)
112 points | 4 years ago with 34 comments
2017There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence (intelligence.org)
111 points | 5 years ago with 123 comments
2017“If You Are Not Drowning in Demand, You Don’t Have Product-Market Fit” (capitalandgrowth.org)
111 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 74 comments
2017Secret identities in Dwarf Fortress (ojs.aaai.org)
111 points | 2 years ago with 35 comments
2017Russian Espionage and Electromagnetic Fields: The Story of the Theremin (daily.redbullmusicacademy.com)
111 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2017Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich (newyorker.com)
111 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 66 comments
2017Don't use ENV variables for secret data (diogomonica.com)
110 points | 5 years ago with 140 comments
2017The Unwritten Contract of Solid State Drives (dl.acm.org)
110 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2017What the Heck Happened to Rollerblading? (entertainment.howstuffworks.com)
110 points | 3 years ago with 201 comments
2017Kill the Alarm Clock (supermemo.guru)
110 points | 4 years ago with 170 comments
2017You Are the Product (lrb.co.uk)
110 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments
2017An Interview with Jerry Seinfeld (hbr.org)
110 points | 2 years ago with 171 comments
2017To solve problems caused by sitting, learn to squat (qz.com)
109 points | 5 years ago with 59 comments
2017Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while driving (papers.ssrn.com)
109 points | 4 years ago with 73 comments
2017Time to Use Mesh Networks to Build Your Own Internet? (inverse.com)
109 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 4 comments
2017Why have I never heard of the Ene-Farm? (earthbound.report)
109 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments
2017How to Make $80k per Month on the Apple App Store (medium.com)
109 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
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