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2006My favourite interview question (weblog.raganwald.com)
105 points | 10 years ago with 95 comments
2008What on earth possessed me... (fontforge.github.io)
105 points | 8 years ago with 34 comments
2008Tunguska: Ternary Computer Emulator (tunguska.sourceforge.net)
105 points | 4 years ago with 62 comments
2008Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans (abcnews.go.com)
105 points | 12 years ago with 11 comments
2008Spore Prototypes (spore.com)
105 points | 5 years ago with 39 comments
2009Why TV Lost (paulgraham.com)
105 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 132 comments
2010Where to wait for an elevator (johndcook.com)
105 points | 3 years ago with 107 comments
2010The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire but Reject Creative Ideas (digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu)
105 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments
2010The Failure Mode of Clever (whatever.scalzi.com)
105 points | 7 years ago with 37 comments
2010Windows Kernel Architecture Internals (research.microsoft.com)
105 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments
2011An abandoned lifeboat at world’s end (mikedashhistory.com)
105 points | 7 years ago with 25 comments
2011Ken and Roberta (filfre.net)
105 points | 7 years ago with 48 comments
2011How Bad Luck and Bad Networking Cost Douglas Prasher a Nobel Prize (discovermagazine.com)
105 points | 10 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 | 7 years ago with 30 comments
2012A Gentle Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (theclevermachine.wordpress.com)
105 points | 6 years ago with 4 comments
2002The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (nber.org)
104 points | 7 years ago with 99 comments
2003A beginners guide to Esperanto (theguardian.com)
104 points | 2 years ago with 109 comments
2004NASA Software Safety Guidebook (hq.nasa.gov)
104 points | 9 years ago with 38 comments
2005Don’t Take My Folders Away: Organizing Personal Info to Get Things Done (digital.lib.washington.edu)
104 points | 8 years ago with 41 comments
2007Upside-Down-Ternet (ex-parrot.com)
104 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 9 comments
2007How Good Was Napoleon? (historytoday.com)
104 points | 10 years ago with 79 comments
2008Atomic John: Truck driver uncovers secrets about first nuclear bombs (newyorker.com)
104 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 7 comments
2008Star Trek 1971 Text Game (codeproject.com)
104 points | 11 years ago with 34 comments
2008Why monads have not taken the Common Lisp world by storm (marijnhaverbeke.nl)
104 points | 11 years ago with 49 comments
2008Bootstrapping a Forth in 40 lines of Lua code (angg.twu.net)
104 points | 5 years ago with 53 comments
2009The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown (wired.com)
104 points | 6 years ago with 32 comments
2009Why Twitter is a Big Deal (paulgraham.com)
104 points | 12 years ago with 43 comments
2009Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right (news.cnet.com)
104 points | 13 years ago with 70 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 | 8 years ago with 44 comments
2010On MicroSD card problems (bunniestudios.com)
104 points | 10 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 | 7 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 | 7 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 | 6 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 | 5 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 | 10 years ago with 28 comments
2012Do the math: too much calculus? (washingtonpost.com)
104 points | 8 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
2000Learning the Language of Mathematics (wac.colostate.edu)
103 points | 8 years ago with 6 comments
2003Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma: systematic review (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
103 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 24 comments
2005The C-- Language Specification (cs.tufts.edu)
103 points | 6 years ago with 27 comments
2006Customizing the Cocoa Text System (hcs.harvard.edu)
103 points | 3 years ago with 26 comments
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