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2013Habits of Highly Overrated People (daedtech.com)
224 points | 2 years ago with 145 comments
2014PostgreSQL anti-patterns: read-modify-write cycles (blog.2ndquadrant.com)
224 points | 7 years ago with 76 comments
2014Linux Graphics Demystified (keyj.emphy.de)
224 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2015Secure Secure Shell (stribika.github.io)
224 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments
2015What I learned from writing for The Onion for a month (wordsbyevanporter.com)
224 points | 4 years ago with 114 comments
2010Why Clojure? (thecleancoder.blogspot.com)
223 points | 7 years ago with 279 comments
2011Why Russians Are Not Smiling (blog.properrussian.com)
223 points | 11 years ago with 221 comments
2012A file that’s both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
223 points | 6 years ago with 69 comments
2012Reasons not to use Skype (stallman.org)
223 points | 7 years ago with 167 comments
2012The FFmpeg/Libav situation (blog.pkh.me)
223 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 43 comments
2012Understanding is poor substitute for convexity (edge.org)
223 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 25 comments
2013Myths about cooking steak that need to go away (seriouseats.com)
223 points | 2 years ago with 290 comments
2013Is Your Cat 6 Cable a Dog? (bluejeanscable.com)
223 points | 5 years ago with 113 comments
2014Standard deviation is ready for retirement: Nassim Taleb (edge.org)
223 points | 8 years ago with 120 comments
2015The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets (theintercept.com)
223 points | 5 years ago with 110 comments
2015Fruit Walls: Urban Farming in the 1600s (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
223 points | 4 years ago with 58 comments
2011Rats free each other from cages (nature.com)
222 points | 8 years ago with 169 comments
2012How Y Combinator Started (paulgraham.com)
222 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2013Libvirt – The Unsung Hero of Cloud Computing (vyomtech.com)
222 points | 4 years ago with 111 comments
2013To unlock drink verification can (gamefaqs.gamespot.com)
222 points | 1 year ago with 99 comments
2013LL and LR in Context: Why Parsing Tools Are Hard (blog.reverberate.org)
222 points | 8 years ago with 95 comments
2014A Tiny, $25 Million Mistake (npr.org)
222 points | 6 years ago with 136 comments
2015The Access Economy: Why the Normal Distribution Is Vanishing (alexdanco.com)
222 points | 5 years ago with 151 comments
2015Stop Checking Email So Often (nytimes.com)
222 points | 7 years ago with 169 comments
2013Media for Thinking the Unthinkable (worrydream.com)
221 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 12 comments
2013The 1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
221 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 6 comments
2013Why I Regret Making My House a Smart-House (finehomebuilding.com)
221 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 167 comments
2013A gentle introduction to Prolog (bernardopires.com)
221 points | 8 years ago with 128 comments
2013Obsolete trig functions and why we don't use them anymore (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
221 points | 3 years ago with 134 comments
2014CPython internals: Ten-hour codewalk through the interpreter source code (pgbovine.net)
221 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2014College Sex-Assault Trials Belong in Court, Not Campus (chronicle.com)
221 points | 8 years ago with 213 comments
2015What is permaculture? (permaculturedesignmagazine.com)
221 points | 1 year ago with 229 comments
2015We still believe in private offices (stackoverflow.blog)
221 points | 3 years ago with 277 comments
2012Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (livescience.com)
220 points | 3 years ago with 221 comments
2013Robin Hood Hashing should be the default hash table implementation (sebastiansylvan.com)
220 points | 8 years ago with 53 comments
2013A World Without Power (jacquesmattheij.com)
220 points | 5 years ago with 214 comments
2015Sedmario: NES Super Mario Bros level 1 written in pure sed (github.com)
220 points | 1 year ago with 38 comments
2012Frequent fliers who flew too much (articles.latimes.com)
219 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 12 comments
2013Tatsuo Horiuchi: The 73-year old Excel spreadsheet artist (spoon-tamago.com)
219 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments
2014Why Apple Will Switch to ARM-Based Macs (mattrichman.net)
219 points | 2 years ago with 209 comments
2015Beej's Guide to Unix IPC (beej.us)
219 points | 2 years ago with 53 comments
2015How to explain the KGB's success identifying CIA agents in the field (salon.com)
219 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 64 comments
2012The Galaga no-fire-cheat mystery (jasoneckert.github.io)
218 points | 1 year ago with 95 comments
2014C.I.A. Lacing (fieggen.com)
218 points | 4 years ago with 89 comments
2014Oracle started as a CIA project (gizmodo.com)
218 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 90 comments
2015Kudzu, the vine that never ate the south (smithsonianmag.com)
218 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments
2015The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (jakubmarian.com)
218 points | 5 years ago with 102 comments
2010Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (mariovittone.com)
217 points | 6 years ago with 91 comments
2010Dumb and Gets Things Done (johndcook.com)
217 points | 1 year ago with 142 comments
2012Eller’s Algorithm (neocomputer.org)
217 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments
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