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2017 | | As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support (plumshell.com) |
| 395 points | 3 years ago with 177 comments |
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2017 | | Why I hate the weekends (cdahmedeh.net) |
| 393 points | 6 years ago with 340 comments |
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2017 | | How to run your own mail server (c0ffee.net) |
| 389 points | 5 years ago with 262 comments |
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2017 | | A lot of what is known about pirates is not true (neh.gov) |
| 386 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 64 comments |
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2017 | | Web Audio Modem (martinmelhus.com) |
| 384 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 42 comments |
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2017 | | On the Unhappiness of Software Developers (arxiv.org) |
| 382 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 131 comments |
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2017 | | Where oil rigs go to die (theguardian.com) |
| 382 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 16 comments |
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2017 | | The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal (vice.com) |
| 381 points | 5 years ago with 183 comments |
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2017 | | A still of Kermit The Frog in Blade Runner 2049 (twitter.com) |
| 381 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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2017 | | The Man Who Invented Information Theory (bostonreview.net) |
| 380 points | 6 years ago with 100 comments |
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2017 | | The Web Began Dying in 2014 (staltz.com) |
| 370 points | 5 years ago with 263 comments |
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2017 | | Ad blocking is under attack (adguard.com) |
| 367 points | 2 years ago with 393 comments |
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2017 | | The painfully shy developer's guide to networking for a better job (samjulien.com) |
| 365 points | 3 years ago with 95 comments |
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2017 | | Embracing community helps us live longer, and be happier (news.harvard.edu) |
| 365 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 71 comments |
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2017 | | Never mind the 1 percent: Let's talk about the 0.01 percent (review.chicagobooth.edu) |
| 365 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 231 comments |
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2017 | | Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (isglobal.org) |
| 364 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments |
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2017 | | RethinkDB: why we failed (defmacro.org) |
| 362 points | 4 years ago with 227 comments |
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2017 | | A Chicago newspaper that bought a bar (topic.com) |
| 360 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 26 comments |
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2017 | | Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control – Free Textbook (hades.mech.northwestern.edu) |
| 358 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments |
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2017 | | Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (hillelwayne.com) |
| 356 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 112 comments |
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2017 | | Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (metis.fi) |
| 356 points | 6 years ago with 206 comments |
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2017 | | Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 353 points | 4 years ago with 196 comments |
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2017 | | Algorithmic Entities (papers.ssrn.com) |
| 352 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments |
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2017 | | What software engineers should know about search (scribe.rip) |
| 352 points | 3 years ago with 129 comments |
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2017 | | I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (dewitters.com) |
| 351 points | 3 years ago with 387 comments |
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2017 | | Containers vs. Zones vs. Jails vs. VMs (blog.jessfraz.com) |
| 351 points | 5 years ago with 128 comments |
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2017 | | The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep a journal (hbr.org) |
| 344 points | 4 years ago with 132 comments |
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2017 | | I found the best anagram in English (blog.plover.com) |
| 341 points | 1 year ago with 160 comments |
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2017 | | They thought they were going to rehab but ended up in chicken plants (revealnews.org) |
| 339 points | 3 years ago with 264 comments |
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2017 | | What's it like to be an Octopus? (lrb.co.uk) |
| 334 points | 4 years ago with 163 comments |
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2017 | | Betting on things that never change (collabfund.com) |
| 333 points | 2 years ago with 113 comments |
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2017 | | Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure maintenance (strongtowns.org) |
| 333 points | 4 years ago with 471 comments |
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2017 | | Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration (blog.kentcdodds.com) |
| 331 points | 6 years ago with 152 comments |
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2017 | | A Kid Spent 9 Years Building a Detailed Paper Model of a Boeing Jet (ge.com) |
| 329 points | 6 years ago with 72 comments |
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2017 | | Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (tylertringas.com) |
| 328 points | 5 years ago with 74 comments |
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2017 | | Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (magcius.github.io) |
| 326 points | 4 years ago with 89 comments |
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2017 | | Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts (arxiv.org) |
| 325 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments |
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2017 | | A near-disaster at a nuclear weapons lab takes toll on America’s arsenal (science.org) |
| 324 points | 2 years ago with 247 comments |
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2017 | | Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Reference Counting (atp.fm) |
| 324 points | 2 years ago with 249 comments |
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2017 | | People Met in Hotel Lobbies (jasonlefkowitz.net) |
| 321 points | 5 years ago with 87 comments |
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2017 | | Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (marc.info) |
| 319 points | 4 years ago with 389 comments |
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2017 | | People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (atlasobscura.com) |
| 319 points | 1 year ago with 125 comments |
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2017 | | An introduction to distributed systems (github.com) |
| 318 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments |
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2017 | | Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? (sapiens.org) |
| 318 points | 6 years ago with 220 comments |
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2017 | | Quiet Hacker News (speak.sh) |
| 318 points | 5 years ago with 127 comments |
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2017 | | Bash $* and $@ (eklitzke.org) |
| 316 points | 5 years ago with 234 comments |
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2017 | | A Mind Is Born (linusakesson.net) |
| 311 points | 4 years ago with 64 comments |
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2017 | | I Got My Attention Back (craigmod.com) |
| 310 points | 4 years ago with 181 comments |
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2017 | | My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (dl.acm.org) |
| 309 points | 2 years ago with 104 comments |
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2017 | | How we do Vue: one year later (about.gitlab.com) |
| 309 points | 6 years ago with 157 comments |
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