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2013There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written (smithsonianmag.com)
163 points | 6 years ago with 99 comments
2014Dropped (grantland.com)
163 points | 7 years ago with 46 comments
2014How Optimizely Almost Got Me Fired (blog.sumall.com)
163 points | 8 years ago with 78 comments
2015Working for a Dating Website (caseysoftware.com)
163 points | 1 year ago with 196 comments
2010Binary Decision Diagrams (crypto.stanford.edu)
162 points | 3 years ago with 89 comments
2010How to Detect a Toxic Customer (softwarebyrob.com)
162 points | 12 years ago with 64 comments
2011Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (web.archive.org)
162 points | 5 years ago with 101 comments
2012Hello, JIT World: The Joy of Simple JITs (blog.reverberate.org)
162 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 10 comments
2012Using Unix as an IDE (sanctum.geek.nz)
162 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
2013The tomato was feared in Europe for more than 200 years (smithsonianmag.com)
162 points | 3 years ago with 182 comments
2013DNS: Basic Concepts (petekeen.net)
162 points | 8 years ago with 62 comments
2014Nobody lives here: Nearly 5M Census Blocks with zero population (tumblr.mapsbynik.com)
162 points | 3 years ago with 103 comments
2014Rob Pike on good commit messages (groups.google.com)
162 points | 4 years ago with 94 comments
2014Enslaved and then marooned on Tromelin Island for fifteen years (archaeology.org)
162 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
2014Oppenheimer and the Gita (blog.nuclearsecrecy.com)
162 points | 5 years ago with 70 comments
2015Why the Wingdings Font Exists (vox.com)
162 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 27 comments
2015Complex game worlds, simple text interfaces (egamebook.com)
162 points | 3 years ago with 38 comments
2010World War II – Not remotely believable (squid314.livejournal.com)
161 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 3 comments
2012How doctors choose to die (theguardian.com)
161 points | 9 years ago with 81 comments
2012Do we need copyright? (lemire.me)
161 points | 1 year ago with 164 comments
2012Interleaving and varying your study location are good learning strategies (wired.com)
161 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments
2012Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be the final straw (theguardian.com)
161 points | 3 years ago with 146 comments
2013The first woman PhD in computer science was a nun (mentalfloss.com)
161 points | 4 years ago with 65 comments
2013Long-Term Coffee Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (circ.ahajournals.org)
161 points | 7 years ago with 131 comments
2014Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn't (npr.org)
161 points | 5 years ago with 214 comments
2015Math-as-Code (github.com)
161 points | 4 years ago with 128 comments
2015How to Center in CSS (howtocenterincss.com)
161 points | 4 years ago with 69 comments
2015Where is Notepad in Windows 10? (answers.microsoft.com)
161 points | 5 years ago with 200 comments
2015Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems (plato.stanford.edu)
161 points | 7 years ago with 77 comments
2011The Coming War on General Computation (github.com)
160 points | 11 years ago with 59 comments
2012Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (scientificamerican.com)
160 points | 8 years ago with 155 comments
2012Storing Drinking-Water in Copper Pots Kills Contaminating Bacteria (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
160 points | 7 years ago with 136 comments
2013Safari is released to the world (donmelton.com)
160 points | 1 year ago with 68 comments
2014The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious (theatlantic.com)
160 points | 7 years ago with 169 comments
2014The largest living thing on Earth is a fungus (bbc.com)
160 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments
2014I was forced to shut down Lavabit (theguardian.com)
160 points | 7 years ago with 47 comments
2014Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
160 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 1 comments
2014Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic for programming (glench.com)
160 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 50 comments
2015The Map Is Not the Territory (fs.blog)
160 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 35 comments
2015Linux's GPLv2 licence is routinely violated (devever.net)
160 points | 2 years ago with 199 comments
2015‘Outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem (quantamagazine.org)
160 points | 6 years ago with 28 comments
2010You can't make C++ not ugly, but you can't not try (apenwarr.ca)
159 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 177 comments
2010Clever ideas that failed (yacoset.com)
159 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2011Dissecting the GZIP format (infinitepartitions.com)
159 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 5 comments
2011A trip through the Graphics Pipeline (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
159 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2011What would Feynman do? (blogs.msdn.com)
159 points | 9 years ago with 30 comments
2011Obscure Features of JPEG (hodapple.com)
159 points | 4 years ago with 31 comments
2012Life on board a British nuclear submarine (theguardian.com)
159 points | 1 year ago with 185 comments
2014Writing Is Thinking (alistapart.com)
159 points | 4 years ago with 19 comments
2014Why is my NTP server costing $500 per year? Part 1 (blog.pivotal.io)
159 points | 7 years ago with 109 comments
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