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2013CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran (foreignpolicy.com)
185 points | 6 years ago with 78 comments
2014Doing Business in Japan (kalzumeus.com)
185 points | 8 years ago with 51 comments
2014Why we write elementary apps in Vala (blog.elementary.io)
185 points | 2 years ago with 74 comments
2014So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery (drinks.seriouseats.com)
185 points | 4 years ago with 286 comments
2014I am a time-traveler from the future, here to beg you to stop what you are doing (reddit.com)
185 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 18 comments
2014RSA chief believed cryptographers’ warnings on Dual EC DRBG lacked merit (jeffreycarr.blogspot.com)
185 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2014Everything is broken (medium.com)
185 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 24 comments
2015Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days (ds26gte.github.io)
185 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
2012The Skylab 4 Mutiny, 1973 (libcom.org)
184 points | 5 years ago with 53 comments
2012Place mushrooms in sunlight to get your vitamin D (fungi.com)
184 points | 1 year ago with 117 comments
2013Bean leaves don’t let the bedbugs bite by using tiny, impaling spikes (smithsonianmag.com)
184 points | 1 year ago with 202 comments
2014The control group is out of control (slatestarcodex.com)
184 points | 2 years ago with 174 comments
2014The End of Retirement (harpers.org)
184 points | 3 years ago with 325 comments
2014Long-Chain Omega-3 Fatty Acids Improve Brain Function, Structure in Older Adults (academic.oup.com)
184 points | 2 years ago with 160 comments
2014The Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973 (priceonomics.com)
184 points | 4 years ago with 208 comments
2014Computer Science Illustrated (csillustrated.berkeley.edu)
184 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2015Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes (propublica.org)
184 points | 5 years ago with 100 comments
2015Turning the iPhone 6S into a digital scale (medium.com)
184 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2015Winner of French Scrabble Title Does Not Speak French (npr.org)
184 points | 4 years ago with 127 comments
2010So You Wanna Be a Chef (web.archive.org)
183 points | 2 years ago with 105 comments
2013A Frameless Geodesic Dome (rigsomelight.com)
183 points | 7 years ago with 94 comments
2013The Eternal Mainframe (winestockwebdesign.com)
183 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 52 comments
2014Chemical space is really big (chemistryworld.com)
183 points | 3 years ago with 67 comments
2015How Pulse Oximeters Work (howequipmentworks.com)
183 points | 4 years ago with 125 comments
2011Interpreting 9/11 commemorative Afghan carpets (rugsofwar.wordpress.com)
182 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2012Schrödinger equation emerges mathematically from classical mechanics (researchgate.net)
182 points | 11 months ago with 84 comments
2014What every programmer should know about solid-state drives (codecapsule.com)
182 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 109 comments
2014How Your Brain Decides Without You (nautil.us)
182 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 14 comments
2014Original source of `(seed * 9301 and 49297) % 233280` random algorithm? (softwareengineering.stackexchange.com)
182 points | 2 years ago with 83 comments
2010Jef Raskin's final gift to Aza (azarask.in)
181 points | 12 years ago with 10 comments
2010High-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain than sugar (princeton.edu)
181 points | 11 years ago with 122 comments
2010Intro to Hidden Markov Models (ocw.mit.edu)
181 points | 8 years ago with 22 comments
2011In Investing, It’s When You Start and When You Finish (nytimes.com)
181 points | 8 years ago with 149 comments
2011Minimum Viable Personality (avc.com)
181 points | 5 years ago with 96 comments
2012Pixar almost deleted Toy Story 2 (thenextweb.com)
181 points | 2 years ago with 91 comments
2012It all began with a strange email (blogs.valvesoftware.com)
181 points | 9 years ago with 61 comments
2013SPAs are harder and always will be (wgross.net)
181 points | 6 years ago with 180 comments
2013Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown (onehundredpages.wordpress.com)
181 points | 1 year ago with 164 comments
2014Induction of self awareness in dreams through low current stimulation (nature.com)
181 points | 6 years ago with 95 comments
2014Chinese Number Websites: The Secret Meaning of URLs (newrepublic.com)
181 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2010The Aphex Face (bastwood.com)
180 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2010What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (talyarkoni.org)
180 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 68 comments
2011Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (jwz.org)
180 points | 11 years ago with 58 comments
2013I Wasn’t Prepared for Work (web.archive.org)
180 points | 5 years ago with 74 comments
2014Incenser, or how NSA and GCHQ are tapping internet cables (electrospaces.net)
180 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments
2014Why programming is difficult (joearms.github.io)
180 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments
2014Speeding up this site by 50x (danluu.com)
180 points | 2 years ago with 71 comments
2015The “.onion” Special-Use Domain Name (tools.ietf.org)
180 points | 7 years ago with 67 comments
2015C.S. Lewis's Greatest Fiction: Telling Kids They’d Like Turkish Delight (atlasobscura.com)
180 points | 7 years ago with 125 comments
2015Advantages of Monorepos (danluu.com)
180 points | 2 years ago with 137 comments
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