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2017Hokusai: Old man, crazy to paint (1843magazine.com)
73 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
2017The Day I Found Out My Life Was Hanging by a Thread (wired.com)
73 points | 5 years ago with 73 comments
2017Dickbars and Other Readability Excrement (shindoisshin.net)
73 points | 5 years ago with 49 comments
2017The worrying state of Mediterranean fish stocks (ec.europa.eu)
73 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2017How close is RISC-V to RISC-I? (web.archive.org)
73 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
2017The persistence of prog rock (newyorker.com)
73 points | 2 years ago with 54 comments
2017South Korea: the corruption that built its economy (iias.asia)
73 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments
2017Creating a Wireshark dissector in Lua (mika-s.github.io)
73 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
2017Roger Penrose Discusses Consciousness (nautil.us)
72 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments
2017GNU Typist (gnu.org)
72 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments
2017This isn't fun anymore (therandymon.com)
72 points | 5 years ago with 58 comments
201719th Century Moral Panic Over Paper Technology (slate.com)
72 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2017Something weird happens to companies when they hit 150 people (qz.com)
72 points | 2 years ago with 40 comments
2017Kids playground built from discarded wind turbine parts (lifeandsoulmagazine.com)
72 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments
2017The biggest threat facing middle-age men is loneliness (bostonglobe.com)
72 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2017The Web Is Eating the Desktop (adamierymenko.com)
72 points | 4 years ago with 157 comments
2017Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier (ourworldindata.org)
72 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2017Ravens parallel great apes in flexible planning for tool-use, bartering (science.sciencemag.org)
72 points | 6 years ago with 47 comments
2017Photos of the Eiffel Tower at night are restricted due to copyright (petapixel.com)
71 points | 6 years ago with 68 comments
2017Wall Street’s Largest Oil Trade (bloomberg.com)
71 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2017Three new FOSS umbrella organizations in Europe (lwn.net)
70 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2017The wild world of sneaker buying bots (motherboard.vice.com)
70 points | 6 years ago with 47 comments
2017Never Use White Text on Black: Astygmatism and Conference Slides (jessicaotis.com)
70 points | 5 years ago with 59 comments
2017Using the computer as a tool for thinking in discrete mathematics (rtalbert.org)
70 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments
2017Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped over 50% Since 1973, Paper Finds (nytimes.com)
69 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments
2017The Singularity is Near: How Kurzweil's Predictions Are Faring (antropy.co.uk)
69 points | 4 years ago with 120 comments
2017SUBLEQ and DawnOS (esoteric.codes)
69 points | 4 years ago with 32 comments
2017A few words about that ten-million-dollar serial comma (newyorker.com)
69 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments
2017The War to Sell Mattresses Is an Internet Nightmare (fastcompany.com)
69 points | 6 years ago with 81 comments
2017Postmodernism and Its Impact (areomagazine.com)
69 points | 5 years ago with 91 comments
2017Mastering Bash and Terminal (blockloop.io)
69 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments
2017A Short History of Objective-C (medium.com)
68 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments
2017DIY Through Hole Plating of PCBs (blog.honzamrazek.cz)
68 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
2017Current use of Linux in spacecraft flight software (researchgate.net)
68 points | 5 years ago with 25 comments
2017China manufactures a ballpoint pen all by itself (washingtonpost.com)
68 points | 6 years ago with 30 comments
2017Total recall: the people who never forget (theguardian.com)
67 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments
2017Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox (yalelawjournal.org)
67 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments
2017Seawater Greenhouse (seawatergreenhouse.com)
67 points | 4 years ago with 22 comments
2017DIY Tool Storage Ideas (familyhandyman.com)
67 points | 3 years ago with 54 comments
2017Generating Datasets with Identical Statistics Through Simulated Annealing (autodesk.com)
67 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments
2017Demystifying USB-C and Thunderbolt Docks (dell.com)
66 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments
2017An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage (apenwarr.ca)
66 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments
2017HFS Origins: The Turbo File System (macgui.com)
66 points | 2 years ago with 17 comments
2017The Oldest Restaurant in Kabul (longreads.com)
66 points | 2 years ago with 12 comments
2017Spirulina Algae Photobioreactor (mikechatzidakis.com)
66 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2017The EU’s disputed system of geographical indications is taking over the planet (politico.eu)
66 points | 4 years ago with 254 comments
2017Proximate vs. Root Causes: Why You Should Keep Digging to Find the Answer (fs.blog)
66 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
2017Flavors of Frustration (foddy.net)
65 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2017Lone Wolves: Why do some people hate teamwork? (queendomblog.wordpress.com)
65 points | 2 years ago with 81 comments
2017How to use repetition (blog.oup.com)
65 points | 2 years ago with 22 comments
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