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2010Tron Legacy (jtnimoy.net)
657 points | 11 years ago with 143 comments
2015Amazon Web Services in Plain English (expeditedssl.com)
655 points | 7 years ago with 75 comments
2013How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (stackoverflow.com)
652 points | 7 years ago with 138 comments
2015It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (drmaciver.com)
650 points | 3 years ago with 345 comments
2010Concise Electronics for Geeks (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
648 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 49 comments
201224/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (xiph.org)
647 points | 6 years ago with 428 comments
2014The worst API ever made (caseymuratori.com)
640 points across 6 posts | 9 months ago with 215 comments
2015Startup Playbook (playbook.samaltman.com)
640 points | 5 years ago with 55 comments
2014A command-line murder mystery (github.com)
638 points across 3 posts | 9 months ago with 19 comments
2013Mistakes in the Design of CSS (wiki.csswg.org)
636 points across 4 posts | 5 months ago with 142 comments
2013News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (theguardian.com)
632 points across 2 posts | 10 months ago with 254 comments
2010Don’t mess with a genius (shreevatsa.wordpress.com)
631 points | 7 months ago with 151 comments
2015Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
631 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 156 comments
2013Pixar's Rules of Storytelling (aerogrammestudio.com)
630 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 74 comments
2014Only 90s web developers remember this (zachholman.com)
628 points | 2 years ago with 345 comments
2013Statically Recompiling NES Games into Native Executables with LLVM and Go (andrewkelley.me)
621 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2010Why do many math books have so much detail and so little enlightenment? (mathoverflow.net)
620 points | 6 years ago with 260 comments
2015When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (nationalgeographic.com)
611 points | 3 years ago with 224 comments
2012Why Anti-Authoritarians Are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill (madinamerica.com)
607 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 290 comments
2014Always bet on text (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
605 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 11 comments
2015A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (ecc-comp.blogspot.com)
604 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 59 comments
2015How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (bzarg.com)
603 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 34 comments
2013How Doctors Die (saturdayeveningpost.com)
601 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 319 comments
2013I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (theguardian.com)
601 points across 2 posts | 7 months ago with 124 comments
2015The Art of Command Line (github.com)
597 points | 4 years ago with 169 comments
2013T * sin (t) ≈ Christmas tree (github.com)
595 points | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2012Wat [video] (destroyallsoftware.com)
593 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 144 comments
2014The Myth of RAM (ilikebigbits.com)
593 points | 7 years ago with 277 comments
2014A Learning Secret: Don't Take Notes with a Laptop (scientificamerican.com)
589 points | 4 years ago with 238 comments
2013Long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by prototaxites (smithsonianmag.com)
584 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 240 comments
2014Meditations on Moloch (slatestarcodex.com)
579 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 106 comments
2012Hexaflexagons [video] (youtube.com)
578 points | 1 year ago with 54 comments
2010Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (raptitude.com)
577 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 247 comments
2014Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt (ai.google)
576 points | 5 years ago with 88 comments
2013Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (audioasylum.com)
575 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 746 comments
2014Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (dougseven.com)
574 points across 2 posts | 7 months ago with 273 comments
2015A visual introduction to machine learning (r2d3.us)
571 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 21 comments
2015Facebook Is the Junk Food of Socializing (nautil.us)
571 points | 6 years ago with 200 comments
2014Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (mako.cc)
570 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 386 comments
2012Never Use Black (ianstormtaylor.com)
565 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 217 comments
2014MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 is now open-source (github.com)
564 points across 3 posts | 7 months ago with 101 comments
2014Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (lcamtuf.blogspot.com)
561 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 14 comments
2014Engineering management lessons (defmacro.org)
558 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 1 comments
2014Why I did not go to jail (a16z.com)
556 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 142 comments
2013Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests” (istacee.wordpress.com)
550 points | 7 years ago with 354 comments
2012Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (jesshamrick.com)
549 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 257 comments
2013A Primer on Bézier Curves (pomax.github.io)
547 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 34 comments
2010Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP (arxiv.org)
546 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 169 comments
201220 lines of code that beat A/B testing (stevehanov.ca)
545 points | 8 years ago with 157 comments
2013The Theoretical Minimum (theoreticalminimum.com)
545 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments
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