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2011How Bad Luck and Bad Networking Cost Douglas Prasher a Nobel Prize (discovermagazine.com)
105 points | 11 years ago with 35 comments
2011Physical Intuition, Not Mathematics (realphysics.blogspot.com)
105 points | 10 years ago with 65 comments
2011The OpenSSD Project (openssd-project.org)
105 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments
2012You Are Not Your Code (sstephenson.us)
105 points | 6 years ago with 25 comments
2012What to Make of Finnegans Wake? (nybooks.com)
105 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 30 comments
2012A Gentle Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (theclevermachine.wordpress.com)
105 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2013How Novell Netware lost the battle against Windows NT (theregister.com)
105 points | 3 years ago with 119 comments
2013Domain knowledge or a lack thereof (jacquesmattheij.com)
105 points | 2 years ago with 30 comments
2013Go and Rust – objects without class (lwn.net)
105 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments
2013The Apprentice Programmer (tobi.lutke.com)
105 points | 11 years ago with 48 comments
201360 FPS Retro Gaming on Mobile – Master System Emulator in JavaScript (gmarty.github.io)
105 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments
2013Reverse engineering a Hit Clip (ch00ftech.com)
105 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2015Racket: John Carmack’s VRScript Samples (github.com)
105 points | 6 years ago with 24 comments
2015Clark Foam’s demise, 10 years later (surfer.com)
105 points | 3 years ago with 58 comments
2015In 1850, Ignaz Semmelweis saved lives with three words: wash your hands (pbs.org)
105 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2015The Hardest Program I've Ever Written (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
105 points | 8 years ago with 48 comments
2015A circuit-like notation for lambda calculus (csvoss.com)
105 points | 5 years ago with 42 comments
2015German Kindergarten Campouts Test Helicopter Parents (wsj.com)
105 points | 8 years ago with 101 comments
2015The Big Dig: Istanbul’s city planners have a problem: too much history (newyorker.com)
105 points | 8 years ago with 21 comments
2015What it's like to go blind (vox.com)
105 points | 2 years ago with 47 comments
2010Bill Thurston's answer to “What's a mathematician to do?” (mathoverflow.net)
104 points | 5 years ago with 21 comments
2010Ewww, You Use PHP? (blog.mailchimp.com)
104 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 44 comments
2010On MicroSD card problems (bunniestudios.com)
104 points | 11 years ago with 19 comments
2011Magnetic core memory reborn (corememoryshield.com)
104 points | 9 years ago with 17 comments
2011A History of the Erlang VM (erlang-factory.com)
104 points | 8 years ago with 9 comments
2011Where the top of the stack is on x86 (eli.thegreenplace.net)
104 points | 4 years ago with 66 comments
2011Spotting Field Sabotage in Meetings (whatsthepont.com)
104 points | 8 years ago with 36 comments
2011Typography in 8 bits: System fonts (damieng.com)
104 points | 11 years ago with 17 comments
2012Kindle DX as E-Ink computer monitor (tinyapps.org)
104 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments
2012STON – Smalltalk Object Notation (github.com)
104 points | 8 years ago with 59 comments
2012Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (pnas.org)
104 points | 6 years ago with 41 comments
2012Have we forgotten to make heat traps? (esbe.eu)
104 points | 6 years ago with 43 comments
2012Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades (wired.com)
104 points | 11 years ago with 28 comments
2012Do the math: too much calculus? (washingtonpost.com)
104 points | 9 years ago with 212 comments
2012Xmonad from Coq: Programming a Window Manager with a Proof Assistant (staff.science.uu.nl)
104 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2013Why Use Make (bost.ocks.org)
104 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments
2014Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film (extension765.com)
104 points | 5 years ago with 49 comments
2014Difference Between Fault Tolerance, High Availability, Disaster Recovery (pbenson.net)
104 points | 6 years ago with 6 comments
2014Surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored (righto.com)
104 points | 4 years ago with 70 comments
2014Academic urban legends (journals.sagepub.com)
104 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments
2014Apple's Great GPL Purge (meta.ath0.com)
104 points | 9 years ago with 120 comments
2014100 Years Ago, a Telephone Tower in Stockholm Connected 5000 Phone Lines (twistedsifter.com)
104 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
2014The Myth of RAM (ilikebigbits.com)
104 points | 2 years ago with 70 comments
2014Don’t support laws you are not willing to kill to enforce (washingtonpost.com)
104 points | 9 years ago with 140 comments
2014A Gene That Makes You Need Less Sleep? (newyorker.com)
104 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
2015Automatic Algorithms Optimization via Fast Matrix Exponentiation (kukuruku.co)
104 points | 7 years ago with 18 comments
2015The Beautiful Network of Ancient Roman Roads (atlasobscura.com)
104 points | 3 years ago with 41 comments
2011Egoless Programming (wiki.c2.com)
103 points | 5 years ago with 45 comments
2011The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 (news.stanford.edu)
103 points | 8 years ago with 112 comments
2011The trees that miss the mammoths (af-legacy-prd.americanforests.org)
103 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments

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