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2006The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (vqronline.org)
228 points | 2 years ago with 177 comments
2007PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum (scottaaronson.com)
228 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 51 comments
2010The Sad History of the Microsoft Posix Subsystem (brianreiter.org)
228 points | 8 years ago with 71 comments
2011Aaron Swartz v. United States (blogs.law.harvard.edu)
228 points | 12 years ago with 17 comments
2009I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement (nobelprize.org)
227 points | 7 years ago with 212 comments
2011Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (richardspens.com)
227 points | 7 years ago with 227 comments
2003Microsoft execs on Apple's music store (twitter.com)
226 points | 2 years ago with 170 comments
2005K (archive.vector.org.uk)
226 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 60 comments
2007End Software Patents (endsoftpatents.org)
226 points | 5 years ago with 198 comments
2000Amazon: Ponzi Scheme or Wal-Mart of the Web? (slate.com)
225 points | 13 years ago with 81 comments
2004Do the simplest thing that can possibly work (twasink.net)
225 points | 2 years ago with 89 comments
2011Why isn’t the fundamental theorem of arithmetic obvious? (gowers.wordpress.com)
225 points | 8 years ago with 197 comments
2011What happens after Yahoo acquires you (37signals.com)
225 points | 11 years ago with 112 comments
2012RFC for 700 HTTP Status Codes (github.com)
225 points | 3 years ago with 63 comments
2003Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet "Ginger" (hbswk.hbs.edu)
224 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 48 comments
2006I survived the “Destroying Angel” (blog.mycology.cornell.edu)
224 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 4 comments
2010The illustrated guide to a Ph.D. (matt.might.net)
224 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 120 comments
2011A JVM Does That? (azulsystems.com)
224 points | 8 years ago with 165 comments
2012Rides of Glory – Uber Blog (web.archive.org)
224 points | 10 years ago with 112 comments
2012The little book about OS development (littleosbook.github.io)
224 points | 10 years ago with 18 comments
2012How to give a great presentation: advice from a legendary adman (brainpickings.org)
224 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
2002Some things every C programmer should know about C (web.archive.org)
223 points | 5 years ago with 108 comments
2002Homebrew CPU Home Page (homebrewcpu.com)
223 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2003The Spoon Theory (butyoudontlooksick.com)
223 points | 4 years ago with 128 comments
2006Hell is a multi-threaded C++ program (codemines.blogspot.com)
223 points | 7 years ago with 122 comments
2009Why we don't use Galileo's last name (slate.com)
223 points | 5 years ago with 169 comments
2009The Egg (galactanet.com)
223 points | 6 years ago with 51 comments
2010Why Clojure? (thecleancoder.blogspot.com)
223 points | 8 years ago with 279 comments
2011Why Russians Are Not Smiling (blog.properrussian.com)
223 points | 11 years ago with 221 comments
2012A file that’s both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
223 points | 6 years ago with 69 comments
2012Reasons not to use Skype (stallman.org)
223 points | 8 years ago with 167 comments
2012The FFmpeg/Libav situation (blog.pkh.me)
223 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 43 comments
2012Understanding is poor substitute for convexity (edge.org)
223 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2007Intel in Macs (apple.com)
222 points | 4 years ago with 136 comments
2009How we made GitHub fast (github.com)
222 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2009Head-On Crash: 2009 Chevrolet Malibu vs. 1959 Bel Air (thecarconnection.com)
222 points | 2 years ago with 211 comments
2011Rats free each other from cages (nature.com)
222 points | 8 years ago with 169 comments
2012How Y Combinator Started (paulgraham.com)
222 points | 5 years ago with 33 comments
2007Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity (pmarchive.com)
221 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 9 comments
2006Eating less and more than needed on alternate days prolongs life (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
220 points | 8 years ago with 123 comments
2012Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (livescience.com)
220 points | 4 years ago with 221 comments
2006GUI Architectures (martinfowler.com)
219 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 28 comments
2006A bad citizen in Javaland (darrenhobbs.com)
219 points | 9 years ago with 63 comments
2008What does "HREF" stand for? (tomayko.com)
219 points | 11 years ago with 49 comments
2012Frequent fliers who flew too much (articles.latimes.com)
219 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 12 comments
2002Why Software Should Be Free (gnu.org)
218 points | 4 years ago with 143 comments
2007Top ten algorithms in data mining (some-docs.googlecode.com)
218 points | 12 years ago with 41 comments
2008Association between muscular strength and mortality in men (bmj.com)
218 points | 12 years ago with 199 comments
2009Suicide Linux (qntm.org)
218 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 170 comments
2012The Galaga no-fire-cheat mystery (jasoneckert.github.io)
218 points | 2 years ago with 95 comments
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