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2018The Notorious Board Game That Takes 1,500 Hours to Complete (kotaku.com)
223 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2018A complete guide to getting what you want (raptitude.com)
221 points | 1 year ago with 134 comments
2018Fail-slow at scale: Evidence of performance faults in large systems (dl.acm.org)
221 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2018Flatpak – A Security Nightmare (flatkill.org)
218 points | 4 years ago with 120 comments
2018Robinhood Said to Get 40% Revenue from HFT Firms Like Citadel (equities.com)
218 points | 3 years ago with 69 comments
2018A Road to Common Lisp (stevelosh.com)
218 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 49 comments
2018NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (leosstemhacks.wordpress.com)
217 points | 3 years ago with 182 comments
2018Fasting boosts stem cells’ regenerative capacity (news.mit.edu)
216 points | 2 years ago with 164 comments
2018Awk As A Major Systems Programming Language, Revisited (skeeve.com)
215 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments
2018Dynamic Programming vs. Divide-and-Conquer (trekhleb.dev)
214 points | 3 years ago with 115 comments
2018How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (yuzeh.com)
214 points | 4 years ago with 175 comments
2018How to take back control of /etc/resolv.conf on Linux (ctrl.blog)
214 points | 4 years ago with 124 comments
2018Linux Kernel Development and Writing a Simple Kernel Module (devarea.com)
213 points | 4 years ago with 8 comments
2018Electronics Explained: Fundamentals for engineers, technicians and makers (sciencedirect.com)
213 points | 2 years ago with 82 comments
2018Find the Hard Work You're Willing to Do (cs.uni.edu)
212 points | 3 years ago with 76 comments
2018The Stanford Prison Experiment was hugely influential. We learned it was a fraud (vox.com)
211 points across 3 posts | 11 months ago with 118 comments
2018mRNA vaccines – a new era in vaccinology (nature.com)
211 points | 3 years ago with 212 comments
2018Playing Battleships over BGP (blog.benjojo.co.uk)
211 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 23 comments
2018Learn to write your first OS kernel (github.com)
210 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2018Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with git bisect run (ldpreload.com)
209 points | 3 years ago with 39 comments
2018The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes (jdlm.info)
209 points | 3 years ago with 50 comments
2018Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (nautil.us)
208 points | 4 years ago with 166 comments
2018Why Learn Haskell? (crypto.stanford.edu)
207 points | 3 years ago with 113 comments
2018Ryanair, Hamiltonian Cycles, and using graph theory to find cheap flights (blog.jonlu.ca)
207 points | 4 years ago with 81 comments
2018Undocumented CPU behavior: analyzing undocumented opcodes on Intel x86-64 (cattius.com)
205 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments
2018Maths and science animations (blog.matthen.com)
205 points | 1 year ago with 21 comments
2018Writing to the Framebuffer (seenaburns.com)
205 points | 4 years ago with 70 comments
2018Vue Native (vue-native.io)
205 points | 3 years ago with 184 comments
2018Some notes on 'asshat' (merriam-webster.com)
204 points | 2 years ago with 79 comments
2018Typography for Lawyers, 2nd Edition (typographyforlawyers.com)
204 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 59 comments
2018When Bitcoin miners take over a town (politico.eu)
203 points | 3 years ago with 475 comments
2018Theseus DHT Protocol (wootfish.github.io)
203 points | 1 year ago with 38 comments
2018What Is Applied Category Theory? (arxiv.org)
202 points | 3 years ago with 68 comments
2018Massacring C Pointers (wozniak.ca)
201 points | 4 years ago with 149 comments
2018Tin whiskers: What happens when they spontaneously erupt? (microcontrollertips.com)
200 points | 2 years ago with 126 comments
2018Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (smithsonianmag.com)
200 points | 2 years ago with 174 comments
2018Do journalists pay too much attention to Twitter? (cjr.org)
200 points | 4 years ago with 182 comments
2018Microsoft_craziness.h (gist.github.com)
200 points | 3 years ago with 118 comments
2018Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres (theguardian.com)
198 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments
2018How to build a search engine with common Unix tools (iaria.org)
197 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments
2018“Ambiguous Objects” that change their appearances in a mirror (isc.meiji.ac.jp)
196 points | 3 years ago with 17 comments
2018Pytz: The Fastest Footgun in the West (blog.ganssle.io)
195 points | 1 year ago with 121 comments
2018Installing NextStep OS (OpenStep) in VirtualBox (stuffjasondoes.com)
195 points | 4 years ago with 61 comments
2018Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets (mchap.io)
194 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments
2018My story on “worse is better” (sigbus.info)
194 points | 2 years ago with 94 comments
2018Ancient Egyptian pregnancy test survived millenia because it worked (science.howstuffworks.com)
194 points | 4 years ago with 92 comments
2018Lack of sunlight makes our cells store more fat (ualberta.ca)
194 points | 2 years ago with 110 comments
2018Lessons learned after working one year as a Common Lisp Developer (cdagostino.io)
194 points | 2 years ago with 70 comments
2018Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 Engineering Firefighter (allarsblog.com)
194 points | 3 years ago with 119 comments
2018The swimming of a dead fish (fyfluiddynamics.com)
193 points | 2 years ago with 79 comments
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