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| 2017 | | How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (medium.com) |
| 148 points | 5 years ago with 134 comments |
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| 2017 | | Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You (kalzumeus.com) |
| 148 points | 6 years ago with 30 comments |
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| 2017 | | Rumble, an open source, offline, censorship resistant microblog (github.com) |
| 147 points | 3 years ago with 83 comments |
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| 2017 | | Scientists finally figure out why the water bear is nearly indestructible (bigthink.com) |
| 146 points | 2 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2017 | | Catalog of Design Patterns (refactoring.guru) |
| 146 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2017 | | Ramroot – Run Arch Linux Entirely from RAM (ostechnix.com) |
| 146 points | 5 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2017 | | Nation's only Civil War pensioner collects $73 a month from VA (floridatoday.com) |
| 146 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2017 | | How We Got the Favicon (thehistoryoftheweb.com) |
| 146 points | 4 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2017 | | Stardew Valley and real-life labour (rockpapershotgun.com) |
| 146 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 2017 | | Is this plane landing or departing? (aviation.stackexchange.com) |
| 145 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2017 | | Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (bostonreview.net) |
| 145 points | 6 years ago with 139 comments |
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| 2017 | | Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towering Panopticon (mcsweeneys.net) |
| 145 points | 5 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2017 | | Forth: The Hacker's Language (hackaday.com) |
| 145 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 2017 | | Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (linux.org) |
| 144 points | 4 years ago with 256 comments |
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| 2017 | | Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (bps.org.uk) |
| 144 points | 1 year ago with 68 comments |
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| 2017 | | Building a new database management system in academia (cs.cmu.edu) |
| 144 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 41 comments |
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| 2017 | | Black currants were banned in the USA (foodtolive.com) |
| 144 points | 1 year ago with 136 comments |
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| 2017 | | Effectively Using Matplotlib (pbpython.com) |
| 144 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2017 | | From Python to NumPy (labri.fr) |
| 144 points | 2 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2017 | | TimeMaps (vincentmeertens.com) |
| 143 points | 1 year ago with 37 comments |
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| 2017 | | RNA editing is common in behaviorally sophisticated coleoid cephalopods (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 143 points | 1 year ago with 29 comments |
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| 2017 | | Developing a Statically Typed Programming Language (blog.mgechev.com) |
| 143 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2017 | | Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electricity But Not Heat (sciencealert.com) |
| 143 points | 5 years ago with 72 comments |
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| 2017 | | When Britain and France Almost Merged into One Country (theatlantic.com) |
| 142 points | 5 years ago with 100 comments |
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| 2017 | | Best Display for Programming? (hackernoon.com) |
| 142 points | 6 years ago with 197 comments |
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| 2017 | | How is GNU `yes` so fast? (old.reddit.com) |
| 142 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments |
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| 2017 | | Four Column ASCII (garbagecollected.org) |
| 142 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments |
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| 2017 | | The ancient Roman secret to concrete resilience in seawater (als.lbl.gov) |
| 142 points | 1 year ago with 76 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Search for the Extra Pedal (mclaren.com) |
| 141 points | 5 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2017 | | How cheap digital verniers work (mjt.me.uk) |
| 141 points | 2 years ago with 94 comments |
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| 2017 | | How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games (nautil.us) |
| 141 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments |
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| 2017 | | Documenting architecture: Wireshark, PlantUML and a REPL to glue them all (danlebrero.com) |
| 141 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2017 | | Seeing Theory (seeing-theory.brown.edu) |
| 141 points | 4 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 2017 | | Picture Hanging Knot (blog.ukpictureframingsupplies.co.uk) |
| 141 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments |
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| 2017 | | Selling Data to Hedge Funds (alternativedata.org) |
| 141 points | 4 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2017 | | Let's Build a Simple Interpreter. Part 14: Nested Scopes (ruslanspivak.com) |
| 140 points | 5 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 2017 | | What people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it debuted in 1995 (medium.com) |
| 140 points | 5 years ago with 235 comments |
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| 2017 | | The Faces of Microsoft (typemag.org) |
| 139 points | 4 years ago with 64 comments |
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| 2017 | | ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications (bailis.org) |
| 139 points | 5 years ago with 37 comments |
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| 2017 | | How to Tell a Mathematician You Love Them (mathwithbaddrawings.com) |
| 139 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments |
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| 2017 | | I Lost My Past (glineq.blogspot.com) |
| 139 points | 3 years ago with 175 comments |
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| 2017 | | Britain’s destruction and concealment of colonial records (tandfonline.com) |
| 139 points | 3 years ago with 71 comments |
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| 2017 | | An Afternoon in Tokyo with the Man Who Designs Casio G-Shock Watches (ablogtowatch.com) |
| 139 points | 5 years ago with 70 comments |
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| 2017 | | Reverse Cargo Cult (hanshowe.org) |
| 138 points | 4 years ago with 112 comments |
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| 2017 | | Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books (atlasobscura.com) |
| 138 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments |
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| 2017 | | Pictures from the 1939 New York World's Fair (rarehistoricalphotos.com) |
| 138 points | 5 years ago with 36 comments |
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| 2017 | | Logic Puzzles with Prolog (metalevel.at) |
| 138 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2017 | | Disc rot is a challenge for both archivists and collectors (vice.com) |
| 137 points | 5 years ago with 91 comments |
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| 2017 | | Dissecting an SSL Certificate (jvns.ca) |
| 135 points | 4 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2017 | | Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (auxiliarymemory.com) |
| 135 points | 2 years ago with 96 comments |
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