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2011Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress (news.harvard.edu)
381 points | 10 years ago with 173 comments
2000Paul Graham on SICP (amazon.com)
380 points | 6 years ago with 133 comments
2001David Horne's 1K Chess on the ZX81 (thad.frogley.info)
380 points | 9 years ago with 147 comments
2011A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (theatlantic.com)
378 points | 4 years ago with 414 comments
2010It's not mathematics that you need to contribute to (mathoverflow.net)
377 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 58 comments
2010In 2004, Zuckerberg Broke Into a Facebook User's Private Email Account (businessinsider.com)
377 points | 6 years ago with 110 comments
2010I assume I’m below average (sive.rs)
376 points | 4 years ago with 224 comments
2001Dijkstra on Haskell and Java (chrisdone.com)
375 points across 2 posts | 9 years ago with 116 comments
2008Books Programmers Don't Really Read (billthelizard.com)
375 points | 8 years ago with 159 comments
2010Things Unix can do atomically (rcrowley.org)
375 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 47 comments
2012Turn Raspberry Pi’s GPIO into an FM Transmitter (icrobotics.co.uk)
375 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 86 comments
2010The Acceleration of Addictiveness (paulgraham.com)
373 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 38 comments
2011Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (km-515.livejournal.com)
371 points | 2 years ago with 335 comments
2011I hate stacked area charts (leancrew.com)
369 points | 10 years ago with 64 comments
2012Resolutions for programmers (matt.might.net)
369 points | 9 years ago with 221 comments
2007Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (twitter.com)
368 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 44 comments
2007Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste (scientificamerican.com)
368 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 7 comments
2010Zsync: Differential file downloading over HTTP using the rsync algorithm (zsync.moria.org.uk)
368 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 28 comments
2011The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (golem.ph.utexas.edu)
368 points | 3 years ago with 164 comments
2012The Mathematical Hacker (evanmiller.org)
367 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 174 comments
2012Linux on an 8bit Microcontroller (dmitry.gr)
365 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 37 comments
2012JSFuck (jsfuck.com)
365 points | 3 years ago with 156 comments
2011Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (prog21.dadgum.com)
364 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2011Why Hypercard had to die (loper-os.org)
364 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 166 comments
2012USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (intel.com)
364 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 118 comments
2012USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (intel.com)
364 points | 3 years ago with 226 comments
2011Depixelizing Pixel Art (johanneskopf.de)
363 points | 6 years ago with 88 comments
2009A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms (blog.rongarret.info)
362 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 172 comments
2008Trolls (paulgraham.com)
360 points | 13 years ago with 303 comments
2005Naked shorting: The curious incident of the shares that didn't exist (euromoney.com)
359 points | 3 years ago with 298 comments
2007Seemingly impossible functional programs (math.andrej.com)
359 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 45 comments
2009Quant Job Interview Questions (math.kent.edu)
358 points | 8 years ago with 145 comments
2011Effects of grill patterns on fan performance/noise (pugetsystems.com)
357 points | 2 years ago with 121 comments
2009Intel's "cripple AMD" function (agner.org)
356 points | 10 years ago with 124 comments
2011Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed (avichal.com)
356 points | 7 years ago with 141 comments
2012The Architecture of Git (aosabook.org)
355 points | 6 years ago with 79 comments
2009How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing (radian.org)
354 points | 13 years ago with 92 comments
2010Writing a Simple Operating System From Scratch (cs.bham.ac.uk)
353 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 10 comments
2010How to increase your luck surface area (codusoperandi.com)
353 points | 3 years ago with 200 comments
2012Why concatenative programming matters (evincarofautumn.blogspot.com)
353 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 54 comments
2004Soviet Venus Images (mentallandscape.com)
350 points | 3 years ago with 96 comments
2006Busy Person Patterns (hillside.net)
350 points | 5 years ago with 17 comments
2008Jeff Varasano's Famous New York Pizza Recipe (varasanos.com)
350 points | 7 years ago with 145 comments
2010Never pay for online dating (web.archive.org)
350 points | 2 years ago with 469 comments
2011Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (scottaaronson.com)
350 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 22 comments
2012Seven signs of ethical collapse (scu.edu)
350 points | 1 year ago with 137 comments
2007How to Write a Spelling Corrector (norvig.com)
349 points across 4 posts | 2 years ago with 12 comments
2009LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (gist.github.com)
349 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 64 comments
2009Linux ate my RAM (linuxatemyram.com)
348 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 167 comments
2012A Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz (theatlantic.com)
348 points | 6 years ago with 140 comments
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