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2010Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (conal.net)
253 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 82 comments
2014JMAP: A better way to email (blog.fastmail.com)
253 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments
2015FBI testimony on hair analysis contained errors in 90% of cases (fbi.gov)
253 points | 2 years ago with 73 comments
2015Main is usually a function. So then when is it not? (jroweboy.github.io)
253 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments
2012Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (paulgraham.com)
252 points | 7 years ago with 245 comments
2012Why I Love Coding (henrikwarne.com)
252 points | 3 years ago with 118 comments
2015Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’ (seveninchesofyourtime.com)
252 points | 2 years ago with 207 comments
2015Uganda’s Tarantino and his $200 action movies (bbc.com)
252 points | 5 years ago with 66 comments
2013Learning how to write a 3D engine from scratch in C#, TypeScript or JavaScript (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
251 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments
2014Reverse-engineering the TL431: the most common chip you’ve never heard of (righto.com)
251 points | 4 years ago with 46 comments
2015Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' forums (issendai.com)
251 points | 2 years ago with 201 comments
2015I opened a link some random person sent me and I got raided (blog.haschek.at)
251 points | 4 years ago with 170 comments
2010Justin.tv's Live Video Broadcasting Architecture (highscalability.com)
250 points | 5 years ago with 119 comments
2012R, the master troll of statistical languages (talyarkoni.org)
250 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 148 comments
2013Man who created own credit card sues bank for not sticking to terms (telegraph.co.uk)
250 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments
2014Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (j2kun.svbtle.com)
250 points | 8 years ago with 145 comments
2011The German School of Lisp (blog.fogus.me)
249 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 72 comments
2013An Engineer’s Guide to Stock Options (blog.alexmaccaw.com)
249 points | 3 years ago with 99 comments
2013Not-so-secret atomic tests: Why the photographic film industry knew (imaging-resource.com)
249 points | 8 years ago with 77 comments
2014Tetrachromats: people who see colors invisible to most of us (bbc.com)
249 points | 5 years ago with 221 comments
2014Study finds walking improves creativity (news.stanford.edu)
249 points | 3 years ago with 72 comments
2015Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x (nginx.com)
249 points | 7 years ago with 56 comments
2011Crockford on JSON license (gist.github.com)
248 points | 1 year ago with 59 comments
2012Mathematics I Use (pub.gajendra.net)
248 points | 6 years ago with 42 comments
2013Duck Duck Go: Illusion of Privacy (etherrag.blogspot.com)
248 points | 7 years ago with 123 comments
2011Yahoo Logo ASCII Animation in 462 bytes of C (a1k0n.net)
247 points | 9 years ago with 41 comments
2012How MIT Students Won $8M in the Massachusetts Lottery (newsfeed.time.com)
247 points | 9 years ago with 204 comments
2012Fatigue Is a Brain-Derived Emotion that Regulates to Ensure Protection (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
247 points | 8 years ago with 98 comments
2012Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, research reveals (theguardian.com)
247 points | 8 years ago with 209 comments
2013My Hardest Bug Ever (gamasutra.com)
247 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 7 comments
2014Clifford Algebra: A visual introduction (slehar.wordpress.com)
247 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 24 comments
2015Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (redbook.io)
247 points | 7 years ago with 42 comments
2015Computer science as a lost art (rubyhacker.com)
247 points | 6 years ago with 141 comments
2014The Curse of Smart People (apenwarr.ca)
246 points | 7 years ago with 153 comments
2011What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings (kunststube.net)
245 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 57 comments
2014Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (robert.ocallahan.org)
245 points | 7 years ago with 254 comments
2012A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads (slobc.org)
244 points | 8 years ago with 73 comments
2013A collection of things that are Turing-complete by accident (beza1e1.tuxen.de)
244 points | 6 years ago with 63 comments
2013My favorite Erlang Program (joearms.github.io)
244 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 38 comments
2013The Night Watch (scholar.harvard.edu)
244 points | 7 years ago with 33 comments
2015Clojure for the Brave and True (braveclojure.com)
244 points | 7 years ago with 99 comments
2015Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (vox.com)
244 points | 5 years ago with 293 comments
2010An employee whose job was to be sacked (henrytapper.com)
243 points | 6 years ago with 161 comments
2013The Screwed-O-Meter (rachelbythebay.com)
243 points | 1 year ago with 124 comments
2015Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (deepmind.com)
243 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2013The Future of Programming (worrydream.com)
242 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 66 comments
2010More Dirty Coding Tricks from Game Developers (gamasutra.com)
241 points | 9 years ago with 134 comments
2012Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (toothycat.net)
241 points | 7 years ago with 115 comments
2014Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science (cacm.acm.org)
241 points | 3 years ago with 167 comments
2015A South Vietnamese Air Force Officer and a Crazy Carrier Landing (tacairnet.com)
241 points | 6 years ago with 67 comments
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