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| 2017 | | I was wrong about spreadsheets (reifyworks.com) |
| 590 points | 5 years ago with 369 comments |
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| 2017 | | When a Bike Company Put a TV on Its Box, Shipping Damages Went Down (bicycling.com) |
| 586 points | 6 years ago with 261 comments |
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| 2017 | | Typing the technical interview (aphyr.com) |
| 561 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 32 comments |
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| 2017 | | The cult of dd (eklitzke.org) |
| 557 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 223 comments |
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| 2017 | | Badssl.com (badssl.com) |
| 554 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2017 | | I hate telephones (jameshfisher.com) |
| 553 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2017 | | Wikipedia Has Cancer (en.wikipedia.org) |
| 528 points | 5 years ago with 310 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (blog.discordapp.com) |
| 528 points | 6 years ago with 162 comments |
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| 2017 | | Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (gwern.net) |
| 525 points | 5 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Evolution of Trust (ncase.me) |
| 523 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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| 2017 | | MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua (moonscript.org) |
| 519 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2017 | | The radix 2^51 trick (chosenplaintext.ca) |
| 518 points | 4 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2017 | | Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (nayuki.io) |
| 516 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 226 comments |
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| 2017 | | Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (isglobal.org) |
| 515 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 135 comments |
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| 2017 | | Encryption Lava Lamps (atlasobscura.com) |
| 513 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why Is SQLite Coded in C (sqlite.org) |
| 499 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2017 | | SQLite is 35% Faster Than The Filesystem (sqlite.org) |
| 493 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 127 comments |
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| 2017 | | Famous Laws of Software Development (timsommer.be) |
| 479 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 2017 | | Writing a C Compiler (norasandler.com) |
| 475 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 43 comments |
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| 2017 | | The biggest and weirdest commits in Linux kernel Git history (destroyallsoftware.com) |
| 473 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2017 | | How the blog broke the web (stackingthebricks.com) |
| 465 points across 5 posts | 2 years ago with 115 comments |
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| 2017 | | American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math' (wbur.org) |
| 465 points | 3 years ago with 525 comments |
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| 2017 | | Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing (mango.pdf.zone) |
| 458 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments |
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| 2017 | | Computer input latency from 1977-2017 (danluu.com) |
| 454 points | 4 years ago with 259 comments |
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| 2017 | | Which answer in this list is the correct answer to this question? (math.stackexchange.com) |
| 453 points | 5 years ago with 131 comments |
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| 2017 | | Xbox360 –> Windows Executable Converter (github.com) |
| 450 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 54 comments |
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| 2017 | | C89 compiler produces printable executables from C code [pdf] (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 448 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 15 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Philosophy of Computer Science (plato.stanford.edu) |
| 446 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2017 | | Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (polygon.com) |
| 445 points | 3 years ago with 271 comments |
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| 2017 | | Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (magcius.github.io) |
| 443 points | 5 years ago with 132 comments |
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| 2017 | | Free coding exercises for budding gophers (gophercises.com) |
| 435 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Stripe Designs Websites (leerob.io) |
| 434 points | 4 years ago with 159 comments |
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| 2017 | | Tribes of Programming (josephg.com) |
| 430 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2017 | | How I became a better programmer (jlongster.com) |
| 430 points | 5 years ago with 146 comments |
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| 2017 | | Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (yakshav.es) |
| 428 points | 3 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Cube Rule (cuberule.com) |
| 427 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2017 | | Floating Point Visually Explained (fabiensanglard.net) |
| 423 points | 4 years ago with 96 comments |
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| 2017 | | Software 2.0 (karpathy.medium.com) |
| 421 points | 2 years ago with 330 comments |
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| 2017 | | Guerrilla Public Service Redux (99percentinvisible.org) |
| 421 points | 4 years ago with 110 comments |
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| 2017 | | ADSL works over wet string (revk.uk) |
| 418 points | 3 years ago with 153 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (unix.stackexchange.com) |
| 413 points | 3 years ago with 211 comments |
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| 2017 | | A Sealed Garden That Was Watered Once in 53 Years (biologicperformance.com) |
| 412 points | 5 years ago with 164 comments |
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| 2017 | | From Design Patterns to Category Theory (blog.ploeh.dk) |
| 411 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2017 | | “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?” (flavoracle.tumblr.com) |
| 410 points | 2 years ago with 457 comments |
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| 2017 | | To Get More Replies, Say Less (gkogan.co) |
| 409 points | 4 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2017 | | We Switched from Python to Go (getstream.io) |
| 407 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2017 | | 75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, or both? (idealmedicalcare.org) |
| 407 points | 6 years ago with 349 comments |
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| 2017 | | Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (thelawproject.com.au) |
| 405 points | 4 years ago with 386 comments |
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| 2017 | | Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system via SSH (github.com) |
| 399 points | 6 years ago with 79 comments |
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| 2017 | | Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? (journals.plos.org) |
| 395 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 36 comments |
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