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2009An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (web.archive.org)
347 points | 5 years ago with 129 comments
2011Why Arabic Is Terrific (idlewords.com)
346 points | 5 years ago with 190 comments
2012Thirty-three Miniatures: Applications of Linear Algebra (kam.mff.cuni.cz)
346 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2000Productivity and the Workweek (groups.csail.mit.edu)
345 points | 5 years ago with 228 comments
201224/192 Music Downloads ... and why they make no sense (people.xiph.org)
345 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 13 comments
2006MP3 for Image Compression (keyj.emphy.de)
344 points | 7 years ago with 96 comments
2011What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? Kayfabe (edge.org)
344 points | 4 years ago with 140 comments
2001Apple Introduces What It Calls an Easier to Use Portable Music Player (nytimes.com)
343 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 234 comments
20011500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond (gamasutra.com)
343 points | 6 years ago with 95 comments
2004Why don't I take military funding? (web.eecs.umich.edu)
343 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 121 comments
2009An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus (wraabe.wordpress.com)
343 points | 6 years ago with 90 comments
2009How to be a consultant, a freelancer, or an independent contractor (jacquesmattheij.com)
343 points | 1 year ago with 163 comments
2012What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define all other words? (reddit.com)
343 points | 5 years ago with 159 comments
2007“Intel Core 2 bugs will assuredly be exploitable from userland code” (marc.info)
342 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 118 comments
2012Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (web.archive.org)
341 points | 2 years ago with 198 comments
2006The Nature of Lisp (defmacro.org)
340 points across 4 posts | 4 years ago with 45 comments
2002My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs (gnu.org)
339 points across 3 posts | 5 years ago with 43 comments
2001Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties? (stallman.org)
338 points | 11 years ago with 119 comments
200543 km line of sight with USB WiFi stick (qsl.net)
338 points | 2 years ago with 165 comments
2006The Rule of Silence (linfo.org)
338 points | 8 years ago with 310 comments
2012A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (queue.acm.org)
338 points | 10 years ago with 132 comments
2010B-Heap vs. Binary Heap (queue.acm.org)
337 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 36 comments
2011Homemade GPS Receiver (aholme.co.uk)
337 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2004Saving Lives (folklore.org)
336 points | 1 year ago with 312 comments
2006Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (kempa.com)
336 points | 1 year ago with 165 comments
2011The “three things” exercise for getting things out of talks (math.stanford.edu)
336 points | 1 year ago with 60 comments
2012Thinking too much can be bad for you (economist.com)
336 points | 3 years ago with 252 comments
2008So what's wrong with 1975 programming? (varnish-cache.org)
335 points across 3 posts | 8 years ago with 11 comments
2009Divisibility by 7 is a Walk on a Graph (blog.tanyakhovanova.com)
335 points | 9 years ago with 71 comments
2011A brief rant on the future of interaction design (worrydream.com)
335 points | 5 years ago with 153 comments
2009Why are there 5280 feet in a mile? (petersmagnusson.org)
334 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 21 comments
2011The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress (nytimes.com)
334 points | 7 years ago with 226 comments
2012On being the maintainer and sole developer of SPITBOL (daveshields.me)
334 points | 9 years ago with 95 comments
2007What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1 (lwn.net)
332 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 26 comments
2011I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (dinakelberman.tumblr.com)
332 points | 9 years ago with 47 comments
2005The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (nickbostrom.com)
331 points across 5 posts | 3 years ago with 63 comments
2009Life Is a Ponzi Scheme (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
330 points | 5 years ago with 293 comments
2004In emergency cases a passenger was selected and thrown out of the plane (lwn.net)
329 points | 11 years ago with 115 comments
2010Deconstructing K&R C (c.learncodethehardway.org)
329 points across 3 posts | 9 years ago with 70 comments
2012Why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array? (stackoverflow.com)
329 points | 7 years ago with 97 comments
2011How to get gmail.com banned (mailinator.blogspot.com)
327 points | 9 years ago with 60 comments
2010Lessons from Doom (vectorpoem.com)
326 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 89 comments
2011Sleep sort (dis.4chan.org)
326 points | 10 years ago with 68 comments
2009Fuck the Cloud (ascii.textfiles.com)
325 points | 9 years ago with 219 comments
2012A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
325 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 68 comments
2012Xkcd-Style Plots in Matplotlib (jakevdp.github.io)
325 points | 5 years ago with 41 comments
2010Adults with ADHD show decreased function in brain dopamine reward pathway (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
324 points | 4 years ago with 330 comments
2011Why the Arabic world turned away from science (thenewatlantis.com)
324 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 388 comments
2012Why I program in Erlang (evanmiller.org)
324 points | 2 years ago with 136 comments
2007The Rule of 72 (betterexplained.com)
323 points | 8 years ago with 92 comments
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