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2017Is the C runtime and library a legitimate part of the Unix API? (utcc.utoronto.ca)
65 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2017Cross-Browser Fingerprinting via OS and Hardware Level Features (yinzhicao.org)
65 points | 6 years ago with 1 comments
2017Lego Spectrometer (publiclab.org)
65 points | 3 years ago with 6 comments
2017An Introduction to the BPF Compiler Collection (lwn.net)
65 points | 6 years ago with 3 comments
2017Tales from the Xenix Crypt (os2museum.com)
65 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2017A Hotel Room Hacking Spree (wired.com)
64 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2017Ellen Ullman: We Have to Demystify Code (lithub.com)
64 points | 3 years ago with 40 comments
2017Producing Open Source Software (producingoss.com)
64 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments
2017ARM Assembly: ∞ Ways to Return (quantum5.ca)
64 points | 2 years ago with 20 comments
2017How the 1918 Flu Spread Across America (smithsonianmag.com)
64 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2017The Trapper Keeper (mentalfloss.com)
64 points | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2017Merging and Patches (jneem.github.io)
64 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 3 comments
2017The JED Programmer's Editor (jedsoft.org)
64 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
2017The nightmare of targeted individuals in the age of paranoia (roundtable.io)
64 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments
2017A cartoon intro to WebAssembly (hacks.mozilla.org)
64 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2017Women on the pill don't 'need' to have simulated periods? (broadly.vice.com)
63 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
2017Psychology vs. the Graphics Pipeline (scattered-thoughts.net)
63 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments
2017Goop offers case study on how to sell snake oil (arstechnica.com)
63 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments
2017How to Live to the Full While Dying: The Diary of Alice James (brainpickings.org)
63 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
2017The Sound of 1-bit: Musical Creativity on the 48k Sinclair ZX Spectrum (gamejournal.it)
63 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2017Internet Communities: Otters vs. Possums (knowingless.com)
63 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments
2017The 68k Wars: The Age of Multimedia (filfre.net)
63 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2017My survey article on P vs. NP (scottaaronson.com)
63 points | 4 years ago with 79 comments
2017The Half-Life of Code (sandimetz.com)
63 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments
2017Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Fourier Transform (compphys.go.ro)
63 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2017The open source saxophone project (stohrermusic.com)
63 points | 2 years ago with 11 comments
2017Overcoming Us vs. Them (nautil.us)
62 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2017How Much Air Pollution Is Produced by Rockets? (scientificamerican.com)
62 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments
2017Implementing Stripe-like idempotency keys in Postgres (brandur.org)
62 points | 4 years ago with 2 comments
2017Magic Mouse 2 – A Terrible Design (fyngyrz.com)
62 points | 3 years ago with 80 comments
2017Confession Of A C/C++ Programmer (robert.ocallahan.org)
62 points | 4 years ago with 99 comments
2017A Matchmaker Who Flirts on Dating Apps for You (thecut.com)
62 points | 6 years ago with 81 comments
2017Nvidia Deep Learning Accelerator (NVDLA): free open inference accelerator (nvdla.org)
62 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2017Fast Radio Bursts from Extragalactic Light Sails (lweb.cfa.harvard.edu)
62 points | 4 years ago with 7 comments
2017Improved distributed algorithms for fundamental graph problems (dspace.mit.edu)
62 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments
2017Lingua::Romana::Perligata – Perl for the XXIimum Century (users.monash.edu)
62 points | 1 year ago with 18 comments
2017An artificial glacier growing in the desert (edition.cnn.com)
62 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2017Differential Dataflow but at what cost? (github.com)
61 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2017An unpaid UK researcher saved the Japanese seaweed industry (arstechnica.com)
61 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2017Please stop calling it “magic” (zverok.space)
61 points | 3 years ago with 77 comments
2017Chinook: Sample database for SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc (github.com)
61 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2017What’s a Gadgetbahn? (cat-bus.com)
61 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
2017I replicated an $86M project using open-source libraries (medium.com)
61 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2017Decoding Göbekli Tepe with Archaeoastronomy (maajournal.com)
61 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2017The LISP 2 Project (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
61 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2017The problem with being a top performer (scientificamerican.com)
61 points | 5 years ago with 43 comments
2017Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish? (smithsonianmag.com)
60 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2017Satan’s Bank Note (historytoday.com)
60 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
2017Simple, Fast and Safe Manual Memory Management (microsoft.com)
60 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2017Two Japanese Jabberwocky Poems (j-entranslations.com)
60 points | 4 years ago with 9 comments
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