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2012Thirty-three Miniatures: Applications of Linear Algebra (kam.mff.cuni.cz)
346 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2013Don’t go to art school (medium.com)
346 points | 8 years ago with 198 comments
201224/192 Music Downloads ... and why they make no sense (people.xiph.org)
345 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments
2013No Hello (nohello.com)
345 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 67 comments
2013Death Metal English (invisibleoranges.com)
345 points | 1 year ago with 100 comments
2011What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? Kayfabe (edge.org)
344 points | 4 years ago with 140 comments
2012What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define all other words? (reddit.com)
343 points | 5 years ago with 159 comments
2014“Pigeon Neck” Illusion (michaelbach.de)
343 points | 1 year ago with 78 comments
2013Urban Dictionary on Hacker News (urbandictionary.com)
342 points | 3 years ago with 183 comments
2015Apple Lightning Connector Serial Access (ramtin-amin.fr)
342 points | 6 years ago with 133 comments
2012Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (web.archive.org)
341 points | 2 years ago with 198 comments
2014Startups Can’t Manufacture Like Apple Does (blog.bolt.io)
341 points | 8 years ago with 81 comments
2014Teach Debugging (danluu.com)
340 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 34 comments
2015An ffmpeg and SDL Tutorial (dranger.com)
340 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 20 comments
2012A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (queue.acm.org)
338 points | 9 years ago with 132 comments
2015CPython internals: A ten-hour codewalk through the Python interpreter (youtube.com)
338 points | 7 years ago with 51 comments
201540k-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found (digitaljournal.com)
338 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 36 comments
2015What computer and software is used by the Falcon 9? (space.stackexchange.com)
338 points | 4 years ago with 156 comments
2010B-Heap vs. Binary Heap (queue.acm.org)
337 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 36 comments
2011Homemade GPS Receiver (aholme.co.uk)
337 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 11 comments
2015Having Alzheimer’s at 38 (site.macleans.ca)
337 points | 6 years ago with 139 comments
2015Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 (anders.unix.se)
337 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 189 comments
2011The “three things” exercise for getting things out of talks (math.stanford.edu)
336 points | 1 year ago with 60 comments
2012Thinking too much can be bad for you (economist.com)
336 points | 3 years ago with 252 comments
2014An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system (mbtaviz.github.io)
336 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 4 comments
2011A brief rant on the future of interaction design (worrydream.com)
335 points | 5 years ago with 153 comments
2013My favorite Erlang program (joearms.github.io)
335 points | 1 year ago with 117 comments
2011The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress (nytimes.com)
334 points | 7 years ago with 226 comments
2012On being the maintainer and sole developer of SPITBOL (daveshields.me)
334 points | 9 years ago with 95 comments
2014What not to do when giving technical interviews (seldo.com)
334 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 174 comments
2011I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (dinakelberman.tumblr.com)
332 points | 9 years ago with 47 comments
2014How to Start a Startup (startupclass.samaltman.com)
331 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 67 comments
2015Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (cryptomuseum.com)
331 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2014Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (maplant.com)
330 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 32 comments
2014Much of the “science” used in design is bullshit (mjparnell.com)
330 points | 5 years ago with 137 comments
2010Deconstructing K&R C (c.learncodethehardway.org)
329 points across 3 posts | 9 years ago with 70 comments
2012Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (stackoverflow.com)
329 points | 7 years ago with 97 comments
2015Unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially (newyorker.com)
329 points | 6 years ago with 245 comments
2015How to navigate directories faster with Bash (mhoffman.github.io)
329 points | 3 years ago with 172 comments
2015The poor, misunderstood innerText (perfectionkills.com)
328 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 28 comments
2011How to get gmail.com banned (mailinator.blogspot.com)
327 points | 9 years ago with 60 comments
2013How to lose $172k per second for 45 minutes (sweetness.hmmz.org)
327 points | 5 years ago with 166 comments
2014Algorithm recovers speech from a potato-chip bag filmed through glass (news.mit.edu)
327 points | 6 years ago with 109 comments
2015The Next 50 Years of Databases (cs.cmu.edu)
327 points | 5 years ago with 139 comments
2010Lessons from Doom (vectorpoem.com)
326 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 89 comments
2011Sleep sort (dis.4chan.org)
326 points | 9 years ago with 68 comments
2013Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC (docpop.org)
326 points | 1 year ago with 73 comments
2015The origin of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover art (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
326 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 41 comments
2012A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
325 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 68 comments
2012Xkcd-Style Plots in Matplotlib (jakevdp.github.io)
325 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
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