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2014Learn C and build your own Lisp (buildyourownlisp.com)
231 points | 3 years ago with 86 comments
2015Robert Langlands, who linked number theory, analysis, and geometry (projects.thestar.com)
231 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
2015Heat people, not spaces (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
231 points | 2 years ago with 317 comments
2012Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? (blogs.msdn.com)
230 points | 10 years ago with 67 comments
2015Steps Towards Happiness (hintjens.com)
230 points | 3 years ago with 165 comments
2015FBI would rather prosecutors drop cases than disclose stingray details (arstechnica.com)
230 points | 6 years ago with 53 comments
2015Why Telegram is insecure (medium.com)
230 points | 5 years ago with 246 comments
2010What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki? (cstheory.stackexchange.com)
229 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 42 comments
2010You're doing it wrong: B-heap 10x faster than binary heap (phk.freebsd.dk)
229 points | 5 years ago with 95 comments
2011Is infinity an odd or even number? (math.stackexchange.com)
229 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 373 comments
2011Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (npr.org)
229 points | 8 years ago with 56 comments
2012The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (otherhand.org)
229 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 147 comments
2013The 10x developer is not a myth (ybrikman.com)
229 points | 7 years ago with 235 comments
2014The slow death of purposeless walking (bbc.co.uk)
229 points | 8 years ago with 162 comments
2014Fork() can fail: this is important (rachelbythebay.com)
229 points | 4 years ago with 117 comments
2015The Fastest Blog in the World (jacquesmattheij.com)
229 points | 7 years ago with 124 comments
2015Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (cryptomuseum.com)
229 points | 6 years ago with 18 comments
2015How to get yourself to do things (raptitude.com)
229 points | 3 years ago with 79 comments
2015Behavioral Profiling: The password you can't change (paul.reviews)
229 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 10 comments
2010The Sad History of the Microsoft Posix Subsystem (brianreiter.org)
228 points | 8 years ago with 71 comments
2011Aaron Swartz v. United States (blogs.law.harvard.edu)
228 points | 11 years ago with 17 comments
2013Bayes’ Theorem in the 21st Century (web.ipac.caltech.edu)
228 points | 6 years ago with 92 comments
2014Adam Smith and Inequality (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
228 points | 3 years ago with 270 comments
2011Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (richardspens.com)
227 points | 6 years ago with 227 comments
2013Git is a purely functional data structure (blog.jayway.com)
227 points | 6 years ago with 97 comments
2014Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology (colah.github.io)
227 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 25 comments
2015Earthsea – A Rival to Tolkien and George RR Martin (theguardian.com)
227 points | 6 years ago with 110 comments
2013Learn Lua in 15 Minutes (tylerneylon.com)
226 points | 4 years ago with 101 comments
2013Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry (nature.com)
226 points | 1 year ago with 216 comments
2014How I Start: Go (howistart.org)
226 points | 7 years ago with 121 comments
2014Everyone on Earth is your cousin (qz.com)
226 points across 2 posts | 11 months ago with 53 comments
2014Just because it's an Internet Draft doesn't mean anything at all (tools.ietf.org)
226 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2015The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks (karpathy.github.io)
226 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 51 comments
2015Fish is not operational on a VT220 terminal (github.com)
226 points | 3 years ago with 113 comments
2015John Conway: A Life in Games (quantamagazine.org)
226 points | 4 years ago with 1 comments
2015Treasure trove of mechanical animations (kottke.org)
226 points | 1 year ago with 39 comments
2011Why isn’t the fundamental theorem of arithmetic obvious? (gowers.wordpress.com)
225 points | 8 years ago with 197 comments
2011What happens after Yahoo acquires you (37signals.com)
225 points | 11 years ago with 112 comments
2012RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (github.com)
225 points | 3 years ago with 63 comments
2013Times New Roman alternatives: You can do better (practicaltypography.com)
225 points | 4 years ago with 141 comments
2014What 2,000 Calories Looks Like (nytimes.com)
225 points | 8 years ago with 213 comments
2014Flipped Iceberg (alexcornell.com)
225 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2015Readings in Database Systems, 5th Edition (redbook.io)
225 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
2015What Made the SR-71 Blackbird Such a Badass Plane (popularmechanics.com)
225 points | 7 years ago with 147 comments
2010The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. (matt.might.net)
224 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 120 comments
2011A JVM Does That? (azulsystems.com)
224 points | 8 years ago with 165 comments
2012Rides of Glory – Uber Blog (web.archive.org)
224 points | 10 years ago with 112 comments
2012The little book about OS development (littleosbook.github.io)
224 points | 9 years ago with 18 comments
2012How to give a great presentation: advice from a legendary adman (brainpickings.org)
224 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments
2013The Toyota Production System (blog.toyota.co.uk)
224 points | 3 years ago with 114 comments
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