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2014Why Does Windows Think My Keyboard Is a Toaster? (superuser.com)
175 points | 8 years ago with 28 comments
2014The apt command: Combining apt-get and apt-cache and adds a progress bar (mvogt.wordpress.com)
175 points | 8 years ago with 74 comments
2014Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion (randomascii.wordpress.com)
175 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2014Why Programming is Difficult (joearms.github.io)
175 points | 8 years ago with 111 comments
2014The Mesmerizing Architecture of Mosques (medium.com)
175 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments
2014The power of keeping a coding journal (thomasburette.com)
175 points | 1 year ago with 67 comments
2015The Computational Theory of Mind (plato.stanford.edu)
175 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 90 comments
2010Learning Vim incrementally (yehudakatz.com)
174 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 86 comments
2011If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (anildash.com)
174 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 47 comments
2011The Day our investors came to see the office (thedayseries.tumblr.com)
174 points | 11 years ago with 64 comments
2011Neue Haas Grotesk (fontbureau.com)
174 points | 4 years ago with 55 comments
2013Stainless steel leaches nickel and chromium into foods during cooking (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
174 points | 2 years ago with 297 comments
2013Which Machines Do Computer Architects Admire? (people.cs.clemson.edu)
174 points | 4 years ago with 156 comments
201412-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Bad for Safety and Should Be Replaced (citylab.com)
174 points | 8 years ago with 143 comments
2015The Hungarian Approach and How It Fits the American Educational Landscape (blogs.ams.org)
174 points | 7 years ago with 76 comments
2015How to write the perfect pull request (github.blog)
174 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2015Finish Your Stuff (250bpm.com)
174 points | 3 years ago with 68 comments
2015“Fun disabled by administrator” (bugs.chromium.org)
174 points | 1 year ago with 99 comments
2010High-quality schools can increase academic achievement among the poor (scholar.harvard.edu)
173 points | 6 years ago with 218 comments
2010The Most Officialest SkiFree Home Page (ski.ihoc.net)
173 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments
2011Bored People Quit (randsinrepose.com)
173 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 1 comments
2011Intro to Cryptography [pdf] (cs.umd.edu)
173 points | 1 year ago with 42 comments
2012Build a Team that Ships (nav.al)
173 points | 4 years ago with 102 comments
2013I push, therefore I am: two days at Etsy (mhawthorne.net)
173 points | 4 years ago with 75 comments
2013Things that happen at a lock-picking convention (slate.com)
173 points | 7 years ago with 123 comments
2013High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets (qz.com)
173 points | 6 years ago with 146 comments
2013Don’t Fly During Ramadan (adityamukerjee.net)
173 points | 4 years ago with 101 comments
2013Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox (bhorowitz.com)
173 points | 9 years ago with 62 comments
2014How 'DevOps' Is Killing the Developer (jeffknupp.com)
173 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 140 comments
2014Why Your Best Thinking Is in the Shower (openculture.com)
173 points | 7 years ago with 66 comments
2015De-Anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry (usenix.org)
173 points | 7 years ago with 52 comments
2015A pencil sharpener that creates a never-ending pencil (spoon-tamago.com)
173 points | 3 years ago with 63 comments
2015Lisp Operating System (metamodular.com)
173 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments
2015Clojure by Example (kimh.github.io)
173 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments
2010Taco Bell Programming (web.archive.org)
172 points | 8 years ago with 109 comments
2010How and Why I Taught My Toddler to Read (larrysanger.org)
172 points | 8 years ago with 130 comments
2011All late projects are the same (systemsguild.com)
172 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 58 comments
2011Goodnight Dune (goodnightdune.com)
172 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments
2014Japan Shows the Way to Affordable Megacities (nextcity.org)
172 points | 7 years ago with 211 comments
2014Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (tldp.org)
172 points | 2 years ago with 78 comments
2014Divorce rate cut in half for couples who discussed relationship movies (rochester.edu)
172 points | 3 years ago with 83 comments
2015What if you knew how computers work? (xorpd.net)
172 points | 4 years ago with 148 comments
2015Scandalous weird old things about the C preprocessor (blog.robertelder.org)
172 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 32 comments
2015Lambda Calculus Diagrams (tromp.github.io)
172 points | 4 years ago with 32 comments
2015Clojure is a product design tool (precursorapp.com)
172 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 68 comments
2011Subject: Airbnb (paulgraham.com)
171 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 162 comments
2011Why philosophers should care about computational complexity (arxiv.org)
171 points | 3 years ago with 143 comments
2011Virtual Particles: What are they? (profmattstrassler.com)
171 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2013All of Statistics, by Larry Wassserman (stat.cmu.edu)
171 points | 8 years ago with 52 comments
2013Low Level Programming of the Raspberry Pi in C (pieter-jan.com)
171 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
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