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2015Umberto Eco's Anti-Library (brainpickings.org)
152 points | 7 years ago with 48 comments
2015Running Lisp in Production (grammarly.com)
152 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 96 comments
2010Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet (gwern.net)
151 points | 5 years ago with 115 comments
2010Why did Prolog lose steam? (kmjn.org)
151 points | 1 year ago with 175 comments
2010State of Text Rendering (behdad.org)
151 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2010Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (mariovittone.com)
151 points | 9 years ago with 40 comments
2011How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $6.5m for My Startup (joncrawford.com)
151 points | 11 years ago with 71 comments
2011A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (blog.tanyakhovanova.com)
151 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 94 comments
2013The Matasano Crypto Challenges (blog.pinboard.in)
151 points | 7 years ago with 29 comments
2013WWII Propaganda Popularized Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark (smithsonianmag.com)
151 points | 7 years ago with 43 comments
2013Willpower and cognitive processing draw from the same pool of resources (seriouspony.com)
151 points | 8 years ago with 49 comments
2014Implementing a Principal Component Analysis In Python (sebastianraschka.com)
151 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments
2014Ten years ago they beat MIT. Today, it's complicated (azcentral.com)
151 points | 8 years ago with 91 comments
2014USPS loses millions each year on local delivery of mail from abroad (washingtonpost.com)
151 points | 7 years ago with 161 comments
2015Write you a Haskell (dev.stephendiehl.com)
151 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments
2015Please stop calling databases CP or AP (martin.kleppmann.com)
151 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2015Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools (dymaxion.org)
151 points | 7 years ago with 68 comments
2015BeOS almost made Apple a different company (wired.com)
151 points | 7 years ago with 143 comments
2010Confirming the exact location of the invention of the web (davidgalbraith.org)
150 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2011The Soviet Superplane Program That Rattled Area 51 (wired.com)
150 points | 11 years ago with 42 comments
2012FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity and lifecycle (lists.freebsd.org)
150 points | 2 years ago with 176 comments
2012New Garbage Collector (wiki.luajit.org)
150 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments
2013Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (web.archive.org)
150 points | 3 years ago with 138 comments
2013Turbo Pascal: A Great Choice for Programming Under CP/M (techtinkering.com)
150 points | 3 years ago with 115 comments
2013The enigmatic Portuguese R (hackingportuguese.com)
150 points | 2 years ago with 169 comments
2013Justice Clarence Thomas uncovered a seven-year-old bug in my program (franklinchen.com)
150 points | 2 years ago with 147 comments
2013In 1991, Congress authorized $650M to make driverless cars a reality (smithsonianmag.com)
150 points | 5 years ago with 71 comments
2014Visualising High Frequency Trading in Bitcoin (parasec.net)
150 points | 7 years ago with 41 comments
2014Why Elixir (theerlangelist.com)
150 points | 7 years ago with 57 comments
2015Collision Detection (jeffreythompson.org)
150 points | 4 years ago with 33 comments
2015A broken man's homemade, seaworthy ship rests in the Canadian prairie (atlasobscura.com)
150 points | 1 year ago with 60 comments
2010Dell Tried to Hide Bad Capacitors Problem 2003-2005 (spectrum.ieee.org)
149 points | 1 year ago with 78 comments
2011Object-oriented design patterns in the Linux kernel (lwn.net)
149 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments
2011Amazon War Story #1: Jeff Bezos (plus.google.com)
149 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2011Hotelling’s Law (uh.edu)
149 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2012The Shady World of Repair Manuals: Copyrighting for Planned Obsolescence (wired.com)
149 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2012Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (research.microsoft.com)
149 points | 10 years ago with 73 comments
2013Our Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control (popularmechanics.com)
149 points | 4 years ago with 104 comments
2013This Page Is Anonymous (voidnull.sdf.org)
149 points | 5 years ago with 51 comments
2013Cookieless cookies (lucb1e.com)
149 points | 5 years ago with 62 comments
2013Things I Won’t Work With: Dimethylcadmium (blogs.sciencemag.org)
149 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2014Just what does “code as data” mean anyway? (adambard.com)
149 points | 6 years ago with 171 comments
2014Learn C and build your own Lisp (buildyourownlisp.com)
149 points | 1 year ago with 43 comments
2014Unix Domain Sockets vs Loopback TCP Sockets (nicisdigital.wordpress.com)
149 points | 1 year ago with 75 comments
2014Feynman Algorithm (wiki.c2.com)
149 points | 7 years ago with 96 comments
2014BLAKE2: “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” Than MD5 (leastauthority.com)
149 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 49 comments
2014An ingenious vintage German cycle map (blog.systemed.net)
149 points | 6 years ago with 17 comments
2015A village where little girls turn into boys aged twelve (telegraph.co.uk)
149 points | 7 years ago with 193 comments
2015How to Say (Almost) Everything in a Hundred-Word Language (theatlantic.com)
149 points | 7 years ago with 102 comments
2015My Heroku values (brandur.org)
149 points | 7 years ago with 24 comments
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