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2010DOS on Dope: The last MVC web framework you'll ever need (secretgeek.net)
310 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 43 comments
2011HTTP Status Dogs (httpstatusdogs.com)
310 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 18 comments
2012The silent majority of experts (prog21.dadgum.com)
308 points | 2 years ago with 197 comments
2012The care and feeding of software engineers, or why engineers are grumpy (humanwhocodes.com)
308 points | 5 years ago with 145 comments
2012Decoding small QR codes by hand (blog.qartis.com)
308 points | 1 year ago with 68 comments
2014Why Don't We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? (pcmonk.me)
308 points | 7 years ago with 212 comments
2015Surviving Burnout (lifeofaudrey.com)
308 points | 1 year ago with 161 comments
2013An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (bookofbadarguments.com)
307 points | 7 years ago with 102 comments
2013The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (web.archive.org)
307 points | 2 years ago with 268 comments
2014Different ways to build a $100M business (christophjanz.blogspot.com)
307 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments
2015Lisp and Haskell (markkarpov.com)
307 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 166 comments
2011Why do we need modules at all? (erlang.org)
306 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 102 comments
2013My favorite Erlang Program (joearms.github.io)
306 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2011Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (english.stackexchange.com)
305 points | 11 months ago with 274 comments
2013Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (medium.com)
305 points | 9 years ago with 335 comments
2013Explain like I’m 5: Kerberos (roguelynn.com)
305 points | 7 years ago with 92 comments
2014CSS-Powered 3D Engine (keithclark.co.uk)
305 points | 5 years ago with 67 comments
2015Running Lisp in Production (tech.grammarly.com)
305 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2015Do not let your CDN betray you: use subresource integrity (hacks.mozilla.org)
305 points | 7 years ago with 83 comments
2011Drugs and the Meaning of Life (samharris.org)
304 points | 11 years ago with 261 comments
2015Tasks, microtasks, queues and schedules (jakearchibald.com)
304 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 2 comments
2012The multi-armed bandit problem (stevehanov.ca)
303 points | 5 years ago with 79 comments
2014So you want to write your own CSV code (thomasburette.com)
303 points | 4 years ago with 253 comments
2015What Is Code? (bloomberg.com)
303 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 41 comments
2011The Making of Prince of Persia (jordanmechner.com)
302 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments
2011Freedom of Information Release on Nikola Tesla (vault.fbi.gov)
302 points | 7 years ago with 109 comments
2014X Window System Basics (magcius.github.io)
302 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 89 comments
2014We are all confident idiots (psmag.com)
302 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 52 comments
2014Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals (patshaughnessy.net)
302 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments
2010Paul Rand's NeXT Logo (logodesignlove.com)
301 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 74 comments
2011Piracy is not theft, Lost sales don't exist, says Minecraft creator (torrentfreak.com)
301 points | 3 years ago with 242 comments
2014Let's compile like it's 1992 (fabiensanglard.net)
301 points | 7 years ago with 69 comments
2014The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought for $19B (highscalability.com)
300 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2015Zero rupee note (karthika2006.wordpress.com)
300 points | 2 years ago with 261 comments
2011Salary negotiations for techies (jacquesmattheij.com)
299 points | 9 years ago with 226 comments
2013Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time (cam.ac.uk)
299 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 45 comments
2013Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger (twitter.com)
299 points | 2 years ago with 237 comments
2013The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (freedom-to-tinker.com)
298 points | 4 years ago with 141 comments
2014A Good Vimrc (dougblack.io)
298 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments
2014Lisp, Smalltalk, and the power of symmetry (insearchofsecrets.com)
298 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 86 comments
2010The Economics of Seinfeld (yadayadayadaecon.com)
297 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 28 comments
2011Working at Apple (worrydream.com)
297 points | 3 years ago with 300 comments
2013Things I Won't Work With: Azidoazide Azides, More or Less (science.org)
297 points | 2 years ago with 86 comments
2015Files Are Hard (danluu.com)
297 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 50 comments
2015Severely deficient autobiographical memory (SDAM) in healthy adults (sciencedirect.com)
296 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 57 comments
2011Fucking Sue Me (pud.com)
295 points | 7 years ago with 114 comments
2014Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (blog.abevoelker.com)
295 points | 7 years ago with 378 comments
2010Workman Keyboard Layout (workmanlayout.org)
294 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 231 comments
2010The answer to “Will you mentor me?” is no (pindancing.blogspot.com)
294 points | 5 years ago with 81 comments
2012There are no particles, there are only fields (arxiv.org)
294 points | 8 years ago with 199 comments
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