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2017Symbolic Maths in Python (alexandrugris.github.io)
90 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2017Fingerprints could be stolen from V sign selfies (eandt.theiet.org)
90 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments
2017People who get goosebumps from music have different brains (indy100.com)
90 points | 6 years ago with 66 comments
2017Gauss's Principle of Least Constraint (preetum.nakkiran.org)
90 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2017The Sony “Star Eater” (markshelley.co.uk)
89 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
2017Fruit eating possibly linked to primates' large brain evolution (science.org)
89 points | 3 years ago with 63 comments
2017Medical response to a vinyl chloride release from a train derailment (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
89 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments
2017Richard Ford: Do we really need friends? (theguardian.com)
89 points | 4 years ago with 82 comments
2017A way for startups to build a solid IT infrastructure (about.gitlab.com)
88 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2017Interslavic Language (steen.free.fr)
88 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments
2017Happiness and Life Satisfaction (ourworldindata.org)
88 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2017REPL Debugging: No Stacktrace Required (blog.cognitect.com)
88 points | 5 years ago with 67 comments
2017The Emergence of a Fovea While Learning to Attend (bair.berkeley.edu)
88 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2017Comparing Floating-Point Numbers Is Tricky (bitbashing.io)
87 points | 2 years ago with 84 comments
2017Raising the American Weakling (nautil.us)
87 points | 6 years ago with 71 comments
2017Creating an autonomous system for fun and profit (blog.thelifeofkenneth.com)
87 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
2017The Future of Computing Depends on Making It Reversible (spectrum.ieee.org)
87 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2017The Ornate Bird Palaces of Ottoman-Era Turkey (thisiscolossal.com)
87 points | 1 year ago with 8 comments
2017John Berger: 90 years of looking, listening and seeing (gerryco23.wordpress.com)
87 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2017Getting 'Steinached' was all the rage in Roaring ’20s (mcgill.ca)
87 points | 4 years ago with 50 comments
2017A radio station that no one claims to run (bbc.com)
86 points | 6 years ago with 15 comments
2017Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
86 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2017React Internals (mattgreer.dev)
86 points | 3 years ago with 25 comments
2017The vintage 74181 ALU chip: how it works and why it’s so strange (righto.com)
86 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2017Mobile Electronics Workbench (nisker.net)
86 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2017Component Graph System (github.com)
86 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2017Photos of trains in the American West (cnn.com)
85 points | 3 years ago with 58 comments
2017High carbohydrate intake, not fat, was associated with higher risk of mortality (thelancet.com)
85 points | 3 years ago with 99 comments
2017Curl is C (daniel.haxx.se)
85 points | 4 years ago with 79 comments
2017Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of Americans Love Cooking (hbr.org)
85 points | 5 years ago with 155 comments
2017 Prison in Japan (gaijinass.com)
85 points | 5 years ago with 66 comments
2017On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (arxiv.org)
85 points | 3 years ago with 95 comments
2017It’s Okay to Store Data in Apache Kafka (confluent.io)
84 points | 5 years ago with 43 comments
2017Pro Rata and User Centric Distribution Models: A Comparative Study (digitalmedia.fi)
84 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments
2017Build, gather, brawl, repeat: The history of real-time strategy games (arstechnica.com)
84 points | 3 years ago with 60 comments
2017The CIA’s human experiments with mind control (history.com)
84 points | 5 years ago with 48 comments
2017Science papers are getting harder to read (nature.com)
84 points | 5 years ago with 62 comments
2017Soylent isn’t Healthy (nateliason.com)
84 points | 4 years ago with 81 comments
2017A man who can talk backwards (linguischtick.wordpress.com)
84 points | 2 years ago with 81 comments
2017RaptorJIT + Studio: Analyzing the evolving C heap of a JIT compiler (github.com)
84 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2017JavaScript Fatigue: Realities of our industry (lucasfcosta.com)
83 points | 6 years ago with 68 comments
2017Paradoxical Geniuses: “Let us burn the ships” (notesonliberty.com)
83 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments
2017Illustrating Group Theory: A Coloring Book (coloring-book.co)
83 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2017We’re Dropping Google Ads (groundup.org.za)
83 points | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2017Formal Reasoning About Programs (adam.chlipala.net)
83 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2017Systems smart enough to know when they're not smart enough (bigmedium.com)
83 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2017Detecting SSH Tunnels (trisul.org)
83 points | 1 year ago with 35 comments
2017Fernando Pessoa’s Disappearing Act (newyorker.com)
83 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments
2017Signs that can reveal a fake photo (bbc.com)
83 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments
2017What happened to the Semantic Web? (ht.acm.org)
83 points | 4 years ago with 57 comments
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