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2017A history of storage media (codewords.recurse.com)
54 points | 3 years ago with 16 comments
2017Private contact discovery for Signal (signal.org)
54 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2017In southeastern Colorado, robots disarm WWII-era chemical weapons (arstechnica.com)
54 points | 4 years ago with 2 comments
2017Ivermectin: ‘wonder’ drug continues to surprise and exceed expectations (nature.com)
54 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
2017Why are scientists filing lawsuits against their critics? (theverge.com)
54 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
2017Shor's Quantum Factoring Algorithm (algassert.com)
53 points | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2017Jai Language Primer (github.com)
53 points | 4 years ago with 41 comments
2017Parallel recursion scheme detection in Haskell via anti-unification (research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk)
53 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2017Connectome-Specific Harmonic Waves on LSD (qualiacomputing.com)
53 points | 5 years ago with 4 comments
2017The quest to create quality chocolate for a country obsessed with Cadbury (qz.com)
53 points | 3 years ago with 85 comments
2017Computational Linear Algebra for Programmers (github.com)
53 points | 5 years ago with 1 comments
2017US Navy swaps $38,000 periscope joysticks for $30 Xbox controllers (geekwire.com)
53 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 16 comments
2017Transparent Hugepages: measuring the performance impact (alexandrnikitin.github.io)
53 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
2017Lagrange Points: Parking Places in Space (space.com)
52 points | 6 years ago with 20 comments
2017The Dangers of Elite Projection (humantransit.org)
52 points | 6 years ago with 63 comments
2017The Guns of Bitcoin (medium.com)
52 points | 5 years ago with 112 comments
2017Rethinking Hierarchy in the Workplace (gsb.stanford.edu)
52 points | 3 years ago with 82 comments
2017Book Review: Raise a Genius (slatestarcodex.com)
52 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2017Robot automation will 'take 800M jobs by 2030' (bbc.com)
52 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments
2017Is M-Pesa Kenyan or British? (iafrikan.com)
52 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments
2017Becoming Addiction-Free (stevepavlina.com)
52 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments
2017Margaret Hamilton oral history (computerhistory.org)
52 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments
2017Plastic Gears Are the Future (machinedesign.com)
52 points | 6 years ago with 30 comments
2017Create your own game engine but don't use it (zeroequalsfalse.press)
51 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2017Want fewer car accidents? Remove traffic signals and road signs (bigthink.com)
51 points | 2 years ago with 83 comments
2017The Rule of Three (andrewbrookins.com)
51 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2017Rusty Navy: The Bay Area's 'Mothball Fleet' Enters a New Era (kqed.org)
51 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
2017The Silent Flight of Owls, Explained (audubon.org)
51 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2017Undermining strategic stability: The burst-height compensating super-fuze (thebulletin.org)
51 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2017Betting on things that never change (collaborativefund.com)
51 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments
2017Dismissing Python Garbage Collection (instagram-engineering.com)
51 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments
2017Acid test: on drugs and science fiction (nevalalee.wordpress.com)
51 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2017Is Google evil? (unixsheikh.com)
51 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
2017Stay Away from Cloudflare (unixsheikh.com)
50 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2017The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals (fs.blog)
50 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2017Man as a Rationalist Animal (samzdat.com)
50 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
2017The ‘Indiana Jones’ Supernatural Horror Movie That Almost Was (bloody-disgusting.com)
50 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2017The ‘consciousness causes quantum collapse’ hypothesis (philosophynow.org)
50 points | 5 years ago with 70 comments
2017MNT Reform: DIY Portable Computer Goals (mntre.com)
50 points | 2 years ago with 5 comments
2017Fuzzing Irssi (irssi.org)
50 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2017Attack of the 50 foot Blockchain (blog.koehntopp.info)
49 points | 4 years ago with 103 comments
2017Tell me an engineering murderboard story (pluspora.com)
49 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2017TypeScript's Type System Is Turing Complete (github.com)
49 points | 4 years ago with 43 comments
2017Connecting the Atari ST to the Internet with an ESP8266 (chzsoft.de)
49 points | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2017The Mizar proof system (cs.kun.nl)
49 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments
2017A Medieval British Anti-Counterfeiting System: Split Tally Sticks (core77.com)
49 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
2017Duality of Vector Spaces (solmaz.io)
49 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2017Six-Letter DNA Alphabet Produces Proteins in Cells (the-scientist.com)
49 points | 3 years ago with 22 comments
2017Titles (medium.com)
49 points | 3 years ago with 10 comments
2017Mutt’s secret sauce (nosubstance.me)
49 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments
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