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2014X to Close – The origins of the use of [x] in UI design. (medium.com)
159 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 82 comments
2015Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (npr.org)
159 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 136 comments
2015The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (medium.engineering)
159 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2015Brooklyn Bar Menu Generator (brooklynbarmenus.com)
159 points | 1 year ago with 76 comments
2015Bayesian ranking of items with up and downvotes or 5 star ratings (julesjacobs.github.io)
159 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
2015The longer it has taken, the longer it will take (johndcook.com)
159 points | 5 years ago with 46 comments
2015Amiga runs Michigan schools' heating and air conditioning systems (woodtv.com)
159 points | 1 year ago with 88 comments
2010For progress to be by accumulation and not random walk, read great books (lesswrong.com)
158 points | 6 years ago with 74 comments
2010The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly (scatter.wordpress.com)
158 points | 3 years ago with 142 comments
2011The joys of maintenance programming (typicalprogrammer.com)
158 points | 1 year ago with 71 comments
20110x7FDE623822FC16E6: A magic constant for double float reciprocal (pvk.ca)
158 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments
2011Clinging Desperately to a Metaphor (ursulakleguin.com)
158 points | 3 years ago with 108 comments
2012What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (optimizationtoday.com)
158 points | 7 years ago with 131 comments
2012More people should write (jsomers.net)
158 points | 1 year ago with 82 comments
2012Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (businessinsider.com)
158 points | 7 years ago with 216 comments
2012301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (jacquesmattheij.com)
158 points | 8 years ago with 86 comments
2013Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct (meltingasphalt.com)
158 points | 5 years ago with 138 comments
2014Back to the Future: Unix Wildcards Gone Wild (defensecode.com)
158 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 18 comments
2014Understanding SAT by Implementing a Simple SAT Solver in Python (sahandsaba.com)
158 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2015CivJS: A JavaScript 4X Game (github.com)
158 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2015What are the most common tinnitus frequencies? (audionotch.com)
158 points | 1 year ago with 156 comments
2015Can You Think Yourself into a Different Person? (mosaicscience.com)
158 points | 6 years ago with 113 comments
2015Sending and Receiving SMS on Linux (20papercups.net)
158 points | 6 years ago with 40 comments
2010What happens when you eject at 780mph (f-15e.info)
157 points | 9 years ago with 39 comments
2010Opensource your abandonware (pulkomandy.tk)
157 points | 3 years ago with 56 comments
2011What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (stackoverflow.com)
157 points | 11 years ago with 95 comments
2012The story of Henry Ford's $5 a day wages: not what you think (forbes.com)
157 points | 4 years ago with 109 comments
2012Yes I Still Want to Be Doing This at 56 (thecodist.com)
157 points | 7 years ago with 114 comments
2012Simple Pathtracing (iquilezles.org)
157 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments
2012Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (memex.craphound.com)
157 points | 2 years ago with 84 comments
2013Our Logo Looks Like Underpants: A Case Study in Internationalization (blog.rjmetrics.com)
157 points | 6 years ago with 48 comments
2013The Logic of Stupid Poor People (tressiemc.com)
157 points | 9 years ago with 118 comments
2014The Man Who Made the UK Say “I’m Sorry for What We Did to Turing” (backchannel.com)
157 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments
2015Why Lisp? (blog.rongarret.info)
157 points | 3 years ago with 169 comments
2015Naming things (www2.stat.duke.edu)
157 points | 7 years ago with 57 comments
2015The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate (journals.asm.org)
157 points | 3 years ago with 202 comments
2010Who does that server really serve? (gnu.org)
156 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 18 comments
2010So You Wanna Be a Chef (ruhlman.com)
156 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 72 comments
2012Most lives are lived by default (raptitude.com)
156 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments
2012Ideas for Game Clones to Code (inventwithpython.com)
156 points | 8 years ago with 49 comments
2013English, Swedish, German and Finnish Decline “Dog” (linustechtips.com)
156 points | 5 years ago with 102 comments
2013The Descent to C (chiark.greenend.org.uk)
156 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments
2014Write your own Virtual CPU in C++ (megalomaniacbore.blogspot.com)
156 points | 4 years ago with 5 comments
2014C++ the Good Parts (infoq.com)
156 points | 4 years ago with 246 comments
2015Microfinance Is Mostly a Scam (mathbabe.org)
156 points | 4 years ago with 107 comments
2015Don't publicly expose .git (en.internetwache.org)
156 points | 7 years ago with 86 comments
2015Debian developer revisits FreeBSD after 20 years (changelog.complete.org)
156 points | 6 years ago with 125 comments
2015An earthquake could destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest (newyorker.com)
156 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 89 comments
2010Improving the fast inverse square root (rrrola.wz.cz)
155 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments
2010Noprocrast (web.archive.org)
155 points | 4 years ago with 102 comments
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