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2017 | | Hidden messages in Amiga games (codetapper.com) |
| 60 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments |
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2017 | | The piranha problem in social psychology / behavioral economics (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu) |
| 60 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments |
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2017 | | Moving Beyond Types (hypothesis.works) |
| 60 points | 5 years ago with 47 comments |
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2017 | | Why did we wait so long for the cotton gin? (rootsofprogress.org) |
| 60 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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2017 | | A Life of One’s Own: Marion Milner (themarginalian.org) |
| 60 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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2017 | | Stanislav Petrov, Officer Who Helped Avert Nuclear War on Sept. 26, 1983 (nytimes.com) |
| 60 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments |
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2017 | | The “phantom reference”: How a made-up article got almost 400 citations (retractionwatch.com) |
| 59 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments |
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2017 | | What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? (edge.org) |
| 59 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments |
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2017 | | How confusion spreads and becomes engrained (stephan-shahinian.medium.com) |
| 59 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments |
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2017 | | When Squirrels Were One of America’s Most Popular Pets (atlasobscura.com) |
| 59 points | 4 years ago with 50 comments |
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2017 | | Privacy Loss in Apple’s Implementation of Differential Privacy (arxiv.org) |
| 59 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments |
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2017 | | Bread Board Wristwatch (ingep.net) |
| 59 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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2017 | | WysiScript: Programming via Direct Syntax Highlighting (zifyoip.com) |
| 59 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments |
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2017 | | Statistics have lost their power (theguardian.com) |
| 58 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments |
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2017 | | How Tube stations got their unusual names (bbc.com) |
| 58 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments |
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2017 | | Brain stimulation increases monkeys’ ability to quickly perform tasks (futurism.com) |
| 58 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments |
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2017 | | The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre of 1902 Did Not Go as Planned (atlasobscura.com) |
| 58 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments |
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2017 | | John C. Mather: “There is no first moment of time” (edge.org) |
| 58 points | 3 years ago with 79 comments |
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2017 | | America’s largest companies quietly give worker data to Equifax (fastcompany.com) |
| 58 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments |
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2017 | | Remembering the Murder You Didn’t Commit (newyorker.com) |
| 58 points | 6 years ago with 47 comments |
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2017 | | The MIT Dropouts Who Created Ms. Pac-Man (fastcompany.com) |
| 58 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments |
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2017 | | Is a 'Stack' the Best Way to Understand Everything? (nytimes.com) |
| 58 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments |
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2017 | | Parenting: Who is it really for? (sivers.org) |
| 57 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments |
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2017 | | Stop Using a Loading Spinner (blog.iamsuleiman.com) |
| 57 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments |
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2017 | | DungeonDelveXL (frayn.net) |
| 57 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments |
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2017 | | Playing Tetris Can Help Tame Traumatic Memories (npr.org) |
| 56 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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2017 | | The effect of web browser “Input Lag” in HTML5 games (vsynctester.com) |
| 56 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments |
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2017 | | Largest Early World Map – Monte's 10 Ft. Planisphere of 1587 (davidrumsey.com) |
| 56 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments |
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2017 | | A spoonful of sugar helps the radioactive oatmeal go down (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 56 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments |
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2017 | | Sci-Fi Short Film “Slaughterbots” [video] (youtube.com) |
| 56 points | 2 years ago with 23 comments |
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2017 | | The Math Behind Project Scheduling, Bug Tracking, and Triage (apenwarr.ca) |
| 56 points | 4 years ago with 2 comments |
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2017 | | These may be the first images of dogs, and they’re wearing leashes (sciencemag.org) |
| 56 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments |
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2017 | | Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture? (english.stackexchange.com) |
| 56 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments |
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2017 | | A 155 carat diamond with 92 mm diameter (innovations-report.com) |
| 56 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments |
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2017 | | Adventures in JIT Compilation (eli.thegreenplace.net) |
| 56 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments |
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2017 | | A Minimalist Guide to SQLite (tech.marksblogg.com) |
| 55 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments |
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2017 | | USB Snooping Made Easy: Crosstalk Leakage Attacks on USB Hubs (usenix.org) |
| 55 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments |
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2017 | | MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia (musicbrainz.org) |
| 55 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 15 comments |
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2017 | | Return of the Runtimes: Rethinking the Language Runtime System (people.eecs.berkeley.edu) |
| 55 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments |
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2017 | | Gene sequencer malware injection via encoded DNA (wired.com) |
| 55 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments |
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2017 | | Apology critics who want to teach you how to say you’re sorry (nymag.com) |
| 55 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 56 comments |
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2017 | | Nothingness (plato.stanford.edu) |
| 55 points | 5 years ago with 82 comments |
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2017 | | Filesystem Error Handling (danluu.com) |
| 54 points | 4 years ago with 1 comments |
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2017 | | Hexagonal Architecture vs. Free Monad (deque.blog) |
| 54 points | 2 years ago with 6 comments |
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2017 | | What it was like to be peer reviewed in the 1860s (physicstoday.scitation.org) |
| 54 points | 4 years ago with 4 comments |
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2017 | | Cancer Isn’t a Logic Problem (cancer.nautil.us) |
| 54 points | 6 years ago with 46 comments |
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2017 | | American Airlines gave its workers a raise. Wall Street freaked out (vox.com) |
| 54 points | 3 years ago with 11 comments |
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2017 | | Hardware Security (scl.engr.uconn.edu) |
| 54 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments |
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2017 | | Scylla's Approach to Improve Performance for CPU-Bound Workloads (scylladb.com) |
| 54 points | 4 years ago with 0 comments |
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2017 | | Why Ancient Roman Concrete Outlasts Our Own (sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net) |
| 54 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments |
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