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2012How should mathematics be taught to non-mathematicians? (gowers.wordpress.com)
141 points | 8 years ago with 86 comments
2012Fun with fluorescence in olive oil (aapt.scitation.org)
141 points | 1 year ago with 66 comments
2013What No One Told You About Z-Index (philipwalton.com)
141 points | 8 years ago with 26 comments
2013Modes, Medians and Means: A Unifying Perspective (johnmyleswhite.com)
141 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2013Plugging a 1986 Mac Plus into the Modern Web (keacher.com)
141 points | 9 years ago with 48 comments
2013Story of the Roku Player (fastcompany.com)
141 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 58 comments
2014Apple’s First Phone, from 1983, Never Made It to Market (lowendmac.com)
141 points | 8 years ago with 54 comments
2014Facts about smell (alicebartlett.co.uk)
141 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2014Redshift – A better flux program for Linux (techblog.jeppson.org)
141 points | 6 years ago with 81 comments
2015How to Become a Data Scientist – On Your Own (datasciencecentral.com)
141 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments
2015A Swiss Dress from the 16th Century (whiljascorner.wordpress.com)
141 points | 5 years ago with 28 comments
2010Symbian OS Kernel (github.com)
140 points | 2 years ago with 84 comments
2010Amplifying C (voodoo-slide.blogspot.com)
140 points | 8 years ago with 101 comments
2011How Class-based Programming Sucks (loup-vaillant.fr)
140 points | 10 years ago with 139 comments
2011There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says (wired.com)
140 points | 11 years ago with 41 comments
2012Legacy Train Control System Stabilisation (webinfo.uk)
140 points | 3 years ago with 95 comments
2012Metaprogramming for Madmen (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
140 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 20 comments
2012YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (slate.com)
140 points | 2 years ago with 155 comments
2013LispOS: Specification of a Lisp operating system (metamodular.com)
140 points | 5 years ago with 50 comments
2013The AI Unemployment Anti-FAQ (lesswrong.com)
140 points | 7 years ago with 139 comments
2013Apple’s $13k operating system (cnet.com)
140 points | 3 years ago with 29 comments
2013A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack (blog.moertel.com)
140 points | 2 years ago with 22 comments
2014Seven databases in seven weeks (db.cs.cmu.edu)
140 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2015Harvard university debate team loses to New York prison inmates (telegraph.co.uk)
140 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2015The Mother of All ‘Abandoned’ Airports (abandonedberlin.com)
140 points | 3 years ago with 52 comments
2015Procedural content generation: creating a universe (blog.rabidgremlin.com)
140 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments
2010Power Laws and Rich-Get-Richer Phenomena (cs.cornell.edu)
139 points | 6 years ago with 39 comments
2011CS143: Compilers (keithschwarz.com)
139 points | 8 years ago with 62 comments
2011Cosmonaut Crashed into Earth 'Crying in Rage' (npr.org)
139 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2012What Is Bayesian/Frequentist Inference? (normaldeviate.wordpress.com)
139 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 23 comments
2012What will programming look like in 2020? (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
139 points | 3 years ago with 146 comments
2012Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ (250bpm.com)
139 points | 2 years ago with 100 comments
2013Inertial Locking Box (tessmyers.com)
139 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments
2013Downsampling Time Series for Visual Representation [pdf] (skemman.is)
139 points | 3 years ago with 32 comments
2013OAuth1, OAuth2, OAuth..? (homakov.blogspot.com)
139 points | 9 years ago with 45 comments
2013Evidence that parasite prevalence predicts authoritarianism (journals.plos.org)
139 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments
2014Game Programming Patterns: Double Buffer (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
139 points | 6 years ago with 58 comments
2014Spirograph Simulator (nathanfriend.io)
139 points | 7 years ago with 40 comments
2014Life is a game, this is your strategy guide (oliveremberton.com)
139 points | 1 year ago with 109 comments
2014Let’s write a Kernel with keyboard and screen support (arjunsreedharan.org)
139 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
2014Open Decision-Making (web.stanford.edu)
139 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2014Ginger milk curd (blog.khymos.org)
139 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2014Effects on the lips of horn players seated too close to the timpani (newt.phys.unsw.edu.au)
139 points | 1 year ago with 50 comments
2015A 1950s proposal to nuke Alaska (atlasobscura.com)
139 points | 4 years ago with 144 comments
2015Babies On Display: When a Hospital Couldn't Save Them, a Sideshow Did (npr.org)
139 points | 7 years ago with 45 comments
2010Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950 (scientificamerican.com)
138 points | 5 years ago with 64 comments
2012Re: MemSQL the “world's fastest database”? (postgresql.org)
138 points | 10 years ago with 45 comments
2012From Java code to Java heap (ibm.com)
138 points | 8 years ago with 85 comments
2012What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (tor.com)
138 points | 7 years ago with 85 comments
2013Amputated fingertips sometimes grow back (npr.org)
138 points | 2 years ago with 67 comments
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