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2018The Grapes of Wrath’s Foreshadowing of the Cold War (sites.psu.edu)
165 points | 2 years ago with 248 comments
2018Anatomy of an AI System (anatomyof.ai)
164 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 14 comments
2018How the lemon was invented (trueorbetter.com)
163 points | 1 year ago with 152 comments
2018Volkswagen detects when tests run in a CI server, and makes them pass (github.com)
163 points | 3 years ago with 40 comments
2018Introverts can make great leaders (thehustle.co)
162 points | 3 years ago with 114 comments
2018The Prosperous Software Consultant (dabit3.medium.com)
162 points | 3 years ago with 79 comments
2018The Worst Businessman of the 18th Century BC (forbes.com)
162 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 20 comments
2018For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends (history.com)
162 points | 5 years ago with 174 comments
2018Data Laced with History: Causal Trees and Operational CRDTs (archagon.net)
162 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 10 comments
2018Better Geometry Through Graph Theory (ideolalia.com)
161 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
2018A Clever Radio Trick Can Tell If a Drone Is Watching You (wired.com)
161 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2018Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of income (zillow.com)
161 points | 3 years ago with 232 comments
2018Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (science.org)
159 points | 2 years ago with 113 comments
2018Why Nuclear Must Be Part Of The Energy Solution (e360.yale.edu)
159 points | 4 years ago with 242 comments
2018Learn Go by writing tests – Hello, world (github.com)
159 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2018When we lose weight, where does it go? (theconversation.com)
158 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 15 comments
2018Parsing series of integers with SIMD (0x80.pl)
158 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 5 comments
2018Always Be Journaling (letterstoanewdeveloper.com)
156 points | 5 years ago with 74 comments
2018Decoded: GNU Coreutils (maizure.org)
156 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments
2018Super Wood (scientificamerican.com)
156 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 46 comments
2018The Structure of a Stand-Up Comedy (pudding.cool)
156 points | 3 years ago with 39 comments
2018Live the Dream, Make the Change, Move to Pitcairn Island (immigration.gov.pn)
156 points | 3 years ago with 111 comments
2018Tradition Is Smarter (scholars-stage.blogspot.com)
155 points | 5 years ago with 101 comments
2018D.E. Shaw and how computer geeks and English majors transformed Wall St. (nymag.com)
155 points | 4 years ago with 141 comments
2018To the moon: defining and detecting cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps (crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com)
154 points | 4 years ago with 175 comments
2018The BEAM needs an APL-y language (medium.com)
154 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2018How to Read an RFC (ietf.org)
154 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 7 comments
2018The Obsolescence of Advertising in the Information Age (yalelawjournal.org)
154 points | 4 years ago with 118 comments
2018'I am mine': Alzheimer's at 41 (macleans.ca)
154 points | 4 years ago with 95 comments
2018What does code readability mean? (typicalprogrammer.com)
154 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 68 comments
2018Nursing Homes in the US Overmedicate People with Dementia (hrw.org)
154 points | 5 years ago with 142 comments
2018Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site (david-gilbertson.medium.com)
153 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2018When cigarette companies used doctors to push smoking (history.com)
153 points | 3 years ago with 191 comments
2018Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS (troyhunt.com)
153 points | 5 years ago with 137 comments
2018A Tech Pioneer’s Final, Unexpected Act (newyorker.com)
153 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments
2018Possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record? (cambridge.org)
152 points | 1 year ago with 185 comments
2018The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile (newyorker.com)
151 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments
2018How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (twobithistory.org)
151 points | 4 years ago with 117 comments
2018Desmos uses Pratt Parsers (engineering.desmos.com)
150 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 19 comments
2018Becoming a Magician (autotranslucence.wordpress.com)
150 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 5 comments
2018Perceptual Illusions (nautil.us)
150 points | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2018What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We Still Don’t Know (coindesk.com)
150 points | 4 years ago with 210 comments
2018Parsing the .DS_Store File Format (0day.work)
149 points | 2 years ago with 85 comments
2018Hardening macOS (blog.bejarano.io)
149 points | 3 years ago with 98 comments
2018How communist Bulgaria became a leader in technology, robotics and sci-fi (aeon.co)
148 points | 5 years ago with 73 comments
2018When do we become unable to learn a language like a native speaker? (scientificamerican.com)
147 points | 4 years ago with 183 comments
2018Ibn Battuta: A Scholar's Epic Journey (jurnalanas.com)
147 points | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2018No One Wants Used Clothes Anymore (bloomberg.com)
147 points | 4 years ago with 279 comments
2018Tail Latency Aware Caching (blog.acolyer.org)
146 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2018Jeanne Calment’s 122-year old longevity record may be fake (yurideigin.medium.com)
146 points | 3 years ago with 157 comments
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