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2012Why Do So Many Zippers Say YKK? (slate.com)
155 points | 8 years ago with 60 comments
2012Functional Differential Geometry (groups.csail.mit.edu)
155 points | 10 years ago with 38 comments
2013Lead: America's Real Criminal Element (motherjones.com)
155 points | 6 years ago with 141 comments
2013RegEx Crossword (jimbly.github.io)
155 points | 1 year ago with 29 comments
2013LL and LR Parsing Demystified (blog.reverberate.org)
155 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments
2014Filthy surgical instruments: a threat in America's operating rooms (publicintegrity.org)
155 points | 5 years ago with 121 comments
2014Why ContentEditable Is Terrible, Or: How the Medium Editor Works (medium.com)
155 points | 8 years ago with 76 comments
2014Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 (raymii.org)
155 points | 1 year ago with 88 comments
2015Where Planes Go to Die: A One Way Trip to the Mojave Boneyard (scoutingla.com)
155 points | 6 years ago with 67 comments
2015How Friendships Change Over Time (theatlantic.com)
155 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments
2015Outlook.com is silently discarding email messages (blog.paranoidpenguin.net)
155 points | 2 years ago with 67 comments
2015Big IPO, Tiny Payout for Many Startup Workers (bloomberg.com)
155 points | 7 years ago with 134 comments
2015France’s Zone Rouge – A Forbidden No Man’s Land Poisoned by War (messynessychic.com)
155 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
2015Drawing Lines is Hard (mattdesl.svbtle.com)
155 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2011Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap (gingerybookstore.com)
154 points | 3 years ago with 57 comments
2011A quick start guide to Commodore 64 assembly programming on Windows (digitalerr0r.wordpress.com)
154 points | 7 years ago with 30 comments
2011I bought 259684 BTC for under $3000 (bitcointalk.org)
154 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments
2012Lisp: it's not about macros, it's about READ (jlongster.com)
154 points | 8 years ago with 99 comments
2012Why study functional programming? (acm.wustl.edu)
154 points | 2 years ago with 192 comments
2013Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (neocomputer.org)
154 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 11 comments
2013Manifesto for minimalist software engineers (minifesto.org)
154 points | 2 years ago with 84 comments
2013The Shareholder Value Myth (europeanfinancialreview.com)
154 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 58 comments
2013Goals vs. Systems (blog.dilbert.com)
154 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2015How to Legally Own Another Person (fooledbyrandomness.com)
154 points | 7 years ago with 93 comments
2010The Zen of Passive Solar Heating Panel Design (iedu.com)
153 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments
2011How the Atari ST Almost Had Real Unix (dadhacker.com)
153 points | 9 years ago with 73 comments
2011Casio F-91W: The strangely ubiquitous watch (bbc.com)
153 points | 4 years ago with 220 comments
2011Rhythm (taal) in Indian Classical Music (raag-hindustani.com)
153 points | 1 year ago with 31 comments
2012A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F# (fsharpforfunandprofit.com)
153 points | 5 years ago with 127 comments
2013Making WebGL Dance: How, Where, and What to Draw (acko.net)
153 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2013Yanis Varoufakis: How I became an erratic Marxist (theguardian.com)
153 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 136 comments
2013IR is better than assembly (idea.popcount.org)
153 points | 7 years ago with 58 comments
2014John Carmack .plan Archive (github.com)
153 points | 8 years ago with 50 comments
2014Build a Working Game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life (codegolf.stackexchange.com)
153 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments
2014Concorde ‘B’ (heritageconcorde.com)
153 points | 4 years ago with 218 comments
2014Clojure Compilation (blog.ndk.io)
153 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 0 comments
2014Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat: The Economics of Open Source (a16z.com)
153 points | 6 years ago with 74 comments
2015Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (nature.com)
153 points | 5 years ago with 59 comments
2015Elephants Rarely Get Cancer, Now We Know Why (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
153 points | 5 years ago with 85 comments
2015How to read mathematics (people.vcu.edu)
153 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2015Machine Learning: Full-Text Search in JavaScript – Relevance Scoring (burakkanber.com)
153 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments
2010In search of the perfect URL validation regex (mathiasbynens.be)
152 points | 3 years ago with 64 comments
2011Homemade Memristor (sparkbangbuzz.com)
152 points | 9 years ago with 23 comments
2012Getting Real About Distributed System Reliability (blog.empathybox.com)
152 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2012Linux on an 8-bit micro? (dmitry.gr)
152 points | 8 years ago with 53 comments
2013The Spy Novelist Who Knows Too Much (nytimes.com)
152 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 30 comments
2013The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an industry (arstechnica.com)
152 points | 6 years ago with 74 comments
2013Toyotas Unintended Acceleration and the Big Bowl of “Spaghetti” Code (safetyresearch.net)
152 points | 9 years ago with 145 comments
2013Closure, from why the lucky stiff (github.com)
152 points | 1 year ago with 138 comments
2014So you want to write a type checker (languagengine.co)
152 points | 7 years ago with 98 comments
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