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2019John Glenn popularized the word “glitch” (airspacemag.com)
101 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2019Rethinking software testing: perspectives from the world of hardware (software.rajivprab.com)
101 points | 3 years ago with 30 comments
2019If AI can read, then plain text can be weaponized (bdtechtalks.com)
101 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments
2019The Interactive Fiction Archive (ifarchive.org)
101 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments
2019Exercises for understanding Haskell Lenses (williamyaoh.com)
100 points | 1 year ago with 81 comments
2019What is: Linux keyring, gnome-keyring, Secret Service, and D-Bus (rtfm.co.ua)
100 points | 2 years ago with 26 comments
2019The Dangers of Dimethylmercury (chemistryworld.com)
100 points | 2 years ago with 77 comments
2019Why Alexa won't wake up when hearing "Alexa" in Amazon's Super Bowl ad (amazon.science)
100 points | 1 year ago with 119 comments
2019Aspirin 81 (clinicalcorrelations.org)
99 points | 11 months ago with 41 comments
2019Study: Better sleep habits lead to better college grades (news.mit.edu)
99 points | 3 years ago with 42 comments
2019Python and Lua (brmmm3.github.io)
99 points | 3 years ago with 83 comments
2019Photographic Reference Scale (smallpond.ca)
99 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments
2019Patent for attention-based sequence transduction neural networks (patents.google.com)
98 points | 1 year ago with 96 comments
2019How ‘Trainable’ Is VO2 Max Really? – A Case Study (simplifaster.com)
98 points | 3 years ago with 39 comments
2019The Hyper-Specialist Shops of Berlin (theguardian.com)
98 points | 3 years ago with 57 comments
2019On Charlie Munger (jasonzweig.com)
97 points | 1 year ago with 116 comments
2019After China Objects, Apple Removes App Used by Hong Kong Protestors (npr.org)
97 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments
2019Adopting Erlang: Hard things to get right (adoptingerlang.org)
97 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2019Fitbit is doomed: Here's why everything Google buys turns to garbage (zdnet.com)
97 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments
2019Can we build trustable hardware? (bunniestudios.com)
96 points | 1 year ago with 52 comments
2019Rust: A Unique Perspective (limpet.net)
96 points | 1 year ago with 37 comments
2019Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers (industryweek.com)
96 points | 2 years ago with 43 comments
2019An experiment caught a quantum system in the middle of a jump (quantamagazine.org)
96 points | 3 years ago with 84 comments
2019Deep reinforcement learning is a waste of time (jtoy.net)
95 points | 3 years ago with 113 comments
2019Secrets to Great API Design (nylas.com)
95 points | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2019The Promise of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (thegradient.pub)
95 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2019Vladimir Lukyanov’s Water Computer (amusingplanet.com)
94 points | 3 years ago with 9 comments
2019Alternative interpretations of classical physics (journals.aps.org)
94 points | 3 years ago with 39 comments
2019Universal Basic Income Is Superior to a $15 Minimum Wage (basicincometoday.com)
94 points | 3 years ago with 176 comments
2019When it comes to privacy, default settings matter (blog.mozilla.org)
94 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments
2019Why the binding arbitration game is rigged against customers (gsb.stanford.edu)
93 points | 1 year ago with 92 comments
201943% of white Harvard students are legacy, athlete, or donor/staff related (nbcnews.com)
93 points | 1 year ago with 112 comments
2019SubX: A minimalist assembly language for a subset of the x86 ISA (github.com)
93 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments
2019Who Built the First Electric Rock 'N' Roll Guitar? (collectorsweekly.com)
93 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 11 comments
2019The Black-Scholes formula, explained (cantorsparadise.com)
93 points | 3 years ago with 63 comments
2019Supine Computing (mgsloan.com)
92 points | 3 years ago with 49 comments
2019Watching a “language” develop when kids can’t speak to each other (arstechnica.com)
92 points | 1 year ago with 13 comments
2019Schumpeter on Strategy (reactionwheel.net)
92 points across 2 posts | 10 months ago with 19 comments
2019Big Tech is America’s new railroad problem (ft.com)
92 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments
2019Hello World on the GPU (acko.net)
92 points | 1 year ago with 41 comments
2019Algebraic data types: things I wish someone had explained about FP (jrsinclair.com)
92 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments
2019Reducing Python String Memory Use in Apache Arrow 0.12 (arrow.apache.org)
91 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments
2019Tim O'Reilly: The Internet Is Being Scapegoated in a Lot of Ways (zeit.de)
91 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments
2019MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air (news.mit.edu)
91 points | 1 year ago with 70 comments
2019I don't use Bayes factors in my research (datacolada.org)
90 points | 1 year ago with 75 comments
2019What's the strangest code you've seen a senior developer write? (quora.com)
90 points | 2 years ago with 101 comments
2019Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet (theguardian.com)
90 points | 3 years ago with 53 comments
2019Jimmy Carter's White House Solar Panels (powerhome.com)
90 points | 2 years ago with 107 comments
2019Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol [pdf] (eprint.iacr.org)
90 points | 3 years ago with 70 comments
2019The Product-Minded Software Engineer (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
89 points | 3 years ago with 27 comments
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