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2013Why I Majored in Philosophy Despite Everyone Telling Me Not To (mic.com)
135 points | 8 years ago with 204 comments
2013The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
135 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 7 comments
2013Windows 95 tips, tricks, and tweaks (windows95tips.com)
135 points | 1 year ago with 24 comments
2015On the Beauty of Python's ExitStack (rath.org)
135 points | 4 years ago with 39 comments
2015Unit testing a TCP stack (snellman.net)
135 points | 3 years ago with 35 comments
2015Impulsive Rich Kid, Impulsive Poor Kid (priceonomics.com)
135 points | 7 years ago with 64 comments
2015Half of us have quit our job because of a bad boss (fortune.com)
135 points | 5 years ago with 75 comments
2015How the World's Most Difficult Bouldering Problems Get Made (outsideonline.com)
135 points | 6 years ago with 70 comments
2015A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (nautil.us)
135 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments
2010Computing 10,000X more efficiently (web.media.mit.edu)
134 points | 10 years ago with 58 comments
2011Cardinality Estimation (cs.princeton.edu)
134 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments
20111% of CMS-Powered Sites Expose Their Database Passwords (feross.org)
134 points | 11 years ago with 90 comments
2013My Microsoft Experience (blog.ellenchisa.com)
134 points | 9 years ago with 112 comments
2014The conceptual origins of Maxwell's equations and gauge theory (physics.umd.edu)
134 points | 6 years ago with 29 comments
2014A Gentle Introduction to Tensors (ese.wustl.edu)
134 points | 3 years ago with 51 comments
2014William Byrd on logic and relational programming, miniKanren (infoq.com)
134 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments
2015A Primer on Neural Network Models for Natural Language Processing (arxiv.org)
134 points | 7 years ago with 3 comments
2015Learning Python for Social Scientists (nealcaren.github.io)
134 points | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2015Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD? (unix.stackexchange.com)
134 points | 3 years ago with 154 comments
2015Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate (web.archive.org)
134 points | 2 years ago with 67 comments
2015Clojure Newbie Guide (clojurenewbieguide.com)
134 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments
2010Don’t invert that matrix (johndcook.com)
133 points | 8 years ago with 42 comments
2010Cow Clicker (cowclicker.com)
133 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments
2011Thinking, Fast and Slow (nytimes.com)
133 points | 9 years ago with 31 comments
2011In May 2009 O'Reilly agreed to publish a book about Common Lisp (nicklevine.org)
133 points | 5 years ago with 126 comments
2011Race Condition vs. Data Race (blog.regehr.org)
133 points | 5 years ago with 44 comments
2011Joel Sposky's Take On Equity Allocation In A New Software Startup (money.stackexchange.com)
133 points | 10 years ago with 65 comments
2011Simple Made Easy (infoq.com)
133 points | 4 years ago with 30 comments
2012Ramanujan Factorial Approximation (johndcook.com)
133 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
2012Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (hanselman.com)
133 points | 1 year ago with 123 comments
2012A 4-month online dating experiment using 10 fictional singletons (jonmillward.com)
133 points | 4 years ago with 255 comments
2012Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (dothemath.ucsd.edu)
133 points | 5 years ago with 170 comments
2012In a Remote Part of Utah, Life Alone in a Hangar (nytimes.com)
133 points | 8 years ago with 39 comments
2013One Tiny German Town, Seven Big Michelin Stars (nytimes.com)
133 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments
2013If only Borland had stuck with Turbo Modula-2 for CP/M (techtinkering.com)
133 points | 2 years ago with 88 comments
2013Computer Simulations Suggest War Drove the Rise of Civilisations (ua-magazine.com)
133 points | 8 years ago with 100 comments
2014Design Guidelines for Domain Specific Languages (arxiv.org)
133 points | 1 year ago with 52 comments
2014How Bad Is Your Colormap? (jakevdp.github.io)
133 points | 5 years ago with 22 comments
2015The Coverage of Theranos Is Utter Bullshit (thehustle.co)
133 points | 2 years ago with 92 comments
2011In defense of the Google Chef (blog.rongarret.info)
132 points | 10 years ago with 86 comments
2011Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999? (sixrevisions.com)
132 points | 11 years ago with 85 comments
2011Staedtler and Faber-Castell's productive pencil rivalry (bbc.com)
132 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 33 comments
2011The Coming War on General Computation (opentranscripts.org)
132 points | 7 years ago with 10 comments
2012Massive Zurich building completes 19-hour trip (swissinfo.ch)
132 points | 8 years ago with 28 comments
2012Working on The Witness, Part 1 (mollyrocket.com)
132 points | 10 years ago with 21 comments
2012Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (calnewport.com)
132 points | 6 years ago with 85 comments
2013Hard disk hacking (spritesmods.com)
132 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 4 comments
2013The Birth of Standard Error (www2.dmst.aueb.gr)
132 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments
2013Beyond Bézier Curves (bosker.wordpress.com)
132 points | 4 years ago with 40 comments
2014Why don’t software development methodologies work? (typicalprogrammer.com)
132 points | 1 year ago with 142 comments
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