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2013Never use MongoDB (sarahmei.com)
325 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 141 comments
2014A Plane That Accidentally Circumnavigated the World (medium.com)
325 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2014When George Soros Broke the British Pound (priceonomics.com)
325 points | 5 years ago with 259 comments
2015In Search Of The Red Cross' $500M In Haiti Relief (npr.org)
325 points | 7 years ago with 172 comments
2010Adults with ADHD show decreased function in brain dopamine reward pathway (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
324 points | 4 years ago with 330 comments
2011Why the Arabic world turned away from science (thenewatlantis.com)
324 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 388 comments
2012Why I program in Erlang (evanmiller.org)
324 points | 2 years ago with 136 comments
2013An F-117 pilot and the officer who shot him down meet, 15 years later (rd.com)
324 points | 3 years ago with 168 comments
2014What does an idle CPU do? (manybutfinite.com)
324 points | 2 years ago with 100 comments
2014Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (stackoverflow.com)
324 points | 8 years ago with 54 comments
2012Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (web.archive.org)
323 points | 2 years ago with 352 comments
2014Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (metalintheory.com)
323 points | 1 year ago with 246 comments
2012Aggressive Chess Openings (chess.stackexchange.com)
322 points | 5 years ago with 99 comments
2014John Carmack on Inlined Code (number-none.com)
322 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 169 comments
2014Quake on an oscilloscope (lofibucket.com)
322 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments
2015In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (custodians.online)
322 points | 1 year ago with 70 comments
2015Don't Outsource Your Thinking (medium.com)
321 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2012Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like one (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
320 points | 4 years ago with 228 comments
2014Using the Wrong Dictionary (jsomers.net)
320 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 33 comments
2012Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her from her books (nbcnews.com)
319 points | 4 years ago with 245 comments
2013Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls (bookofhook.blogspot.com)
319 points | 6 years ago with 84 comments
2013Why are free proxies free? (blog.haschek.at)
319 points | 9 years ago with 82 comments
2013A practical introduction to functional programming (maryrosecook.com)
319 points | 7 years ago with 151 comments
2015People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened (psychologicalscience.org)
319 points | 1 year ago with 200 comments
2015Things I Learned from Chris Dixon about Startups (a16z.com)
319 points | 5 years ago with 49 comments
2012Latency Comparisons every programmer should know (gist.github.com)
318 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 27 comments
2013Stacksort – Searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them (gkoberger.github.io)
318 points | 6 years ago with 79 comments
2014Money creation in the modern economy (bankofengland.co.uk)
318 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 114 comments
2015Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (mitpress.mit.edu)
318 points | 5 years ago with 87 comments
2011Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
317 points | 7 years ago with 194 comments
2013Set Theory and Algebra in CS: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
317 points | 6 years ago with 50 comments
2013Unraveling the linothorax mystery, or how linen armor came to dominate our lives (jhupress.wordpress.com)
317 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 71 comments
2014How I Came to Write D (drdobbs.com)
317 points | 6 years ago with 188 comments
2015Wine bricks saved the U.S. wine industry during Prohibition (vinepair.com)
316 points | 2 years ago with 166 comments
2015How two bored 1970s housewives helped create the PC industry (fastcompany.com)
316 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 118 comments
2010Study shows salaries of young women 8% higher than men in peer group (content.time.com)
315 points | 6 years ago with 264 comments
2014Heisenberg Developers (mikehadlow.blogspot.cl)
315 points | 8 years ago with 189 comments
2015Random – Probability, mathematical statistics, and stochastic processes (math.uah.edu)
315 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments
2011Modern B-Tree Techniques (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
314 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments
2011C for Python programmers (toves.org)
314 points | 8 years ago with 162 comments
2013How to get your first ten customers (danshipper.com)
314 points | 5 years ago with 26 comments
2012Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (nothings.org)
313 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments
2014“Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure (kevin.burke.dev)
313 points | 2 years ago with 277 comments
2011The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
312 points | 6 years ago with 46 comments
2014Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (jakevdp.github.io)
312 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 178 comments
2015Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (chinafile.com)
312 points | 6 years ago with 243 comments
2015Would You Let the I.R.S. Prepare Your Taxes? (nytimes.com)
312 points | 6 years ago with 424 comments
2011Strace – My Favourite Secret Weapon (zwischenzugs.com)
311 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments
2012C as an intermediate language (yosefk.com)
311 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 60 comments
2013U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (hyperstealth.com)
311 points | 2 years ago with 297 comments
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