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2017Why do so few people major in computer science? (danwang.co)
256 points across 3 posts | 10 months ago with 291 comments
2017Types of propaganda, propaganda techniques, and propaganda strategies (factmyth.com)
256 points | 2 years ago with 236 comments
2017The Big Vitamin D Mistake (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
256 points | 3 years ago with 182 comments
2017Most book clubs are doing it wrong (jsomers.net)
254 points | 3 years ago with 151 comments
2017Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (bbc.com)
252 points | 4 years ago with 358 comments
2017A Critical Problem (nucleardiner.wordpress.com)
252 points | 9 months ago with 93 comments
2017In Chile three border collies are planting seeds (ibtimes.co.uk)
250 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 38 comments
2017Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems (ncase.me)
250 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2017How to answer questions in a helpful way (jvns.ca)
249 points | 3 years ago with 65 comments
2017Some were meant for C [pdf] (humprog.org)
248 points across 3 posts | 10 months ago with 146 comments
20171.5-Inch Hand-Carved Agate from 1500 B.C. Shows Sub-Millimeter Details (news.artnet.com)
246 points | 2 years ago with 130 comments
2017The Soviet web: the tale of how the USSR almost invented the internet (calvertjournal.com)
246 points | 3 years ago with 181 comments
2017What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (spreadprivacy.com)
246 points | 3 years ago with 222 comments
2017An Intro to Compilers (nicoleorchard.com)
245 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments
2017110M year-old nodosaur is the best-preserved fossil of its kind (nationalgeographic.com)
244 points | 3 years ago with 77 comments
2017Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons (cambridge.org)
244 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 35 comments
2017Economists Are Obsessed with Job Creation – How About Less Work? (evonomics.com)
244 points | 4 years ago with 174 comments
2017Geometry, Algebra, and Intuition (shapeoperator.com)
244 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2017Money as a System of Control (thedistillery.pub)
243 points | 4 years ago with 205 comments
2017Dude, You Broke the Future (antipope.org)
243 points | 3 years ago with 142 comments
2017Epoll is fundamentally broken (idea.popcount.org)
241 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 41 comments
2017Amazon memo: Here’s why we should acquire Ring (twitter.com)
241 points | 1 year ago with 87 comments
2017Designing better data tables (uxdesign.cc)
241 points | 4 years ago with 93 comments
2017Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working (theguardian.com)
241 points | 4 years ago with 239 comments
2017How to Be a Know-It-All (newyorker.com)
241 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 21 comments
2017A KGB agent shipped a Sidewinder missile by mail to Moscow (nationalinterest.org)
239 points | 5 years ago with 100 comments
2017CGI Renders Are Real Photos (petapixel.com)
237 points | 1 year ago with 63 comments
2017Montreal is taxing churches (montreal.ctvnews.ca)
237 points | 3 years ago with 304 comments
2017P3: Pandemic Prevention Platform (darpa.mil)
234 points | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2017Improving my productivity as a working programmer (malisper.me)
234 points | 4 years ago with 133 comments
2017Let's stop ascribing meaning to code points (manishearth.github.io)
233 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 91 comments
2017Flask Mega-Tutorial (blog.miguelgrinberg.com)
232 points | 1 year ago with 87 comments
2017Worst-Case Scenario (theparisreview.org)
232 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments
2017The BEAM Book (blog.stenmans.org)
232 points | 3 years ago with 22 comments
2017Andreessen vs. Thiel (allenleein.github.io)
231 points | 4 years ago with 63 comments
2017The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel (hbr.org)
230 points | 4 years ago with 81 comments
2017How TV Logos Were Made Before Computers (fastcompany.com)
230 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments
2017We Must Revive Gopherspace (box.matto.nl)
230 points | 5 years ago with 179 comments
2017Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM (icculus.org)
228 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 111 comments
2017Replacing Elasticsearch with Rust and SQLite (nickb.dev)
227 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments
2017DIY Amps: A Roadmap for Beginners (audioprimate.blog)
227 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments
2017AT&T’s Abandoned Microwave Tower Network (99percentinvisible.org)
225 points | 2 years ago with 114 comments
2017Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked (techcrunch.com)
224 points | 5 years ago with 389 comments
2017The modern web on a slow connection (danluu.com)
222 points | 2 years ago with 173 comments
2017China’s CCTV network took just 7 minutes to capture BBC reporter (techcrunch.com)
222 points | 4 years ago with 141 comments
2017Google's true origin: NSA research grants for mass surveillance (qz.com)
221 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 5 comments
2017Autistic Burnout: The Cost of Masking and Passing (boren.blog)
221 points | 5 years ago with 152 comments
2017Graphene-based sieve turns seawater into drinking water (bbc.com)
219 points | 5 years ago with 71 comments
2017Building a private LoRa network (os.mbed.com)
219 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments
2017Flight Simulator 4 from 1989 running on three immersive monitors (tinmith.net)
219 points | 5 years ago with 68 comments
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