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