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2015Extracting the private key from a TREZOR with an oscilloscope (jochen-hoenicke.de)
399 points | 6 years ago with 85 comments
2010Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (twitter.com)
395 points | 3 years ago with 255 comments
2014John Carmack on Inlined Code (number-none.com)
395 points | 8 years ago with 199 comments
2014The Hair Dryer Incident (quotulatiousness.ca)
394 points | 3 years ago with 263 comments
2011Introduction to Algotrading (isomorphisms.sdf.org)
393 points | 5 years ago with 130 comments
2014Game Programming Patterns (gameprogrammingpatterns.com)
393 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2010Steve Jobs emails himself (twitter.com)
392 points | 2 years ago with 243 comments
2013The $12 “Gongkai” Phone (bunniestudios.com)
390 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 43 comments
2015Useless Use of "dd" (vidarholen.net)
390 points | 2 years ago with 252 comments
2010The greatest bug I never fixed (blog.makandra.com)
389 points | 10 years ago with 61 comments
2014Linear Book Scanner – Open-source automatic book scanner (linearbookscanner.org)
388 points | 1 year ago with 83 comments
2014The retaliation: Pranking my roommate with targeted Facebook ads (ghostinfluence.com)
387 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 64 comments
2015Principal Component Analysis explained visually (setosa.io)
387 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 13 comments
2010The Mystery of 355/113 (davidbau.com)
386 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 106 comments
2011Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction (worrydream.com)
386 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 8 comments
2012Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
386 points | 6 years ago with 151 comments
2013How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
386 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 120 comments
2013Do Things that Don't Scale (paulgraham.com)
386 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 31 comments
2013NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show (washingtonpost.com)
386 points | 8 years ago with 172 comments
2014Why my book can be downloaded for free (blog.plover.com)
386 points | 4 years ago with 134 comments
2010Blackbird SR-71 Flight Manual (sr-71.org)
385 points | 5 years ago with 149 comments
2012Vim Anti-Patterns (sanctum.geek.nz)
385 points | 5 years ago with 238 comments
2015C Runtime Overhead (ryanhileman.info)
385 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 39 comments
2012Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts (notebook.kulchenko.com)
384 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 93 comments
2013Man makes money from cold calls with his own higher-rate phone number (bbc.com)
384 points | 5 years ago with 133 comments
2011Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the info he wants? (serverfault.com)
382 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 43 comments
2013Stop Reading News (fs.blog)
382 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 108 comments
2014Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success (nature.com)
382 points | 2 years ago with 348 comments
2011The Beauty of Roots (math.ucr.edu)
381 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments
2011Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress (news.harvard.edu)
381 points | 10 years ago with 173 comments
2014What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (wozniak.ca)
379 points | 8 years ago with 295 comments
2015Why Use ECC? (danluu.com)
379 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 98 comments
2011A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (theatlantic.com)
378 points | 4 years ago with 414 comments
2010It's not mathematics that you need to contribute to (mathoverflow.net)
377 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 58 comments
2010In 2004, Zuckerberg Broke Into a Facebook User's Private Email Account (businessinsider.com)
377 points | 6 years ago with 110 comments
2010I assume I’m below average (sive.rs)
376 points | 3 years ago with 224 comments
2010Things Unix can do atomically (rcrowley.org)
375 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments
2012Turn Raspberry Pi’s GPIO into an FM Transmitter (icrobotics.co.uk)
375 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 86 comments
2015German traffic light stays red for 28 years (thelocal.de)
374 points | 7 years ago with 295 comments
2010The Acceleration of Addictiveness (paulgraham.com)
373 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 38 comments
2015Why physicists still use Fortran (moreisdifferent.com)
373 points | 7 years ago with 293 comments
2015How to undo almost anything with Git (github.blog)
372 points | 4 years ago with 79 comments
2015In Japan, small children take the subway and run errands alone (citylab.com)
372 points | 6 years ago with 240 comments
2011Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (km-515.livejournal.com)
371 points | 2 years ago with 335 comments
2015Increased rates of myopia linked to reduced time outside, studies suggest (nature.com)
371 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 53 comments
2015Six works of Computer Science-Fiction (blog.fogus.me)
371 points | 4 years ago with 93 comments
2015The Art of Electronics (artofelectronics.net)
370 points | 11 months ago with 97 comments
2011I hate stacked area charts (leancrew.com)
369 points | 10 years ago with 64 comments
2012Resolutions for programmers (matt.might.net)
369 points | 8 years ago with 221 comments
2015Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues (setosa.io)
369 points | 6 years ago with 86 comments
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