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2010The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (cdixon.org)
191 points | 5 years ago with 198 comments
2013Elixir Design Goals (elixir-lang.org)
191 points | 7 years ago with 38 comments
2013Nibbler 4 Bit CPU (bigmessowires.com)
191 points | 1 year ago with 33 comments
2014The Long Way Round (lapsedhistorian.com)
191 points | 7 years ago with 27 comments
2014Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing (pages.tacc.utexas.edu)
191 points | 5 years ago with 5 comments
2011Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (corte.si)
190 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 15 comments
2012The state of Computer Vision and AI: we are really, really far (karpathy.github.io)
190 points | 9 years ago with 121 comments
2012Don't Talk to the Police (youtube.com)
190 points | 6 years ago with 165 comments
2013Polynesian people used a kind of binary number system 600 years ago (nature.com)
190 points | 7 years ago with 115 comments
2010What’s up with the Beep driver in Windows 7? (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
189 points | 8 years ago with 103 comments
2010Mark Zuckerberg: “Please Resign” (techemails.com)
189 points | 1 year ago with 166 comments
2012The Effects of Computer Programming on the Brain (virtuecenter.com)
189 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 22 comments
2013Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (github.com)
189 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 40 comments
2014A Large-Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub (cacm.acm.org)
189 points | 7 years ago with 66 comments
2014Typography of 2001: A Space Odyssey (typesetinthefuture.com)
189 points | 3 years ago with 75 comments
2014Norris Numbers – Walls you hit in program size (teamten.com)
189 points | 6 years ago with 81 comments
2015People can read their manager's mind (yosefk.com)
189 points | 1 year ago with 66 comments
2015You cannot have exactly-once delivery (bravenewgeek.com)
189 points | 1 year ago with 217 comments
2015Abolish High School (harpers.org)
189 points | 3 years ago with 312 comments
2011Illegally climbing the Golden Gate bridge at dawn (nopromiseofsafety.com)
188 points | 11 years ago with 119 comments
2011Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? (stackoverflow.com)
188 points | 11 years ago with 43 comments
2011Real pixel coding (iquilezles.org)
188 points | 11 years ago with 79 comments
2011You've heard of “yes men”. Now learn about “no men” (rachelbythebay.com)
188 points | 5 years ago with 144 comments
2013Cyberdecks (blog.rfox.eu)
188 points | 1 year ago with 104 comments
2013Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (github.com)
188 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments
2013Day of week of procedure and 30 day mortality for elective surgery (bmj.com)
188 points | 4 years ago with 83 comments
2014CS 281B: Statistical Learning Theory (people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
188 points | 8 years ago with 16 comments
2014Let’s build a browser engine (limpet.net)
188 points | 5 years ago with 47 comments
2015Nasa Aeronautics Book Series (nasa.gov)
188 points | 7 years ago with 9 comments
2015The 'Manhattan of the Desert': Shibam, Yemen's Ancient Skyscraper City (archdaily.com)
188 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments
2015Why It’s OK to Block Ads (blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk)
188 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 145 comments
2011The boy who stole Half-Life 2 (eurogamer.net)
187 points | 1 year ago with 94 comments
2011Papers from the Lost Culture of Array Languages (prog21.dadgum.com)
187 points | 6 years ago with 77 comments
2011Linux x86 program start up – How the heck do we get to main()? (dbp-consulting.com)
187 points | 3 years ago with 21 comments
2012Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell (web.archive.org)
187 points | 4 years ago with 74 comments
2012Easing Eye Strain with the Right Lenses (nytimes.com)
187 points | 7 years ago with 94 comments
2012Wild flower blooms again after 30,000 years on ice (nature.com)
187 points | 8 years ago with 57 comments
2012If correlation doesn’t imply causality, then what does? (michaelnielsen.org)
187 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 1 comments
2012The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything (fs.blog)
187 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments
2013How the NSA obtains and uses airline reservations (papersplease.org)
187 points | 7 years ago with 80 comments
2013Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (plosone.org)
187 points | 9 years ago with 56 comments
2013Useful Perl one-liners (catonmat.net)
187 points | 8 years ago with 91 comments
2011Explain mathematically a video from a space station (mathoverflow.net)
186 points | 7 years ago with 32 comments
2012A Fresh Graduate's Guide to Software Development Tools and Technologies (comp.nus.edu.sg)
186 points | 6 years ago with 42 comments
2015Differences between Tmux vs Screen (wtanaka.com)
186 points | 7 years ago with 88 comments
2010What Broke My Father's Heart (nytimes.com)
185 points | 11 years ago with 39 comments
2010The best debugging story I've ever heard (patrickthomson.tumblr.com)
185 points | 2 years ago with 39 comments
2011How many Commodore 64 computers were sold? (pagetable.com)
185 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 62 comments
2011Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (damninteresting.com)
185 points | 3 years ago with 110 comments
2012Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace (skeptictank.org)
185 points | 9 years ago with 98 comments
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