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2017The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (arcan-fe.com)
166 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 103 comments
2017I Invented Baileys (irishtimes.com)
166 points | 3 years ago with 118 comments
2017The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines (aeon.co)
165 points | 5 years ago with 112 comments
2017Dilution of whisky – the molecular perspective (nature.com)
164 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 51 comments
2017It’s not the chemicals that cause addiction (dancesafe.org)
163 points | 1 year ago with 146 comments
2017A speaker placement tip that speaker manuals get wrong (sonicscoop.com)
163 points | 4 years ago with 100 comments
2017Fancy Believing in the Goblin King (lifeonmagrs.blogspot.com)
163 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments
2017Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
162 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 134 comments
2017The Chemistry of ‘Yes Minister’ (sphericalbullshit.wordpress.com)
161 points | 2 years ago with 79 comments
2017Security.txt (securitytxt.org)
161 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
2017Inkjet Printing of High Performance Transistors (nature.com)
161 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2017The sorry state of OpenSSL usability (jameshfisher.com)
161 points | 5 years ago with 79 comments
2017A Lisp interpreter written in Lisp (lvguowei.me)
160 points | 3 years ago with 55 comments
2017The Whitworth Three Plates Method (ericweinhoffer.com)
160 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments
2017A bad grade that changed the U.S. constitution (npr.org)
160 points | 3 years ago with 190 comments
2017How Claude Shannon Re-Invented Information (nautil.us)
160 points | 6 years ago with 21 comments
2017Deep packet inspection is dead, and here's why (security.ias.edu)
159 points | 6 years ago with 121 comments
2017Webmention (w3.org)
159 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2017Reversing the technical interview (aphyr.com)
158 points | 4 years ago with 35 comments
2017Dopamine is not addictive (psychologytoday.com)
158 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments
201710,000 Hours with Claude Shannon (medium.com)
157 points | 4 years ago with 82 comments
2017Mathematics for Computer Science (courses.csail.mit.edu)
156 points | 4 years ago with 29 comments
2017Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (historic-uk.com)
156 points | 3 years ago with 175 comments
2017How We Built r/Place (redditinc.com)
156 points | 3 years ago with 98 comments
2017The Emacs Package Developer's Handbook (alphapapa.github.io)
156 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments
2017Artificial glacier growing in the desert (cnn.com)
156 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 39 comments
2017Yubikey guide for Git Signing, SSH Auth, U2F 2FA, and 1Password (engineerbetter.com)
155 points | 5 years ago with 47 comments
2017Happy Hacking: Music Implementation in NieR:Automata (platinumgames.com)
154 points | 3 years ago with 76 comments
2017Specific ways to write better Python (github.com)
154 points | 4 years ago with 37 comments
2017The melting pot of JavaScript (increment.com)
153 points | 6 years ago with 194 comments
2017Vim After 15 Years (blog.langworth.com)
153 points | 2 years ago with 112 comments
2017Disassembling Jak and Daxter (codersnotes.com)
153 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments
2017EU must adopt ‘EU English’ as its official working language after Brexit (european-views.com)
153 points | 5 years ago with 261 comments
2017The relentless honesty of Ludwig Wittgenstein (the-tls.co.uk)
152 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments
2017Friendly policies keep US oil and coal afloat far more than we thought (vox.com)
152 points | 5 years ago with 43 comments
2017How to Drive on Sand Without Getting Stuck (offroaddiscovery.com)
152 points | 4 years ago with 74 comments
2017SIMD Instructions Considered Harmful (sigarch.org)
152 points | 6 years ago with 118 comments
2017Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark (nautil.us)
152 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2017Durable Design (exple.tive.org)
151 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2017What's next for language design? (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
151 points | 3 years ago with 123 comments
2017Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (theatlantic.com)
151 points | 6 years ago with 98 comments
2017The Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet (awilkinson.medium.com)
150 points | 3 years ago with 42 comments
2017Interview with Japanese demoscener 0x4015 (6octaves.blogspot.com)
150 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2017Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (stackoverflow.blog)
149 points | 6 years ago with 134 comments
2017Database schema changes are hard (djrobstep.com)
149 points | 6 years ago with 89 comments
2017The Phrase “Kilroy Was Here” (thoughtco.com)
149 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments
2017JPL's Design for a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus (spectrum.ieee.org)
149 points | 3 years ago with 47 comments
2017Advanced Data Structures (courses.csail.mit.edu)
149 points | 5 years ago with 23 comments
2017Writing Hello World in Web Assembly (wa9ace.net)
148 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2017Kill Google AMP before it kills the web (theregister.co.uk)
148 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments
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