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2018Optimising Docker Layers for Better Caching with Nix (grahamc.com)
193 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments
2018Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking (developers.redhat.com)
193 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments
2018APL deserves its renaissance too (wordsandbuttons.online)
192 points | 2 years ago with 218 comments
2018The value of owning more books than you can read (bigthink.com)
191 points | 2 years ago with 154 comments
2018The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Quasirandom Sequences (extremelearning.com.au)
190 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2018My grandfather was almost shot down at the White House (nones-leonard.medium.com)
188 points | 1 year ago with 217 comments
2018A Git Origin Story (linuxjournal.com)
188 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments
2018On Redis master-slave terminology (antirez.com)
188 points | 4 years ago with 141 comments
2018Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (efinancialcareers.co.uk)
187 points | 1 year ago with 165 comments
2018Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database (medium.com)
187 points | 3 years ago with 77 comments
2018So You Want to Compete with Steam (fortressofdoors.com)
186 points | 2 years ago with 278 comments
2018Mark Fisher’s “K-punk” and the futures that have never arrived (newyorker.com)
186 points | 2 years ago with 123 comments
2018The terrifyingly prescient ‘Serial Experiments Lain,’ 20 years later (theringer.com)
186 points | 3 years ago with 169 comments
2018Open source is not a business model (anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com)
186 points | 3 years ago with 145 comments
2018Riding in a peloton is the most energy efficient locomotion – research (bikebiz.com)
185 points | 2 years ago with 275 comments
2018Why Clojure? (briansunter.com)
185 points | 3 years ago with 216 comments
2018Laziness does not exist (humanparts.medium.com)
183 points | 3 years ago with 164 comments
2018Jet Li rejected The Matrix as he didn’t want his kung fu moves recorded (scmp.com)
181 points | 3 years ago with 223 comments
2018Flipped an element in an old lens and got 'magic' bokeh (petapixel.com)
181 points | 3 years ago with 90 comments
2018Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore (theatlantic.com)
180 points | 2 years ago with 309 comments
2018Yak Shaving: A Short Lesson on Staying Focused (americanexpress.io)
179 points | 2 years ago with 111 comments
2018Canaries in coal mines (blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk)
178 points | 1 year ago with 56 comments
2018Advanced techniques to implement fast hash tables (attractivechaos.wordpress.com)
178 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2018I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant (thewalrus.ca)
177 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2018Tetris Randomizers (simon.lc)
177 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 16 comments
2018We spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel (about.gitlab.com)
177 points | 4 years ago with 54 comments
2018Build your own professional-grade audio amp on the sort-of cheap (spectrum.ieee.org)
176 points | 4 years ago with 131 comments
2018Software certifications; a waste of time and money (tomaytotomato.com)
174 points | 4 years ago with 99 comments
2018Retailers are turning to facial recognition software (buzzfeednews.com)
173 points | 4 years ago with 117 comments
2018How to do things safely in Bash (github.com)
173 points | 3 years ago with 93 comments
2018Why is it important for a matrix to be square? (math.stackexchange.com)
171 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments
2018Writer: An Open Digital Typewriter (alternativebit.fr)
171 points | 4 years ago with 65 comments
2018The antidote to civilisational collapse – An interview with Adam Curtis (economist.com)
171 points | 3 years ago with 213 comments
2018Making Databases Work: The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker (dl.acm.org)
170 points | 4 years ago with 13 comments
2018Student photographs people with hidden spy cam in the 1890s (mymodernmet.com)
169 points | 2 years ago with 51 comments
2018Writing: Good career move, terrible career (byrnehobart.medium.com)
168 points | 1 year ago with 107 comments
2018Columbo: an origin story (columbophile.com)
168 points | 3 years ago with 93 comments
2018The Awk state machine parser pattern (two-wrongs.com)
168 points | 2 years ago with 27 comments
2018The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (arxiv.org)
168 points | 3 years ago with 40 comments
2018Embedded Rules of Thumb (embeddedartistry.com)
168 points | 4 years ago with 60 comments
2018Mental Model Fallacy (commoncog.com)
168 points | 4 years ago with 80 comments
2018NixOS and the Art of OS Configuration (rousette.org.uk)
168 points | 3 years ago with 121 comments
2018Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (dafoster.net)
167 points | 4 years ago with 197 comments
2018Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database (adyen.com)
167 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments
2018SQLite Archive Files (sqlite.org)
166 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments
2018Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (bbc.com)
166 points | 4 years ago with 332 comments
2018DIY Night Clock Projector (microengineer.eu)
166 points | 11 months ago with 48 comments
2018Facts don’t change our minds (jamesclear.com)
166 points | 2 years ago with 191 comments
2018Hacker News Classics (jsomers.net)
165 points | 3 years ago with 42 comments
2018Multiple assignment and tuple unpacking improve Python code readability (treyhunner.com)
165 points | 2 years ago with 96 comments
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