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| 2017 | | A chemical reaction in ancient Roman concrete makes it stronger over time (science.howstuffworks.com) |
| 190 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Ancient Rome’s Concrete Has Survived 2,000 Years (time.com) |
| 190 points | 5 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2017 | | A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers (github.com) |
| 189 points | 6 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports? (outsideonline.com) |
| 189 points | 6 years ago with 356 comments |
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| 2017 | | Claude Shannon’s “Creative Thinking” Speech (medium.com) |
| 188 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2017 | | Take the pain out of Git conflict resolution: use diff3 (blog.nilbus.com) |
| 188 points | 3 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2017 | | The many faces of DISTINCT in Postgres (hakibenita.com) |
| 187 points | 1 year ago with 69 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why is the latest Intel hardware unsupported in libreboot? (libreboot.org) |
| 187 points | 4 years ago with 124 comments |
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| 2017 | | Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting (medium.com) |
| 187 points | 5 years ago with 65 comments |
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| 2017 | | Please stop calling dopamine an addictive rewarding neurochemical (psychologytoday.com) |
| 187 points | 3 years ago with 58 comments |
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| 2017 | | A Primer on Database Replication (brianstorti.com) |
| 187 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 2017 | | Let them paste passwords (ncsc.gov.uk) |
| 186 points | 4 years ago with 126 comments |
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| 2017 | | An x86 Assembler in 256 LOC (blog.jeff.over.bz) |
| 185 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2017 | | Death by 1000 layers: the perils of over-abstraction in Java (quantcast.com) |
| 185 points | 4 years ago with 209 comments |
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| 2017 | | 80% of the Web Powered by PHP (haydenjames.io) |
| 184 points | 6 years ago with 129 comments |
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| 2017 | | How the 1918 Flu Spread Across America (smithsonianmag.com) |
| 184 points | 5 years ago with 147 comments |
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| 2017 | | $30 DIY Kilowatt Wind Turbine (opensourcelowtech.org) |
| 183 points | 4 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2017 | | Love after life: Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife (themarginalian.org) |
| 183 points | 1 year ago with 119 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Fight to Save Coral (scienceline.org) |
| 182 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2017 | | How much a baby is touched leaves measurable effects on DNA methylation (miamiherald.com) |
| 181 points | 5 years ago with 90 comments |
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| 2017 | | I Hired a Freelance Editor for My Blog (mtlynch.io) |
| 181 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2017 | | David Lynch’s TV commercials (lwlies.com) |
| 180 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2017 | | The definitive guide that you never wanted: Backpack fabrics (pangolinswithpacks.com) |
| 178 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2017 | | Github became the web's largest font piracy site (pixelambacht.nl) |
| 178 points | 5 years ago with 138 comments |
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| 2017 | | Masahiro Kikuno, Japanese Independent Watchmaker (watchesbysjx.com) |
| 178 points | 6 years ago with 97 comments |
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| 2017 | | A Random Distribution of Wealth (masswerk.at) |
| 178 points | 2 years ago with 276 comments |
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| 2017 | | So you want to design a programming language (cs.lmu.edu) |
| 177 points | 3 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2017 | | A little discussed effect of therapy: it changes personality (digest.bps.org.uk) |
| 176 points | 5 years ago with 103 comments |
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| 2017 | | This is Your Brain on Exercise (outsideonline.com) |
| 176 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2017 | | Business networking is overrated (nytimes.com) |
| 175 points | 6 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2017 | | Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (m.post.naver.com) |
| 175 points | 2 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2017 | | A Son’s Race to Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality (wired.com) |
| 175 points | 5 years ago with 115 comments |
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| 2017 | | A Guide to Minimalist Web Design (ismailelazizi.com) |
| 175 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2017 | | Don't donate canned goods to food banks (nationalpost.com) |
| 175 points | 5 years ago with 317 comments |
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| 2017 | | Being a Solo Founder: Pros, Cons, Tips and Tricks (baremetrics.com) |
| 174 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments |
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| 2017 | | How to edit your own lousy writing (stingingfly.org) |
| 173 points | 1 year ago with 72 comments |
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| 2017 | | Dr. Whitehurst and the FBI Lab Scandal (whistleblowersblog.org) |
| 172 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments |
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| 2017 | | Rules of schema growth (blog.datomic.com) |
| 172 points | 1 year ago with 105 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Rise and Rise of JSON (twobithistory.org) |
| 172 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 167 comments |
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| 2017 | | How to find time to learn after work (feststelltaste.de) |
| 171 points | 1 year ago with 183 comments |
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| 2017 | | Zarf’s Interactive Fiction (eblong.com) |
| 171 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments |
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| 2017 | | Universal, reusable virus deactivation system for respiratory protection (nature.com) |
| 170 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2017 | | Event Sourcing (arkwright.github.io) |
| 170 points | 5 years ago with 77 comments |
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| 2017 | | What Next? (graydon2.dreamwidth.org) |
| 170 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2017 | | The mystery of the lost Roman herb (bbc.com) |
| 169 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Crash of United Flight 232 (popularmechanics.com) |
| 168 points | 5 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2017 | | A minimum complete tutorial of Linux ext4 file system (metebalci.com) |
| 168 points | 1 year ago with 29 comments |
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| 2017 | | Digging into the odd history of Blade Runner’s title (vulture.com) |
| 168 points | 1 year ago with 45 comments |
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| 2017 | | The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture (web.archive.org) |
| 168 points | 2 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2017 | | What makes a good REPL? (vvvvalvalval.github.io) |
| 167 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 44 comments |
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