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2017As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support (plumshell.com)
395 points | 2 years ago with 177 comments
2017Why I hate the weekends (cdahmedeh.net)
393 points | 5 years ago with 340 comments
2017How to run your own mail server (c0ffee.net)
389 points | 4 years ago with 262 comments
2017A lot of what is known about pirates is not true (neh.gov)
386 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 64 comments
2017Web Audio Modem (martinmelhus.com)
384 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 42 comments
2017On the Unhappiness of Software Developers (arxiv.org)
382 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 131 comments
2017Where oil rigs go to die (theguardian.com)
382 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 16 comments
2017The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal (vice.com)
381 points | 4 years ago with 183 comments
2017A still of Kermit The Frog in Blade Runner 2049 (twitter.com)
381 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 2 comments
2017The Man Who Invented Information Theory (bostonreview.net)
380 points | 5 years ago with 100 comments
2017The Web Began Dying in 2014 (staltz.com)
370 points | 4 years ago with 263 comments
2017Ad blocking is under attack (adguard.com)
367 points | 1 year ago with 393 comments
2017The painfully shy developer's guide to networking for a better job (samjulien.com)
365 points | 2 years ago with 95 comments
2017Embracing community helps us live longer, and be happier (news.harvard.edu)
365 points across 2 posts | 5 months ago with 71 comments
2017Never mind the 1 percent: Let's talk about the 0.01 percent (review.chicagobooth.edu)
365 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 231 comments
2017Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (isglobal.org)
364 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments
2017RethinkDB: why we failed (defmacro.org)
362 points | 3 years ago with 227 comments
2017A Chicago newspaper that bought a bar (topic.com)
360 points across 2 posts | 10 months ago with 26 comments
2017Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control – Free Textbook (hades.mech.northwestern.edu)
358 points | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2017Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (hillelwayne.com)
356 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 112 comments
2017Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (metis.fi)
356 points | 5 years ago with 206 comments
2017Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (spectrum.ieee.org)
353 points | 3 years ago with 196 comments
2017Algorithmic Entities (papers.ssrn.com)
352 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2017What software engineers should know about search (scribe.rip)
352 points | 2 years ago with 129 comments
2017I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (dewitters.com)
351 points | 2 years ago with 387 comments
2017Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs (blog.jessfraz.com)
351 points | 4 years ago with 128 comments
2017The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep a journal (hbr.org)
344 points | 3 years ago with 132 comments
2017I found the best anagram in English (blog.plover.com)
341 points | 11 months ago with 160 comments
2017They thought they were going to rehab but ended up in chicken plants (revealnews.org)
339 points | 2 years ago with 264 comments
2017What's it like to be an Octopus? (lrb.co.uk)
334 points | 3 years ago with 163 comments
2017Betting on things that never change (collabfund.com)
333 points | 1 year ago with 113 comments
2017Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (strongtowns.org)
333 points | 3 years ago with 471 comments
2017Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration (blog.kentcdodds.com)
331 points | 5 years ago with 152 comments
2017A Kid Spent 9 Years Building a Detailed Paper Model of a Boeing Jet (ge.com)
329 points | 5 years ago with 72 comments
2017Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (tylertringas.com)
328 points | 4 years ago with 74 comments
2017Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (magcius.github.io)
326 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments
2017Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts (arxiv.org)
325 points across 3 posts | 4 months ago with 10 comments
2017A near-disaster at a nuclear weapons lab takes toll on America’s arsenal (science.org)
324 points | 1 year ago with 247 comments
2017Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Reference Counting (atp.fm)
324 points | 1 year ago with 249 comments
2017People Met in Hotel Lobbies (jasonlefkowitz.net)
321 points | 4 years ago with 87 comments
2017Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (marc.info)
319 points | 3 years ago with 389 comments
2017People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (atlasobscura.com)
319 points | 8 months ago with 125 comments
2017An introduction to distributed systems (github.com)
318 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments
2017Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? (sapiens.org)
318 points | 5 years ago with 220 comments
2017Quiet Hacker News (speak.sh)
318 points | 4 years ago with 127 comments
2017Bash $* and $@ (eklitzke.org)
316 points | 4 years ago with 234 comments
2017A Mind Is Born (linusakesson.net)
311 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments
2017I Got My Attention Back (craigmod.com)
310 points | 3 years ago with 181 comments
2017My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (dl.acm.org)
309 points | 1 year ago with 104 comments
2017How we do Vue: one year later (about.gitlab.com)
309 points | 5 years ago with 157 comments
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