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2010No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany’s Industrial Expansion? (m.spiegel.de)
429 points | 6 years ago with 168 comments
2007Beej's Guide to C Programming (beej.us)
427 points | 7 years ago with 79 comments
2011Music for Programming (musicforprogramming.net)
427 points | 5 years ago with 261 comments
2010A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (blog.regehr.org)
426 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 183 comments
2011Jewish Problems (arxiv.org)
423 points across 4 posts | 3 years ago with 126 comments
2005The six dumbest ideas in computer security (ranum.com)
421 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 196 comments
2012Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued (kalzumeus.com)
420 points | 4 years ago with 260 comments
2012Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch (journals.sagepub.com)
418 points | 1 year ago with 243 comments
2007Work Hard (terrytao.wordpress.com)
416 points | 3 years ago with 188 comments
2009The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (ribbonfarm.com)
416 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 149 comments
2010Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (rwmj.wordpress.com)
416 points | 2 years ago with 330 comments
2009Beej's Quick Guide to GDB (beej.us)
415 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 29 comments
2011Add Honest Achmed's root certificate (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
414 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 25 comments
2001History of T (paulgraham.com)
413 points across 6 posts | 1 year ago with 22 comments
2004The Remarkable Number 1/89 (www2.math.ou.edu)
413 points | 4 years ago with 113 comments
2010God's Number Is 20 (cube20.org)
411 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 83 comments
2006Some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler (cs.cmu.edu)
409 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 146 comments
2002Nothing like this will be built again (antipope.org)
408 points | 2 years ago with 259 comments
2012Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (npr.org)
408 points | 9 years ago with 95 comments
2000Why soda bottles have gaps in their threads (madsci.org)
406 points | 3 years ago with 127 comments
2011Biggest image in the smallest space (bamsoftware.com)
406 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 5 comments
2005Larry Page: “I think we should look into acquiring YouTube” (twitter.com)
405 points | 3 years ago with 248 comments
2012The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing (boingboing.net)
405 points | 4 years ago with 210 comments
2011JustFab.com JustFabulous Class Action Lawsuit (scambook.com)
404 points | 11 years ago with 72 comments
2011OCaml for the Masses (queue.acm.org)
404 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 223 comments
2012Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple (greenteapress.com)
404 points | 7 years ago with 56 comments
2012Living Worlds in HTML5 (effectgames.com)
403 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2007I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (qntm.org)
401 points | 3 years ago with 158 comments
2009The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics (math.vanderbilt.edu)
400 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 155 comments
2010Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (twitter.com)
395 points | 3 years ago with 255 comments
2008Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (joelonsoftware.com)
393 points | 8 years ago with 227 comments
2011Introduction to Algotrading (isomorphisms.sdf.org)
393 points | 5 years ago with 130 comments
2006Why sqlite3 temp files were renamed 'etilqs_*' (github.com)
392 points | 1 year ago with 138 comments
2010Steve Jobs emails himself (twitter.com)
392 points | 2 years ago with 243 comments
2005Google Will Eat Itself (gwei.org)
390 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 131 comments
2010The greatest bug I never fixed (blog.makandra.com)
389 points | 10 years ago with 61 comments
2008Introduction to Differential Equations (tutorial.math.lamar.edu)
388 points | 6 years ago with 88 comments
2009“Facebook turned me down” (twitter.com)
388 points | 10 years ago with 191 comments
2006“Illegal” Lego Builds (bramlambrecht.com)
387 points | 5 years ago with 59 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
2006How to Destroy the Earth (qntm.org)
385 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 155 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
2012Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts (notebook.kulchenko.com)
384 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 93 comments
2000Lisp as an Alternative to Java (norvig.com)
383 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 108 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
2000The curse of the gifted programmer (lwn.net)
381 points | 8 years ago with 166 comments
2011The Beauty of Roots (math.ucr.edu)
381 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 2 comments
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