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2017The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason (jasmcole.com)
83 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2017Making 3D Terrain Maps (shadedrelief.com)
82 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2017Atomic Gardening (atlasobscura.com)
82 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments
2017Netflix: Love is sharing a password (twitter.com)
82 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments
2017How we fine-tuned HAProxy to achieve 2M concurrent SSL connections (medium.freecodecamp.org)
82 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2017Dynamic Periodic Table (ptable.com)
81 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2017The Surprising Power of Online Experiments (hbr.org)
81 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2017Data Organization in Spreadsheets (tandfonline.com)
80 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 4 comments
2017There’s Toxicity, and There’s Toxicity (blogs.sciencemag.org)
80 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments
2017It’s always windy somewhere: Balancing renewable energy in Europe (arstechnica.com)
80 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 6 comments
2017Haute Baroque Capitalism (subpixel.space)
80 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2017Exposure to 835MHz RF-EMF induces hyperactivity and demyelination in mice (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
80 points | 3 years ago with 106 comments
2017The Circumnavigators (qrp-labs.com)
79 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments
2017What is the purpose of issuing laws/regulations without penalty? (politics.stackexchange.com)
79 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2017The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris (dtrace.org)
79 points | 5 years ago with 126 comments
2017Developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control (twitter.com)
79 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2017Silicon Valley: A Reality Check (slatestarcodex.com)
79 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2017Hard is not defensible (alexcrompton.com)
79 points | 5 years ago with 52 comments
2017Swansea Uni study: African wild dogs 'sneeze to vote' (bbc.co.uk)
79 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
2017The Death of Personality (tdarb.org)
79 points | 2 years ago with 64 comments
2017Protein folding: Much more intricate than we thought (cen.acs.org)
79 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments
2017LenPEG (dangermouse.net)
78 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2017Customers hate MVPs – Make it simple, loveable, and complete instead (blog.asmartbear.com)
77 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments
2017Near-duplicate features of C++ (nayuki.io)
77 points | 6 years ago with 57 comments
2017Cooling the tube – Engineering heat out of the Underground (ianvisits.co.uk)
76 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments
2017Coroutines: A Million Stacks (mikemarcin.com)
76 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments
2017Unearthing a masterpiece: a rare Minoan sealstone (magazine.uc.edu)
76 points | 6 years ago with 14 comments
2017Multi-threaded SQLite without the OperationalErrors (charlesleifer.com)
76 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
2017Robust Client-Side JavaScript (molily.de)
76 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
2017Hybrid Bank Account (jefftk.com)
75 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
2017Python goto implemented with system trace function (gist.github.com)
75 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2017Scientists Finally Figure Out Why the Water Bear Is Nearly Indestructible (veterinarydaily.com)
75 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments
2017Pen Plotter Art and Algorithms, Part 1 (mattdesl.svbtle.com)
75 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2017Cuckoo++ – High-Performance Hash Tables for Networking Applications (arxiv.org)
75 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
2017This is how Google will collapse (sfu.ca)
75 points | 4 years ago with 75 comments
2017I just don’t want to be a software developer anymore (medium.com)
75 points | 6 years ago with 103 comments
2017Pharmacist says he has filled Alzheimer's prescriptions for members of Congress (vox.com)
75 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments
2017The world is sitting on a $400T financial time bomb (qz.com)
74 points | 5 years ago with 102 comments
2017Using spinach leaf as scaffolding, scientists built a mini heart (news.nationalgeographic.com)
74 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2017GPU Performance for Game Artists (fragmentbuffer.com)
74 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
20178Gb USB Flash Drive Endurance Test (goughlui.com)
74 points | 4 years ago with 52 comments
2017Do we really need a third Apache project for columnar data? (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)
74 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2017Language at the End of the World (cabinetmagazine.org)
74 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2017Feds lift gain-of-function research pause, offer guidance (cidrap.umn.edu)
74 points | 2 years ago with 40 comments
2017Before the Internet (newyorker.com)
74 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments
2017Antedating “datatype” all the way to Plankalkül (arcanesentiment.blogspot.com)
74 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2017Implementing Poincaré Embeddings (rare-technologies.com)
74 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2017Apple II Double High Resolution Graphics (lukazi.blogspot.com)
73 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments
2017Why are there so many people in prison in America? (braino.org)
73 points | 4 years ago with 162 comments
2017Why you think you’re right, even when you’re wrong (ideas.ted.com)
73 points | 6 years ago with 31 comments
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