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2013The Future of Standard ML (cs.cmu.edu)
138 points | 8 years ago with 79 comments
2013Greens: why we eat the leaves that we do (botanistinthekitchen.blog)
138 points | 3 years ago with 36 comments
2013Glymphatic system clears toxins in the brain during sleep (urmc.rochester.edu)
138 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2014The Wire in HD (davidsimon.com)
138 points | 3 years ago with 120 comments
2015Your live coding demo is boring me (inconshreveable.com)
138 points | 5 years ago with 88 comments
2015The high-frequency trading arms race: frequent batch auctions (academic.oup.com)
138 points | 3 years ago with 87 comments
2015State considered harmful: A proposal for a stateless laptop (blog.invisiblethings.org)
138 points | 6 years ago with 65 comments
2015The strangely successful history of people mailing themselves in boxes (atlasobscura.com)
138 points | 2 years ago with 111 comments
2015Bubble talk (blog.samaltman.com)
138 points | 4 years ago with 78 comments
2010The structures of computation and the mathematical structure of nature (rutherfordjournal.org)
137 points | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2010Fear and Loathing in Linux, or Who Needs /etc/motd (web.archive.org)
137 points | 8 years ago with 77 comments
2010How Goldman Sachs Helped Greece to Mask Its True Debt (spiegel.de)
137 points | 9 years ago with 93 comments
2012Page Weight Matters (blog.chriszacharias.com)
137 points | 2 years ago with 57 comments
2012A very casual introduction to Fully Homomorphic Encryption (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
137 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments
2013Useful Old Technologies: ASN.1 (thanassis.space)
137 points | 2 years ago with 92 comments
2014How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb (theintercept.com)
137 points | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2014Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes (righto.com)
137 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments
2015The life-changing love of Paul Dirac (theconversation.com)
137 points | 4 years ago with 47 comments
2015PANDAS revives the debate about the immune system and mental illness (nautil.us)
137 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
2015Vim Cheat Sheet (vimsheet.com)
137 points | 7 years ago with 17 comments
2010Nano-nonsense: 25 years of charlatanry (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
136 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 57 comments
2011Nerds, we need to have a talk (thingist.com)
136 points | 11 years ago with 85 comments
2011Nobody Cares (bhorowitz.com)
136 points | 8 years ago with 49 comments
2011Why do Windows functions begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction? (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
136 points | 8 years ago with 31 comments
2011What It's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs (inventor-labs.com)
136 points | 8 years ago with 43 comments
2011Donut math: how donut.c works (a1k0n.net)
136 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 0 comments
20111991's PC technology was unbelievable (zdnet.com)
136 points | 3 years ago with 235 comments
2012The Case for the /usr Merge (freedesktop.org)
136 points | 2 years ago with 159 comments
2012A Tour of Acme (research.swtch.com)
136 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2012My Laptop Bit Me – The Shocking Truth (enclydion.blogspot.com)
136 points | 5 years ago with 116 comments
2012Reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular (arstechnica.com)
136 points | 1 year ago with 40 comments
2013Things Developers Should Know About SQL Server (brentozar.com)
136 points | 7 years ago with 34 comments
2013Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (paulsellers.com)
136 points | 2 years ago with 60 comments
2013Aztec Political Thought (abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com)
136 points | 5 years ago with 31 comments
2013Links are not buttons (karlgroves.com)
136 points | 3 years ago with 123 comments
2014Defense against the dark art of estimation bargaining (monkeyandcrow.com)
136 points | 3 years ago with 71 comments
2014A list of useful books for game AI programming (alumni.media.mit.edu)
136 points | 5 years ago with 10 comments
2014Prices and wages in Medieval England (medium.com)
136 points | 2 years ago with 119 comments
2015Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks (theatlantic.com)
136 points | 5 years ago with 92 comments
2015The Missing 11th of the Month (drhagen.com)
136 points | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2015How was the size of Earth first measured? (stardate.org)
136 points | 1 year ago with 111 comments
2015The Alternate Universe of Soviet Arcade Games (atlasobscura.com)
136 points | 3 years ago with 45 comments
2011The Society of Mind (ocw.mit.edu)
135 points | 2 years ago with 37 comments
2011The Terrible Secret (blog.corememory.io)
135 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments
2011How and Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (code.mixpanel.com)
135 points | 11 years ago with 43 comments
2012Why Coke Cost a Nickel for 70 Years (npr.org)
135 points | 9 years ago with 95 comments
2012Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES (ahefner.livejournal.com)
135 points | 10 years ago with 16 comments
2013Learn Emacs Lisp in 15 Minutes (emacs-doctor.com)
135 points | 9 years ago with 14 comments
2013Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. So the DEA Put Him in Prison (wired.com)
135 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments
2013Teach, Don’t Tell (stevelosh.com)
135 points | 9 years ago with 18 comments
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