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2013Hacker News Comments I'm tired of Seeing (righto.com)
294 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments
2014Quadratic voting (ericposner.com)
294 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 109 comments
2011Exotic Data Structures (concatenative.org)
293 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2013Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (mattbruenig.com)
293 points | 2 years ago with 120 comments
2014Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptions (daedtech.com)
293 points | 3 years ago with 242 comments
2014If ICANN only charges 18¢ per domain name, why am I paying $10? (webmasters.stackexchange.com)
293 points | 8 years ago with 112 comments
2010A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming (aem.umn.edu)
291 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2014A little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station (arstechnica.com)
291 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 21 comments
2012A 12pt Font Should Be the Same Size Everywhere (github.com)
290 points | 7 years ago with 156 comments
2014Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True (newyorker.com)
290 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2015Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy (scribd.com)
290 points | 2 years ago with 436 comments
2012LaTeX Coffee Stains (hanno-rein.de)
289 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 2 comments
2012Goldman Sachs and the $580M Black Hole (nytimes.com)
289 points | 8 years ago with 141 comments
2012Signs that you're a bad programmer (yacoset.com)
289 points | 9 years ago with 170 comments
2014The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness (theguardian.com)
289 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 213 comments
2015Understanding Glibc Malloc (sploitfun.wordpress.com)
289 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 16 comments
2015What's new in CPUs since the 80s? (danluu.com)
289 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 106 comments
2012A Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down (discovermagazine.com)
288 points | 4 years ago with 97 comments
2012NASA solved a $100M problem for five bucks (gizmodo.com)
288 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 123 comments
2012Mail Loop From Hell (blog.dbrgn.ch)
288 points | 5 years ago with 87 comments
2013My Hardest Bug Ever (gamedeveloper.com)
288 points | 1 year ago with 126 comments
2015Autocomplete as an Interface (benkuhn.net)
288 points | 4 years ago with 191 comments
2015Compensate for Rockchip calendar deviation on November 31st (git.kernel.org)
288 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments
2013Pixels Don’t Care (warpspire.com)
287 points | 7 years ago with 99 comments
2015JanOS: Turn your phone into an IoT board (janos.io)
287 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 30 comments
2015Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favorite Movies (openculture.com)
287 points | 3 years ago with 124 comments
2014The Toxoplasma of Rage (slatestarcodex.com)
286 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2012John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (blogs.uw.edu)
285 points across 3 posts | 9 years ago with 25 comments
2014Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (pnas.org)
285 points | 4 years ago with 72 comments
2014No, you can’t manufacture that like Apple does (beneinstein.medium.com)
285 points | 1 year ago with 208 comments
2014NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Years (bloomberg.com)
285 points | 5 years ago with 133 comments
2015Crafting Plausible Maps (m.mythcreants.com)
285 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments
2012The tyranny of the rocket equation (nasa.gov)
284 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 122 comments
2013Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (adit.io)
284 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 112 comments
2013Apple Execs on iMessage for Android (twitter.com)
284 points | 2 years ago with 423 comments
2014Semantic compression (caseymuratori.com)
284 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 30 comments
2012How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (daedtech.com)
283 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 2 comments
2013Hard Disk Hacking (spritesmods.com)
283 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 18 comments
2014Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (yosefk.com)
283 points | 8 years ago with 261 comments
20158088 MPH: We Break All Your Emulators (trixter.oldskool.org)
283 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2015How Shazam Works (coding-geek.com)
283 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 6 comments
2015Things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition (telegraph.co.uk)
282 points | 6 years ago with 132 comments
2015The Website Obesity Crisis (idlewords.com)
282 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 43 comments
2015The map is not the territory (fs.blog)
282 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 51 comments
2012Brian Armstrong seeking cofounder on HN (news.ycombinator.com)
281 points | 3 years ago with 180 comments
2013Spain builds submarine 70 tons too heavy due to wrong decimal (o.canada.com)
281 points | 4 years ago with 216 comments
2014The Naked Truth About Writing a Programming Language (digitalmars.com)
281 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments
2015CGA in 1024 Colors – A New Mode: The Illustrated Guide (int10h.org)
281 points | 4 years ago with 69 comments
2015Programmers should not call themselves engineers (theatlantic.com)
281 points across 7 posts | 1 year ago with 67 comments
2014Assertions are pessimistic, assumptions are optimistic (blog.regehr.org)
280 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 9 comments
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