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2013A Buddhist monk confronts Japan's suicide culture (newyorker.com)
543 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 44 comments
2015Bocker – Docker implemented in around 100 lines of Bash (github.com)
543 points | 4 years ago with 196 comments
2015Visual Information Theory (colah.github.io)
543 points | 4 years ago with 45 comments
2012Gorilla Youngsters Seen Dismantling Poachers’ Traps (news.nationalgeographic.com)
541 points | 4 years ago with 140 comments
2012Functional programming in C++ (gamasutra.com)
540 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 100 comments
2014Most Unit Testing Is Waste (rbcs-us.com)
540 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 159 comments
2014What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (woz.posthaven.com)
540 points | 6 years ago with 348 comments
2011Visualization of Common Algorithms (visualgo.net)
538 points across 4 posts | 8 months ago with 13 comments
2014Kindness is Underrated (circleci.com)
536 points | 6 years ago with 210 comments
2012Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (blog.garrytan.com)
535 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 164 comments
2015Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (jnd.org)
535 points | 4 years ago with 500 comments
2010How Fake Money Saved Brazil (npr.org)
534 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 93 comments
2010Experience: I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (theguardian.com)
531 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 100 comments
2013Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors (righto.com)
531 points across 2 posts | 9 months ago with 105 comments
2010Haskell researchers discover industry programmer who gives a shit (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
528 points across 3 posts | 8 months ago with 10 comments
2012Terry Tao's generals (web.math.princeton.edu)
527 points across 2 posts | 7 months ago with 137 comments
2012Guide to implementing 2D platformers (higherorderfun.com)
526 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 37 comments
2014Why Racket? Why Lisp? (beautifulracket.com)
526 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 151 comments
2012Functional Core, Imperative Shell (destroyallsoftware.com)
525 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 39 comments
2011If PHP Were British (aloneonahill.com)
524 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 364 comments
2011Insulation: First the body, then the home (lowtechmagazine.com)
523 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 302 comments
2015Audio engineer explains NPR's signature sound (current.org)
522 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 133 comments
2011I hate almost all software (tinyclouds.org)
518 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 246 comments
2012An interactive guide to the Fourier transform (betterexplained.com)
518 points across 2 posts | 5 months ago with 74 comments
2012Dad and the ten commandments of egoless programming (blog.stephenwyattbush.com)
518 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 102 comments
2013Snowflake macro photography (chaoticmind75.blogspot.com)
517 points | 6 years ago with 67 comments
2013Computer Science from the Bottom Up (bottomupcs.com)
516 points | 7 years ago with 156 comments
2012Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (quora.com)
515 points | 7 years ago with 253 comments
2011I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still a Programmer? (zef.me)
512 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 75 comments
2015HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permanent web (ipfs.io)
510 points | 2 years ago with 325 comments
2012How a car works (howacarworks.com)
508 points | 8 years ago with 117 comments
2011Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (boingboing.net)
507 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 59 comments
2012Good sleep, good learning, good life (supermemo.com)
506 points | 5 years ago with 254 comments
2012Build your own FPGA (blog.notdot.net)
506 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 19 comments
2012The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (jerrydallal.com)
502 points | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2015Facebook’s code quality problem (darkcoding.net)
502 points | 7 years ago with 226 comments
2015Choose Boring Technology (mcfunley.com)
500 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2011If you're busy, you're doing something wrong (calnewport.com)
499 points | 4 years ago with 162 comments
2011Cells are fast and crowded places (righto.com)
499 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 117 comments
2012In 1957, Five Men Agreed to Stand Under an Exploding Nuclear Bomb (npr.org)
498 points | 6 years ago with 203 comments
2010The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell (thetech.com)
495 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 128 comments
2011Data Structure Visualizations (cs.usfca.edu)
495 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2011Advice on Getting Better from an Accomplished Piano Player (calnewport.com)
492 points | 4 years ago with 156 comments
2013Git Koans (stevelosh.com)
492 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 65 comments
2015Law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did last year (washingtonpost.com)
491 points across 5 posts | 4 months ago with 9 comments
2014I reverse engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes (features.jsomers.net)
490 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 140 comments
2012Don't just roll the dice – Software pricing guide (neildavidson.com)
488 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments
2012Teller Reveals His Secrets (smithsonianmag.com)
487 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2012Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package (righto.com)
486 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 273 comments
2012A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept (gist.github.com)
485 points | 1 year ago with 116 comments
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