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2010The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell (thetech.com)
495 points across 2 posts | 2 years 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 | 5 years ago with 156 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 | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2012Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in a tiny expensive package (righto.com)
486 points across 2 posts | 3 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
2007Holding a Program in One's Head (paulgraham.com)
483 points across 3 posts | 6 years ago with 79 comments
2009Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (drdobbs.com)
482 points | 7 years ago with 305 comments
2008Low-level is easy (yosefk.com)
480 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 24 comments
2009Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto (ecorenovator.org)
477 points | 2 years ago with 246 comments
2008Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (web.media.mit.edu)
476 points | 8 years ago with 167 comments
2011Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (chronicle.com)
473 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 94 comments
2012The effect of meditation on brain structure (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
472 points | 5 years ago with 242 comments
2012What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen? (javlaskitsystem.se)
471 points | 6 years ago with 186 comments
2003Internet Archive gets DMCA exemption to help archive vintage software (archive.org)
470 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 44 comments
2006Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (regex.info)
468 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 117 comments
2003Simpsons Hit and Run source code (github.com)
467 points | 1 year ago with 164 comments
2009A home microhydro plant (ludens.cl)
464 points | 5 years ago with 87 comments
2011Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a super-productive programmer (blog.smartbear.com)
463 points | 11 years ago with 155 comments
2005Bit Twiddling Hacks (graphics.stanford.edu)
462 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 24 comments
2011Dissolve My Nobel Prize, Fast (npr.org)
462 points | 9 years ago with 81 comments
2012The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (russolsen.com)
462 points | 6 years ago with 237 comments
2008"Secret" History of Silicon Valley (steveblank.com)
460 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 48 comments
2010Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (shadyurl.com)
460 points | 3 years ago with 91 comments
2012Dotsies (dotsies.org)
460 points | 6 years ago with 194 comments
2000Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (pages.cs.wisc.edu)
459 points | 1 year ago with 77 comments
2008Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone. (halfhalf.posterous.com)
459 points | 12 years ago with 103 comments
2003An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (web.mit.edu)
457 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 31 comments
2004Ten predictions (sites.google.com)
457 points | 11 years ago with 309 comments
2005BSD vs. Linux (over-yonder.net)
457 points | 8 years ago with 356 comments
2006How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career (coding.derkeiler.com)
454 points | 6 years ago with 419 comments
2002Welcome to Principia Cybernetica Web (pespmc1.vub.ac.be)
453 points across 9 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments
2002“Design Patterns” Aren't (perl.plover.com)
451 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 114 comments
20081k True Fans (kk.org)
450 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 139 comments
2005Being Poor (whatever.scalzi.com)
449 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 216 comments
2012Valve – Handbook for New Employees (valvesoftware.com)
449 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 197 comments
2011I hate almost all software (tinyclouds.org)
446 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 135 comments
2008Shouting in the Datacenter (youtube.com)
444 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 47 comments
2011Katamari Hack (kathack.com)
444 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 37 comments
2010Readme Driven Development (tom.preston-werner.com)
443 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 42 comments
2010The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (sivers.org)
442 points | 11 years ago with 104 comments
2004Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (poignant.guide)
440 points | 4 years ago with 201 comments
2007Microsoft Is Dead (paulgraham.com)
440 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 82 comments
2006The $25B eigenvector (rose-hulman.edu)
438 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 68 comments
2012Understanding the math behind 0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (h14s.p5r.org)
434 points across 4 posts | 7 years ago with 19 comments
2010(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (norvig.com)
432 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 9 comments
2011Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (blog.fogus.me)
432 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 6 comments
2011Does it scale? Who cares (jacquesmattheij.com)
431 points | 7 years ago with 273 comments
2007Fark redesign is now live (fark.com)
430 points | 1 year ago with 466 comments
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